This chili is so delicious. It can be made completely on the stove or once assembled it can be simmered away in the crock pot. I used my crock pot, and this chili is awesome. It is thick and hearty and delicious. I used ground turkey, but you could certainly use ground chicken or beef.
Ingredients:
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 TBSP vegetable oil
- 4 garlic cloves, chopped
- 1 lb. ground turkey
- 2 TBSP chili powder (I used 1 TBSP chili powder and 1 TBSP ancho chili powder
- 2 tsp. ground cumin
- 3 TBSP tomato paste
- 3 (14-oz.) cans of chili ready tomatoes diced tomatoes
- 1 (16-oz.) can red kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- 1/2 c. water
- Top with shredded cheese
Directions:
- Sauté chopped onion in hot oil in a large Dutch oven or skillet over medium-high heat 5 minutes or until tender; add garlic, and sauté 1 minute.
- Add turkey, stirring often, 8 minutes or until meat crumbles and is no longer pink. Stir in chili powder and cumin, and then add the tomato paste, and cook 2 minutes. Add tomatoes, beans and water, stir to combine.
- Stove top recipe: Bring mixture to a boil and cover, reduce heat to low, and simmer, stirring occasionally, 30 minutes. Top with shredded cheese.
- Crock pot recipe: add everything to your crock pot. Cook on high for 2 hours (more time won’t hurt it) or on low for 4 hours (more time won’t hurt it). Top with shredded cheese.
Crock Pot Turkey Chili:
Here’s a great recipe for leftover chicken or turkey or use a rotisserie chicken. The leftovers are great too!
The recipe is adapted from the November 2009 issue of Southern Living.
Ingredients:
- 2 TBSP vegetable oil, divided
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 1/2 c. diced onion
- 1/2 c. diced red bell pepper
- 1 c. cooked chicken, cut up
- 1 1/2 c. frozen mixed vegetables, partially cooked
- 3 c. cooked rice
- 1/4 c. soy sauce
- 1 tsp. Asian chili-garlic sauce
Directions:
- Heat 1 TBSP oil in large skillet over medium high heat; add eggs, and gently stir 1 minute or until softly scrambled. Remove eggs from skillet and chop.
- Heat remaining 2 TBSP oil in skillet; add onion and bell pepper, and stir-fry 3 minutes. Add cooked chicken and mixed vegetables; stir fry 2 minutes. Add rice, soy sauce, and chili-garlic sauce; stir fry 5 minutes or until throughly heated. Stir in eggs.
Fried Rice:
Here’s another really tasty recipe for quick Reuben sandwiches. To me what makes this sandwich is the homemade thousand islandish dressing. It’s easy, so don’t skip that step.
Thousand Island Dressing Ingredients:
- 1 c. mayo
- 1 c. ketchup
- 1/2 c. sweet pickle relish (I only had hot dog relish which is a mix of mustard and relish)
- 1 TBSP sugar
Sandwiches:
- Rye bread
- Butter
- Leftover corned beef, sliced and heated
- sour kraut
- Swiss cheese
- Thousand island dressing
Directions:
- Thousand Island Dressing: mix all ingredients together in a bowl.
- Sandwiches: take a slice of rye bread, add corned beef, sour kraut, swiss cheese, and some dressing. Top with rye bread. Butter the top of the bread and put the sandwich butter side down in a hot skillet. Cook until bread is browned. Add some butter to the now top of the sandwich and flip it over and cook until browned.
Quick Reuben Sandwiches:
The country club in the town where I grew up served an awesome brunch. Every time I went there I would get corned beef hash. The corned beef hash was not that minced mush looking stuff you get at some restaurants or out of a can. They used big roasted potatoes, fresh corned beef, and eggs over easy. The first time I had it I was hooked!
A few nights ago we made a corned beef (you know, the kind that comes in the meat case with the seasoning packet). Surprisingly both kiddos loved it! We will certainly be making that again. When I was thinking about how to use the leftovers, corned beef hash came to mind, so we had brunch for dinner.
One word: delicious!
Ingredients:
- Tator tots, cooked according to package
- Leftover corned beef, reheated
- eggs, over easy
Directions:
- Cook tator tots, reheat corned beef, cook eggs over easy.
- On a plate put tator tots, top with corned beef, top with eggs over easy.
Quick Corned Beef Hash:
This chili gravy is delicious and works well as a sauce for tamales or enchiladas. The secret to this gravy is making your own chili powder.
The recipe comes for Rob Walsh’s Tex-Mex Cookbook.
Homemade Chili Powder
Ingredients:
- 5 whole ancho chile pods, stemmed and seeded
- 1 tsp. dried Mexican oregano
- 1/2 tsp. garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp. ground cumin
Directions:
- Spread the chile pods out flat. Toast the chiles in a skillet over medium high heat until they become aromatic, then remove and cool.
- Cut the chiles into small strips with scissors. In a spice or coffee grinder, grind the strips in several batches until powdered. Combine the powdered chile, oregano, garlic powder, and cumin in a bowl. Grind the coarse powder in batches for an additional 2 minutes or until finely ground.
- Store in an airtight container until ready to use.
Chili Gravy
- 1/4 c. vegetable oil
- 1/4 c. flour
- 1/2 tsp. pepper
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 1/2 tsp. garlic powder
- 2 tsp. ground cumin
- 1/2 tsp. Mexican oregano
- 2 TBSP chili powder
- 2 c. chicken broth or water
Directions:
- Heat the oil in a skillet over medium high heat. Stir in the flour and continue stirring for 3 to 4 minutes, utnil it makes a light brown roux. Add all the dry ingredients and continue to cook for 1 minute, constantly stirring and blending the ingredients. Add the chicken broth, mixing and stirring until the sauce thickens.
- Turn the heat to low and let the sauce simmer for 15 minutes. Add water to adjust the thickness.
Chili Gravy:
We love tamales, and this recipe is by far my most favorite. I love them more than any tamales I’ve had at any restaurant (except for maybe Berry Hill Bar and Grill).
This recipe is adapted from the Helena Tamales recipe in the April 2005 issue of Southern Living.
Ingredients:
- 1 package of dried corn husks
- 2 cooked chicken breasts, shredded
- jar of your favorite salsa
- 2/3 c. vegetable shortening
- 1 1/2 c. yellow cornmeal
- 1 c. warm chicken broth
- 2 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. paprika
Directions:
- Soak corn husks in hot water to cover 1 hour or until softened. Drain husks, and pat dry.
- Chicken Filling: Heat a skillet over medium high heat. Add shredded chicken and enough of your favorite salsa to coat the chicken. Mixture should not be too wet.
- Cornmeal Dough: Beat shortening at medium speed with an electric mixer 5 minutes or until light and fluffy. Stir together cornmeal and warm chicken broth in a medium bowl until well blended. Gradually add cornmeal mixture to shortening, beating at medium speed just until blended after each addition. Add salt and paprika, beating just until blended. Cover dough with plastic wrap, and set aside until ready to use.
- Assembling Tamales: Spread 2 TBSP Cornmeal Dough into a 3- x 5-inch rectangle on one side of 1 husk, leaving a 2-inch border at bottom narrow edge and a 1/2-inch border at one long side. Spoon 2 heaping TBSP Chicken Filling down center of cornmeal dough rectangle, creating a 1-inch-wide strip. Roll husk up, starting at the long side with 1/2-inch border, enclosing meat filling with the first turn. Fold bottom end with 2-inch border over. Repeat procedure using remaining Cornmeal Dough and Chicken Filling.
- Line the bottom of your steamer with corn husks. Add tamales to steamer. We stack the tamales up to 4 high. Steam over high heat for 1 hours.
- Top with your favorite salsa or with Chili Gravy or Tomatillo-Serrano Salsa.
Tamales:
I found a bag of frozen sweet potato fries at the grocery store. They looked interesting, so I thought I’d give them a try, and see if they’d pass the test.
I gave -s the job of finding a dip or something for the fries, because ketchup seemed well, wrong.
He found this dip at Kirsten’s Home Cooking: Garlic Curry Aioli. It is to die for!!! If you love the curry dip at Melting Pot as I do, you will LOVE this dip!!!
Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup light mayo
- 2 small (or 1 large) garlic clove, mashed to a paste with salt
- Juice from 1/2 lemon
- Dash of black pepper
- 1 tsp. curry power, or more to taste
- 1 dash cayenne pepper
- Salt to taste
Directions:
- Mash garlic into a fine paste with the side of a knife on a cutting board, using salt as an abrasive.
- Mix all ingredients together, serve with fries.
Garlic Curry Aioli:
This is a tasty, hearty, and super easy version of the slow cooked classic: chicken and dumplings. Be sure to use low sodium broth, and if you don’t I would suggest using half broth half water, otherwise it will be too salty (trust me–there is plenty of salt in the rotisserie chicken, cream of chicken soup, and dumplings).
This dish makes for a great weeknight meal, as it only took about 30 minutes to prepare, and that’s from start to finish!
Recipe is adapted from the January 2010 issue of Southern Living.
Ingredients:
- 4 c. LOW SODIUM chicken broth
- 3 c. shredded chicken (rotisserie chicken)
- 1 10.75 oz. can reduced fat cream of chicken soup
- 1/2 tsp. poultry seasoning
- 1 10.2 oz. can refrigerated jumbo buttermilk biscuits
- 1 c. carrots, diced
- 1 c. celery, diced
- pepper, to taste
Directions:
- Bring first 4 ingredients to a boil in a Dutch oven over medium high heat. Cover and reduce heat to low and simmer, stirring occasionally for 5 minutes. Increase heat to medium-high and return to a low boil.
- Place biscuits on a lightly floured surface. Roll or pat each biscuit to 1/8 inch thickness; cut into 1/2 inch wide strips.
- Drop strips, 1 at a time, into boiling broth mixture. Add carrots and celery. Cover and reduce heat to low, and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes, stirring occasionally to prevent dumplings from sticking.
- Season with pepper.
Easy Chicken and Dumplings:
Published by Rachel December 15th, 2009
in Dessert, 5 Stars, Kid Approved, Chocolate and Cookies.
Have you seen the new dark chocolate mint chips by Nestle? I absolutely love mint, so I knew these were right up my alley! -s is the cookie baker in our house, so he found a chocolate chocolate chip cookie recipe on Food Network, and used that recipe to make these most delicious cookies!
If you love chocolate and mint you’ll love these cookies! If you love thin mints, you’ll love these cookies!
Ingredients:
- 2 1/4 c.flour
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 2 sticks butter, softened
- 1 c. granulated sugar
- 1 c. packed brown sugar
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 TBSP vanilla
- 1/2 c. unsweetened cocoa
- 1 10 oz bag of dark chocolate mint morsels
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- In a bowl stir together flour, salt, and baking soda.
- In another large bowl stir together butter, both sugars, eggs, vanilla and cocoa. Gradually stir flour mixture into butter mixture and mix until combined. Stir chocolate chips and stir to distribute evenly.
- Drop dough by tablespoonfuls onto greased baking sheets and bake about 10 minutes. Cool on a baking rack.
Chocolate Chocolate Mint Chip Cookies:
Published by Rachel December 15th, 2009
in Dessert, 5 Stars, Kid Approved and Entertaining.
Who knew homemade donuts were so easy to make? I surely didn’t, but I think we will make this an annual tradition. It was so much fun and the kiddos all enjoyed decorating the donuts.
Recipe adapted from November 2009 issue of Southern Living.
Ingredients:
- 1 (25 oz.) package of frozen yeast rolls, thawed according to package
- 1/2 c. granultated sugar
- 1 1/4 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/2 to 1 c. seedless raspberry or strawberry jam
- powdered sugar
Directions:
- Place rolls 2 inches apart on 2 lightly greased baking sheets. Cover and let rise in warm place (85*).
- Pour oil to a depth of 2 inches into a deep skillet and heat to 350*. Fry rolls in batches, 1 to 1.5 minutes on each side or until fully cooked and golden brown. Drain on a wire rack over paper towels.
- Whisk together granulated sugar and cinnamon in a medium bowl. Add warm donuts to sugar mixture, tossing to coat. Let cook completely on wire rack, about 5 minutes.
- Make a small slit in the side of each donut, using a paring knife. Place jelly in a zip-loc bag (don’t seal it). Snip 1 corner of bag to make a small hole. Pipe jelly into each donut. Dust with powdered sugar.
- You can skip the jelly and top each with the sugar cinnamon mixture, or top with powdered sugar, or top with a glaze and decorate with sprinkles.
Jelly Donuts:
