On a winter cold night, you need something nice and fulfilling. My favorite family recipe that gets my family and friends excited for game night is my homemade chili recipe with honey jalapeno cornbread. I like having a bit of heat to my chili so, when you add the additional sour cream to cool it off, it makes your mouth sing.

Ingredients:

• 1lb of ground beef
• 1 pack of turkey sausage links
• 1 can of kidney beans
• 1 can of pinto beans
• 1 can of black beans
• 1 whole white onion small diced
• 1 whole green pepper small diced
• 1 whole red pepper small diced
• 1 whole jalapeno small dice
• 4 garlic cloves
• 2 bay leaves
• 3 springs of green onion
• 1 can of tomato paste
• 1 can of diced tomato
• 1 can of stew tomatoes
• 1 cup of cold water
• ¼ tsp of Cayenne pepper
• Sour cream
• ¼ tsp of black pepper
• ¼ tsp of chili powder
• 3 tbsp of ketchup
• 3 tbsp of hickory smoke BBQ
• Extra virgin olive oil or grapeseed oil
• 1 cup of beef stock
• 1 bunch of chives

Directions
Step 1: In a stockpot, combine all your vegetables: red and green peppers, onions, jalapeno, and your dry seasonings. Once the vegetables are nice and soft add in your turkey sausages and let them cook down.
Step 2: Once your turkey sausages are cooked to a nice crisp, add in your ground beef, bay leaf, and 1 cup of beef stock. Allow the ground beef to go from pink to brown, cook down until the stock is evaporated, when there is no more stock in the pot add in your tomato paste.
Step 3: Mix around your tomato paste and let it wrap around the vegetable and meat. Drain all juices off the beans and add them into the pot. Continue adding in the remaining ingredients stew tomato, diced tomato, ketchup, BBQ sauce, and water.
Step 4: Let the chili simmer on low heat for about 45 minutes to an hour until it thickens. Finish with sour cream and fresh diced chives.

Serving lasts for about 7 days and can feed 4 to 8 people.

Cornbread mix
1 ½ cups of cornmeal
½ cup of all-purpose flour
1 tsp of baking soda
1 tsp of salt
1 tbsp of sugar
1 large egg
1 ¼ cup of buttermilk
6 tbsp of unsalted butter melted
½ cup of a can of cream corn
1 jalapeno sliced thin
Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees

Direction:
Step 1: whisk all dry ingredients (cornmeal, baking soda, salt, sugar).
Step 2: In a bowl, beat the eggs, and mix in the buttermilk until it is combined. Then mix in the dry ingredients into the wet. Add in the melted butter last.
Step 3: Fold in the cream corn.
Step 4: Pour into a hot skillet or hot pan and bake for 20 mins until golden brown and jalapenos are crispy.

For the best results, book me. I hope you enjoyed this recipe.