Wolf Brand Chili

Good evening. Tonight’s story comes from the kitchen, where a bowl of sweet and spicy hamburger chili is creating quite a stir. At first glance, it appears comforting. Ground beef simmered with tomatoes, beans perhaps, onions… the familiar elements of a traditional chili. But then the sweetness arrives. Maybe brown sugar, maybe honey, something unexpected that softens the edges, drawing you in. And just as you settle into that warmth… the heat follows. Chilies, spices, building slowly, deliberately. It’s the kind of spice that doesn’t shout. It waits. Then it reminds you it’s there. The result is a curious balance. Sweet and spicy. Comforting… yet a little wild. And like many things that seem perfectly ordinary at first… this chili may have more bite than you expected.

Ingredients

1 beer
1 10 oz can smoked ro*tel tomatoes with green chilis
3-4 oz Chipotle in adobo
1 bay leaf
1/2 cup Apple cider vinegar
1 tbs Worcestershire sauce
1/2 cup Molasses
1/4 cup Honey
1/4 cup olive oil
2 tsp kosher salt
1 tbs mexican oregano
2 Dried Guajillo Peppers
1 Dried Ancho pepper
8 cloves garlic
1/4 cup cilantro stems
2 onion
1 6 oz can tomato paste
2 jalapeno
3 red peppers
1 tsp vegetable oil
2 lb ground beef
3 cups black beans
1 green pepper

Directions

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F. Roast two red peppers, one jalapeno, and one onion in it’s skin for 45 minutes. Remove skin, ribs, and seeds from the peppers and skin from the onion. Place in a blender.
Remove seeds, ribs, and stems from dried guajillo and ancho peppers. Add dried peppers, beer, ro*tel tomatoes, salt, olive oil, chipotle in adobo, apple cider vinegar, Worcesterchire sauce, honey, Mexican oregano, cilantro, six cloves of garlic and tomato paste to the blender. Puree the ingredient to a liquid.
In a sauce pan over medium heat simmer the blender mixture with the bay leaf and reduce by half.
In a large pot over medium high heat, add the vegetable oil and brown the hamburger. Chop the remaining red pepper, jalapeno, onion, garlic and the green pepper and add to the pot. Cook until vegetable being to soften. Add the black beans and sauce mixture. Simmer mixture on medium low for 20 minutes.
Serve.