This Week’s Recipe: Mid-West Chili
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Ingredients:
2 ½ pounds of ground beef
1 medium onion, diced
4 cans of Brooks Hot chili beans (mail order) or 4 cans of Hormel chili beans, hot with beans
6 oz of tomato paste
4 cans of kidney beans, drained
48-64 oz of V-8 juice (depends on how saucy you like your chili)
2 tablespoons chili powder
1 tablespoon of New Mexican hot chili powder
Directions:
Cook together the beef and onion, drain the fat off.
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Add in the V-8 juice and the tomato paste, simmer for 5 minutes. Add both sets of the beans.
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Add the chili powders slowly until you get the spiciness that you like.
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Simmer for one-half hour, stirring occasionally so it doesn’t stick.
Mid-West Chili
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com