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I just ate a delicious meal made with some leftover food
I mixed 40% - 50% chili with meat with plain rice, also added some green peas, a few garbonzo beans, then topped it off with some fried onions, some black pepper, and a little hot sauce.
Sounds good! I use my leftover homemade chili to make a chili- veggi soup, adding chunks of potatoes, peas, chopped cabbage, corn, celery, and any other vegetable that I have on hand. I add alittle tomato paste mixed with water and chili spices, to thin it all out into a soup. It's really good in the winter time, with corn muffins.
I love having leftover chili. I always prepare extra but it doesn't always make it past the 1st day. My favorite things to do with leftover chili:
Top boiled macaroni, rice, and other pastas
On a loaded potato with cheese and sour cream
Chili cheese dogs
Chili burgers
Nachos and chili pie
Taco salad
Burritos and tacos
Last week I turned seasoned slabs of cooked chuck steak originally made for shredded beef taco filling into chili colorado.
I chunked them up in a pot, added a little water and their remaining sauce, some mexican oregano, and a couple tablespoons of tomato paste. I also added 2 zucchini & one small onion that I'd finally minced in the food processor because I have to hide the veggies to get DH to eat very many of them. This made a wonderful chili colorado that we ate in flour tortillas topped with a dollop of sour cream. The meat had been well rubbed in chili powder, salt, and garlic when it was cooked the first time so it had a lot of flavor already. This second cooking continued to tenderize it and it was fall apart delicious - actually better than the first go around. The next day I added some of my leftover pinto beans and we had beef and bean burritos.
My family always made a version of U.S. Senate Bean Soup with a ham bone but it was usually a larger bone than the kind that come in ham steaks. Ham bones are also used in red beans 'n rice.
These days I use 1/4-1/2 cup of Bacos chips as a pretty good substitute.
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