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- From: RLIZ@msg.ti.com (Liz)
- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- Subject: Texas Chili
- Date: 16 Nov 1994 15:09:20 -0500
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- Blasphemy! Texas chili is meat and spices and that's it. The legendary Wick
- Fowler added a little tomato sauce to his to thicken it, but actual tomatoes
- and onions do not appear, nor do beans. If you must have beans, you cook them
- in a separate pot and people can serve them with the chili as much as they
- like.
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- "real" chili also uses suet, but for my tastes it produces a very greasy
- product so I leave it out.
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- Frank X Tolbert's Original Bowl of Red (Tolbert founded the World Chili
- Cookoff in Terlingua, Texas and owned a chain of chili parlors in Dallas.)
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- 3 lbs lean beef
- 1/8 pound rendered beef kidney suet (if you want to go for it)
- 1 tsp each oregano, cumin powder, slat, cayenne pepper, and Tabasco
- 3 tbsp chile powder (optional)
- 4 hot chile peppers
- at least two chopped cloves of garlic
- 2 tsp masa harina, cornmeal, or flour (optional)
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- sear beef in a 4qt+ dutch oven or skillet. You may need a little oil to
- prevent the meat from sticking. When the meat is all gray, add suet and chile
- peppers and about two inches of liquid (you can use water, I use beer).
- Simmer for 30 min.
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- Add spices and garlic, bring to boil, lower heat and simmer for 45 minutes.
- Add more liquid only to keep the mix from burning.
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- Skim off as much grease as you can, and add masa harina. Simmer for another
- 30 minutes. Taste and adjust spices if necessary. WARNING: this is spicy
- chili, so leave out some of the spicy stuff in the beginning if you have a
- tender tongue.
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- At this point, I refridgerate the chili overnight which allows the chili to
- mellow and you can skim off all the grease.
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- Enjoy with beer and some tortillas.
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- Liz
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