at least a little bit of water or broth unless you want it to burn
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I love peanut butter in my chilli
Cubed stew meat.
The trick is to undercook the onions. Everybody is going to get to know each other in the pot.
Dark chocolate. Half a bar (50g) to give it a richer flavor, 2 bars (200g) to make Chocolate Chili, the best winter food known to mankind.
and bloody mary mix
Uh... Vodka...?
Pretty sure that would boil away without contributing much flavor.
It gets added towards the end in some of the chili recipes in The Food Lab. But maybe just the vegetarian ones which of course use your favorite ingredient.
It may be unlikely to boil off regardless. It takes a very long time to cook off alcohol. Here it would serve as a carrier for getting certain aromas to your nose. I'd make quite a few other changes to the recipe you're using before I tried alcohol.
Cumin. Garlic. Beef broth. Salt.
Different color bell peppers for, well color.
Onions, beans, cheddar, and of course the spaghetti. Gotta go with a 5 way
Now that you made it, cook spaghetti and pour some over for leftovers. Chili spaghetti rocks.
This entire thread should probably be tagged as nsfw
Lil marmite to make that beef flavor pop
If you absolutely must use bloody mary mix for some reason
Brown up your beef, saute up some diced onions and crushed garlic and the peppers
Add it all to a pot, add the bloody Mary mix
Season with some cumin, and (if needed, some bloody Mary mixes can be pretty heavily seasoned) salt, pepper, garlic & onion powder, chilli powder, maybe some herbs like cilantro, oregano, maybe basil
Maybe a bit of flour to help thicken it, otherwise you're gonna need to be very judicious about how much mix you use or it's gonna take forever and risk the flavor getting weird trying to reduce it down and concentrating the seasoning in the mix.
If it's coming out a bit too tangy and acidic, a bit of sugar or maybe brown sugar can help cut that
If you can, consider using some fresh or canned tomatoes, or even plain tomato sauce, that'll probably get you a better texture, but I suspect that if that were an option you could, should, and probably would skip the bloody Mary mix
I'd also maybe consider adding some bell peppers to the mix to make it a little chunkier. Maybe some corn.
Maybe some bacon, chorizo, some diced meat in addition to the ground, etc.
I like to add a beer, but starting with bloody Mary mix that's probably gonna thin things out a bit too much. Wine and stock would be other options but with the same problem.
End of the day, chili is a stew, and the origin of stews is pretty much just throwing whatever you have in a pot and letting it simmer, there's not too much to it.
Update 2
This was for a chili cook off my family holds every year. I won.
Something sweet like banana, pineapple, mango etc.
Vodka
...hamburger?
Mustard, mayo, and all. The buns get soggy but are good in it. The side of fries is optional
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