Texas Chili Flavored Bean Stew

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Some of my friends tasked me with making my Texas chili vegetarian. After explaining how that was impossible I came up with recipe to give them the flavor they desired without the meat.

We will start by soaking some dried pinto beans. Though Texas chili usually doesn't include beans it just would be odd if we used some other type of bean as the base.

For aromatics I have chopped up two onions and a bell pepper. Don't worry the jalapenos come later.

Since I'm starting with dried beans I'm going to be using the family stew pot to give those a head start as we build the rest of the chili in a cast iron skillet.

Sweat a handful of onion and add your beans to the pot with some salt and pepper and just enough water to cover. Bring to a boil then simmer for a couple hours on the back burner.

This time around I'm going to broil and get some color on my jalapenos before adding them in.

Get all those onions and peppers sweating in the skillet with salt and pepper

After a few minutes I decided to throw some sliced mushrooms in there too.

As those cook start adding spices. Salt, black pepper, cumin, cayenne pepper, garlic powder, a bit of thyme and a ton of chili powder is the spice mix I put in all of my chili's.

Taking those roasted peppers I'm going to churn them up with a little bit of the cooking liquid from the beans and a can of tomato paste with more spice mix.

Add the love mixture into the beans. I had too much extra water from cooking the beans that I drained before doing this to make room for the flavor party.