Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, three bean chili. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Three Bean Chili is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Three Bean Chili is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have three bean chili using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Three Bean Chili:
- Take 1 Tablespoon oil
- Get 1 onion, minced
- Take 1 bell pepper, chopped
- Take 6 cloves garlic, chopped
- Get 1/4 cup tomato paste
- Make ready 2 teaspoons chili powder
- Make ready 1 teaspoon cumin
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- Get 1 bay leaf
- Prepare 1.25 cups unsalted liquid (water, stock, dry wine are all ok)
- Prepare 1 cup canned tomatoes (puree, sauce, or diced are fine)
- Get 1 pound 80/20 ground beef (ground turkey, chicken, pork all work fine)
- Take 1.5 teaspoons salt
- Make ready 2 Tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- Make ready 1-2 Tablespoons hot sauce (used up my Popeye's leftover Louisiana packets - WOOT!)
- Prepare 3 (15.5 oz) cans beans of choice, well drained
- Take Optional toppings: minced onions, jalapeños, and cilantro, sour cream, shredded cheese, hot sauce
Instructions to make Three Bean Chili:
- In a large pot (4 to 5 quart works), bring oil up to medium temp, add onions, peppers, and garlic, and sweat the aromatics until onions turn translucent (about 4 or 5 minutes).
- Add tomato paste, chili powder, cumin, black pepper, and bay leaf.
- Stir to incorporate and let the tomato paste caramelize for about a minute or so.
- Stir in liquid.
- Add ground beef, salt, Worcestershire sauce, and hot sauce.
- Stir until ground beef is all broken up and all the ingredients are thoroughly incorporated.
- Add beans and give it a few good stirs.
- Turn heat down just under medium and cook, COVERED (I know the pic isn't covered - I forgot to take that one), for 20 minutes, stirring once or twice during that time. If solids are getting stuck to the bottom of the pot, turn the heat down just a little bit.
- Turn heat to low and cook with lid askew for another 20 minutes, adjusting seasoning halfway. Leaving the lid askew lets the steam evaporate, the flavors concentrate, and the chili will thicken a bit.
- All done! Enjoy with toppings of choice.
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