Phv's Too Many Pots Chili

Total Time: 3 hrs Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 4 medium onions, chopped
• 4 green peppers, chopped
• 2 sweet peppers, chopped
• 12 ounces mushrooms, stemmed, peeled and broken into bits
• 3 sticks celery, chopped fine
• 5 garlic cloves, chopped fine
• 2 kg ground beef
• 1/2 kg hot italian sausage
• 2 (28 ounce) cans diced tomatoes
• 4 (5 1/2 ounce) cans tomato paste
• 1 (2 liter) bottle spicy clamato juice
• 1 (10 ounce) can condensed beef broth
• 2 (19 ounce) cans red kidney beans
• 1 (19 ounce) can kidney beans
• 2 teaspoons instant coffee
• 1/4 cup molasses
• 4 tablespoons chili powder
• 1 tablespoon cumin
• 1/2 tablespoon crushed red pepper flakes
• 1/2 tablespoon cayenne
• 1 tablespoon oregano
• 3 tablespoons brown sugar
• 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour

Recipe

• 1 in one very large pot, heat olive oil on medium. saute onions and mushrooms until onions begin to turn colour. add peppers, celery, and garlic. saute until tender.
• 2 in a seperate pot, cook ground beef until done. be sure to break up clumps. drain and set aside.
• 3 cook sausages in a large fry pan on medium. add enough water to just cover whole sausages, and cook until all water is gone. set aside to cool, and then slice sausage into coins.
• 4 in another pot combine clamato juice and tomato paste. bring to a rolling boil, stirring often to prevent sticking.
• 5 whisk flour into cold beef broth until smooth, then add to boiling tomato mixture. reduce temperature to medium-high. stir in brown sugar, molasses, instant coffee and spices.
• 6 allow tomato sauce mixture to thicken a while, stirring often. taste, and adjust spice as necessary.
• 7 add ground beef and sausage to vegetables. add diced tomatoes. stir well to combine, and simmer on low.
• 8 when tomato sauce mixture is at a pleasing consistancy, add to veggie-meat mixture. (do you prefer thick or saucy chili?).
• 9 drain and rinse kidney beans and add to the chili mixture.
• 10 simmer on low, stirring ocasionally, for about an hour. this will give you plenty of time to wash all those other pots.
• 11 chili tends to improve if cooked, cooled, refrigerated overnight and then reheated to serve. for safety, the cooling should be done in a large shallow pan (roasters work well -- yep, another pot to wash) and should last no more than two hours before you refrigerate it.