Chili Colorado is a traditional Mexican recipe of pork or beef stewed low and slow in a rich red chili sauce, hence the name “colorado”, which means “colored red”, not from the state of Colorado.
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Chili Colorado Ingredients & Recipe
Ingredients
FOR THE SAUCE
6 ancho chili peppers stemmed and seeded
6 guajillo peppers stemmed and seeded
2 pasilla peppers stemmed and seeded
3 chiles de arbol stemmed and seeded
1 tablespoon Mexican oregano
1 teaspoon cumin
Salt and pepper to taste
FOR THE CHILI
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 small onion chopped
2 jalapeno peppers chopped (optional – I like the extra heat and flavor)
4-5 cloves garlic chopped
2.5 pounds beef chuck roast cut into bite-sized chunks
¼ cup flour
Salt and pepper to taste
2 cups beef stock chicken or vegetable stock are good, too
FOR SERVING: Crumbly white cheese, fresh herbs, spicy chili flakes – Rice and/or warmed tortillas, if desired
Go get cooking!
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Includes further notes and discussion, along with suggestions for how you can change it up and make it your own:
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 What is Chili Colorado
0:20 Chili Peppers
0:36 Remove Stems & Seeds
1:16 Toast the Chilies
1:58 Rehydrate Chilies
2:08 Season the Beef
3:23 Chili Sauce
4:56 TIP – Turn Pulp into a Seasoning Blend
5:30 Brown the Beef
6:17 Into the Pot
7:48 Simmer
8:20 Variations & BEANS?!
9:30 Serving
9:59 Taste!
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30 Comments
Are you Team BEANS or NO BEANS in Chili?
Looks great! I like making a HUGE batch a chili about twice a year. One thing I do – I believe a lot of foods benefit from the addition of an acid – something to make it pop. I add a bit of lime juice to my chill. Not enough that it's noticeable [taste], but just enough to give that little something extra.
Remove seed? Haiyaaaaah
I like beans 😮. Thanks for the cook.
Damn that looks great!
Team NO BEANS: This looks so good. Seems like a lot of work with all the dry chilis. Will need to search local markets for these and give it a go. Thanks for sharing
Looks delish subbed
chilinobeans!
I dunno if you can or should, but I like my Chili a bit on the thicker side. I'd add Cornstarch? to thicken…or is there another alternative? Host, people, anybody, Bueller, Bueller… 😉
I'm "omni-beanis" on this one, hence either way for me. From what I've experienced in the Mexican restaurant world though, I never seen Chili Colorado served with beans. AND…my sincere apologies to the state of Texas for even expressing my opinion! That said though, maybe that's why I haven't seen it served with beans in Mexican restaurants; so as not to provoke the mandatory invasion of Mexico under Texas state law… 😉
Great tip on drying the chili mash to use in powder. Wish I'd have thought of it, but now I don't have to.
i would eat the fuck outta that with white rice. thank you.
Hate the music, ❤ the recipe
this looks amazing, definitely because i'm a big chilli fan. i'm with team bean sadly for me the rest of the family isn't. i have shredded the beef for a different texture and also added charcoal grilled plum tomatoes is was fantastic
thank u very much for this great recipe👍
The technique of coating cubes of beef with flour and then searing works magic. I use it to make excellent Stroganoff and, yes, any excess flour acts a thickening agent.
Beans in Chilli is great because that's what Chilli and Chilli con Carne is but not with Chilli Colorado
When I make my chile Colorado, I use my Omega Low RPM juicer to "press" my peppers. Cool thing about it is, I don't need to worry about deseeding. Thanks for sharing.
Team beans all the way baby! I love me some beans
For a good Colorado chili I go no beans and a couple of habaneros for extra spice.
I'll take beans but only on the side. Fresh tortillas, mexican rice and charro beans are the perfect accompaniement to Chili Colorado. And, it's even better the next day. Great recipe. I just subscribed.
It looks great. But me being from the Midwest, this has nothing to do with "Chili".
beans are an extender… you have to add beans so the $70 pot of chilli isnt gone in 20 minutes
My son is on a keto diet. Do you think your chili paste would work if we spread it on beef (or chicken) then then froze it, so when we defrost the meats, they would be super flavorful?
Tried It. Loved It. Great Recipe. 👍
Watching this I was glad my own chilli recipe was pretty much along the lines of this with an added chipotle,, but I haven't been toasting the chillis first – I need to rectify that and add a couple more anchos for this amount of meat. Usually team beans, but I know it's a contentious issue.
If you add your chiles to a blender you will get a smoother sauce
I like my steak about the size of a sugar cube. Smoke in hickory for about 15 minutes, small meat pieces absorb smoke quickly. Then I only do a dark char sear on one side.
Never had this but i will be soon. I like beans in my chili and serve over rice the way i was raised but for this recipe i wouldn't do either.
looks great and most likely tastes amazing. I do mine very different, but then again, Hungarian roots.
Great recipe the only thing I would chance is the food processor for a blender. Can’t wait to try it.