Fire Roasted Hot Chili Recipe


Our Best Chili Recipe

Last fall Susie and I decided to pick up some peppers for our hot sauces. I had to make more of Barb’s Sweet Chili Sauce which is a primary ingredient in our Pulled Pork Butt Sauce. While we were at the farmer's market, we scooped a few bushel baskets of those little hell devils, habaneros and some jalapeno peppers, with the intent of developing a new hot sauce. Our Blackstrap Fire Sauce was born, but that's another story. We had extra peppers and decided to smoke them, we smoked some chipotles with the cherry wood and the habanero’s got some sweet apple smoke. Into the dehydrator for 28 hours. It cleared the garage, oh my GOD, I couldn't breath, my eyes were burning, what the frack have I gotten into again. Will I ever learn that some things you should just buy, and with great personal risk we march on.

With firm little dry peppers into the food processor they went,  a few quick pulses and our work was well under way. Then it happened, a cursed scorch fiery of hell. The fine pepper dust went into our lungs and sent both Barb and I running to the house barking and choking. With blistering eyes and swollen throats, we had to finish, but Barb was not to be found.  I put on a mask and finished the job myself. It was a strange mix of sweet smoky goodness with a terrible whomp of heat.

Well where else to try out our new little destruction of death but in my go to chili recipe, I put two tablespoons of each pepper in and let our concoction brew. Holy flaming hoops of hell, this if fracken hot. Not to waist the chili but it took everything I had to choke down just one bowl. I doubled the recipe with hopes to watering it down but holy Hanna it was still on fire. I was doomed, as what goes in must come out. Screaming jeepers, I am not kidding. I strongly considered going out to buy a popsicle enema, the chili bowl was steaming as was the toilet bowl. There were serious corrections required, but over all of this pain there was a desire to eat more of it. Was it the flavour or the utopian high of the endorphins talking to my delirious state of mind?

After four of five renditions, I got it figured out, but talk about playing with fire, and the name sake was born "Fire Roasted Hot Chili". I started with just ground beef but it lacked something, so in went some ground pork and ground turkey. Leaving the larger pieces it was a match made in heaven. More onion, and green peppers. Now I know that a real Texan on the competition trail would be having a fit. There are no vegetables in chili, it's sauce, chili peppers and maybe meat. Not ground meat but small pieces of beef steak, if you really have to. What I was making has been referred to as "Bean Stew with Sauce” Now I’m all for authentic, but I like beans, and I like ground meats and I like tomato sauce in my chili.  This is just like the defination of "What is BBQ", is it pulled pork, is it brisket or is it sausage, it all depends where you come from and where your eating it.

So into our little mix goes the usual spices along with some coco powder and some bourbon. I thought about instant coffee or even cola, nope that just a little to complex for me. The resulting recipe is what I have been making with some adjustment on the hot peppers depending on who is eating it. I have to kill all of the habanero if this is intended for the kids, it still hot, just not Fire Roasted Hot.

Enjoy, Compliments of the Big Dog



Fire Roasted Hot Chili
Fire Roasted Hot Chili

Ingredients

1 lb ground beef
1 lb ground pork
1 lb ground turkey
1 can red kidney beans (drained)
1 can pinto beans (drained)
2 cups diced onion
2 cups diced green pepper
1/2 cup roasted red peppers
2 cups tomato sauce
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp kosher salt
2 tbsp sweet Hungarian paprika
2 tbsp ancho chili pepper
2 tbsp coarse ground chipotle
1 tbsp smoked habanero (to taste)
2 tbsp granulated garlic
4 tbsp cumin seed
1 tbsp fresh ground pepper (to taste)
1 tbsp coco powder
2 cups beef stock
2 oz of whiskey
4 tbsp fresh Italian parsley (chopped)

Steps

On medium heat in large pan
Brown meat set a side, drain and reserve liquid
Toast cumin seed in separate pan and allow to cool (grind in coffee mill)
Add oil to original pan, sweat onions until translucent, add green peppers until soften, add 1/2 of parsley add 1/2 of the cumin.

Assemble ingredients in slow cooker (or large Dutch oven)
Remove fat from drippings and discard, add stock along with meat mixture, onion / peppers and remaining ingredients reserving the ground cumin, parsley and the whiskey.

Allow to come to heat and simmer low for 4 hours. Add the remaining ingredients; continue to simmer for another 1/2 hour.

 

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  • 2/26/2009 2:16 PM Ryan wrote:
    Is this really supposed to have 4 Tablesponns of cumin seed? Tbsp stands for tablespoon corrrect? That is a LOT of cumin!!
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    1. 3/2/2009 1:23 PM Big Dog wrote:
      Yep...

      FOUR TABLESPOONS, separated into two portions the first at the start of the cook and the other to be added at the end.


      cheers from the Big Dog

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