Bens Bone Chili With Blackened Peppers Recipes

BEN'S BONE CHILI WITH BLACKENED PEPPERS

Steps:

• Brown the meats in small batches to get a good brown, avoid overcrowding or you'll end up steaming the meat. Pour the meat out into a colander placed over a bowl so you can gauge how much rendered fat you want to add back into the chili depending on how fatty the cuts of meat you're working with are. We don't want a greasy chili but last time I made this I ended up returning all of the fat back into the pot.
• Swirl canola oil in a hot dutch oven until it shimmers and almost smokes.
• Add beef short ribs, brown on all sides and remove.
• Add the ground bison to the canola and short rib drippings, bison is very lean and the fat helps with the browning here.
• Remove browned bison and pour out the accumulated fat for later use.
• Brown the ground beef in small batches, removing rendered fat between batches.
• Add beef soup bones to the pot and brown on all sides.
• At this point, the bones can stay in the pot while you return at least 2 tablespoons of the fat you've collected at this point.
• Turn the heat down and add the diced onion, garlic, shallot, red pepper flakes and salt. Slowly sweat the aromatics with the fat and bones until soft.
• Return all of the meats to the pot and stir it up, set the heat to low, allowing the flavors to meld while we work with the other ingredients.
• Put a copper or stainless steel pan, preferably with low sides which will allow steam to escape, over high heat.
• Add the whole cumin, peppercorns and coriander seeds to the pan and move constantly to toast - remove once you can smell the spices toasting.
• Remove spices from the heat and let cool.
• Slice the peppers lengthwise and remove seeds and stems.
• With the pan very hot, place the peppers cut side down until the edges blacken.
• Turn the peppers skin side down and blacken parts of the outside, remove when the peppers are about half covered in blacked, burned areas.
• Grind the toasted spices and add about 2 tablespoons of the mixture to the chili.
• Add oregano and smoked paprika.
• Dice the blacked peppers and add to the chili.
• Stir the pot up and return to medium heat for 10 minutes to allow the flavors to mingle. We do all of this before adding the tomatoes which tend to take over the chili, so we want to give the meat time to absorb the other flavors.
• Add chopped fresh tomatoes.
• Add can of diced tomatoes and tomato paste. Return to a simmer.
• Add beef stock. The chili should be thick but stir and bubble easily, add more broth if it's too thick.
• Put the lid on the dutch even and put in a 250 degree oven for at least an hour.
• Stir in kidney beans to the pot and return to the oven for another hour at minimum.
• At this point, the chili is ready to enjoy, but the meat on the short ribs may be tough. If you can't wait, just server without the rib meat.
• After another three hours in the oven at 250, the rib meat will be fall off the bone tender and ready to serve.
• Serve with sour cream.

BEN'S OVEN FRIED CHICKEN STRIPS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Mix Butter,Garlic powder, Egg and Hot Sauce until smooth.
• In separate pan, combine Dry bread crumbs, Finely grated cheese, and Parmesan cheese.
• In another pan, mix Flour, Salt and Pepper.
• Rinse and pat dry Chicken strips.
• Dip Chicken strip in the wet mixture.
• Dredge in the flour
• Place in Breadcrumb mixture and sprinkle it over the top of it (I patted it a little to make sure it was sticking good, then flipped it over and did it again).
• Place strips on a wire rack on top of a cookie sheet.
• Bake for 30-35 Minutes.

BLACKENED SHRIMP AND WHITE BEAN CHILI

Steps:

• In a large saucepan cover beans with cold water. Bring to a boil over high heat. Boil briskly 5 minutes then remove from heat and let soak 1 hour.
• Drain and rinse under cold running water. Set beans aside.
• In saucepan, heat 4 Tbsp of olive oil over medium heat.
• Add chiles, garlic and onion and saute until onion is transparent 5-6 minutes.
• Add drained beans, broth, tomatillos, oregano, basil, thyme, bay leaf, salt & pepper, bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat and simmer, covered until beans are tender about 1 1/2 hours adding a little water if necessary to keep beans barely covered.
• About 1/2 hour before beans are done, stir together 1/2 of butter with chili powder and paprika.
• Rub butter mixture evenly over shrimp.
• When beans are done, heat remaining oil & butter over medium high heat (I actually heat this in a cast iron skillet on my outdoor grill).
• When mixture just begins to smoke, add shrimp & saute until done & slightly blackened 1 1/2 to 2 minutes.
• Discard bay leaf from chili and serve in bowls with shrimp and any remaining fresh herbs as a garnish.

BIG BEN'S CHILI

Steps:

• Instructions.
• In a large skillet, brown the ground beef, one pound.at a time, over high heat together with the garlic and onions.
• If your skillet is large enough.
• (i.e., a wok), you can brown the beef all at once to.
• save time. On the last batch, add the spices after the.
• beef is browned and continue frying for another.
• couple of minutes. Add the browned beef to a very.
• large pot with a lid, and then add the beans,.
• tomatoes, carrots, peppers, and V8 juice. Bring to.
• a boil and then reduce heat to simmer.
• To make the cashew meal, process the cashews in a.
• blender in short bursts, until a grainy meal is.
• formed. Do not process for too long or you will have.
• cashew butter. Stir in the cashew meal, cover, and.
• simmer for an additional 30 minutes.