Serve hot chili with cornbread for a complete meal.
A warm bowl of chili is a perfect dish for a cold fall or winter day as it is tasty and filling. Chili is traditionally cooked with ground beef, chili peppers, garlic, onions and cumin powder and simmered for several hours. Tomatoes and beans are common additions to chili but you certainly don't have to use them. While all chili recipes are somewhat spicy, depending on your preference, you can add extra heat through spices, hot sauce or hot peppers.
Instructions
1. Add extra spices in ground form. Ground spices have a more intense flavor than whole spices and can make your bowl of chili spicy with just a quick pinch. Chili powder or cayenne pepper are easily sprinkled on a bowl of chili while a few crushed red pepper flakes can be added to a pot of chili and simmered for another 20 minutes.
2. Simmer the chili with chopped peppers such as habanero or jalapeno peppers. These peppers are very hot and are often used in extremely spicy chili recipes. One or two of these peppers will add more than enough spice if added to a chili while it cooks. Place the peppers in whole or chop them before adding to chili.
3. Dash a few drops of hot sauce to a finished bowl of chili. Since the chili is done cooking, spices or peppers won't work as well but hot sauces can add quick heat. If you're truly brave, use a couple drops of an extreme hot sauce.
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