Chili Vs Hearty Chili

Hello, y'all

Welcome, welcome, welcome to Holiday Network. That into mine. Big inside the box in a rack

Oh, I'm so glad that was still in the wrapper. Bobby, tell us what we've won today

You've won nothing. But we're going to do something that is one of my..

Everybody likes chili. Okay. So you know what we ought to do? We ought to have a little bit of a kind of a contest here

since we've got family and friends to be honest with us. Let's tell us if your traditional chili is better

or if my light chili is equally as tasty. So in the kitchen today, I've got A1 Chili Maker

my brother, to sit here and totally tell me everything that I'm doing wrong. You can smell like garlic so bad

Why, my chili sucks. And my longest time friends, Jay Hatcher and his wife Angela Hatcher

And I have to say, y'all, when we get through with this

you're not going to see a huge difference in the calories and the fat

But here's the deal. Bobby has made these changes in his cooking every day, not once in a while

so when you make these little bitty changes after a year's period

they add up to big results. They do. But I'm going to do it the way that I've always done it

Of course. So I am using skinless Italian sausage that's hot. I'm actually using turkey, ground turkey

Ground turkey. One pound of it into a tablespoon of olive oil for me. And we're just going to brown this off

And I'm using the ground chuck, son, so it's got a little bit more fat in it

than like your ordinary hamburger. Well, there's a lot of flavor in fat

But sometimes when you take out the fat, you got to add flavor in other ways

And this is not a speed contest. This is just... Well, why are you cooking yours so hot, then

Well... Brianna preheated my pot because this pot is so thick It takes a while Well it looks like it been about a while I mean I really cooking over here Now I diced up my garlic and my bell pepper

I'm using a small little food processor. So it's- But it's not a speed contest, mind you

She's cooking hot as the first floor of Hades and using a food processor

I just wanted to, now how do I get this back on, Bobby

Oh, I'm not going to help you, mama. It's not a speed contest. All right, now to my ground turkey, I've added one bite of onion

which adds a lot of flavor. I'm adding two stalks of celery and two garlic cloves

and then one big fat green bell pepper. So I like to load my chili up with vegetables and with fiber

and things that you can, you know, that your body can use. I'm always big on adding things that your body can use

This almost ain't worth it. It's working for me. I love it

I was pouring for you. You were pulling for me out of your hand

Well, it worked. Now, you're going to get a lot of flavor out of that Italian sausage and out of that full fat ground chuck

Yeah. I'm going to add my flavors that are going to give me some boldness without the extra fat and calories of the meat that you're using

I'm going to use some cumin. I'm gonna take my brother's advice and I'm gonna double up the cumin and use two teaspoons

Okay, and then two tablespoons of chili powder. Well, I like using my children

That just smells like chili, you know instead of using a bunch of chili powder So I'm gonna go ahead and add my seasonings while my vegetables are softening up to kind of cook that raw out of them

Out of the seasonings, you know because they can be kind of chalky and raw if you don't cook them down a little bit

Jay, what was the most favorite thing that I ever cooked for you

I remember the grilled cheese, I think, with mayonnaise. Grilled cheese with mayonnaise

Favorite thing Pauline ever cooked was grilled cheese with mayonnaise. I've said it many times, I blame you fully for my mayonnaise habit

Do you remember Bobby came in one day and he said, Mama, I want you to meet my new friend Jay

And here the funny part I guess one reason I fell in love with Jay so much is because his mother and I were friends in high school She and I used to spend the night with each other all the time

And I always loved going to Carol's house, his mother's house, because there wasn't as many rules at their house as it was at mine

And one night, we were in there in the bedroom, and Carol's daddy comes in and says

you girls want to go out honky-tonky in a little bit? And shoot, we came up out of that bed

We said, yes, sir, we sure do. I don't remember your granddaddy ever telling us this story

I heard about a few of them. By the time he took my mama honky-talking

Well, he did. Took those good young ladies honky-talking. All right, I'm going to drain my pintos

And I'm doing the same thing. I'm going to drain my kidneys

And in the pot they go. I'm going to take it a step further and rinse mine

I'm going to use a 24-ounce jar of diced tomatoes. Whenever you use canned products, which I don't mind using

you know, they pack them in, it's basically salt water. I'm using about the same amount of fresh crushed tomatoes

And I'm using a small jar of tomato sauce. So there we go

I've got all my ingredients in there, and I'm going to let them marry together a few minutes

and then I'm going to taste and see what else it needs and after I get my pot seasoned just right

I'm going to cover it and I'm going to let it simmer for an hour and a half

All right, I'm going to go ahead and add my low-sodium diced tomatoes and my low-sodium sauce

And I'm going to add, you know, we were talking about adding flavor without fat

I'm going to add in some jalapenos to give it some spice

All right. So what I'd like to ask y'all to do is to turn your backs

Blind taste test. Like they're not going to be able to tell looking. Turn your backs very quickly because this is going to be blind

and you're not going to know who's chili you're tasting. I bet I do

Too late Jamie you always cheat All right y can turn around now

Okay. Wow, it looks good. Oh, it looks good. So come around here and taste. Too pretty to eat

Too pretty to eat. Too pretty to eat. Here's y'all's spoons. Thank you for the positivity, Jamie

They look the same. All right, so y'all taste. Take your time

I'm going to come down here and sit down so I can see y'all's faces. I'm gonna eat a hug, yeah

It's spicy. Bye, bye, bye. Now, which of these would you want to take to Bobby's house to eat

I like Bobby's better. This is Bobby's right here, right? That is mine

Why did you say that, Bobby? Well, because he already called it out

Well, yeah, but you... No, I only knew that. They look exactly the same. I saw the celery in yours, and I like to put celery in mine

Which one were you gonna pick, Angela? I was... I was going to..

I don't know I'm going to be in trouble now. No, you're not. We got to stay with Bobby

The only thing that matters is that they both stand up to the taste test

We made them pretty much identical. Pretty much the same. Except for the meat, you added the celery, I didn't

You used low sodium, I didn't. Exactly. You used a yogurt topping, I didn't

I used sour cream. Small changes. So it's small changes. But my chili still has, per serving, this is still 571 calories and 13 grams of fat

Yours is more in the neighborhood of 800 calories per serving with about 25 grams of fat

So they're both hearty and delicious, but I think that the major difference you're going to find is probably in the sodium count

And Jay and Angela just told me that they try to cook low sodium, so they preferred yours to mine

But I have to say, I think both are absolutely delicious. I would not mind one bit

shaving that fat count off and that calorie count. I am just as happy with this one, son

Congratulations, Bobby. Thank you, Mama. It was delicious. So, so, if you like these recipes

you can find these and many others right here on the Paula Deen Network

All right. Chilling for everybody