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Chili Hot Beans:

For you folks with a cholesterol problem, here is a excellent chili recipe with only 6 grams of fat in the whole batch. That's less than one gram per serving. You get all the flavor of chili and a clear conscience.
What you need. What you do.
1 cup dry kidney beans. Wash beans and soak overnight.
3 cups water. 1 tsp. salt. Place beans, water, and salt in a covered sauce pan and simmer on low heat until beans are tender. Add water to keep beans just covered.
4 cups chopped cooking onion. 2 cups beef stock. While beans are cooking, Cook onions in stock on med. heat in a 4 quart sauce pan until tender.
I Qt. canned tomatoes. 1 tsp. salt. 2 tsp ground black pepper. t tsp. minced garlic. 2 tbsp. ground cumin. 1 tbsp. hot chili powder. 1` tbsp. basil. Add tomatoes, salt, pepper, garlic, and herbs to stock pot. Simmer for 1 hour or more.
Add cooked beans to pot and continue to simmer for 1 more hour.
1 cup good dry red wine. Add wine and simmer for 1/2 hour.
Serve straight or with cooked brown rice.

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