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    Home » Amish Pizza

    Stupidly Easy Pizza Sauce Chili

    Published: Mar 16, 2015 · Updated: Sep 5, 2022 by Kevin Williams | 2 Comments

    I was at a potluck gathering of Old Order German Baptist Brethren a couple of weeks ago (more about the gathering tomorrow) and I spied a lot of chili steaming on one of the tables. I sampled it and found it to be quite tasty, so I tracked down the cook who made it.  She was a kind, quiet polite woman who was nice enough to share her recipe with us.  I asked her what it was called and she was like "This?  This stupidly easy pizza sauce chili?"   What happened was she needed to make a pot of chili for the gathering but realized she was out of tomato sauce, so she was trying to think of a way to improvise.  Her solution: pizza sauce and salsa.

    Classic Amish Chili Soup...

    The cook used her own homemade pizza sauce and her own salsa.  So when using 4 "cans" of pizza sauce, I would get as close to a quart as you can in the amounts.  With the beans, she said just to experiment, but she used some navy beans, northern beans, chili beans, so you can adjust the bean amounts as you prefer.  For beans she would not have used home-canned, so when it says "cans" in the rest, just gets your standard store-bought cans and drain.

    The meats are another area where you can and should experiment.  This cook only had deer burger and sausage on hand, but you can use blends of other meats including hamburger if you don't have venison on hand.

    While you can experiment with this recipe and tailor it to your taste, the cook did tell me that the cumin was a key ingredient. So don't mess with the cumin and you'll have an awesome chili!

    Homemade Pizza Sauce Chili
    Homemade Pizza Sauce Chili

    I apologize for the poor photo, I was shooting fast and the light was low.  But the pot out front has the chili. Yum!

    Stupidly Easy Pizza Sauce Chili
     
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    Prep time
    30 mins
    Cook time
    1 hour
    Total time
    1 hour 30 mins
     
    Serves: 12 servings
    Ingredients
    • 4 cans of pizza sauce
    • 6 cans of different kinds of beans
    • 1 pint salsa
    • 1 1 /4 cup brown sugar
    • 2 tablespoons cumin
    • 2 small onions, chopped
    • 4 pounds sausage
    • 2 pounds deer burger
    Instructions
    1. Brown sausage and deer burger.
    2. Dump the meat into a large stockpot, and add the rest of the ingredients.
    3. Simmer on low for a good hour or until heated through.
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    About Kevin Williams

    Hi, my name is Kevin Williams and I am owner of Oasis Newsfeatures and editor of The Amish Cook newspaper column.

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    1. susan greenoe

      March 16, 2015 at 3:04 pm

      In the stupidly easy pizza chili, you have 1 1/4 cup but no ingrediant

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      • Kevin

        March 16, 2015 at 3:08 pm

        Oops, thanks, Susan, I fixed it! Should have been 1 1 /4 cup brown sugar

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