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Wendy's Chili Clone
photo by KateL
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
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6-8
ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 - 2 lbs ground beef
- 1 (10 ounce) can French onion soup (not creamy)
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
- 2 teaspoons ground cumin
- 1⁄2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 3 drops Tabasco sauce
- 1 (21 ounce) can red kidney beans (undrained)
- 1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
- 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
directions
- In large saucepan or dutch oven, over med/high heat, brown beef.
- Puree french onion soup in blender and pour over cooked beef.
- Cook and stir until mixture is consistency of rice.
- Stir in spices.
- Add undrained beans, tomato paste and sauce and stir well.
- Reduce heat to Low and simmer for 20 minutes or until piping hot and flavors have blended.
- Add additional salt and pepper, chili powder or Tabasco to taste.
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Reviews
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Oh wow....the family's new favorite chilli recipe. DH love Wendy's chili and so I just knew this would go over in a big way for him. I"ve never made chilid using french onion soup and so this must..it just must be the secret ingredient. I"m not a meat eater, but the smell was heavenly while this was simmering away on the stove-top. A real keeper Tink. Made for HolidayTag.
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Tweaks
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First let me say this is a great recipe...most of us sometime tweak things for own preference or with what we have on hand and I did just that. I used 2 lb gr. beef and did not puree the onion soup. instead of kidney beans I used a mix of chili bean and no beans chili. all else same. simmered a while and froze half. served with toasted cheese. thanks for a quick flexible recipe. oh so good!
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I was skeptical about using canned French Onion soup, but was very pleased with the results of this chili. I did not have tomato paste, so I used crushed tomatoes w/ puree, and it was great. I loved the cumin flavor, but did substitute Cayenne pepper for the black pepper, and also added a touch more chili powder as well as a TBS of salt (liquid from the tomatoes probably diluted it a bit). Keeper recipe. I'll make this when I don't have 4 hours to simmer my other recipe.
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