INGREDIENTS:1 lb. of ground beef (turkey may also be used if you don't do red meat)
1 lb. of ground pork
48 ounces of beef broth (I favor College Inn)
1 28 oz. can of crushed tomatoes (and 1 15 oz. can as backup, in case you want more)
1 large Spanish onion, diced (or 2, if you like)
1 diced green pepper (optional)
1 box Birds Eye sweet kernel corn (optional)
4 cloves of cracked garlic (or as much as you like, but this quantity is a good starter guideline)
Cumin (to taste)
Chili powder (to taste)
1 packet Old El Paso taco seasoning (NOT the chili mix)
4 Bay leaves
1 1lb. 13 oz. can of red kidney beans
1 15,5 oz. can of dark kidney beans
1 cube Maggi beef bullion (optional; to be used if you want mild salt content; never use more than two)
FINISHED YIELD: Approximately fourteen measuring cups worth of chili.
Brown meat and combine with crushed tomatoes in a soup pot. Add diced onion, green pepper, garlic, corn (optional), taco seasoning, cumin, chili powder, Bay leaves and beef broth. Stir until well blended. Bring to a boil and lower flame to a simmer, then add beans (and optional bullion cube) and continue to occasionally stir. Simmer until the chili reaches desired thickness (I recommend roughly 2 hours), and if not as thick as preferred, use a potato masher to mash up some of the beans in the pot about halfway through the cook-time. It will thicken up quite nicely after that.
The completed beautifulness.
IMPORTANT NOTE: this chili recipe is fairly mild, making it suitable for general consumption and feeding to innocent children. If you’re one of those masochists who cannot enjoy chili unless it makes your asshole burn like nitric acid had just been schlamped up your turd hatch, you can add whatever kind of peppers you wish, and in that case I recommend either diced jalapeños (quantity determined by individual tolerance to gastrointestinal agony) or four fresh perforated Scotch bonnets (the perforation prevents the bonnets from exploding when their internal pressure builds as they simmer). Just keep in mind that Scotch bonnets are some seriously spicy shit that is best not fucked with by amateurs.
