How to Make Hillbilly Chili

This is a hearty and great tasting chili, great on cold winter days.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 2 lbs stew beef or cube steak
• 1 lg can of diced tomato
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• 1 lg can tomatoe sauce
• tomato paste (to your liking for thickening
• 1 can black olives (whole or diced)
• 1 diced onion
• 1 can mushrooms (sliced)
• chili powder

1. Brown the meat in a skillet, if you want to season your meat now is the time to do it. The meat doesn't need to be cooked completly as irt will cook more in the chili.

2. In a large pot put in the tomatosauce and paste, and put this on the fire. when the tomato paste and sauce has come together turn off the heat or remove pot. While tomato mix is still hot stir in all the other ingrdients. When adding the chili powder use about 1 tsp per quart of chili.

3. Put entire pot back on low heat and cover, stirring periodically. Let chili cook on low heat 6-8 hrs and serve hot with oyster crackers. Other great topppings are shredded cheese or seasoned croutans. grilled cheese sandwich served with this chili makes a delicious and warming treat on cold winter nights. ENJOY.

Tips & Warnings

• The longer the chili cooks at low temps the more tender the meat will be.
• This chili can also be made using ground meat.
• You can also use hot peppers of your choice added with other ingrediants
• too much chili powder will make the chili more hot than flavorful (about 1 tsp per quart of chili is best)

[tocuriousgeorge]

on 1/24/2009 Sounds great!

[SimplyCuttings]

on 1/22/2009 I am going to try this for sure!

[severt101]

on 1/22/2009 Sounds great. I'll give it a try

[SLCookie79]

on 1/19/2009 Sounds good. I love the idea of black olives in chili! 5*s

[hlthychoclitnut]

on 1/18/2009 Give me a handful of onions, tomatoes to throw on top I'll be all set