Zuver's Favorite Chili

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 2 1/2 lbs ground chuck
• 6 green onions, sliced thinly
• 1 teaspoon cumin
• 1/2 teaspoon mexene chili powder
• 1 teaspoon minced garlic
• 1 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
• 16 ounces fresh salsa (i use chuck & dave's original)
• 15 ounces tomato sauce
• 12 ounces v 8 vegetable juice
• 15 ounces diced tomatoes
• 1 3/4 ounces french's chili-o seasoning (original packet is spicy enough for us)
• 15 ounces light kidney beans
• 15 ounces dark red kidney beans

Recipe

• 1 brown ground chuck in large soup pan along with green onions, cumin and mexene.
• 2 add garlic, black pepper and salt. let cook another 5 minutes on low heat.
• 3 add salsa, tomato sauce, v-8, diced tomatoes, seasoning mix, and light red kidney beans.
• 4 use blender (i use emersion blender) to blend dark red kidney beans (and their juice) until smooth. stir into chili.
• 5 simmer over low heat for 1 hour or more.
• 6 note: i like to chop up about half of the ground beef quite finely during the browning process, and leave the other half in chunks larger than the beans.