Five-Alarm Chili

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Appears in Cook's Country August/September 2012, Cook's Country TV

    

Most versions sacrifice flavor for blistering heat. We wanted to sweat, all right, but we also wanted deep, complex chile pepper flavor.

SERVES 8 to 10

TIME 2 hours

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

As the name implies, five-alarm chili should be spicy enough to make you break a sweat, but it has to have rich, deep chile flavor as well. We used a combination of dried anchos, smoky chipotle chiles in adobo sauce, fresh jalapenos, and ch...

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