JV842
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Sauté the tomato paste n it will take away that “tinny” bitter tasteI've entered and won first in a couple of chili cookoffs. The secret to chili is the right ratio of chili/cumin/garlic/onion. Few chili recipes recommend enough cumin or garlic. But not all cumins are created equal, bad cumin can be very bitter.
This Wick Fowler copycat recipe makes a pretty good no-hassle chili, though I'd make the following changes: skip the masa, sub the tomato sauce for 4-6oz tomato paste, increase cayenne pepper to preferred level of heat, and throw a diced up anaheim pepper in. And adjust cumin/garlic to personal preference.
JV842's ingredient looks it would be a pretty dang good chili, as well.