Noob here, couple questions about pic rel:1. Is lean turkey chili good or is beef the only viable choice?2. In Yurop we don't have premade chili seasoning. Can I make my own somehow?3. Is it necessary to top it with sour cream or cheese or tortilla chips? Or can I eat it plain?
You can make chili with any meat.Yes, you can make your own seasoning, Amazon sells Guajillos and Anchos and other fancy chiles. You’ll also need garlic, onion, cumin, ground coriander seeds and pepper.You can eat it however you want. Nobody is going to kick your door down for a cultural faux pas (except in Britain, just don’t post your hate crime on social media).
>>21795908how good is it though? I made vegan versions of chili in the past and they tasted like shit.
>>21795902"Chili seasoning" is just chili powder, garlic powder, onion powder, cumin, and salt. Feel free to make your own. I've never bothered to use the premade crap.
>>21795902You can do turkey chili, beef chili, chicken chili, there's probably a recipe for every protein. If you don't have chili powder in Europe, just look up what's in it. You also shouldn't use chips or sour cream unless you're doing something special. Salted crackers work the best. There's a chip dip I make with chili, cheese, and salsa, and that has sour cream and tortilla chips.
>>21795902>1. Is lean turkey chili good or is beef the only viable choice?Don't ground meat at all in chili; the texture is nasty. Cubed beef shoulder is ideal but pork is delicious too, and one might be able to get away with poultry if he can acquire a sufficiently boneless and fatty cut. >2. In Yurop we don't have premade chili seasoning. Can I make my own somehow?Yes, and it is the superior method. Red chile sauce is made bay taking a bunch of dried chiles, cutting off the stems with scissors and de-seeding them; poaching them until they are soft, then blending them until liquefied. This sauce should be combined with broth as the base of your chili. >3. Is it necessary to top it with sour cream or cheese or tortilla chips? Or can I eat it plain?Doesn't matter, I like to put cilantro&onion and grated chedder cheese on mine.
>>21795911Oh, and if you don't have "chili powder" in Europe, you could used a mild smoked paprika instead. That would be a very close equivalent.
>>21795926>>21795922>>21795915>>21795911>>21795908thanks, I will make it and try different meats / chili mixesneed to lose weight btw and I want to use this as one of the meals that will help me with that
>>21795929Green chili is traditionally made with turkey although pork is more popular today
>>21795929One probably shouldn't make chili for the purposes of loosing weight. The way that it gets thick is from the lard/meat drippings congealing with the starches from the vegetables/beans. Keep in mind mexican cooking was made by/for impoverished peasants trying to calorie-max for their manual labor jobs.
>>21795942It's definitely possible to make a healthy chili if you want to. The beans thicken the chili well enough in my experience. It doesn't even have to be thick. I know people that enjoy soupy chili. It's all preference.
>>21795942>>21795950yeah I will add beans to it too, so IMO having lot of fiber and perhaps a leaner meat will make it okay for weight loss>>21795933that's interesting, I always though pork was the traditional choice
>>21795956I never thicken my chili with meat drippings. I'm not sure what anon is doing or why he thickens his chili that way. I just slowly simmer my chili uncovered for several hours. A natural reduction will thicken it up very nicely.
>>21795950I usually cook my beans and chili separately but that checks out. I suppose one could also thicken it with masa flour or cornstarch. >>21795956>that's interesting, I always though pork was the traditional choiceThe injuns didn't have pigs when they were cooking chili.
>>21795962>I suppose one could also thicken it with masa flour or cornstarchOr you could just simmer it slowly uncovered for it to reduce. You don't need to add all of that extra crap.
>>21795902>1. Is lean turkey chili good or is beef the only viable choice?lean turkey is viable but you need to add a flavor substitute for the amount of flavor lack that ground turkey has.usually a bit of worcestershire sauce.>2. In Yurop we don't have premade chili seasoning. Can I make my own somehow?cumin, chili powder, paprika, turmeric.>3. Is it necessary to top it with sour cream or cheese or tortilla chips? Or can I eat it plain?eating it plain is the correct method as it should be good enough on it's own.never use sour cream, that's a weird fat mexican thing and not a human thing.cheese is ok, cheddar is best flavor profile.tortilla chips are also acceptable, but if you really want to add a carb you make cornbread.t. texan
>>21795902Ive been loving ground turkey, making meatballs and burgers, but going to give turkey chili a try. Thanks for inspo op
>>21795902just order chili seasoning on Amazon, McCormicks is the most basic and universal.
chili is basically just the american version of porkolt. there's tons of disinfo about chili from people who have only ever eaten bastardized versions of it.like>>21795942is completely wrong. the thickener in chili is just corn flour.>>21795926is also wrong. you need specific types of chiles to make chili seasoning and if you can't buy the seasoning it's unlikely that you'll be able to get the right peppers either. if you want to make the real thing I suggest importing seasoning from america. I have no idea who will ship it to wherever you live but look for bueno or gebhardt brands.
>>21795909Why would you expect anything good from vegans?
>>21796781>is also wrong. you need specific types of chiles to make chili seasoning and if you can't buy the seasoning it's unlikely that you'll be able to get the right peppers eitherSmoked paprika and generic chili powder from walmart taste nearly the same. Get the fuck over yourself. Chili isn't some pretentious trash outside of texas. OP is from Europe and probably doesn't have the same availability of spices that we possess. He just wants something that tastes similar to American chili without selling his ass for money.
>>21796806bullshit you might as well claim that granny smith and fuji apples taste the same because they're both apples. paprika absolutely does not have the raisiny taste that ancho peppers have or the fruityness of a guajillo.>doesn't have the same availability of spices that we possess.that's why I said he should import it. if you want to make curry but don't have curry powder and can't get cardamom or turmeric you don't try to substitute with taco seasoning, you get the right ingredients so you can make your food taste like it's supposed to.
>>21795909Because you made a vegan version. Chili was never intended to be vegan.
>>21796781>chili is basically just the american version of porkoltWere you always this retarded or did you take lessons?Chili predates the Columbian exchange
>>21796818He's not going to import it. He's just an average dude wanting to make a foreign recipe without breaking the bank. Your stupid suggestions that you learned from a youtube video will be ignored.
>>21796835Christ dude if he doesn't want to make it according to that guy's suggestions because he finds it too expensive then he doesn't have to.Nobody should tell OP how to actually make the dish properly because he might be too poor to afford the ingredients? Just let the shitty suggestions for a bastardized version of the dish go uncontested?
>>21796839Chili is subjective in the USA. >Nobody should tell OP how to actually make the dish properly lolBeefPeppersCuminSaltAre the only ingredients set in stone. 99% of people add tomatoes, onions, garlic, beans, beef stock, turmeric, etc for good reason. The only things bigger in Texas are steers and queers and you don't look like a fuckin cow. Y'all don't do anything very well outside of quarantining California.
>>21796847Claiming that smoked paprika is an acceptable substitute for chili powder is objectively wrong. They're almost nothing alike.What makes a proper cheeseburger is subjective, but saying that you can make one using yogurt instead of cheese is still objectively wrong and would be terrible advice.
>>21796847Beef and cumin postdate the Columbian exchange>tumericpicrel
>>21796849>>21796850uh huh please tell me more
>>21796833I'm not saying it was based on it I'm giving an example of something he might be more familiar with to compare it to.>>21796835post your chili then faggot
>>21796864>post your chili then faggotThat looks like the same slop I've made for myself during the last 4 decades. What do you want me to prove?
>>21796088Turmeric is a curry ingredient and doesn’t belong in chili.
>>21796870yeah that's what I thought little bitch go ahead and dodge because your paprika filled "chili" sucks compared to mine.
>>21796891My smoked paprika suggestion was for the European OP that may not have American chili peppers available at a supermarket. It's an adequate substitute if you don't have crippling autism I think.
>>21796894I bet you would make gumbo with bratwurst you cuckold.
>>21796898You're a bitter loser during Christmas Eve. I hope you finally kill yourself. It has been a long time coming.
>>21796901killing myself would be the only way your garbage chili could ever surpass mine but tough luck it's not going to happen. merry christmas faggot.
>>21795902>2. In Yurop we don't have premade chili seasoning. Can I make my own somehow?Where do you live, Ethiopia? That isn't in Europe you know?
>>21796927It's absurd how you retards suggest that OP import a bunch of expensive peppers for what is considered a fucking poverty meal in the USA. It's proof that you idiots don't actually cook. You watch youtube chefs instead of making due with what is actually available to you.
>>21797112>making dueESL retard shut the fuck up you have no clue what you're talking about.>If you tell OP how to actually make the dish he's asking about it means you're an idiot who doesn't cook because I can't afford those ingredients!
>>21797121I provided a substitution for an ingredient that probably isn't available to OP and you chimped out like a retard. Chili is a cheap poverty meal and it's fucking absurd that you suggest that he import a bunch of peppers for it instead of using ingredients that he can obtain from a local supermarket. We can buy gigantic bags of dried chilis for a couple of dollars. He probably cannot.Guys like you follow recipes that you saw some influencer make instead of cook daily. It's obvious.
>>21796878Chili is a curry. Prove me wrong.
>>21797151>meat cooked in a spiced pasteDictionary definition of a curry.
>>21796849OP doesn't have the same ingredients available at a local supermarket that we do. He doesn't have gigantic bags of dried chilis available to him for pennies. I tried to provide him with a convenient substitution. I can just picture some European guy trying explaining to his family that he cannot make American style chili tonight because he has to wait a week for a bag of dried peppers that he ordered off of amazon to arrive. It makes me laugh out loud.
It's me again. I appreciate the correct method to make the chili. But I'm also a fan of simplicity and not obsessing over what is the 100% correct way to cook things, because I wouldn't cook anything that way.So as >>21797171 said I won't be ordering some specific kind of chile, I'm not that hardcore of a cook. I will just use some powder chili peppers / cayenne and create my own spice blend>>21797007I'm from Poland. It's not a 3rd world shithole but we don't have a lot of fancy stuff, that is available locally, at least.
>>21797171it's not a "convenient substitution" any more than bratwurst is a substitution for andouille or fajita seasoning is a substitute for curry powder.
>>21797212if I want to make bigos but I can't get kielbasa or sauerkraut so I made it with hot dogs and kimchi instead will I be making the same recipe?
>>21797304Smoked paprika absolutely is a substitution for generic chili powder if chilis do not fucking exist in your country and you want something to eat that day, you autistic retard. People that cook for themselves and their family daily aren't going to order something internationally and then wait several weeks so they can make a fucking meal, shit for brains. Go watch another youtube recipe.
>>21797310if you make chili with paprika you aren't making chili, you are making porkolt
>>21795908>Amazon sells Guajillos and Anchos and other fancy chiles.Nothing fancy about either of these. You must be dirt poor if you think this way.
>>21795902I use leftover carnitas in my chili. That's my favorite. Chicken thighs are also good in chili
if you want to be a pro add some brewed coffee and cacao nibs to your chili. if you don't have the cacao black coffee will do fine on its own
>>21795902Never put Türkiye in Chile, no matter how Hungary you are!
>>21797380They're not fancy in that they are expensive, they're fancy in that they aren't common in many stores
yankee getting btfo in this thread
>>21795902A chili spice blend is easy all you need are:>Salt>Pepper>Cumin>Garlic powder>Onion powder>chili powder>cayenne powderFrom there you can add things like paprika, cinnamon and various other types of chilis
