Simple Beef Chili with Kidney Beans

Name: Simple Beef Chili with Kidney Beans
Yield: Serves 8 to 10 (Makes about 3 quarts)
Cuisine: Southwest (Tex-Mex)
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons, vegetable oil or corn oil; 2 , medium onions, chopped fine (about 2 cups); 1 , red bell pepper, cut into 1/2-inch cubes; 6 medium cloves, garlic, minced or pressed through garlic press (about 2 tablespoons); 1/4 cup, chili powder; 1 tablespoon, ground cumin; 2 teaspoons, ground coriander; 1 teaspoon, red pepper flakes; 1 teaspoon, dried oregano; 1/2 teaspoon, cayenne pepper; 2 pounds, 85 percent lean ground beef; 2 , (15-ounce) cans red kidney beans, drained and rinsed; , 1 (28-ounce) can diced tomatoes, with juice; , (28-ounce) can tomato puree; 1/2 teaspoon, Table salt; 2 , limes, cut into wedges

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2003, America's Test Kitchen TV

Could we take supermarket staples and create a basic chili with great flavor?

SERVES8 to 10 (Makes about 3 quarts)

TIME2¾ hours

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

With the goal of developing a no-fuss chili recipe that would taste far better than the sum of its common parts, we discovered that adding the spices to the pan with the aromatics boosted their potency. For our chili recipe, we added the be...

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