Wednesday's Chili Ala Gloria Pitzer

Total Time: 24 hrs 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 24 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 1/2 lbs ground beef
• 10 ounces condensed french onion soup
• 1 teaspoon chili powder
• 2 teaspoons ground cumin
• 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 2 (15 ounce) cans red kidney beans, undrained
• 6 ounces tomato paste
• 15 ounces tomato sauce
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon vinegar
• 6 ounces v8 vegetable juice

Recipe

• 1 in a large skillet brown the ground beef.
• 2 break up the pieces into tiny rice like pieces.
• 3 drain well.
• 4 using a blender, process the can of onion soup with 1/2 of the ground beef mixture.
• 5 blend until it looks like cement mortar.
• 6 place beef mixture and remainining ground beef into a large saucepan.
• 7 add chili powder, cumin, black pepper, cocoa powder, cans of kidney beans, tomato paste, tomato sauce, brown sugar, vinegar and v-8 juice.
• 8 bring to boil and then simmer for a least one hour.
• 9 i usually make mine in a crock pot on low for 8 hours after browning the beef and blending 1/2 of it in the onion soup.