Wednesday's Chili Ala Gloria Pitzer

Submitted by mandabears

"I used to make this all of the time and then lost the recipe. I finally found after the move to FL while emptying out the gazillion boxes of books."

 

• Ready In: 24hrs 10mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Serves: 4-6

ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 lbs ground beef
• 10 ounces condensed French onion soup
• 1 teaspoon chili powder
• 2 teaspoons ground cumin
• 1⁄2 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 2 (15 ounce) cans red kidney beans, undrained
• 6 ounces tomato paste
• 15 ounces tomato sauce
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon vinegar
• 6 ounces V8 vegetable juice

directions

1. In a large skillet brown the ground beef.
2. Break up the pieces into tiny rice like pieces.
3. Drain well.
4. Using a blender, process the can of onion soup with 1/2 of the ground beef mixture.
5. Blend until it looks like cement mortar.
6. Place beef mixture and remainining ground beef into a large saucepan.
7. Add chili powder, cumin, black pepper, cocoa powder, cans of kidney beans, tomato paste, tomato sauce, brown sugar, vinegar and V-8 juice.
8. Bring to boil and then simmer for a least one hour.
9. I usually make mine in a crock pot on low for 8 hours after browning the beef and blending 1/2 of it in the onion soup.

Reviews

[barbara jewell]

I haven't Wendy's Chili so I can't compare but I really enjoyed this! I made it just as is and it was very good. Kind of a cross between coney dog sauce and chili.