Grammy's Kitchen · Chili · Texas Chili
One of 32 chili recipes we measured
from www.budgetbytes.com
4 cooks on www.budgetbytes.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 32.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 106% | 33% |
| fat | 0% | 1% |
| aromatics | 68% | 16% |
| sweetener | 1% | 0% |
| salt | 1% | 0% |
| vegetables and beans | 91% | 65% |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 454 g | 1 lb. ground beef ($5.94*) |
| 3 g | 1/2 tsp salt ($0.02) |
| 1 g | 1/2 tsp black pepper (freshly cracked, $0.08) |
| 265 g | 1 onion (small dice, (265g, 2 cups) $0.72) |
| 30 g | 1 jalapeño (deseeded, small dice (30g, 2 Tbsp) $0.11) |
| 9 g | 3 garlic cloves (minced (9g, 1 heaping Tbsp) $0.18) |
| 33 g | 2 Tbsp tomato paste ($0.14) |
| 4 g | 1/2 Tbsp chili powder ($0.05**) |
| 3 g | 1/2 Tbsp paprika ($0.06) |
| 1 g | 1/2 tsp ground cumin ($0.02) |
| 1 g | 1/2 tsp dried oregano ($0.06) |
| 0 g | 1/4 tsp unsweetened cocoa powder ($0.05) |
| 4 g | 1 tsp brown sugar ($0.01) |
| 1 g | 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon ($0.01) |
| 50 g | 2 chipotle pepper in adobo sauce (finely chopped, (50g) $0.41) |
| 411 g | 14.5 oz. can petite diced tomatoes (in juice, $0.96) |
| 480 g | 2 cups beef broth ($0.32***) |
Method: 8 steps, published by www.budgetbytes.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“This is a nice recipe, but my DIL, a real native Texan, shudders at the thought of ground beef in her Texas Red. A funny story--when I moved to Austin, Texas in 1986, the first thing I was assigned to bring to a office potluck was chili. Having grown up in the” — a cook, 5.0★
“To make it vegan I used bulger and vegetable broth. Everything else was followed to the letter and it was delicious! I was mad that I wasn't able to keep eating it because I was so full. LOL.” — a cook, 5.0★