KEVIN COLEMAN: Welcome back to Kevin's Backyard.
There is a chill in the air, fall season is here,
and one of my fan favorites is chili.
And people ask Kevin, how do you get that amazing flavor.
And the key is doing it on your barbecue grill.
So I'm going to teach you today and how
to take what we traditionally do inside of our kitchen,
bring it out to our grill, enhance the flavors,
and take your chili to a whole other level.
We're setting up our charcoal grill,
and today we're using The Performer.
It has a gas ignition, which is going
to get our charcoal ready in about 15 minutes.
Now once it's completely ashed over,
now we're going to talk about what we're doing our chili in.
And today, we're using the Gourmet Barbecue System Wok.
It's cast iron, it's porcelain coated,
it retains heat extremely well, and it's
going to help take your chili to a whole other level.
We've got our grill gloves on.
Now we're going to set up our grill for indirect heat.
We're going to move those charcoal
baskets to the opposite sides of the kettle.
We've got that taken care of.
Now comes our cooking grate, and we
want to make sure we're keeping the hinges over the charcoal
baskets that way we can add charcoal every hour
on the hour.
Next comes our wok, we're going to get that inside
and we're going to preheat our grill
for about 10 to 15 minutes.
We've got our grill preheated, now
let's start building our chili.
And our first ingredient is going to be bacon,
because who doesn't love bacon.
It's going to give us some crazy flavor inside of our chili.
We're also going to combine that with some onions,
start to get those caramelized.
And this is going to take about five to 10 minutes.
We're talking meat, and today we're
going to be using ground beef.
But one way to add unique flavor to your chili,
is grill your meat before you put it inside the chili.
Here we have skirt steak, we have some great caramelization,
those beautiful grill marks, that's going to create depth.
We have some chicken.
If you wanted to grow that chicken breast before you
put it in, that's another unique way
to take your chili to another level.
Now if you want to go the meatless route,
and you want to use vegetables, you can always
fire roasted peppers.
You can grill the zucchini, you can grill the eggplant,
all of these things are going to add unique flavor.
So let's get our meat inside here.
We've already got our bacon and onions inside here.
Those look great.
We're going to drill this for about five to 10 minutes also.
We've got some great smells coming from this kettle.
Let's talk about the rest of the ingredients
that we're going to be putting in our chili.
And here you can see we have jalapenos, poblanos, habeneros,
and we fire roasted these to give us some smoked flavor.
Yes, they're going to give us heat,
but I want that smoked flavor, which is going
to make this chili unique.
So we're going to take these ingredients,
get them on our grill, and we're going
to grill those for about 5 to 10 minutes.
The anticipation continues to grow.
Let's finish off our chili.
And we have large cans of tomato sauce, whole tomatoes,
stewed tomatoes, and a large kind
of tomato paste, which will help thicken it.
We also have our spices, white pepper, black pepper,
cayenne pepper, cumen, salt, and a little bit of sugar.
And then we have my signature ingredient, which is beer.
It's not for you, it's going to be for the chili.
We're going to get that on.
We're going to adjust the damper down.
And we're going to let that simmer for about an hour.
We've talked flavor this whole video, and the last
to be going to give you is using woods to create smoke flavor
inside of your chili.
Now what makes this fun is you can use hickory,
you can use mesquite, you can use any woods that you like.
You can also use combinations of words,
and that's going to create that unique flavor
and take your chili to a whole other level.
Our chili is complete.
We have our kettle shaped cornbread,
and the toppings will go on it.
And I hope this season, the next time you decide to do chili,
you go from doing it inside in your kitchen to outside
on your barbecue grill.
And if you're looking for any other tips and techniques,
you can always find us here on Kevin's Backyard