Bestest Ever Chili

Ingredients

  • 1.5 lbs. ground meat (beef, lamb, bison)
  • 1 bell pepper
  • 1-2 cups of mixed sweet to medium hot peppers (poblano, sweet peppers, etc)
  • 2 celery stalk
  • 1 leak stalk
  • 1 medium onion
  • 6 garlic cloves
  • 100g chipotle peppers in adobo sauce adobe
  • ¼ cup diced green chili (optional)
  • 15 g chili powder (1/2 oz)
  • 15 g chipotle powder (1/2 oz)
  • 2 - 794g (28 oz) large can of San Marzano peeled tomatoes
  • 340 g (12oz) tomato paste
  • 1 tbsp. salt
  • 1 cans of black beans
  • 1 can of hominy
  • 2 ½ cups water

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350
  2. Hand crumble ground meat on a 16x9 baking sheet and cook in the oven for 15 minutes
  3. Medium cut all peppers and celery on a 16x9 baking sheet and cook in the oven for 15 minutes
  4. Medium-cut onion, leaks, and fine-cut garlic on a 16x9 baking sheet cook in oven for 15 minutes

Assemble into a crock pot or instant-pot

  1. Add meat and break up with spattle
  2. Add all other ingredients
  3. Cook on low for 2-3 hours

Serve

  1. Top with cheese and Lettuce (optional).
  2. Serve with fried egg

By Bob Chaney, Friend of Pat's