How do you make your basic chili?

I'm a vegetarian so I do mine slightly differently. First I put some red kidney beans in a pan to boil then I chop and add an onion, jalapenos and some garlic to some oil. I then add some veggie mince. After about ten minutes I add chilli powder, cumin and corriander. I then add a tube of tomato puree and some water. That's it apart from adding the red kidney beans once they've been on boil for a while. I then let it simmer for as long as possible.

My boyfriend makes great chili, In fact, it's his signature dish. Without giving away too many of his secrets, along with ground beef he uses bacon, kilebasa, and stew beef. This gives the chili a nice smoky taste and a varied texture. He has even used ground buffalo when he can find it. I also like adding ground turkey. We've been eating more of that lately. He likes his spicier than I do, so we make it about medium spicy and then we have lots of different hot sauces for him to choose from. If I have it, I also like sour cream and shredded cheddar with my chili.

I just made a big pot of chili a while ago. I browned my hamburger and salted it and drained the grease off it. I returned it to the pan and added some tomato sauce to it, along with some chili beans and some spaghetti noodles and some chili powder. I also add some salsa to it and some chopped tomatoes and chopped onions. I have never tried proknbeans, kidney beans or tomato soup. I have never tried it by adding garlic either. I will have to try that sometime.

I've never made chili before, I think it's an American thing! However it sounds good and if I made it I would put truckloads of garlic in it, along with tomato soup and yeah, corn would be nice. I would also put green capsicum in it, as someone else above said and plenty of chunky onion. What sort of chili do you use? I think I would only use one or two chilis in a big pot. I might make this for dinner- I'm hungry now!

I just get a can of chili beans, some corn, some tomato sause, some dehydrated diced onions, a little bit of maple syrup, and some morningstar farms fake ground meat and put it together and cook it. I may also sometimes add a bit of cheese and salsa or even a bit of instant mashed potatoes or a bit of yellow corn meal... I kind of invent my own recipe depending on what I feel like eating. As I live alone, I do not have to worry about pleasing anyone else's palate with my cooking.

I do it the same as you . I drain the juice from the beans. Plus with the browning of the hamburger and onion I also add cut up green peppers and cut up celery. Take a little longer, but that's the way my dad did it when I was growing up, so just stuck with it!

basically the same. But, I add a little sugar as well. It kilss the acidity in the tomatoes making it less tomatoey tasting. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

I've never tried it that way but I think I will. My husband is the chili maker in our family and, since he is Italian, he puts Ragu sauce in it along with canned tomatoes, chopped green peppers, onions, garlic, chili powder, red peppers and black pepper.