Just came home and want to make some nice chili for my family! They can't have it too spicy due to acid reflux unfortunately. What I bought is:

Beef Broth
Ground Beef
Pinto, kidney and black beans

And we have onions and peppers, with some chili powder and cumin of course. Am I missing anything?

I've posted it before but here is my chili recipe

4 lbs beef chuck
1 yellow onion
8 cloves garlic
4 ancho peppers
3 guajillo peppers
3 pasilla peppers
4 new mexican peppers
12 arbol peppers
3 chipotle peppers (canned in adobo)
2 cups chicken broth
1 bottle of beer
4 tablespoons cumin
2 tablespoons oregano
salt
masa harina
oil or lard

remove the seeds and stems from all the dried peppers. toast them in a dry pan until you can smell them and then start soaking them in hot chicken broth. cut the beef into cubes and brown in a big pot. dice the onion and mince the garlic and throw it into the pot with the beef. deglaze with beer. blend the peppers, chicken broth, cumin, and oregano into a paste and add to the pot with everything else. add salt. simmer for at least 4 hours. if it isn't thick enough when you want to eat it mix a tablespoon or two of masa with cold water to make a thin slurry and then stir that into the chili.

also that recipe is about medium. if you want mild drop the arbols down to 4 or leave them out entirely.

>>21451810
>4 tbsp cumin
shit recipe. useless

>>21451495 (OP)
What you could make with those ingredients is not gonna be the most fancy chili, but it'll do just fine, and normal people will enjoy it. Lots of shit you can do to make chili more complex in the future, but if this is all you got on hand, who cares?

Different capsicum peppers will make more fun chilies. Unless you're in a rural area, you can prob find the generic Mexican dried peppers sold (ancho, passilla, arbol, and sometimes guajillo). Indian grocery stores also sell diff peppers too, though I don't have much experience with em. Pretty sure most stores like even Walmart will sell something like Canned Chipotle in Adobo, so maybe at bare minimum get that with you chili powder. Paprika ain't bad either, but don't put as much as the chili powder. Maybe sautee with some tomato paste or add some roasted tomatoes or other roasted peppers.

Don't know why there's no garlic but you do you.

For sweetness, you can choose to add molassasy flavour with some molassas/brown sugar/white sugar combo, or hell any other sugar like cane, jaggery, or piloncillo.
Oregano+black pepper+cumin are a normal combo in mex cuisine. Adding msg or worchestershire is normal. Fish sauce would be inspired.
Topping with green onions or chives aint bad. Nor sauteeing with the whites of the green onions. People also like sour cream as topping (never tried), and some crackers are always good.

wtv you want man

beans (whichever ones were on sale)
meat (whichever kind was on sale)
chili powder
garlic powder
salt
cayenne pepper
black pepper

>take ICS winning Traditional Red chili recipe
>replace peppers with a fistful of carolina reapers
>die
That's usually what I do when making chili

>>21452082
you died? are you a ghost?

>>21452098
ghost pepper maybe

>>21452163
What is the ghost pepper afraid of?
Garlic

>>21451810
Is it labeled as lava asshole chili in the recipe book? Also why so much cumin jfc

>>21452177
like I said that's the medium version. the hot version has a couple bird's eye peppers in it. it might sound like a lot of cumin but it's really not.

>>21452098
>you died?
Yeah
>are you a ghost?
Nah, I got better

>>21452247
also to be honest it might actually be 4 teaspoons, idk I just eyeball it and then add some more because I always underestimate how much you need.

>>21452252
Has to be tsp. 4 tbsp of cumin would make anyone flinch