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Ingredients
Corn Masa Flour, Ground Chili Peppers, Salt, Garlic, Cumin, Oregano, Onion, Paprika, Cayenne Pepper.
Directions
Quick Chili: Brown 2 lbs ground beef in a large skillet or saucepan. Drain Fat. Dump in one 8 oz can tomato sauce and 2 8 oz cans of water. Add the large spice packet and salt to your liking. If you want it hot, dump in some cayenne pepper (small red packet), but go easy unless your real brave. Cover and simmer for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. For thicker chili, mix Masa flour (white packet) with 1/3 cup water, stir in and let simmer for 5 more minutes. Makes six 1-cup servings. Quicker Chili: If you're in a real hurry....and you've got a microwave. Microwave 2 lbs ground beef on high in 2 qt bowl 6-8 minutes or until meat loses pink color when stirred. Drain fat. Stir in one 8 oz can tomato sauce, 2 8 oz cans of water, large spice packet and salt to taste. If you want it hot, add some cayenne pepper (small red packet). cover with lid or plastic wrap opened at one side. Microwave on high 8 minutes or until thoroughly heated, stirring every 4 minutes. For thicker chili, mix Masa flour (white packet) with 1/4 cup water, stir in and microwave on high 1 minute. Your own Chili: Your choice on any or all of the following variations, pardner: Add chopped onions or green peppers when browning beef. Like tomatoey chili? Add 14 oz can of tomatoes, chopped, and only one 18 oz can of water with the 8 oz can tomato sauce. Throw in a 16 oz can of kidney or pinto beans during the last 5 minutes of cooking. Top off your creation and cool down the fire in your mouth. with shredded cheese, sour cream or chopped tomatoes. Also great over taco salads, hot dogs, spaghetti and hamburgers!
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Corn Masa Flour, Ground Chili Peppers, Salt, Garlic, Cumin, Oregano, Onion, Paprika, Cayenne Pepper.
Directions
Quick Chili: Brown 2 lbs ground beef in a large skillet or saucepan. Drain Fat. Dump in one 8 oz can tomato sauce and 2 8 oz cans of water. Add the large spice packet and salt to your liking. If you want it hot, dump in some cayenne pepper (small red packet), but go easy unless your real brave. Cover and simmer for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. For thicker chili, mix Masa flour (white packet) with 1/3 cup water, stir in and let simmer for 5 more minutes. Makes six 1-cup servings. Quicker Chili: If you're in a real hurry....and you've got a microwave. Microwave 2 lbs ground beef on high in 2 qt bowl 6-8 minutes or until meat loses pink color when stirred. Drain fat. Stir in one 8 oz can tomato sauce, 2 8 oz cans of water, large spice packet and salt to taste. If you want it hot, add some cayenne pepper (small red packet). cover with lid or plastic wrap opened at one side. Microwave on high 8 minutes or until thoroughly heated, stirring every 4 minutes. For thicker chili, mix Masa flour (white packet) with 1/4 cup water, stir in and microwave on high 1 minute. Your own Chili: Your choice on any or all of the following variations, pardner: Add chopped onions or green peppers when browning beef. Like tomatoey chili? Add 14 oz can of tomatoes, chopped, and only one 18 oz can of water with the 8 oz can tomato sauce. Throw in a 16 oz can of kidney or pinto beans during the last 5 minutes of cooking. Top off your creation and cool down the fire in your mouth. with shredded cheese, sour cream or chopped tomatoes. Also great over taco salads, hot dogs, spaghetti and hamburgers!
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Product Description
Carroll Shelby's world-famous chili kit is a favorite of chili connoisseurs everywhere; with four individual spice packets that let you season to taste two pounds of ground beef or poultry.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
By jerry i h
This dandy chili mix makes great chili. It is one of the best things I have tasted in a long time. It has a clever concept, which explains why it is a `kit'. The bag has 4 separate packets: a main chile packet (the chili powder has almost no heat, but lots of flavor), a small packet of cayenne, a small packet of salt, and a larger one with masa harina. This way, you adjust the heat, salt, and thickness to your liking; some chile mixes has everything combined, and you cannot change it. One kit is enough for 2 pounds of meat, so larger batches will require more kits.
Course, I did not follow the included recipe. I tossed the salt (I used sea salt instead) and masa flour (it was plenty thick without it) packets, used beef chuck cut into 1 ˝ inch cubes instead of ground beef (course, it took that much longer to cook, but so what?), and all of the cayenne packet. Boy was it good.
Course, I did not follow the included recipe. I tossed the salt (I used sea salt instead) and masa flour (it was plenty thick without it) packets, used beef chuck cut into 1 ˝ inch cubes instead of ground beef (course, it took that much longer to cook, but so what?), and all of the cayenne packet. Boy was it good.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Delicious Chili Kit with Lots of Flexible Customization Options
December 16, 2010
By Duane Bryant
Friends, I love good food. This Chili Kit by Carroll Shelby is excellent. It creates an extremely savory basic chili that is easy to adjust to your particular taste in the areas of: spicy/hot, salt, or thickness.
The flavor created by the spices in the main packet is the best attribute. Lots of deep, low, earthy tones that have excellent complexity and subtlety.
Another great feature is the brilliant strategy of putting the cayenne pepper in a separate pouch. I only put in a little. My wife likes her chili slightly warm: warm enough to be interesting. So, I put about 1/8th of the cayenne pouch when I cook the chili, then I sprinkle extra on only my serving when I eat my bowl-full. I like a little more warmth to add to the complex flavors without so much heat that I begin to loose the ability to taste all those wonderful layers of tastes.
It is another exceptionally brilliant idea to put the salt in yet another separate pouch. Again, my wife does not like very much salt at all, so I don't put any in while cooking. I salt my bowl-full with some sea-salt, and in my opinion a little sea-salt REALLY brings out the complex flavors in this chili mix. I hope more products begin to put the salt in a separate packet. I think most folks would be appalled to see exactly how much salt is in the average meal-mix they buy: like Hamburger Helper for example. Plus for some reason good sea salt just tastes better than the cheap salt.
Lastly, Mr. Shelby puts a packet of thickening powder in his kit - in addition to the main chili pack, the cayenne packet, and the salt packet. The thickening agent is simply finely ground corn meal and it does a nice job of thickening the chili if that is what you like and prefer. I have prepared this kit many times both with and without the thickening, and I like it both ways. I now just alternate for variety.
PREPARATION TIPS from my personal preferences:
*Saute LOTS of onion to go in the chili. At lease one large yellow onion, and I sometimes do one-and-a-half.
*Always use the optional 15oz can of diced tomatoes (don't forget to reduce the amount of water used, like the direction on the box say.
*Always use the optional 15oz can of beans. My favorite are dark kidney beans, but greatly enjoy black-beans, pintos, or about any chili-style bean. TIP: drain the liquid from the can of beans into a bowl, and use the liquid as substitute for part of the "water" called for in the recipe.
*Some favorite toppings in the bowl: sea salt, cayenne powder, diced white onions, pepper jack or cheddar cheese, black olives, guacamole, salsa, sour cream, tortilla chips.
I will address some of the complaints by negative reviewers:
1)A few said the chili was not very flavorful. Unfortunately in the USA most folks confuse "salt" with flavor. Since the mix has separate salt packet and none in the mix, I believe that nay-sayers have just not put in the prodigious amount of extra salt that they are used to associating with "flavor". As I wrote earlier, the chili benefits from some sea salt, but for my taste, does not need large amounts.
2)Some may say the lack of heat is not flavorful enough. Well, there are folks who like things thermo-nuclear-hot, and you just can't get there with the little extra cayenne packet supplied in the kit. The chili with no cayenne at all is slightly warm, and varying amounts of the cayenne powder will satisfy the tastes of 99.999% of folks. For those who like more heat, add whatever crazy-hot stuff you require to get the heat you want.
3)If your complaint is that it does not taste exactly like you want right out of the box (like some other brand perhaps), I disagree strongly, because I believe that the customization offered by the different pouches included, is a greatly beneficial feature. If they made it to taste exactly like YOU want, then it probably wouldn't taste like many other folks want.
The flavor created by the spices in the main packet is the best attribute. Lots of deep, low, earthy tones that have excellent complexity and subtlety.
Another great feature is the brilliant strategy of putting the cayenne pepper in a separate pouch. I only put in a little. My wife likes her chili slightly warm: warm enough to be interesting. So, I put about 1/8th of the cayenne pouch when I cook the chili, then I sprinkle extra on only my serving when I eat my bowl-full. I like a little more warmth to add to the complex flavors without so much heat that I begin to loose the ability to taste all those wonderful layers of tastes.
It is another exceptionally brilliant idea to put the salt in yet another separate pouch. Again, my wife does not like very much salt at all, so I don't put any in while cooking. I salt my bowl-full with some sea-salt, and in my opinion a little sea-salt REALLY brings out the complex flavors in this chili mix. I hope more products begin to put the salt in a separate packet. I think most folks would be appalled to see exactly how much salt is in the average meal-mix they buy: like Hamburger Helper for example. Plus for some reason good sea salt just tastes better than the cheap salt.
Lastly, Mr. Shelby puts a packet of thickening powder in his kit - in addition to the main chili pack, the cayenne packet, and the salt packet. The thickening agent is simply finely ground corn meal and it does a nice job of thickening the chili if that is what you like and prefer. I have prepared this kit many times both with and without the thickening, and I like it both ways. I now just alternate for variety.
PREPARATION TIPS from my personal preferences:
*Saute LOTS of onion to go in the chili. At lease one large yellow onion, and I sometimes do one-and-a-half.
*Always use the optional 15oz can of diced tomatoes (don't forget to reduce the amount of water used, like the direction on the box say.
*Always use the optional 15oz can of beans. My favorite are dark kidney beans, but greatly enjoy black-beans, pintos, or about any chili-style bean. TIP: drain the liquid from the can of beans into a bowl, and use the liquid as substitute for part of the "water" called for in the recipe.
*Some favorite toppings in the bowl: sea salt, cayenne powder, diced white onions, pepper jack or cheddar cheese, black olives, guacamole, salsa, sour cream, tortilla chips.
I will address some of the complaints by negative reviewers:
1)A few said the chili was not very flavorful. Unfortunately in the USA most folks confuse "salt" with flavor. Since the mix has separate salt packet and none in the mix, I believe that nay-sayers have just not put in the prodigious amount of extra salt that they are used to associating with "flavor". As I wrote earlier, the chili benefits from some sea salt, but for my taste, does not need large amounts.
2)Some may say the lack of heat is not flavorful enough. Well, there are folks who like things thermo-nuclear-hot, and you just can't get there with the little extra cayenne packet supplied in the kit. The chili with no cayenne at all is slightly warm, and varying amounts of the cayenne powder will satisfy the tastes of 99.999% of folks. For those who like more heat, add whatever crazy-hot stuff you require to get the heat you want.
3)If your complaint is that it does not taste exactly like you want right out of the box (like some other brand perhaps), I disagree strongly, because I believe that the customization offered by the different pouches included, is a greatly beneficial feature. If they made it to taste exactly like YOU want, then it probably wouldn't taste like many other folks want.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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I'm on the website today to order a second twelve-pack of this mix. I haven't shopped around a lot; Carroll Shelby's is the first and only mix I've tried, and I'm very happy with it. I found it on Amazon earlier this year after being unable to find it in local stores, and I've just recently gone through the first twelve-pack (okay, I gave one pack to my mother-in-law).
I've converted my daughter and my mother-in-law to it, as well; they're both chili lovers and we use this recipe together with dark red kidney beans, diced tomatoes, a small can of tomato sauce, and ground turkey (healthier, and cheaper, and there's a small difference in texture and none in taste from ground beef). We recommend going with the recipe option that calls for a large can of diced tomatoes, and about half the cayenne packet, and about 32 oz of canned dark red kidney beans, drained (the recipe only recommends 16 oz), and between 2 and 3 lbs of ground whatever.
Ground beef, not too lean, or chopped chuck, or cubed pot roast are all good candidates for the meat. As the package used to say, fifteen years ago, don't waste your money on expensive cuts of beef here.
The directions are pretty basic and perfectly adequate to produce a good hearty meal. Use a _big_ frying pan, 13" if you've got one, and have a larger stew pot/saucepan of some kind standing by in case your ingredients are too much for the pan. Do stir frequently once you've added the spices and flour, because there's some tendency for the mix to thicken up and form a skin on the bottom of the pot, and you'll lose good flavor that way (not to mention the bottom might get burned and ruin the whole recipe).
With 2-3 lbs of meat, two cans of beans and a large (28 oz) can of diced tomatoes in tomato juice, the whole thing makes six or seven _really_ generous portions (12-14 oz each). I make it and freeze most of it in individual portions, taking it in to work and microwaving it at lunch.
I've converted my daughter and my mother-in-law to it, as well; they're both chili lovers and we use this recipe together with dark red kidney beans, diced tomatoes, a small can of tomato sauce, and ground turkey (healthier, and cheaper, and there's a small difference in texture and none in taste from ground beef). We recommend going with the recipe option that calls for a large can of diced tomatoes, and about half the cayenne packet, and about 32 oz of canned dark red kidney beans, drained (the recipe only recommends 16 oz), and between 2 and 3 lbs of ground whatever.
Ground beef, not too lean, or chopped chuck, or cubed pot roast are all good candidates for the meat. As the package used to say, fifteen years ago, don't waste your money on expensive cuts of beef here.
The directions are pretty basic and perfectly adequate to produce a good hearty meal. Use a _big_ frying pan, 13" if you've got one, and have a larger stew pot/saucepan of some kind standing by in case your ingredients are too much for the pan. Do stir frequently once you've added the spices and flour, because there's some tendency for the mix to thicken up and form a skin on the bottom of the pot, and you'll lose good flavor that way (not to mention the bottom might get burned and ruin the whole recipe).
With 2-3 lbs of meat, two cans of beans and a large (28 oz) can of diced tomatoes in tomato juice, the whole thing makes six or seven _really_ generous portions (12-14 oz each). I make it and freeze most of it in individual portions, taking it in to work and microwaving it at lunch.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
This chili kit makes a very tasty and hardy meal.
This chili kit allows you to incorporate additional items such as bell peppers to really make this dish flavored exactly as your family desires. Read more
Published 6 days ago by Tina L Sutton
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great product/very helpful
My husband and I love chili and so we have to keep this product on hand at all times. It makes the process very easy, especially where the spices are concerned and you make it as... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Debbie P. Holt
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love this spice mix
I love using this spice mix for making all kinds of chili -- vegetarian, beef, turkey, chicken. The base spice mix is only mildly spicy but there is a smaller bag with cayenne... Read more
Published 5 months ago by IndyGirl
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love Carroll Shelby's Chili
We have always loved Carroll Shelby's Chili and when we moved to Virginia we could no longer find it in stores. Now that I find I can get it on-line I am happy.
Published 6 months ago by Dudley Warner
5.0 out of 5 stars
Texas Chili is so good
I've tried most of the Chili Kits available and Shelby's is probably the best of the bunch. Easy to prepare and serve, it is, like most US chili kits, a little mild for Australian... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Michael B. Downs
1.0 out of 5 stars
Something has changed about this chili mix
I used to love making chili using this kit, but something has changed in the mix. When the mix came in the bag, it was fantastic, but since they changed from the bag to the box,... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Hunter J. Camper
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great mix, full taste with just the right kick
As the father and head cook in a home with many children, we grew fond of trying various chili recipes and methods over the years. This mix has become my favorite go to mix. Read more
Published 9 months ago by D. Taylor
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not as good as homemade, but GREAT for a mix!
I've made this several times now, and I like it quite well.
I always add onion, and I usually add green peppers. Read more
I always add onion, and I usually add green peppers. Read more
Published 10 months ago by E. Kerby
5.0 out of 5 stars
I love this stuff!
RIP Mr. Shelby...
You made awesome cars I could never afford, but your chili kinda made up for that. Seriously this chili mix is very hard to screw up. Read more
You made awesome cars I could never afford, but your chili kinda made up for that. Seriously this chili mix is very hard to screw up. Read more
Published 12 months ago by G. A. Casas
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Man's Chilli in 20-25 Minutes!
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Holy Moly this chilli is GreaT!
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I recommend cooking two packets with double the beef! Freeze some for later! mmm So GooD ! Read more
Holy Moly this chilli is GreaT!
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I recommend cooking two packets with double the beef! Freeze some for later! mmm So GooD ! Read more
Published 12 months ago by Roman736
