Cooking with Bennie-Mac - Authentic Texas Chili

zipp0r said:
wow. tomato ketchup and vinegar to make chilli ??? you need to learn how to dice onions as well. theres no fresh bell peppers, or fresh chilli.
i couldnt eat what you made, no way, just the thought of how much ketchup and vinegar and sugar and salt is in that makes me feel sick. i hope you meant 7.0g sugar and 3.5g of salt, 70 and 35 grammes thats not good for you.

i like those pickled jalapenos you used, very crunchy. that and you eating it with bread are the only things i liked about your recipe lol :)
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Wow thanks for that...First of all, its not my recipe, this is how they make it in Texas (the inventors of chili) im just repeating it here for the benefit of others. Im also well aware how to dice onions thank you.

You also seen to forget that the sauce makes enough for 3-4 batches of chili that serves 5 people so 15-20 portions total. So the salt is significantly lower than you think. Ill hold my hands up to the sugar though, there is a lot but its how they make it.

Streeteh said:
[EDIT] Oh and i just realized. Chili without kidney beans!?!
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Texas chili doesnt call for the use of beans of any kind :)

DAvE18 said:
Mine was a recipee from here http://www.g6csy.net/chile/recp-texas.html
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Oh look award winning chilis using ketchup and chili powder, heathens! :rolleyes: :p
 
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Some of you need to remember that chilli is a very personal thing. Instead of jumping on the guy for making his chilli in a slightly different way to you, why not celebrate the fact that he does it differently? I think I might give it a go, shake things up a bit at 69 Towers :)
 
Jonny69 said:
Some of you need to remember that chilli is a very personal thing. Instead of jumping on the guy for making his chilli in a slightly different way to you, why not celebrate the fact that he does it differently? I think I might give it a go, shake things up a bit at 69 Towers :)
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Its not the different thing that bugs me, its the incredibly large amount of salt going into it! My dad, a very healthy man who has run the London marathon over a dozen times, has very high blood pressure due to consuming too much salt over the years. Overconsumption of salt is a bad thing and can cause lasting damage.
 
Streeteh said:
Its not the different thing that bugs me, its the incredibly large amount of salt going into it! My dad, a very healthy man who has run the London marathon over a dozen times, has very high blood pressure due to consuming too much salt over the years. Overconsumption of salt is a bad thing and can cause lasting damage.
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The salt is all in the sauce though which as ive mentioned does 3-4 batches of chili at 5 servings each, so its not as much salt per serving as you think :)

D1ngd0ng said:
How about some pork for flavour instead of another 1lb of mince?
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Pork would do, might give that a go next time myself :) Thats if i somehow am still alive after eating some bowls of this :rolleyes: :p

Edit - Thanks to everyone else for the "Om nom nom etc" comments, it really is a damn tasty chili i implore you to try it before writing it off. It got the seal of approval from my dad today and he wants me to make him his own batch.
 
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I would like to add that I am not writing it off and will be trying (with some pork mince added I think) after the current batch has been depleted. I have been looking for a beanless recipe for chilli dogs and this looks like it will come up trumps.
 
I think I might give this a go sometime but swap out the ketchup for tinned toms and cut the salt and sugar back a bit.

Never heard of cider vinegar before. Can you get this at Tesco?

Ive always used red wine with chilli, never thought of using beer. Would Guinness work?
 
Mark A said:
Cheers, i'll have a look tomorrow. Might add a bit to my own recipe as well.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=17455182&postcount=57

One I made the other day.
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Yeah tesco do the apple cider vinegar, they have their own brand and the i used called Aspall. Ill have give your chili a go at some point, have never used red wine in one before :)

Edit - Guinness would work it would just give it a slightly different flavour and most likely darken it down. Will try it for the next batch
 
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