chili/chile & basic Texas chili recipe
Saturday, March 31st, 2007Hello, fellow Os!
Just wanted to share some information from my local newspaper about a food
ingredient that’s been brought up lately. The New World’s hottest fruit:
chiles!
Chiles are the fruits, chili is the final dish made from meat, chiles &
sometimes beans. We… er, *I* often see chili recipes made with the acidic
fruit tomato.
Most Texans feel that “real” chili is made with meat & chiles, without beans. As
time progressed chili recipies diversified, including such animals as
alligators, aardvarks, armadillos, venison, boar, kangaroo, moose, chicken, &
turkey. Chili doesn’t traditionally use ground meat, but coarsely chopped meat.
It’s got to have chiles in it, though.
Example recipe:
Texas-Style Chili
2 pounds lean stew beef
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