Chili DeGolyer
Source of Recipe
Chili historian Everett Lee DeGolyer
List of Ingredients
4 cloves garlic, chopped
1 onion, chopped
2½ cups fat rendered from beef suet
3 pounds center-cut steak (Trim and cut into cubes of less than ½ inch dimension. Lazy people
grind meat in a food chopper using only the coarse knife.)
2 cups water, or the liquid in which the chiles have been boiled
2 to 12 pods of chile colorado [New Mexican], according to taste. If you are muy fuerte, use more. 1 teaspoon of comino seeds (cumin in English, or kummel if you understand it better)
1 teaspoon oregano (marjoram)
1 teaspoon salt
Recipe
Brown the garlic and onion in the fat, add meat, and cook until gray (not brown) in color.
Add 2 cups of water and let simmer 1 hour.
Take pods of dried chile, wash, stem, and remove seeds. Put to boil in cold water and boil slowly until the skins slip easily, usually 45 minutes. Rub the pulp through a colander or sieve to make a smooth paste. You should now have ½ to 3/4 cup of pulp. Chile powder, prepared commercially, may be substituted for the pulp at the equivalent of one heaping tablespoon of chile powder for 2 pods of chile.
Rub comino seeds and oregano to a powder, toasting if need be. Add chile pulp, comino, oregano, and salt to the meat and cook slowly for 1 hour.
Yield: 6 to 8 servings
|
Â
Â
Â
|