White Chili

"This is the Winning Recipe for 1995 in the San Francisco Chronicle, by Jacqueline Higuera McMahan."
 
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Ready In:
3hrs 30mins
Ingredients:
23
Serves:
6
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ingredients

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directions

  • To prepare the beans: Pick beans over for debris, then place in a sieve and rinse well. Transfer to a large pot. Add the water, onion, garlic and some black pepper. Simmer for 2 to 3 hours, until tender. Add the salt during the last 30 minutes of cooking.
  • To prepare the chili: While the beans are cooking, pour the beer into a 4-quart pot. Add the onion, garlic, bell pepper, jalapenos, green chiles, oregano and cumin. Simmer for 10 minutes.
  • Cut the chicken into strips, then dice. Add to the chili along with the chicken broth. Sprinkle the red chile over the top and simmer for 15 minutes.
  • Combine the tomatillos, cilantro, vinegar and salt in a food processor and process to a salsa consistency. Stir into the chili. Add the drained cooked beans and simmer for 20 minutes. Season to taste with salt.
  • Ladle a generous cup of chili into each serving bowl. Sprinkle 1/3 cup grated cheese on top of each bowl. If desired, run under the broiler until the cheese is golden. Garnish with cilantro leaves.

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  1. Used 1/2 a leftover roasted chicken & had to leave out the tomatillos (shopping oversight), otherwise made with pre-soaked frozen navy beans. Used the cockpot for 4 hours on high while cooking the beans on the stove. Put the beer with the vegies in the crockpot & let 'er rip, adding the leftover chicken, leftover chicken gelatin, some additional chicken base & chile (actually had Hot New Mexico ground red chile!) then adding the cilantro & rice vinegar at the end. Didn't need the additional salt b/c of the chicken base. OMG Outstanding. Wonderful new use for navy beans that is not the ham 'n bean soup standard! Thank you evelyn/athens for another great recipe!
     
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