Restaurant Recipes

Clark's Outpost Barbecue Restaurant Beef
Chili with Chipotle Chiles and Cilantro

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Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients

  • 2 pounds lean ground beef
  • 2 cups chopped onions
  • 3 tablespoons ground cumin
  • 3 tablespoons chili powder
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons garlic powder
  • 1 tablespoon chopped canned chipotle chiles in adobo sauce
  • 2 1/2 cups (or more) water
  • 1 cup finely chopped fresh cilantro
  • Grated Cheddar cheese
  • Sour cream
  • Additional chopped onion

Instructions

  1. Sauté beef and 2 cups chopped onions in large Dutch oven over high heat until beef is cooked through, stirring often and breaking up beef with back of spoon, about 10 minutes.
  2. Add cumin, chili powder, garlic powder and chipotle chiles; sauté for 3 minutes.
  3. Mix in 2 1/2 cups water and 1/2 cup cilantro. Reduce heat to medium-low. Cover partially and cook 1 1/2 hours, adding more water by 1/4 cupsful if chili becomes dry. Season with salt and pepper. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover; chill. Bring to simmer before continuing.)
  4. Mix remaining 1/2 cup cilantro into chili. Ladle chili into bowls. Serve, passing cheese, sour cream and additional chopped onion separately.

Attribution

Clark's Outpost Barbecue Restaurant Tioga, Texas, as found in Bon Appetit magazine - July 1995 issue



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