{"id":1764,"date":"2015-02-04T20:08:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T04:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/?p=1764"},"modified":"2015-02-04T20:08:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T04:08:12","slug":"pucks-huge-batch-of-low-carb-winter-chili","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/2015\/02\/pucks-huge-batch-of-low-carb-winter-chili\/","title":{"rendered":"Puck&#8217;s Huge Batch of Low-Carb Winter Chili"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Low-Carb mostly)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1769\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chili_02.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1769\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1769\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chili_02.jpg\" alt=\"Big stock pot full of chili\" width=\"600\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chili_02.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chili_02-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big stock pot full of chili<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Requires a large stock pot and takes 3-4 hours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4 quarts H2O<\/li>\n<li>4 lbs. ground beef<\/li>\n<li>2 lbs. ground sausage<\/li>\n<li>2 lbs. ground turkey<\/li>\n<li>4 teaspoons cinnamon<\/li>\n<li>4 teaspoons\u00a0cumin<\/li>\n<li>3 teaspoons\u00a0salt<\/li>\n<li>8 teaspoons\u00a0<span class=\"il\">chili<\/span> powder<\/li>\n<li>4 teaspoons\u00a0black pepper<\/li>\n<li>2 teaspoons\u00a0red pepper<\/li>\n<li>2 teaspoons\u00a0allspice<\/li>\n<li>4 six-oz. cans tomato paste<\/li>\n<li>1 large can diced tomatoes<\/li>\n<li>2 green peppers chopped<\/li>\n<li>1 red pepper chopped<\/li>\n<li>3 cups shredded frozen spinach<\/li>\n<li>2 yellow squash chopped<\/li>\n<li>2 zucchini chopped<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup soy sauce<\/li>\n<li>6 small onions chopped<\/li>\n<li>8 cloves garlic mashed<\/li>\n<li>1 can of pinto beans (cheating here)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Directions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Brown the meat in a frying pan (I did this in batches), drain the oil, then add all the meat to a large stock pot.<\/li>\n<li>Add the other ingredients, cover with aluminum foil, and simmer for 3 hours while stirring semi-regularly. \u00a0(You don&#8217;t want to scorch the bottom of your stock pot.)<\/li>\n<li>I recommend\u00a0serving with a\u00a0big dollop of sour cream (or cream cheese) in the bowl and a healthy sprinkle of shredded cheese over the top. \u00a0It is three\u00a0shades of awesome-town.<\/li>\n<li>Eat yourself into a coma when the chili is ready.<\/li>\n<li>Take what you cannot eat and freeze batches in gallon-sized zip-lock bags. \u00a0One gallon-sized zip-lock bag feeds two adults a big meal on a lazy day when you don&#8217;t want to cook.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div id=\"attachment_1773\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chili_03.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1773\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1773 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chili_03.jpg\" alt=\"Lots of Chili\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chili_03.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chili_03-168x300.jpg 168w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lots of Chili<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Additional Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Instead of chopping, you can just as easily shred or even blend the vegetables listed above. \u00a0The goal is to cook them down to add body and thicken the chili. \u00a0Shredding squash and other veggies like this is a great way to sneak healthy foods\u00a0into your kid&#8217;s diet.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea how much chili this makes or what the final carb count is, but it is a lot of chili and not very many carbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Low-Carb mostly) Requires a large stock pot and takes 3-4 hours. Ingredients: 4 quarts H2O 4 lbs. ground beef 2 lbs. ground sausage 2 lbs. ground turkey 4 teaspoons cinnamon 4 teaspoons\u00a0cumin 3 teaspoons\u00a0salt 8 teaspoons\u00a0chili powder 4 teaspoons\u00a0black pepper 2 teaspoons\u00a0red pepper 2 teaspoons\u00a0allspice 4 six-oz. cans tomato paste 1 large can diced tomatoes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1774,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions\/1774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}