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A good friend and I argue every time the topic of chili comes up. I am firmly in the bean camp, he is just as firmly anti-bean. Making a pot now, and while straining the light red kidney beans and black beans, I wondered about the opinions of my DU family, and also any secret ingredients you may add.
Chili: Beans or No Beans?
msongs
(69,409 posts)happybird
(4,954 posts)next time! 🥓
Kidney beans.
crud
(756 posts)and bacon is my secret ingredient.
happybird
(4,954 posts)Am going to try some in there next time! 🥓
spooky3
(35,582 posts)dweller
(24,444 posts)Chili no beans belongs on hot dogs
✌🏻
SheltieLover
(58,568 posts)Duncanpup
(13,521 posts)DinahMoeHum
(22,289 posts)For me, beans are a side dish to chili and eaten with either rice or cornbread. I like black beans.
Texas Red is my style, for beef or pork. I also make a white chili, with turkey and chicken, again without beans in it.
Floyd R. Turbo
(28,549 posts)KarenS
(4,490 posts)I used pinto, black, and red beans
hlthe2b
(104,971 posts)Plus. where would "Blazing Saddles" be without them!
LiberalLoner
(9,907 posts)EarthAbides
(65 posts)We make chili with left over taco meat, red beans, black beans and pinto beans. Spoon the chili on a plate over shredded lettuce and then top the chili with black olives, chopped onion, chopped cucumber, grated cheese, avocado, pico de gallo and a dollop of sour cream. Plate chili! Yum!!
happybird
(4,954 posts)It started out as, Oh no, I thought we had an envelope of chili seasoning in the cupboard, but heres an envelope of taco seasoning and it turned out to be a happy substitution! McCormick Chicken Taco Seasoning and lots of chili powder.
pansypoo53219
(21,486 posts)can of tomato sauce
can of stewed toms or can of whole toms
beef bouillon
i use 1/4c of ground beef amount up to you
1 onion
celery
pasta
chili powder as much as you like
bean version i like a mix of red + black beans
can tomato sauce
can of whole toms crushed
beef bouillon
onion
celery
potato
chili powder
happybird
(4,954 posts)Never known anyone with a bean allergy, but then it occurred to me that its probably not uncommon: legumes, peanuts, etc. I am intrigued by including potatoes! I like chili over pasta or rice, bet it would be great over some diced, boiled potatoes, too.
pansypoo53219
(21,486 posts)fan.
sorcrow
(469 posts)Beans for chili in a bowl. I saw an interesting recipe for a beans-free hot dog chili. Reminds me of the chili dogs from the Tastee Dog when I was a little kid. Used to sit at the counter with my mom, eat chili dogs, and listen to Ahab the Arab on the jukebox.
Best regards,
Sorghum Crow
happybird
(4,954 posts)Freethinker65
(10,779 posts)I use light red kidney beans and chili beans.
Hotler
(11,812 posts)Sam Arnold's Jailhouse Chili
Ingredients:
6 slices bacon
1/2 lb hot bulk pork sausage
2 pounds ground chili beef or
chopped stew meat
1 cup of chopped onions
2 mashed garlic cloves
2/3 cup chopped green pepper
4 tablespoons pure New Mexico red chili powder
2 teaspons of cilantro
1 teaspoon or leaf oregano
1/2 teaspoon cumin seed
2 cans of beer
1 12-oz can of tomato paste
3 cups cooked anasazi or pinto beans (canned beans may be used, but they're not nearly as good as cooking them from scratch!)
Preparation:
Cook bacon crisp, drain, cool and crumble, set aside. Brown sausage, drain, set aside. Keep 1/4 cup of the fat. Brown ground beef. Cook pepper, garlic and onion and combine with cooked beef, sausage. Add beer and tomato paste, and simmer at low heat (200 degree F) for two hours. Add beans, cook 20 minutes longer and serve with shredded cheese and chopped onion over the top. If you like it hotter, add finely minced serrano chilies (not jalapenos).
Acknowledgment:
This receipt was published in the Denver Post ~1997 or so. It comes from Sam Arnold's extensive cook book of special frontier receipts that he had researched. Many of which are used now at his family's "The Fort" restaurant located near Red Rock, Colorado, a southwestern suburb of Denver. If you are ever near by, you just have to dine at The Fort. It is a very unique dining experience.
https://inquestllc.com/Chili.php
happybird
(4,954 posts)I use ground chuck but would like to try stew meat. It would have a great texture.
subterranean
(3,500 posts)Usually black and pinto.
chowmama
(463 posts)Midwest chili with ground meat and beans, and Southwest chili with cubed meat and no beans. I love both of them.
I haven't seen very many variations on SW chili; it's still mostly dried chilis made into a paste for seasoning. I know there's some argument about if other veg can be included with the meat, and purists seem to object to even onion and garlic. Tomatoes are sometimes almost as much a heresy as beans. Not much room there.
My Midwest chili is fairly standard (chili powder, onions, beans, tomatoes, etc.), but my father borrowed a trick from some neighbors to extend the meat even further by including corn kernels. Weird, but tasty. 1 pound of meat made at least 12 servings, at a time when we could use the savings. DH decided he likes it that way, so I add corn, too. (But more meat and chili powder, so less savings.)
The weirdest Midwest chili I ever ran into was at college, at a theater pre-show potluck. That guy's family used all the usual additives, and then threw in elbow macaroni and pineapple tidbits. Not much seasoning, if I recall - it was just an odd hamburger bean stew, sort of like hot dish soup in a bowl, with pineapple. Hella cheap, though.
happybird
(4,954 posts)That sounds
interesting.
😁
I do like my chili over pasta (penne or macaroni, anything hollow) and a dollop sour cream on top. And I have put corn in there a few times. The little pops of sweet are nice and satisfying. The SW chili people would judge me so hard, lol!
chowmama
(463 posts)Some of those potlucks and after-show parties got pretty interesting. I remember the night we were doing tequila shots with salt and lime, and we ran out of limes. Somebody else had brought slightly scorched molasses ginger cookies, so we used them instead.
Of course, we'd gone through a fair bit of tequila by then.
LeftInTX
(29,022 posts)Backseat Driver
(4,555 posts)shhh...it's a secret - a full dutch oven pot on top of range simmered a long time.
Ilsa
(62,091 posts)McCormick's chili seasoning, frozen cut onions and bell peppers (sautéed first), garlic, and tomato sauce for a quick chile.
I also like making chili by cutting beef down into small chunks (bean size) to sauté with onions, garlic, seasoning, etc. No beans necessary. More purist.
magicarpet
(15,815 posts)Kidney beans,...
Pea beans,...
And Black beans.
Stewed tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato paste, lots garlic, sausage, ground beef, onion, green pepper, jalapeño, chili powder, and ground pepper.
Great on cold snowy weather days.
DBoon
(22,900 posts)meat is for flavor
question everything
(48,457 posts)BlueKota
(3,007 posts)diane in sf
(4,024 posts)rocketdem1964
(28 posts)As a vegetarian, the beans are the best part. I also thrown in some homemade refried beans to get the thickness that I like.
and no ground beef .cubed sirloin and ribeye.
Zambero
(9,427 posts)when out of beans!
UTUSN
(71,907 posts)Figarosmom
(720 posts)It's the beans I like. I know a lot of people say chili is just meat, whatever. But to me if it's just meat why give it a name instead of just calling it boiled meat soup.
And I like V8 instead of plain tomato sauce. Lots of chili powder and jalapeños and onions. Beef bullion
and crushed red peppers. And always the bean juice from the can. I use one can dark kidneys and the rest are dried beans
LoisB
(8,013 posts)AllaN01Bear
(22,393 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,681 posts)With beans.
Skittles
(157,006 posts)no
eat? without beans
Paladin
(28,597 posts)Way too much argument over the beans/no beans chili issue. Eat it the way you prefer---end of story.
Luciferous
(6,174 posts)vegetarian chili
ProfessorGAC
(68,412 posts)I should mention that I use bourbon & cinnamon, too.