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Simple Steps on How to Make Homemade Chili

Monday, January 26th, 2009

If you are expecting your good friends over for a night of movies and watching games such as basketball on TV, one of the great snacks to serve are chips, dips, beer or your friends’ (or your group’s) favorite drinks. And the best dip to enjoy your chips is none other than chili.

Buying ready-to-eat chili from the grocery and restaurants can have its perks but sometimes they are more expensive than what you would normally spend on a dip, especially a chili.

Chili is a rather easy dish to prepare on your own at the comforts of your own kitchen. Here’s a simple way on how to make homemade chili.

The ingredients that you will need are:

• 1 can of beans, kidney beans or your preferred type of beans
• 28 ounce of crushed tomatoes
• 1 can of tomato paste
• 1 pound of ground beef, or hamburger patties and shred them up
• green pepper
• onions
• 1 clove of garlic, minced
• 1 tablespoon of chili powder
• salt
• black pepper
• beef stock
• cooking oil

Making chili is very easy. Here are the steps you need to follow on how to make homemade chili.

1. Find a large skillet and add some cooking oil. You don’t need to fill the skillet with enough oil since the beef has natural oils. Put only an amount that is enough to sauté the onions and peppers.

2. Once the skillet and oil is hot enough, add the onions and peppers. Sauté until the onions turn into light brown color.

3. Add the ground beef or the shred up hamburger meat. Sauté it with the onions and peppers until it turns brown. Make sure that the meat are loosened up and browned evenly. If they are still in chunks, separate them using a spoon or a ladle. You can remove the extra fat and oil.

4. Once the beef is cooked, add the beans, tomato paste, crushed tomatoes. Mix and sauté until the tomato paste blends with the beef.

5. Add the chili powder. Normally one tablespoon is enough but you may add how much as you’d like, depending on how hot you can take your chili.

6. Add some beef stock and cover your skillet. Allow it to simmer for about 30 to 45 minutes. While it’s simmering, lift up the lid once in a while and stir your chili. Allow it to thicken.

7. Add some salt and black pepper to taste.

Some tips on how to make homemade chili.

• You can add other spices and chili like red or cayenne pepper to give your chili an extra pinch.
• The longer you let your chili simmer, the more flavor and yummy it will be!
• To add a more beef flavor, it is better to use beef stock than water.

That’s about it. You know how to make homemade chili that will surely be a hit to your friends! Before you know it your friends will be asking your recipe on how to make homemade chili.

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How to Make Your Own Chili Sauce

Monday, January 26th, 2009

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.

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How to Make Tasty Chili Dogs

Monday, January 26th, 2009

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!

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