CutandBaste.com » chili http://www.cutandbaste.com Original recipes created from (mostly) local NYC area ingredients Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:51:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Duck & Sausage Chili http://www.cutandbaste.com/2009/02/duck-sausage-chili/ http://www.cutandbaste.com/2009/02/duck-sausage-chili/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:26:51 +0000 Thomas Kelly http://www.cutandbaste.com/?p=231
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    The fat rendered from warming the duck provides an ideal base for the chili. Create a paste out of 3-4 tablespoons of tomato paste, 3-4 tablespoons of chili powder, garam masala, and whatever other spices you have on hand and like in chili (cumin, nutmeg, etc).  Cook this paste in the duck fat until the mixture becomes slightly rusty in color.  Add a large can of whole peeled tomatoes, about 3/4 cup of bbq sauce, 1 or 2 canned chipotles, and a head of roasted garlic.  Cook for 20 minutes or so and puree with hand held blender.

    Separately, saute the sausage over high heat, remove and add a mixture of chopped onions/shallots and peppers (we used poblano, jalepeno, and habanero this time) to the saute pan.

    Add everything to the pot with a few cups of stock and simmer for a few hours (adjusting with stock and spice as necessary).

    Garnish with some cheese and serve with a pickleback shot of Jameson.

    Mr. Lucas Giokas prepares the picklebacks.

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    This was by far and away our most diverse and impressive Super Bowl Chili Cook-Off yet.  Unclear as to which one came out on top due to a strange voting system (the pastry chef technically won), but they were all fantastic in their own way.

    Top left: Classic meat chili by our hosts Nash, Carolyn and Taylor (see pics below)

    Top right: Duck and sausage chili by TK

    Bottom right: Chicken & sweet pepper chili by the defending champion, Colleen Sanders

    Bottom left: Green chili with pork by our friend Todd, who generously sent chili even though he wasn’t able to make it.  Best green chili I’ve ever tasted.

    Recipes to follow…

    The chef at work!

    Taylor suited up for the game and doing a little half time Crayola magic.

    Nash, also suited up for the game and doing a Nash trick.

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