Comments on: red bean chili

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:25:39 +0000

The best chili I’ve ever made! Whipped it up Tuesday to eat all week, being a busy at-home mom, military wife and online college student. Thank God my family doesn’t like chili, because I have no intention of sharing! The addition of cocoa was a first for me, though I’d seen it done before. I’ll never make chili without. Thank you!

By: Marge

Marge — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:47:16 +0000

I, too, never make chili without chocolate. Recently I switched to dark chocolate powder and it’s a welcome improvement. Tonight I added dried cilantro; so far, so good, as it’s still bubbling on the stovetop.
I use red, dark red kidney beans and black beans as well. I ask no forgiveness for that!

By: Lauren

Lauren — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:09:48 +0000

Just made this tonight…delish! We halved the recipe and it turned out great!

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:41:21 +0000

I made this chili for a New Year’s party last night, and it was a huge hit! I was worried about putting all of that chili powder in, but you were totally right – it doesn’t end up being too spicy, and it just really brings out a wonderful flavor. I added in some diced green pepper in addition to the onions, and it came out nicely. Several people asked me for the recipe and I pointed them all to your site! Thanks for a great recipe, as always!

By: Alison

Alison — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:48:17 +0000

This recipe will sure fire some dinner dates and eat together with my family! Let see if they can handle this! Thanks for the idea and might as well try this asap!

By: Jo

Jo — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:09:55 +0000

Any suggestions for a dessert to go with this?

By: Jaclyn

Jaclyn — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:17:55 +0000

This was absolutely the hottest chili I’ve ever had (apparently I have super hot chili powder), but it was also delicious, just inedible in the straight from recipe form. So, I added 2 large cans of tomato sauce to thin it out as well as an extra tablespoon of cocoa. This gave it the perfect amount of heat and it was great.
Next time I’ll try cutting the chili powder to about 1/4 of a cup and see how that does.

By: Seth @ Boy Meets Food

Seth @ Boy Meets Food — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:51:23 +0000

Would you believe that is almost exactly the same “recipe” I use for my chili. I put recipe in quotes, because I don’t write it down. It turns into more of a little bit of this, little bit of that kind of deal sometimes. I have never tried the cider vinegar though. I guess I will have to give that a shot.

Anyway, I love this recipe, and was thinking about making “my version” for a local chili cook-off this fall.

By: Ngoc

Ngoc — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:02:53 +0000

Was so glad to have found this when I was jonesing for chili with about an hour to go before kick-off. It was a big hit!

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:46:33 +0000

I just made this without meat and it was fantastic!