Charlie Dressen's Chili Recipe
Source of Recipe
NPR
Recipe Introduction
Dressen may be the only man ever to have a recipe published in "The Sporting News." There is a little known rule in American letters that when chili is mentioned between the covers of a book, one is honor-bound to give the recipe, even if it is not up to one's personal standards. Here is Charlie Dressen's "secret" recipe for making chili:
List of Ingredients
10 pounds onions
2 bunches celery
6 large cans tomatoes
14 pounds chopped meat
10 tablespoons fat
2 cans chili powder
1 can tomato juice
14 large cans kidney beans
1 can dried peppers (hot)Recipe
1. Dice onions and celery. Chop contents of six cans of tomatoes very fine. Place onions, celery and tomatoes in pot with four quarts of water, and boil for 90 minutes.
2. Brown chopped meat in fat. Add two cans chili powder.
3. Mix chopped meat into pot. Add one can tomato juice, plus one can of water.
4. Cook over medium flame and spoon off fat (but leave enough fat for flavor).
5. Add hot peppers and salt to taste. Serves 160 people.
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