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Mostly Vegetarian Chili
I have to sit and try and write this recipe down, because it made some really tasty chili, and I want to remember. A week or so ago I made the Green Chili from the Fresh Every Day cookbook, and while it was good, it didn’t quite satisfy the hankering. So last night I just started improvising. I’ll try and extract an ingredient list after I write the technique.
I started with one huge yellow onion, roughly chopped, and about 5 cloves of garlic minced. I tossed the 5 1/2 quart pot on medium-high heat, poured in some olive oil, and added the onions. After a couple minutes I added the garlic. When the onions were starting to look done, I added about 2 tbsp of Mexican oregano, 1 tbsp of epazote, 2 tbsp of smoked Mexican paprika, a couple of shakes of cayenne pepper, about 1 tsp of cumin, and some salt. I stirred like crazy to get all this incorporated and mixed in, and then I tossed in 1 diced chicken sausage I had left over in the fridge. When that started to give off some fat, I added one package of Soyrizo.
I don’t know if you’ve ever had Soyrizo, but if you’re not going to make your chorizo from scratch, you might as well eat this instead. It looks, feels and tastes just like cheap pork chorizo ( Mexican style, not the Spanish hard one ). You save some fat, some calories, and you don’t even know.
Anyway, when this was all cooking together, I added 1 can of Muir Glen diced tomatoes, and a can of water. This is the little can, not the monster one. As this cooked, I chopped up 1 yellow bell pepper and 1 zucchini and tossed those in. Then I poured in 1 can of Pinto beans, 1 can of Cannellini beans and enough water to make it just soupy. Then I brought it back to a simmer, turned the heat down, and let it reduce to what I think chili should look like. I served this with some cornbread and it was fantastic.
ingredients
- 1 yellow onion, chopped
- 1 bell pepper, red or yellow, chopped
- 1 zucchini, chopped
- 1 can of diced tomatoes
- 1 can of Pinto beans
- 1 can of Cannellini beans
- 1 package of Soyrizo
- 1 cooked diced sausage
- 5 cloves of garlic
- 2 tbsp oregano
- 1 tbsp epazote
- 1 tsp cumin
- salt, pepper, olive oil
- 2 tbsp smoked Mexican paprika
- cayenne pepper to taste
I think that’s everything. I’ll update the post if I remember something else.
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