Recipe developer Catherine Brookes shared her no-bean chili recipe with Mashed, detailing how to still make a delicious, veggie-packed bowl of chili, sans beans. Her recipe includes the normal suspects, such as onions and peppers, cumin, tomatoes, ground beef, and tomato paste. However, it also includes two teaspoons of something very unexpected: cocoa powder.
"Cocoa powder adds a richness and depth of flavor that compliments the spice amazingly without there being a noticeable taste of chocolate," she says.
The addition makes sense. After all, chocolate and cocoa are frequent additions to many Mexican-style recipes, such as certain moles. As The Washington Post reports, all-natural cacao beans contain more than 600 aroma molecules, meaning they can impart a wide variety of flavors beyond the typical chocolate flavor. Often, chocolate can be, when used the right way, an enhancing agent to help bring out other flavors in a dish. Paired with tomatoes, cheese, red meat, and, yes, chili, chocolate can bring new depth to your favorite foods.
The Unexpected Ingredient That Will Majorly Upgrade Your No-Bean Chili - Mashed
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