I am a chili head. I love those damn things. There are two types that I make, a dipping chili like you mentioned and a true chili. With my dipping version I also add corn, brown sugar and regular brown beans.
When I want real chili I use this recipe and change it as I feel like that dy or depending upon what I have in stock.
Puppy's Breath Chili
World Champion 1993
Source: Cathy Wilkey
Submitted By:
www.chilicookoff.com
Ingredients:
3 - Pounds Tri Tip Beef or Sirloin Tip cut in small pieces or coarse ground
2 - tsps Wesson Oil
1 - Small yellow onion
1 - 14½ oz can of beef broth
3½ Tbls ground cumin
½ - tsp of oregano
6 - Cloves garlic (finely chopped)
3 - Tbls of Gebhardt Chili Powder
1 - Tbls New Mexico mild chili powder
5-6 Tbls of California chili powder
1 - 8 oz can of Hunts tomato sauce
1 - Dried New Mexico chili peppers, boiled and puréed
3 - Dried California chili peppers, boiled and puréed
1 - 14½ oz can of chicken broth
1 - tsp of Tabasco pepper sauce
1 - tsp of brown sugar
1 - Lime
Dash of MSG
Salt to taste
Instructions:
Brown meat in Wesson Oil for about ½ hour over medium heat.
Add onion and enough beef broth to cover meat.
Bring to a boil and cook for 15 minutes.
Add 1 Tbls cumin and ½ tsp of Oregano.
Reduce heat to light boil and add ½ of the garlic.
Add ½ half of the chili powder and cook for 10 minutes.
Add Hunts tomato sauce with the pulp from the dried peppers and remaining garlic.
Add any remaining beef broth and chicken broth for desired consistency.
Cook for one hour on medium heat stirring occasionally.
Add remaining chili powders and cumin
Simmer for 25 minutes on low to medium heat, stirring occasionally.
Turn up heat to light boil and add Tabasco pepper sauce, salt to taste, brown sugar and juice of lime.
Simmer on medium heat until you are ready to enter this championship recipe at your next cookoff or to a group of hungry chili lovers. Keep your Pot Hot!
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Cheers, and don't forget the gloves when cooking with habanero peppers. I burnt my X's pussy one night many hours after cooking chili... Any other burn stories?