Pat's Secret Technique Chili No. 4

Name: Pat's Secret Technique Chili No. 4
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 50 min
Yield: 12 serving(s)
Ingredients: 1 1/2 lbs ground chuck; 1 large white onion, finely diced; 2 serrano peppers, diced (canned, or jalapenas); 2 canned chipotle chiles in adobo, chopped (with a little of the sauce); 5 tablespoons Wondra Flour; 8 ounces beer (not "lite"); 45 ounces canned chicken broth (divided); 15 ounces stewed tomatoes (with juice); 1 large green pepper, de-seeded and diced (any kind, e.g., bell, Anaheim, etc.); 2 bay leaves; 2 tablespoons dried onion flakes; 1 1/2 teaspoons dried oregano; 2 tablespoons chili powder; 6 ounces sliced mushrooms (canned, drained); 1 teaspoon seasoning salt; 15 ounces dark red kidney beans, drained and rinsed; 30 ounces canned chili beans; 2 teaspoons sorghum molasses; 1 teaspoon kosher salt; 3 tablespoons olive oil; 1 tablespoon butter

Submitted by Bone Man

"My own invention, (after years of experimentation!), this full-flavored, medium-hot chili is much more about "technique" than it is about ingredients. By first making an easy roux, and subsequently a base sauce of basic ingredients, the flavor of those ingredients are raised to their natural pinnacle. If you think that your own chili is a bit watery or just does not pack a "flavor punch", then this one might just become your new chili. It's not set-you-on-fire hot -- it's "sneaky heat". If you have favorite ingredients, feel free to make changes and develop your own recipe from this one. If you do, I would caution you to add any additional "sugars" (sugar, honey, etc.) in the final ten minutes of cooking time as significant amounts of sugar-based ingredients will cause scorching over long periods of cooking. Bon appétit!"

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Ready In:: 1hr 50mins
Ingredients:: 21
Serves:: 12

ingredients

1 ¹⁄₂ lbs ground chuck
1 large white onion, finely diced
2 serrano peppers, diced (canned, or jalapenas)
2 canned chipotle chiles in adobo, chopped (with a little of the sauce)
5 tablespoons Wondra Flour
8 ounces beer (not "lite")
45 ounces canned chicken broth (divided)
15 ounces stewed tomatoes (with juice)
1 large green pepper, de-seeded and diced (any kind, e.g., bell, Anaheim, etc.)
2 bay leaves
2 tablespoons dried onion flakes
1 ¹⁄₂ teaspoons dried oregano
2 tablespoons chili powder
6 ounces sliced mushrooms (canned, drained)
1 teaspoon seasoning salt
15 ounces dark red kidney beans, drained and rinsed
30 ounces canned chili beans
2 teaspoons sorghum molasses
1 teaspoon kosher salt
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon butter

directions

In a large skillet, make a roux by the following method: Pour the olive oil in the skillet over high heat. Add the butter, onions, serrano peppers, and chipotle peppers and allow them to saute, stirring frequently, until they are very tender and begin to brown a bit.
Next, sprinkle half the Wondra flour over the mix and stir. Allow the blend to saute for 3 minutes, whisking frequently, and then sprinkle the second half of the flour over the mix and continue to stir frequently until the mix is fairly dry and clumpy. Fell free to sprinkle on more Wondra flour as needed because some onions are more moist than others.
Next, deglaze the skillet by slowly pouring in 15 ounces (1 can) of the chicken stock, whisking constantly. Allow this sauce to simmer for 3 minutes and then add the chili powder, sorghum (or molasses) and stir. As soon as these ingredients are blended, add the beer to thin the sauce, still whisking constantly. After 3 more minutes, take the sauce off the heat and set aside.
In a large cooking pot, brown the burger and the diced green pepper, and, add the onion flakes, stirring frequently. I like to cover the pot when I'm not stirring.
Once the burger has browned up a little (not fried!), and the pepper has become somewhat tender, you may drain the mix if you wish (I never bother to do this).
Next, add the sauce to the burger in the cooking pot, in addition to all remaining ingredients and bring to a boil, covered.
Once the chili boils, reduce the heat and allow it to simmer, covered, for about 90 minutes. If you wish for your chili to be thicker, just remove the cover and allow it to slowly boil until the desired thickness is reached. (ALTERNATIVE: If you know that you want thick chili to begin with, simply add one less can of chicken stock.).
Re-check the seasoning (you may wish to add just a bit more salt at this point) and remove the bay leaves, discarding them.
Serve with crackers and hot pepper sauce, or Tabasco, at the table.

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Reviews

Okay, I have several, SEVERAL chili recipe's as my sugar shorts is a FANATIC over chili. And I have tried many, MANY recipe's on Zaar. This IS the BEST recipe I have ever tried, used, thought about whatever. Very rarely do I think a recipe should get more than 5 stars just because I am, I guess a pretty tough critic. This is one of them however and it is all in the details. We like our chili thicker so followed the Bone Man's advice and cut back on the chicken broth. I guess the only thing that took me a little bit to figure out was when I cut the recipe in half I had to make just a few little adjustments to get it right. Other than that I followed it to a T. I can not tell you just how good this chili is. You just have to try it. Honored that I was the first to review it. Thanks Bone Man, a ton, I even got a new Blue Ribbon Saddle for my horse out of this one!

Sally

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Bone Man

I am a retired State Park Resort Manager/Ranger. Anyway, as to my years in the State Park System (retired now), I was responsible for 4 restaurants/dining rooms on my park and my boss at Central Headquarters said I should spend less time in my kitchens and more time tending to my park budget. I spent 25 years in those kitchens and worked with some really great chefs over those years, (and some really awful ones too!) I spent THOUSANDS of hours on every inch of that park and adjacent state forest (60,000 acres) and sometimes I miss it. But mostly I miss being in that big beautiful resort lodge kitchen. I miss my little marina restaurant down on the Ohio River too. I served the best Reuben Sandwich (my own recipe -- posted on 'Zaar as The Shawnee Marina Reuben Sandwich) in both the State of Ohio and the Commonwealth of Kentucky down there and sold it for $2.95. Best deal on the river! They (friends and neighbors) call my kitchen The Ospidillo Cafe. Don't ask me why because it takes about a case of beer, time-wise, to explain the name. Anyway, it's a small galley kitchen with a Mexican motif (until my wife catches me gone for a week or so), and it's a very BUSY kitchen as well. We cook at all hours of the day and night. You are as likely to see one of my neighbors munching down over here as you are my wife or daughter. I do a lot of recipe experimentation and development. It has become a really fun post-retirement hobby -- and, yes, I wash my own dishes. Also, I'm the Cincinnati Chili Emperor around here, or so they say. (Check out my Ospidillo Cafe Cincinnati Chili recipe). SKYLINE CHILI is one of my four favorite chilis, and the others include: Gold Star Chili, Empress Chili and, my VERY favorite, Dixie. All in and around Cincinnati. Great stuff for cheap and I make it at home too. I also collect menus and keep them in my kitchen -- I have about a hundred or so. People go through them and when they see something that they want, I make it the next day. That presents some real challenges! http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/parks/parks/shawnee.htm

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