How to Make Chili
Here's how to make delicious, homemade Chilli !!
Ingredients
for this instructable you'll need the following ingredients:
- tomato paste
- 2 tomatoes
- crushed tomatoes
- ground beef
- 2 celery stalks
- one onion( only need 1/2)
- 1 pepper
- 2 cans of beans
Wash Your Vegetables
- Make sure to thoroughly wash your vegetables (tomatoes,celery,pepper,onion) before cutting!!
Cut Up Your Vegetables !
- Cut up all the vegetables into bite sized pieces or any size that you prefer.
Strain
- Strain both cans of beans in a strainer, use water to help if needed. Strain until all the juices are gone and just the beans are left.
Begin Cooking
- after you preheat the stove and buttered the pot, cook the meat until it is all brown( make sure the stove is on medium-high).
Adding the Beans
- Add the beans from the strainer into the meat and stir it around for about 2 minutes or so (Heat still on medium-high)
Add in the Vegetables
- Add in all the cut up vegetables and stir everything around for a couple of minutes with the heat on Medium-high
Go Bigger
- Since the food was nearly all the way up to the brim, we moved the contents to a bigger bowl- This is optional
- Put your pot on top of a heat tamer/diffuser
*Make sure the heat is still on medium-high*
Add the Tomato Sauce/ Paste
- Add the tomato sauce and paste into the chilli. You can use a spoon to get all the contents out of the container- if needed.
Stir It Up
- Stir everything for about 2 minutes
Simmer Down
- Turn the knob on your stove so that it's now medium-low
- Put the lid on top of the pot and let it simmer down for about 15 minutes
Add Your SPICE
- After 10 minutes of simmering, add about a teaspoon of Cayenne pepper to the meal
- Let it simmer for about 5 more minutes and then serve
- OPTIONAL : Break open a chilli pepper and pour the contents into the chilli for even more heat