what goes into your chili? (now with poll)

[PenguinPower]

New England clam chowder is very specific. If you put tomato in it, it would be Manhattan clam chowder. Chili con carne is also specific, in that it needs meat and chili at a minimum to satisfy the description. Chili is generic, and can be used for any chili-like thing you throw together, with only requirement being chili.

This.

 

[biostud]

Just ate the last of a 3-days chili.

Peppers of all color
beans
meat
tomatoes
and using whatever vegetables I have in the house. It's a good dish for cleaning up the kitchen.
And LOTS of chili, I like it burning.

 

[BrokenVisage]

I can tell you what doesn't go into my chili... beans! muhaha

 

[QueBert]

Bullshit. Chili's just a made up concoction to allow poor people the ability to use the meager supplies they have on hand. It slowly standardized around a common set of ingredients, but they aren't the only ingredients that can be used, and they aren't the only ingredients that are historically proper.

No Chili wasn't ever meant to have beans, poor people didn't go "oh shit this would be better with beans!" it was a "oh shit, we can't afford meat so we'll add a shit ton of beans *sad face*"

This is an original recipe for Chili, just like there is for just about other dish out there. The fact it became acceptable by many for Chili to have beans doesn't make it right. If you like beans in your chili fine, but you need to understand it's no longer chili. To say "a made up concoction" is not correct, it was made an exact way but POOR people starting adding beans because they were poor.

 

[ElFenix]

Just ate the last of a 3-days chili.

Peppers of all color
beans
meat
tomatoes
and using whatever vegetables I have in the house. It's a good dish for cleaning up the kitchen.
And LOTS of chili, I like it burning.

sounds like beef stew to me.

New England clam chowder is very specific. If you put tomato in it, it would be Manhattan clam chowder. Chili con carne is also specific, in that it needs meat and chili at a minimum to satisfy the description. Chili is generic, and can be used for any chili-like thing you throw together, with only requirement being chili.

This.

you midwesterners are simply wrong. i don't come up to your state and tell you what your flavorless boring casseroles are.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Basically whatever I have goes in it. I never really make the same chili twice.

 

[Phoenix86]

everything goes in
including beans, corn, bell peppers, onions,....

Errrrrything.

 

[Leros]

Chili without beans is just a sauce. Chili with beans is a meal.

 

[stargazr]

This recipe is just called slow cooker beans and beef, doesn't have chili powder. Some people call it chili, whatever. We like it.

beans
ground beef
chopped onion
enchilada sauce
tomato sauce
chopped green chilis
s&p

also calls for oregano and cumin, which I don't bother with (gf doesn't like it).

 

[TallBill]

Just made some for the first time. Pasilla and Serrano peppers, red onion, ground turkey, orta spiced diced tomatoes, tomato paste, a half bottle of a bock beer. Chili powder, cayanne, garlic, cumin, salt, pepper.

Great first try and I love my cast iron dutch oven. Serannos are yummy! Would like a tiny bit hotter but its in the range where most people could enjoy it. Turkey meat was for the girl, doesn't eat beef.

 

[JamesV]

I just make plain old chili, mostly because that is what my great aunt likes.

1.5 lb's ground beef
2 cans of Joan of Arc chili beans
1 McCormicks chili seasoning
1 large can of diced tomatoes
4-6 crushed garlic cloves
3 medium onions diced

Brown ground beef, and pour off any excess fat, so you are left with about 1/2 cup of fat and the browned meat. Add everything else and cook at medium high in a large pot, eventually reducing the heat til the mixture continually slow boils; add tight lid once you get a good simmer-boil going and stir every half hour. Simple and good. No added salt for heart patients, but a bit on top and maybe some grated cheddar and Tabasco/Red Hot.

 

[TallBill]

Love cheddar and diced onion on top.

 

[Baked]

5 types of pepper
4 types of spices
3 types of meat
2 types of beans
2 types of tomatoes
1 type of chips

It's fucking awesome. I don't use grounded meat, I use cubes.

 

[lupi]

depends what type.