HOMEMADE CHILI RECIPE for Making a Mean Grown-Up Chili

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Published 2020-11-28
Everyone has a secret for their homemade chili recipe. Here's mine. The ingredients are familiar, but it comes down to dialing up a few key components to get the depth and perfect balance of flavors we're looking for. Yes, I'm confident enough to say perfect. The result is a deeply flavored, complex, beefy chili that is worth the extra time.

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FOR THIS RECIPE YOU'LL NEED:

BEANS:
300 g dried pinto beans soaked overnight
150g reserved bean liquid

CHILE PASTE:
20g dried ancho or about 3 chiles
20g dried guajillo or about 3 chiles
20g dried pasilla or about 3 chiles
600g beef stock or 2.5 cups (+ a little extra to deglaze the chili)


BEEF:
2lbs boneless shortribs

CHILI BASE:
1 red onion
1 poblano
4-5 cloves garlic, roughly chopped
3-4 TBSP olive oil
2g chile flake or 1/2ish tsp
20g chili powder or 2.5 Tbsp
20g paprika or 3Tbsp
12g cumin or1.5 Tbsp
10g cocoa powder or 4tsp
28oz can crushed toms
28oz can diced toms, drained
850g cooked beans or about 4.5 cups
150g bean liquid or about 2/3 cup


SEASONING:
30g brown sugar or 2.5 Tbsp
20g hot sauce or 1.5 Tbsp
20g worcestershire or 1.5 Tbsp
40g cider vin or 1/8 cup
15g salt or 2.5 tsp

FINAL SEASONING TO TASTE (if needed):
brown sugar
hot sauce
cider vin
salt

1. pressure cook beans on high for 25 minutes with 1 kilo of water (or until tender but firm). reserve bean liquid.
2. toast chiles in the oven at 450 degrees for 5-10min
3. cut shortribs into 1-2 inch chunks then freeze on a sheet tray (about 15min)
4. pull chilis from oven and remove seeds
5. blend chilis with 600g beef stock to create chili paste and refrigerate until ready to use
6. after freezing shortribs for 15min, using a food processor, process shortribs in 2 batches (pulse until beef looks like it does in the video)
7. press ground meat onto a sheet on a sheet tray and broil in the oven on high for 3-5 minutes or until well browned (time will depend on your broiler)
8. after well browned, break up and crumble the meat (i recommend by hand with gloves, but you do you)
9. into a large heavy-bottomed pot, add onion and poblano to oil. sautee for 1-2 minutes
10: once onion and poblano are starting to soften, add garlic followed by chili flake, chile powder, paprika, cumin, cocoa powder. stir to combine and let bloom for about 2 min
11. deglaze with splash of beef stock
12. add crushed and drained diced tomatoes, and chili paste you made earlier. stir
13. add crumbled short rib, stir to combine
14. put lid on pot and load into a 275 degree oven for 90 minutes
15. after 90 minutes, add brown sugar, hot sauce, Worcestershire, cider vin, salt, cooked beans + 150g bean liquid and gently stir to incorporate
16. load back into a 325 degree oven uncovered for 45 mins to caramelize and reduce
17. after 45 minutes, taste and add your final seasonings to taste (salt, brown sugar, cider vinegar, hot sauce)

GARNISH however you'd like. for a real bad boy chili, i like to use...
tortilla chips
shredded sharp aged cheddar
sliced green onions
sour cream


CLIFFS NOTES CHILI VARIATION:

INSTEAD OF SHORTRIBS
2 lbs ground chuck 80-20

INSTEAD OF CHILE PUREE
600g BEEF STOCK (when you add tomatoes)
additional 10g chile powder and paprika
2 chopped chiles in adobo

INSTEAD OF COOKED BEANS
2 cans of bean of your choice, 125 ish grams of liquid in can reserved.

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All Comments (21)
  • Hi, im from Vietnam here. I just made this 😍 even though I couldn't find the Mexican chillies here, I just used the spiciest chillies I could here and followed your methods. So worth it. Thank you for the recipe
  • @seb0rn739
    The problem with home-ground beef isn't grinding it, it's cleaning the grinder afterwards.
  • Hi Brian, not sure if you're going to get this comment, but I wanted to thank you for this video and the time and effort it took to make. You were quite honest when you said that it would be a cook off winner because it definitely was😊 I made this chili for a chili cook off we had at work and it was a WINNER!! Thank you so much again and KEEP COOKIN😉
  • I made this for my family and it was one of the best chili’s I’ve had. So far I’ve made about 3 or 4 of your recipes and my family has really enjoyed them. Thanks for taking my cooking to the next level.
  • @adamsco22
    Just made this last night. Holy moly the extra steps were so worth it. Having a chili cook off today and even though it is “not a competition” I will be victorious.
  • @50sKid
    I love the broiling of the ground beef -- never thought of that! You are absolutely right, nobody cooks their chili long enough for the beef to get tender. Great job here.
  • @MIDNIGHTxCALI
    Today I finally finished a batch of this chili without watching this video and all from memory. This chili recipe has really changed my cooking game. I owe you so much. This stuff really is dope!
  • @nshex
    I love watching these videos while eating ramen over the sink like an animal
  • @victorialey2867
    Dude, love how you cook and explain things, love your directions. Will be watching/cooking from now on!!
  • Hey Bri! Just wanted to drop in and thank you for this video/recipe. Followed it nearly verbatim and won a very close 2nd, nearly 1st place at my work’s chili cook-off today! So many compliments from co-workers on the delicious and complex flavor profile. Worth the extra work!
  • I made this for my church's chili cook-off, using ground chuck and canned beans. My chili tied for 2nd place! It's the best chili I have ever had. It has so much flavor and richness, which the three different types of chilies helped bring. My family approves of it, even my brother who doesn't usually like chili. Thanks Bri, all of your recipes have been a success never lacking in flavor.
  • @Jimmy-sb3fc
    I'll tell you Brian, you have the best food channel on YouTube. There are so many "pro tips" that you throw in to your videos, which brings the food to the next level. Keep up the outstanding work my friend, and thanks for sharing so much with us!!
  • @Mumbamumba
    As a topping I recommend: Take 200g creme fraîche or sour cream, mix it with the juice of one lime and the zest of said lime (I use a microplane to zest the line), one big or two small crushed cloves of garlic, salt it to taste and ideally let it rest in the fridge over night. I love it on chili but it also accompanies fish quite nicely.
  • @Wateraxe99
    This chili is incredible, even when taking some of the shortcuts. Hands down the best I've ever made/eaten. Thank you!
  • @billywhite33
    Made this tonight, it was excellent!!! Thanks Brian, love the content.
  • Your videos are THE best. How do you not have half a million subscribers by now? Come on YouTube.
  • @user-yj3kn4fe7h
    The other advantage adding chocolate to spicy dishes is that you get the spicy flavor and heat with every bite you take. But the lingering after burn is lessened or gone entirely.
  • @gerrybbadd
    Sent this on to all my buds, and chilli's are being fired up all over the country. Several game changers here Brian, wow. Thanks for this one man, it earned my subscription 🤣
  • Just wanted to say thank you for all your amazing recipes and all your amazing knowledge. We had a Chilli contest for our community and you were my first stop. Literally won and it was miles above the others. I'll be making this chillies for the rest of time. You're awesome.