Cooking Recipe Casi-Style Chili
Recipe Ingredients
Directions
Cut beef into 1-1/2" cubes. Brown the meat and onions in oil or fat.
Add the tomato sauce, beer, beef stock, chiles, cumin, garlic, black
pepper, and 2 tablespoons of the Chili Powder. Simmer the chili over
a low head for 2 hours until the meat is tender.
To thicken, make a thin paste of the masa and water. Quickly stir
this into the chili -- if done too slowly it will lump.
Add the remaining Chili Powder and Paprika. Simmer for an additional
15 minutes. Remove the Jalapenos and serve.
[CASI (Chili Appreciation Society International) chili-cookoff
winners tend to use blended chili powder and also Jalape#o chiles,
which are usually removed before serving. The beef is cubed, and
masa, which is flour made from ground dried maize available in Latin
markets, is used to thicken the chili.]
The Whole Chile Pepper Book
by Dave DeWitt and Nancy Gerlach