Beef
The Best Chili Recipe
You may be surprised to see the addition of bittersweet chocolate in the Raichlen chili. The combination may sound bizarre until you stop to think that the Aztecs made their hot chocolate with cocoa beans and chiles. (Montezuma allegedly consumed 50 cups a day.)
As for the chili powder, it should be pure—preferably ground from ancho chilies. Masa harina—used as an optional thickener and available at most supermarkets—is the corn flour used for making tortillas.
Everyone should know how to make chili. The following features both beef and pork, both diced meat and ground, plus plenty of chili powder, green chiles, and jalapenos to turn up the heat. Simmer it on your stove. Even better, cook it on your grill or smoker, with wood chips or chunks added to the fire to blast it with woodsmoke. Now that’s what I call chili!!
Yes, it’s complicated, but chili is supposed to be complicated.
The recipe following will, er, smoke the competition!
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