Here’s one idea for combining leftover meats, beans, and vegetables and making a delicious result we’ll call “chili.”
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I find an odd pleasure in making a meal out of seemingly unrelated items. One night a week I have “Miracle Leftover Night”. Miracle leftover night is always more of spontaneous event rather than my usual premeditated dinners. Since it is based on whatever I have leftover, it is somewhat different every time I make it. This Miracle Leftover Night I found in my refrigerator spaghetti sauce (we save the sauce separate from the noodles), baked beans, a lone hamburger patty, some taco meat, black beans, a half an onion, and a half a bell pepper. Checking the pantry for kidney beans and diced tomatoes, I decided to throw them together and call it “chili.”
Miracle Leftover Chili Recipe
Ingredients:
- ~ 1 cup spaghetti sauce
- ~ 1 1/2 cups of baked beans
- 1 hamburger patty (all of the buns had been consumed)
- ~ 1/2 cup of taco meat
- ~ 1/2 cup of black beans
- 1/2 med. onion
- 1/2 bell pepper
- 15 oz. can of kidney beans
- 14.5 oz. can of diced tomatoes
- homemade chipotle seasoning mix
Directions:
- Chop up the hamburger patty, onion, and bell pepper.
- Placed the spaghetti sauce, baked beans, taco meat, black beans, and chopped hamburger, onion, and bell pepper, into a large pot with 1/2 cup of water and cooked over medium heat.
- Stir in the kidney beans and diced tomatoes without draining them first, and add the chipotle seasoning.
- Continue to cook over medium heat until the beans began to boil, them simmered on low until the flavors had blended.
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Miracle Leftover Chili Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup spaghetti sauce
- 1 1/2 cups baked beans
- 1 hamburger patty
- 1/2 cup taco meat
- 1/2 cup black beans
- 1/2 med. onion
- 1/2 bell pepper
- 15 oz. can of kidney beans
- 14.5 oz. can of diced tomatoes
- homemade chipotle seasoning mix
Instructions
- Chop up the hamburger patty, onion, and bell pepper.
- Placed the spaghetti sauce, baked beans, taco meat, black beans, and chopped hamburger, onion, and bell pepper, into a large pot with 1/2 cup of water and cooked over medium heat.
- Stir in the kidney beans and diced tomatoes without draining them first, and add the chipotle seasoning.
- Continue to cook over medium heat until the beans began to boil, them simmered on low until the flavors had blended.
Nutrition
You could also add:
- Cooked Rice
- Corn
This could easily have been done in a crock pot if I had thought about dinner a little sooner. I was telling a friend about my dinner and she said it sounded like Blizzard Chili. I had never heard of blizzard chili, but the idea is similar: make do with what you have on hand.
More Chili Recipes:
Black Bean and Cauliflower Chili
Ways to Use Leftover Chili:
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