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How to Make Chili—Texas Style!

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Chili is the official food of the state of Texas. Chili became popular in Texas during the late 1880s when Hispanic women, called as the chili queens, started selling chili at the streets of San Antonio. They sell it by the bowl to passerby. The strong and delicious aroma of the chili made it an instant hit to the Texans. But what makes Texas-style chili different from standard and traditional chili? Texas-style chili uses chunks of beef instead of the ground beef that is commonly used in most chili recipes. Texas chili also doesn’t contain any beans, tomatoes, or vegetables that are used in other variations of chili. The only vegetable it has is chili peppers, giving it a taste of more beef and chili! The beef used, instead of being ground, are cut into bite-sized chunks usually the size of a pecan nut. The chunked beef gives the Texas-style chili a stew-like texture as compared to the common chili recipes that use ground beef. How to make Texas chili, you ask? Fret not. It’s not as hard as one imagines. Preparation time for Texas chili is about 15 minutes, while the cooking time lasts for about 1 hour and 30 minutes. First things first on how to make Texas chili: ingredients. What you will need are the following: • 3 pounds of beef chucks, cut them into one-inch cubes • 1 large onion • 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil • 2 cloves of garlic • 9 chili pepper pods or chili powder • 3 cup of beef broth • 1 cup of tomato sauce or paste or puree • 2 teaspoons of cornmeal or harina flour • salt • ground black pepper • ½ teaspoon of cayenne powder • 1 tablespoon of cumin, ground Once you have all the ingredients done, follow these simple instructions on how to make Texas chili. 1. Get a large pot and over medium heat, cook the beef in vegetable oil until it turns brown. If you need to do this in batches, do it a necessary. It is better to evenly cook the beef rather than rush everything in one go leaving some portions of the beef uncooked. 2. While the beef is cooking, dice the onions and the garlic. Add the diced onions to the beef and let it sauté for about five minutes. 3. Add the garlic and cornmeal and allow it to cook. If you want your chili to have less fat, you can remove and drain the excess fat by this time. Apart from the vegetable oil, the beef as natural fat that will seep out of it while cooking. 4. Add the tomato sauce and chili pepper. Pour the beef broth and allow it to cook. Add the cumin and cayenne powder. Add the salt and ground black pepper to taste. 5. After you have put in all the remaining ingredients, bring it to a boil. Then put it to low heat and allow it to simmer. Cover the pot and stir occasionally. It’s that simple! You know now how to make Texas chili like a real Texan! ... Read More...

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How to Make Your Own Chili Sauce

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To those who like spicy foods, chili sauce, sometimes called as pepper sauce or hot sauce, is a staple and most used and loved condiment. It would never leave the dining table during meal times. Chili sauces are used around the world and have a whole lot of varieties depending on the demographic location on where it was made from. There are a lot of chili sauces that can be bought in almost all major groceries and food stores. And because of its wide array of varieties, you can find different variations of chili sauce recipes all over the world. However, one thing is common: their main ingredient remains to be chili peppers. As a spicy food lover, you must have wondered how to make chili sauce? No, it’s not hard. In fact, making chili sauce is very easy. Below is a simple recipe on how to make chili sauce. The first thing to do in making your own chili sauce is to gather all your ingredients. Here are the things you need in your chili sauce: • red chilies, long or round • 1 cup of sugar • 2 cups of tomato sauce or tomato ketchup • vinegar • pan • food blender • water • salt and pepper to taste • clean bottle After you have gathered all the things you need, follow these simple steps on how to make chili sauce: 1. Rinse your chilies and cut them roughly. It is advised to remove the seeds for better flavor. 2. Place your chilies in your pan and add water until they are completely covered. Cook it over medium heat and bring to a boil. 3. Once the chilies are soft, remove the pan. Do not let the water complete evaporate. Make sure there are still some left at the bottom of the pan. Let the chilies cool for a while. 4. Transfer the contents of the pan into a food blender. Add some vinegar, tomato sauce or ketchup, some sugar, salt and black pepper. Blend all your ingredients until they reach the consistency of a fine paste. 5. Taste your chili sauce. If they aren’t hot enough for you, you can use some chili powder to raise the heat level. Be sure that you don’t go crazy with the chili powder. You can’t bring the heat level to a lower one once it has gone over your heat limit. Take some caution with your heat level. 6. Transfer back the contents of your blender into a pan and reheat it for a few minutes. 7. Gently pour your newly made chili sauce into airtight containers. You can now store your newly made chili sauce in your pantry or the refrigerator if you like your condiments a bit cool. Now you know how to make chili sauce you need to make a trip to your local store to purchase a bottled chili sauce when you have run out of one before meal time. You can now enjoy homemade chili made just right for your taste anytime and anywhere. ... Read More...

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How to Make Tasty Chili Dogs

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When chili is put into a hotdog, it will never be the same. While hotdog is already a very tasty snack, a chili dog can be compared to heaven on earth! Chili dog, as opposed to a regular hotdog, is already a full meal, not to mention, the chili adds the extra “spice” and the extra kick in your favorite hotdog sandwich. How to make a chili dog? The simplest way is to fry your favorite hotdog, put it in a hotdog bun, and heat the canned chili you can buy in nearby groceries and supermarkets. That can suffice but the canned chili will not compare to the savory taste of real homemade chili. The difference of chili in chili dogs to the chili with nachos or a regular chili is that chili dogs’ flavor is more of onion than of chili pepper or tomato. Apart from that, the meat is chopped finer than the meat in a regular chili since the chili in chili dogs are used as a condiment. Here’s how to make a chili dog that is tastier than the canned ones and made right at your own home. Here’s what you need to make a chili dog: • 1 pound ground beef • 1 large onion, diced • ½ to 1 cup of chili powder • tomato paste • salt and black pepper • Frankfurt hotdogs • hotdog buns How to make a chili dog is very simple. Follow these instructions and you’ll have a very tasty meal in no time. 1. In a skillet, cook the ground beef over high heat until the beef turns brown. Make sure that the beef is ground very finely. If it is still in lumps, break it off to cook it evenly. Your chili dog should not be lumpy. Add a few teaspoons of salt while the beef is cooking. 2. While the beef is cooking, dice the onions into small cubes. Add it to the beef and cook it until the onion becomes soft. 3. When the beef and onion are cooked, add the tomato paste and the chili powder. Add some water to dissolve the tomato paste and the chili powder. If you think your chili isn’t hot enough, you can add more chili powder until you are satisfied. 4. Cook them under medium heat and stir occasionally. Cook your chili for about five to ten minutes. 5. Once your chili is done, grill your Frankfurt hotdogs over coal or using on-stove grills. 6. While your hotdogs are grilling, slice your hotdog buns in half and toast them in an oven toaster. Be careful not to over toast and burn your buns. 7. Place your grilled Frankfurt hotdogs on the toasted buns. Add some mayonnaise or mustard, on your desire. And finally, add your chili on top of your hotdog. You can spread some separately sautéed onions for presentation and extra onion taste. And that’s it, folks, how to make chili dogs everybody will surely love in seven easy steps! ... Read More...

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