California Wine Country Chili
Ingredients
- 6 slices bacon
- 10 ounces ground beef
- 10 ounces hot Italian sausage cut into 1-inch chunks
- 2 ½ cup red wine
- 1 small red onion chopped
- 1 bell pepper chopped
- 2 cloves garlic minced (I use a garlic press)
- 1 tsp. dry hot mustard
- 1 tsp. paprika
- 1 tsp. kosher salt
- 15 ounce can kidney beans drained and rinsed
- 15 ounce can pinto beans drained and rinsed
- ½ cup Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tsp. cumin seeds
- 1 ½ tsp. black pepper
- 6 cups Roma tomato chopped
Instructions
- Brown bacon
- Drain, crumble and set aside
- Pour off bacon fat, brown ground beef, drain and set aside
- Pour off fat, cook onion, pepper, garlic over low heat 2-3 minutes
- Stir in wine and Worcestershire sauce, simmer uncovered 10 minutes
- Stir in mustard, cumin seed, paprika, salt and pepper, simmer 10 minutes
- Mash tomato
- Add mashed tomato and meats to onion mixture
- Heat to boiling
- Reduce heat, simmer covered 1 ½ hours, stir occasionally
- Best if made in advance (at least 1 day) and reheat when you want to eat it