Macanudo's Mixed Bag Bean Chili

[Macanudo]

For the purists, I know you wont call this chili. With the beans and brown sugar, some of you are sure to poop on this as being chili. But for now, here's what's for dinner:

1.5 pounds of browned ground turkey
1 can black beans
1 can chili beans
1 can kidney beans
1 can Ro-Tel chilies and peppers
San Antonio chili powder
Extra cumin
Extra garlic salt
Brown sugar

All of the spices are season to taste. I have no idea how much I put in each time. I just pour and/or shake. I brown the meat and toss it in with everything but the black beans about 4-5 hours before it's time to eat. About 90 minutes from serving time, I add the black beans otherwise they tend to disintegrate. Pretty much throughout, I add a little spices as I see fit.

 

[GakFoo]

black beans in chili

sure

 

[YChang]

Macanudo's Mixed Bag Bean Stew

 

[Macanudo]

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[DallasCowpoke]

Well, that's two mistakes you've made tonight... Beans in "chili" and getting cooking advice from Wikipedia!

 

[TheYoungHorn]

You must have spent time in Alaska, eh?

 

[NickDanger]

Cook and eat what you like. There are no rules. Put sauce on your brisket if you want to. Put raisins in your oatmeal if you like them.

I applaud you, Macanudo, for facing imminent derision from some people and staring them down. Food is an intensely personal preference. My wife would say you are "comfortable in your skin".

 

[Smoky Brisket]

I put beans in my chili from time to time.

There, I said it.

 

[Macanudo]

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[IRC]

Beans - yes, I can live with that.

Turkey - NO! Hell NO!

 

[SMDhorn]

As long as you don't pour it on spaghetti...

 

[Macanudo]

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[orange-explosion]

I too put beans and turkey in my chili. I'm not proud... or hungry.

I brown the turkey with onions and garlic, add a couple of cans of different kinds of beans, some good canned tomatoes, diced fresh peppers (jalapenos and whatever else looks good,) cumin, salt, etc...

It's good, and feeds me most of the week.

Is beef good too? Sure enough. Is beef with no beans even better? Debatable.

Either way, mine's good and healthy, and I can eat tons of it fairly regularly without feeling like ****.

That felt good to get off my chest.

 

[NCAAFBALLROX]

You people are really freaking me out. I think I don't even know who I'm talking to anymore...

 

[pulque]

Yikes, scary chilli.....

 

[mayberryrfd]

You had me at chili-you lost me at turkey

Blech.

 

[THEU]

The Brown sugar offends me the most... almost as bad as putting cinnamon in Chili. The beans debate is more hot air than anything. Most of us truly can/will eat chili beans or no beans without much grumbling. Brown sugar... hell... I just can't get over that....