Texas Beef Chili Recipe (No Beans)

My recipe has all the true Texas flavors with a couple of additions. Most Texas chili recipes are heavily spiced with no tomatoes. I do, however, use tomato sauce to brighten the flavor just a bit. All the spices combined tend to be a little bitter when cooking over time. The tomato sauce balances this flavor, IMO.

Now, don’t take my ‘Texan’ card, but my recipe isn’t ALL beef. Although you could make this recipe using only beef, I like the addition of pork breakfast sausage. Not to mention, pork sausage is less expensive per pound than beef, therefore it’s easy to stretch this meal to feed a lot of people.

Also, my not-so-secret ingredient in this chili is unsweetened cocoa powder. Now don’t hit the back button just yet! It doesn’t at all taste like ‘chocolate chili’ like my children used to say. The cocoa powder adds a unique richness and background flavor that blends deliciously with the spices in chili, sort of like a mole. Not to mention, the cocoa powder balances the acidity in the tomato sauce.


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