Made pork chili over the weekend, texas style because my mother in law hates beans and I didn't want to listen to her whining. I'm doing a low carb diet right now anyway, so I didn't need the extra bean carbs. I guess.
The chili came out great, which was some surprise because I added way too much cumin (or so I thought) which gave the entire pot a bitter, sour flavor at first. I was sure I was looking at a mediocre meal, so I set the thing to simmer and hit the sack. I slept about 12-14 hrs and woke up the next day and had a bowl.
With enough time for the pork sausage in the chili to seep it's flavor into the liquid and with plenty of time for the cumin to bloom, the end result was an incredible pot of chili, one of the best I've ever made (if not the best, period) and a meal I would definately do again.
Recipe:
1 5 quart cast iron enameled dutch oven
1 can of Rotel /w Habaneros
2 16 oz cans of Tomato Sauce
1 8 oz can of hot mexican style tomato sauce
2 32 oz containers of beef stock
2 large white onions
2 large garlic cloves (or more if you'd like)
1 tube of Jimmy Dean Sage pork sausage
1 tube of Jimmy Dean Hot pork sausage
1-2 lb of cubed pork loin
2 tbsp olive oil
3 tbsp cumin
3 tbsp Mexene chili powder
2 tbsp McCormick chili powder
Step 1: Pour olive oil in a frying pan, cook the cubes of pork loin until they are lightly browned, and add to dutch oven.
Step 2: If necessary, add a little more oil to the frying pan and add both tubes of sausage. Brown. Once sausage is browned through, add to dutch oven.
Step 3: Finely dice two cloves of garlic, and two white onions. Add to frying pan and fry in the fat from the pork sausage on medium high heat until onions are carmelized. Add carmelized onions to dutch oven.
Step 4: Add tomato sauces, rotel, beef stock to pot. Bring to a high simmer.
Step 5: Add cumin, mexene, and chili powder. Stir well to incorporate. Bring to boil.
Step 6: Boil for about 15 minutes. Now reduce down to a light simmer and cover. Simmer overnight.
note: If you can't get Rotel where you live, you can make it yourself by dicing some jalapenos, a single habanero, and some tomatoes. It just makes things easier to pull from a can. Hot tomato sauce can be found in the international aisle of almost any grocery store in the mexican foods section. It'll probably say "salsa" on the side but if you look at the picture on the can it'll look like tomato sauce.
