My Chili

Once a week my mom let’s me plan a dinner for the family.  I can make anything I want. I have to write out the grocery list and check what we already have and what we need to buy.  Then we go to the grocery store and I have to find all the ingredients.  I have to check all the labels to make sure that there isn’t anything with nuts in it because of my brother’s allergies.

 This week I decided to make my chili.  My brother and sister love it!

 Here’s my recipe:

1 15 ounce can of kidney beans

1 14.5 ounce can of stewed tomatoes

1 15 ounce can of white navy beans

1 cup Morning Star crumblers (optional)

1 medium green pepper

1 medium onion

1 cup spicy V-8 juice

3 teaspoons chili powder

1/2 teaspoon hot pepper flakes

1/4 cup cheddar cheese (optional)

plain yogurt (optional)

First I drained both cans of beans. I put them in a strainer and rinsed them with cold water and then let them sit.  I cut eht bell peppers in half, removed the stems and then the seeds.  Then I chopped up the onion and green pepper into really thin small pieces.  I put about 3 tablespoons of the vegetable juice in the bottom of a large saucepan and put in the onions and green peppers over a medium flame.  I opened the can of stewed tomatoes and cut up any of the tomatoes that were still in really big pieces.   I added all the tomatoes, onions, green peppers, vegetable juice, chili powder and hot pepper flakes.  Then I let it all start to boil.  I turned down the heat and put a lid on the pan and let it simmer for around 10 minutes.   Then I added the both types of beans and the Morning star crumblers (you can add browned ground beef or ground turkey if you like instead) and let them simmer for another 10 minutes.

 Then I dished it out for everyone and then adde a bit of cheddar cheese on top.  My mom and I like it pretty cream so we both added a teaspoon of plain lowfat yogurt.

It was so delicious!!!!

I hope you guys like it as much as we did!!