Dvorak’s Chili Recipe

Here’s Dvorak’s oft mentioned chili recipe that was created for a COMDEX chili cook off.

From dvorak.org

This recipe won the first COMDEX Chili Cook Off.
The next year it won the People’s Choice award.
It has been retired. If I were to enter it again
I would lace it with pure ancho powder as that
seems to be the direction that the competition
is going: exaggerated ancho flavor.

DVORAK’s
Tex-Mex Four Bean Chili

Ingredients:
1/2 pound smoked ham, diced
1 3/4 pound boneless chuck cut in 1/2-inch cubes
1 large torpedo or two red onions, diced
28 ounces of ground whole tomatoes (canned)
30 ounce can of Hunts Red beans
15 ounce can of pinto beans
15 ounce can of Great Northern beans
27 ounce can of kidney beans
4 ounces of fresh de-seeded jalapeno peppers choppped
1 TBL chili powder (prefer Grandmas brand)
1 TBL crushed red peppers
1/4 cup Dry Sack (sherry)
4 cloves of garlic

Concept:
This is a spicy bean stew that shows off a mixture of four distict
looking and distinct tasting beans. It was developed over ten
years of trial and error testing. Canned beans make the dish
easier to prepare. CAUTION: It is hard to stop eating this dish
once one begins.

Directions:
Saute the onion in butter. Separately and in a large pot put the
ground tomatoes, add all of the beans and the crushed red peppers
and heat to simmer. Meanwhile when the onions are half cooked
add the sherry and boil down by 2/3. Pour mixture into pot of
beans. Add more oil to saute pan and brown beef and garlic with
ham. Add TBL of chili powder to cooking meat. Continue cooking
for 3-5 minutes, then add to pot of beans.

Add chopped jalapenos to bean, meat and tomato mixture. Add
tomato sauce (optional). Heat for 10 minutes. Serve in bowl
accompanied by cold beer.