Uncle Bubba’s Texas Terror Chili is not for the light of heart or taste buds. This Texas chili is spicy, thick and packed with big smoked beef flavor. I love chili with big chunks of tender smoky beef and lots of chili flavor. The sauce was made from dried chipotle and ancho peppers, Texas chili powder, smoked garlic, tomato sauce, with chocolate and coffee blended into a chili paste.

Tri Tip as a rule is too good of a meat for chili. We went to town for meat and found that brisket was $6.99 a pound, chuck roast at $4.69, hamburger at $4.99 then tri tip at $2.69!!! CRAZY!!!

So, we used tri tip that we gave a 2-hour smoke and a hot sear. I’ll tell you it was hard not to just sit down with the tri tip and forget all about chili…

Texas chili traditionally is made without beans. It’s your chili so you can make it the way you like it. I sometimes add beans either cooked from scratch or from a can. I mostly use canned beans these days, easier to do and they all taste like your chili in the end.

NOTE: You can use any meat you have and leftovers are great in chili.

Patti and I have set one night a week just for us. It’s our date night. We usually put something special on one of our Grills or Smokers, but sometimes we cook inside. We always eat outside on our patio where it is very comfortable with a rainforest theme.  Wood Pellet Patio Heater, little lights, candles, lanterns and surround sound. We enjoy a little wine, or strawberry margaritas using frozen strawberries for ice, good food, music and sometimes a dance or two…

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Uncle Bubba’s Texas Terror Chili
A Wood Pellet Grill Recipe

Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 6 hours total including smoking the meat
Grill: Green Mountain Wood Pellet Grill
Pellets: BBQPelletsOnline

Ingredients: Uncle Bubba’s Texas Terror Chili 

• 8 pounds of smoked beef, we used tri tip
• 4 cups brewed coffee
• 2 large sweet onions, rough chopped
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chunks
• ½ cup chipotle chili powder
• ½ cup smoked garlic
• ¼ cup Briggs True Texas Chili Powder
• ¼ cup ground cumin
• ¼ cup butchers grind black pepper
• ¼ Masa, mixed with a little coffee
• 1 28oz can tomato sauce
• 3 Tbsp. tomato paste
• 2 Tbsp. smoked Paprika
• 2 Tbsp. Oregano
• 2 Tbsp. dry Beef bouillon
• 1 Tbsp. sea salt
• 3 bay leaves
• 3 dried Chipotle and Ancho peppers (Soaked in water overnight.)
• Duck Fat (our store)

Topping Suggestions 

• Cheddar cheese
• Sour cream
• Diced onions
• Jalapenos, sliced or diced
  

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Cooking Directions: Uncle Bubba’s Texas Terror Chili 

Preheat the grill to 150* (65c) for a good smoke. Rub the Texas Chili powder into the meat and you are ready for that “Kiss of Smoke”. Place your roasts onto the grill for 2 hours to pick up a nice deep smoke flavor. After 2 hours remove the roasts and turn the heat up to 450* (232c).

 

As you are smoking the meat make your chili paste. I think you get a smoother sauce using a blender. But you can skip the blender and add your ingredients directly into the Dutch oven with the meat.

For the Chili Paste

Cut the stems off the peppers and cut them into about 1-inch pieces and toss them into the blender with some of the liquid they were soaked in. Give a few pulses and add the smoked garlic and blend. Add the rest of the dry ingredients (except the bay leaves and chocolate) a little at a time and blend with the tomato paste and sauce until smooth, then adding coffee until blender is full.

 

When your Grill Grates are screaming hot place your roasts back on the grill for 6 minutes per side giving them a quarter turn at 3 minutes for a nice sear.

This adds a ton of flavor to your chili. But you can skip this step.

Turn the grill down to 350* (177c) and light your Wedgie for that “Kiss of Smoke”.

Spray a Dutch oven with a cooking spray, we use Duck Fat, for another layer of flavor.

Cut your meat into cubes and toss them into the Dutch oven. Adding all of the ingredients into the Dutch oven mixing well.

Now into the smoke for about 3 hours stirring occasionally until the meat is “No Teeth Needed Tender”.

Last hour or so stir in the chocolate.

Note: I get a lot of questions about the kind of pellets you can use with a recipe. Keep in mind that a recipe is just an outline. Some you need to follow closely like when you are making bread, but most you can do anything you can dream, our favorite way to cook. Feel free to mix and match the pellets until you find a combination you really like. Also, you are only smoking at temps less than 250 degrees (122c), anything higher is cooking and there will not be much if any smoke so it does not matter what kind of pellet you are using.

Backyard BBQ
A Wood Pellet Grill Recipe 

 

 

Backyard BBQ
A Wood Pellet Grill Recipe 

 

 

Backyard BBQ
A Wood Pellet Grill Recipe 

 

 

Backyard BBQ
A Wood Pellet Grill Recipe 

 

About our Recipes

We do our recipes on our patio where we have a lineup of grills, including Monument, Green Mountain, Uuni Wood Fired Pizza Oven, Sawtooth, Louisiana, Royall, Memphis, Traeger pellet grills, Char Griller side box smoker, Saber, Charmglow, Char-Broil, The Big Easy, Lodge Sportsman’s, Brinkman and Weber. I call it our “Wall of Grill”. Our grilling styles are healthy and low fat and will fit pelletheads, gas, natural wood and even charcoal purists. Almost any of our recipes can be done on any kind of good BBQ.

The important thing to keep in mind is TIME & TEMPERATURE. You can do our recipes on any grill, even some of them in the oven or crock pot, but, then you lose all the flavors you get from cooking outdoors. But sometimes it does rain.

Remember that a recipe is simply an outline; it is not written in stone. Don’t be afraid to make changes to suit your taste. Take it and run with it….

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Ken & Patti

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