Hey everyone. It's Sam here from Sugar
Spun Run and today we are making the best chili recipe. I know that most of
our recipes are sweet recipes, but this chili recipe is possibly one of the ones
I am most proud of on my whole blog. This recipe has won dozens of cook-offs. It's
received tons of rave reviews. I am so happy with this recipe and so excited to
be sharing with you today. Now the first thing that you're going to need is one
of the ingredients that I think really helped set this chili apart from every
other one out there, and that is bacon. You're going to need five strips of
bacon and you want to go ahead and cut these up into small bite-sized pieces.
What we're gonna do is we're gonna add this to a large pot, or a Dutch oven. We're gonna turn our heat to medium and cook the bacon until it's nice and crisp. Once your bacon is nice and crisp we're gonna transfer that to a paper towel-lined plate. I'm just gonna take it out of the pot and we're gonna set it
aside for now. Now you're going to have some bacon grease left in your pot, and
you don't want to drain that, at least you don't want to drain all of it. You
want to leave behind about one-and-a-half tablespoons of grease,
because cooking our chili in that bacon grease also helps give it that great
flavor. Now you're going to keep your heat on medium and we're going to add
one large diced yellow onion. And one diced red pepper. Cook your pepper and
onions until they're nice and softened gonna take about three to five minutes. Once your veggies are nice and soft
we're going to add a tablespoon of minced garlic, and you're just gonna cook this until it's nice and fragrant. It'll only take about 30 seconds. Once you can smell that garlic cooking we're going to add our ground beef. You'll need a pound
of ground beef and we're gonna cook this, breaking it apart with our spatula as it
cooks. So once your ground beef is about
halfway cooked, it's about 50% browned, now you're going to want to add your
spices. Now adding them at this point really helps them cook into the flavor
of the meat. It really helps give this chili a good
flavor. We're gonna start with 1 tablespoon of firmly packed a light
brown sugar, and we're going to be adding a tablespoon each of chili powder, and
ancho chili powder. I really like the subtly sweet smoky
flavor the ancho chili powder adds but if you don't have it on hand you can
just sub that out for regular chili powder. We're also adding one and a half
teaspoons of smoked paprika, a teaspoon of cumin, a teaspoon of onion powder, 3/4
teaspoon of ground black pepper 1/2 teaspoon of salt, and just a pinch of
cayenne pepper. I'm just gonna use 1/8 teaspoon. Now stir everything together.
Get these spices nicely distributed in with that ground beef as it continues to
cook and brown. Once your ground beef is cooked through, now we can add the rest of our ingredients. You need 1 and 1/4 cups of beef broth. And a 15 ounce can each of dark red kidney beans and black beans. you just want to drain these really well and lightly rinse them before adding to your chili. We're also adding a 14 and 1/2 ounce can of fire roasted diced tomatoes and you do not need to drain these. 1/4 cup of tomato paste. A 7 ounce can of fire roasted
diced green chilies, and a tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce. We're also going to
add back in that cooked bacon from earlier. We're just gonna stir everything
together and bring it to a nice boil. Now stir the chili frequently while you're
cooking it, and once it comes to a boil you're going to want to let it boil for
about 1 to 2 minutes, and then we can go ahead and reduce the heat and bring it
to a simmer. You'll simmer this chili for about 30
minutes. You can leave it uncovered and you're going to want to make sure you
stir it occasionally. This 30 minute simmering period is where your flavors
are really going to develop. So don't skip this. Ok chili is done simmering. The house smells amazing I'm hungry. So let's go ahead and dig in. This chili is perfectly good served as
is, but I personally love topping mine off with sour cream, or shredded
cheese, and that's what I'm gonna be doing for dinner tonight. I hope you guys
enjoyed this award winning, multiple cook-off winning chili recipe and if you
try it out please let me know what you think. I love hearing from you. Thank you
guys so much for watching and I will see you next time. Hey if you guys enjoyed today's award winning chili recipe, I would really appreciate it if you would give me a thumbs up. Make sure to subscribe, and hit that notification bell. Also, if you enjoyed today's recipe, here are few others you might enjoy as well.
