Secret Ingredient Chili
From donman 15 years ago
- 45 minutes to make
- Serves 8
This recipe came off of a 1 pound package of Wal-Mart Chuck Ground Beef. I tried it and it came out wonderful. It makes a soup-like chili.
Ingredients
- 1 pound of ground chuck shopping list
- 1 small onion, diced (about ½ cup) shopping list
- 1 (15 ounce) can of light red kidney beans, drained and rinsed shopping list
- 1 (28 ounce) can of diced tomatoes, undrained shopping list
- 2 (8 ounce) cans of tomato sauce shopping list
- 1 cup of water shopping list
- 1 tablespoon of chili powder shopping list
- 1 teaspoon of sugar shopping list
- 1 teaspoon of cocoa powder shopping list
- 1 teaspoon of salt shopping list
- Optional toppings; sliced green onions, sour cream, shredded cheddar cheese, chopped avocado or crushed corn chips. shopping list
How to make it
- Cook and stir ground meat an onions in a 5 quart pot over medium heat until beef crumbles and is no longer pink (about 7 minutes).
- Drain grease and return meat to the pan.
- To the pot add the beans, tomatoes, tomato sauce, water, chili powder, sugar, cocoa and salt.
- Bring to a boil then reduce heat to low.
- Cover pot and simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Serve with desired optional toppings.
- Note:
- Let simmer longer if you want it to be thicker. I let mine simmer for about an hour. (Also don’t forget to keep stirring)
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Reviewed by 16 people-
Looks mouthwatering, and the cocoa powder sounds very interesting in chili! I gotta try this one!
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in Clayton loved it
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The cocoa powder makes it almost mole-like, doesn't it, don? Fabo and five-o! Thanks,
Lorraine
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in Horsham loved it
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Very interesting addition - cocoa. I had to find out what the secret was.
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