Homemade Chili Beans
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Ingredients
5 pounds dry pinto beans
2 tablespoons chili powder
2 teaspoons ground cumin
2 tablespoons paprika
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 tablespoon coriander
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 tablespoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon crushed red pepper
1 tablespoon sea salt
1 tablespoon dried oregano
4 more teaspoons sea salt to add to the jars
Soak the pinto beans overnight, drain them the next day, and add them to a large stockpot and cover them with fresh water. Cook at a gentle boil for 30 minutes. Add the cooked pinto beans to clean pint jars, filling the jars approximately 3/4 full. Add 2 teaspoons of the spice blend to each jar. Add some of the cooking water to each jar, leaving 1-inch headspace. Add lids and rings. Process in a pressure canner for 75 minutes at 10 pounds of pressure.
**After making these once, you can adjust the seasonings to your family’s tastes. Listed seasonings make about 8 pints of chili beans. I ended up with 17 pints of canned beans from my 5 pounds of dried beans.
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My go to recipe for canning chili beans! They are perfect! Thanks!
At the bottom of the ingredients you list 4 tsp of salt. Do I add 4 tsp of salt in addition to the 2 tsp of the spice mix to each pint of beans? That is a bunch of salt.
You can omit the extra salt and just use what’s in the spice mix. I need to edit that because I don’t use extra salt now, since it’s just for flavor and doesn’t affect to the preserving process
Can you cook the beans the 30 minutes then refrigerate them and can them the next day? I was so excited to try this recipe and cooked them and then realized that my pressure canner gauge is missing so I ordered one that will be delivered tomorrow. I don’t want to waste the beans and still want to try your recipe.
That shouldn’t be a problem as long as you get everything hot again before you can.
I’m fairly new to canning. Does this require vinegar or anything other than salt for preservation?
No vinegar required. Vinegar is mainly used for pickling recipes.
Can you use red kidney beans instead of pinto beans?
You can use any kind of dried bean. I used pinto because that’s what I had on hand.
Can I substitute with small red kidney beans?
Yes. You can substitute with any dry bean you have on hand.
Thank you for the quick reply!! And the amazing recipe!
Where are the onions, green peppers, stewed tomatoes and hamburger meat?
This isn’t chili
This isn’t a recipe for chili. It’s a canning recipe for beans to use in chili.
This is exactly the recipe I was looking for! Thank you!