Lamb Chili Recipe

Recipe Ingredients

4 cup chicken broth
5 oz dried ancho chiles, stemmed, seeded
3 canned chipotle chiles in adobo sau, ce
1/4 cup plus 2 tbs olive oil
5 lb leg of lamb, boned & trimmed
2 large onions, diced
4 garlic cloves, finely chopped
12 oz firestone double barrel ale
1 can chopped tomatoes, (28 oz) drained
1/4 cup ground pasilla chili powder
3 tbsp ground cumin
75 oz caned black beans, rinsed, drained
1/4 cup fresh lime juice

3 large ripe avocados, peeled, pitted, diced 7 TBS fresh lime juice
1/4 cup finely chopped red onion 6 TBS chopped fresh cilantro 3
jalapeno chiles, seeded, minced Salt and pepper to taste Bring stock
to a boil in heavy medium saucepan. Remove from heat. Add ancho
chiles. Cover and let stand until soft, about 30 min. Transfer ancho
chiles and 2 cups stock to processor or blender, add chipotle chiles
and puree the lot of them! Stir into remaining stock and set aside.
Heat 1/4 cup oil in large Dutch Oven or covered pot over high heat
and add lamb meat and reserved bones in batches. Cook until meat is
brown about 3 min. per batch. Transfer to bowl using slotted spoon.
Add remaining 2 TBS oil to Dutch oven and saut=E9 onions and garlic
for 3 min. Return meat, bones and juices accumulated in bowl to
Dutch oven. Add your brew and simmer for 10 min. Have a brew. Add
stock mixture, tomatoes, chili powder and cumin and simmer until lamb
is tender, about 1 hr., 10 min. Mix beans and lime juice into chili.
Season with salt and pepper. Mix all of your avocado ingredients in
a bowl just prior to serving. Serves 8. Note: Lamb bones add flavor
to the stock. Ask the butcher to bone a Leg of Lamb and cut the bones
into 2 inch pieces and the meat into 3/4 inch cubes, leaving off as
much fat as possible (unless you're into that fat thing ... which is
okay).

Servings: 1

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