Love me some CHILI! This one with Adobe Chilies and Chocolate --- YUMMY

Chili! Perfect cold weather food and so many ways to make it. Even though I am cooking for two, I like to make extra so I can freeze meals and be ready. I have to plan ahead because Tommy (dear hubby) has to take his lunch with him and I want to make sure he has great tasting food and as healthy as I can make it.
Tommy likes heat in his food, almost a slap-me-in-the-face-and-I-don't-mind-sweating kind. Me...not so much! I prefer a slow...lingering...heat...something that will tingle on my lips, but not make me cry!
With all of that said, when cooking with chilies or chili powders you need to be careful.....you can always add to make it spicier, it is very hard to tone it down.

This recipe can be used with or without meat....ground beef or ground turkey. I love love love beans...soooo my ratio is heavy on beans....
The fun of cooking...well..you can experiment with your recipe to find out what you like best.
This particular recipe I make mostly in a crock pot to let the flavors have time to permeate through out....
Four hours on high. Shut if off. Portion out. Freeze any portions up to six months.

RECIPE:

• 2  cups  diced onion (about 1 large)
•   2 cloves of finely chopped garlic
• 1  pounds  ground turkey or ground beef
• 3  tablespoons  brown sugar
• 2  tablespoons  ancho chile powder
• 1  tablespoon  unsweetened cocoa (you know...Hershey's...the stuff we all make cookies with!)
• 1  teaspoon ground cumin
• 1/2  teaspoon  freshly ground black pepper
• 1/4  teaspoon  salt
• Beans: 1 large can of light red Kidney Beans, 1 sm. can of Black Beans, 2 sm. cans of Cannelli Beans
• 1 lg can of diced tomatoes (do not drain)
• 2 cups of chicken stock or yes...water
• 2  chipotle chiles, canned in adobo sauce, minced
• 2  ounces  unsweetened chocolate, chopped (I use Ghirardelli 60% Cocoa Bittersweet Chocolate baking chips)
• 1/2  cup  (light) sour cream

Add drained beans into your crock pot.

Add spices on top of your bean mixture. In a pan saute your meat, once done add it to your beans.

Saute onions and garlic over low heat until translucent. Add the chopped/minced chipolte chiles into the mixture. Add your tomatoes. And finally...add your chocolate chips and stir until they are melted.
Then pour over your mixture in the crock pot.
Stir throughly and after four hours on high heat..voila...you have a delicous meal.

Top with sour cream before serving...or shredded cheese. Sour Cream of course will let you cool down your heat ....
I recommend if you are not into spicy food, just use half of the chili powder and half o the chipolte chilies.
Do not  add any extra salt until your Chili has finished cooking.
BON APPETIT!!! I hope you will enjoy this fantastic and fairly healthy meal.
My crock pot will give me approximately 8 servings. If you used ground Turkey a bowl would be about 300 calories.