I know the Texans will be offended with me calling this chili, but it's how we like it. Nothing wrong with Texas chili, we like that alot too, but this is how we normally make it.
Started by pulling some ground beef out of the freezer. Local butcher has it on sale in 10 lb packages all the time so we always buy a couple and vac pack it. Formed that into a mini leaf and added some rub. Came out of a pack my son got me for christmas.
Threw that on the weber with a quartered onion. Fire was half a chimney of kbb, some hickory chunks and whatever charcoal was leftover from the last time I grilled. A bit of foil to catch the drippings.
Meat and onions stated on the smoke for 2-3 hours. Meat was ~160f when I pulled it. Gave it and the onion a rough chop before throwing it into the instant pot.
Add the kidney beans, diced tomatoes, rotel tomatoes, garlic and spices (cumin, chili powder, cayenne, minced onion, salt and pepper). Giving a stir and cook for 40 min.
When that had 10 min left I made some biscuits to go with it. I was turned onto this recipe by the owner of a local grit mill. Some of the best biscuits I've ever had. It's just the recipe from the back of the White Lily Flour bag. Only change I make is lard instead of crisco and I add 1/2 tsp of salt.
Cut with a regular size Mason jar. That's a double batch. One isn't enough.
And done.
Chili was done just about the same time.
Very good this time. It smelled very smoky, but not a lot of smoke flavor came through. It was the first time smoking the onion too and I should have thrown away the outer layer. It got very tough. All in all, a good weeknight meal. Thanks for looking.
Edit: spelling
Started by pulling some ground beef out of the freezer. Local butcher has it on sale in 10 lb packages all the time so we always buy a couple and vac pack it. Formed that into a mini leaf and added some rub. Came out of a pack my son got me for christmas.
Threw that on the weber with a quartered onion. Fire was half a chimney of kbb, some hickory chunks and whatever charcoal was leftover from the last time I grilled. A bit of foil to catch the drippings.
Meat and onions stated on the smoke for 2-3 hours. Meat was ~160f when I pulled it. Gave it and the onion a rough chop before throwing it into the instant pot.
Add the kidney beans, diced tomatoes, rotel tomatoes, garlic and spices (cumin, chili powder, cayenne, minced onion, salt and pepper). Giving a stir and cook for 40 min.
When that had 10 min left I made some biscuits to go with it. I was turned onto this recipe by the owner of a local grit mill. Some of the best biscuits I've ever had. It's just the recipe from the back of the White Lily Flour bag. Only change I make is lard instead of crisco and I add 1/2 tsp of salt.
Cut with a regular size Mason jar. That's a double batch. One isn't enough.
And done.
Chili was done just about the same time.
Very good this time. It smelled very smoky, but not a lot of smoke flavor came through. It was the first time smoking the onion too and I should have thrown away the outer layer. It got very tough. All in all, a good weeknight meal. Thanks for looking.
Edit: spelling
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