Detroit Chili Dogs - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 cup lard
    5 lbs ground round
    1/2 lb ground beef (needs to be ground cow heart, the site didn't recognize it as an ingredient)
    6 tablespoons butter
    6 tablespoons flour
    3 tomatoes
    32 ounces chicken stock
    3 tablespoons chili powder
    4 tablespoons paprika
    1/3 cup yellow mustard
    2 tablespoons turmeric
    2 tablespoons cumin powder
    1 tablespoon garlic powder
    1 tablespoon onion powder
Preparation
    Preheat oven to 450\u00b0F.
    Preheat very large pot with 1 cup of lard
    Simmer 5 lbs of ground round and 1/2 lb cow heart ground fine on medium heat until it separates and turns just brown. This mixture must be stirred regularly and mashed during process to create a kind of rough paste.
    In a cast iron skillet put 6 tablespoons of butter and melt it then add 6 tablespoons of flour and make a light brown roux and set aside.
    Cut 3 tomatoes in half and roast in a 450\u00b0F oven with a little vegetable oil on top until completely cooked and starting to turn into mush with a slight browning taking place. Set these aside.
    Add 32 ounces of chicken stock to meat simmer for 20 minutes at a slight boil then add roux, cooked tomatoes, 3 tablespoons chili powder,4 table spoons paprika,1/3 cup Plochmans yellow mustard,2 tablespoons turmeric, 2 tablespoons cumin powder, 1 tablespoon garlic powder, and 1 tablespoon onion powder.
    Simmer this down to the proper consistency.

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