Chili

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 2 lbs ground beef or 2 lbs beef chuck
• 1 (10 ounce) can campbell's french onion soup
• 1 (4 ounce) can tomato paste
• 1 (8 ounce) can pinto beans with jalapeno peppers
• 15 ounces red kidney beans
• 1 (46 ounce) bottle v8 vegetable juice
• 1 teaspoon garlic wine vinegar
• 2 teaspoons chili powder
• 3 teaspoons cumin
• 1 teaspoon hot chocolate powder
• 1 teaspoon brown sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• chilula hot sauce
• sour cream, topping
• shredded cheese, topping

Recipe

• 1 break up & brown ground beef in a 3qt cast iron/dutch oven pot. when beef is cooked drain fat.
• 2 next, over medium/low heat mix in and stir in the beans, french onion soup, and tomato paste.
• 3 add in and stir the all the spices(chili,cumin, pepper) sugar,hot chocolate and the vinegar.
• 4 add the v8 juice - i just add enough to fill the chili pot and refrigerate the remainder of the can.
• 5 if you like your chili "spicy" or hot then add the hot sauce to your liking.
• 6 cook over low heat additonal 15-20min.
• 7 top off chli w/ a dollop of sour cream and sprinkle shredded cheese over bowl of chili.