Friday, March 11, 2011

Chipotle Chili

Chili is one dish that goes great with eating a low carb very well as it is mainly meat and spices. It is not exactly a very precise recipe and it is pretty hard to screw up but I have put in approximate amounts for the spices. With how flexible the recipe is, you can adjust it to your taste preferences. Also, I use black soy beans as they have very few carbs and lots of fiber which makes these the lowest carb beans around. If you don't have the Ground Chipotle Pepper, the recipe will be fine without it but I really recommend it as it has tons of great flavour to add.


Ingredients
- 2-5 pounds of beef or pork(ground, shredded, doesn't matter)
- Can of tomatoes
- 1-2 onions
- Several peppers
- Onion Powder (2-6 Tbsp)
- Garlic (1-4 Tbsp)
- Mexican Chili Powder(3-8 Tbsp)
- Ground Chipotle Pepper (1-3 Tbsp adjust for heat and flavour)
- Crushed Chilies (1-3 Tbsp adjust for heat)
- Can of black soy beans (Optional)




Get all your ingredients together, I used 5 lbs
of ground beef for this recipe


Chop up the onions


Throw them into a large pot with some oil on high heat


Add the meat after frying the onions for a bit


Shake plenty of onion powder on as well as the garlic


Be generous with the chili powder and throw
some of the other spices in



Cook until browned, mixing well


Crack open a can of tomatoes


And dump those in


Mix it up and let it cook off some extra moisture
Let it cook for 10-30 minutes



Get your peppers cut up if not done already


Throw all those peppers in there


And keep it cookin'


If you are adding beans,
get those ready

No offense to any Texans


And add them


Now just let it cook and taste it
occasionally to see if it is done.
If you want, add more spices to improve
the flavour if it needs any tweaking