Smoked Pork Chili
There’s always been the debate on whether chili should have beans or no beans. I think that both are good and have their place. The real question is why are people putting flavorless ground beef in chili and not using cubed pork shoulder or chuck roast? It’s like night and day for the same price or cheaper, folks. Wake the fuck up. Like everything I do in life, I took my chili one step further. My pork was dry rubbed and smoked with mesquite wood. I also smoked the tomatoes, jalapeños, garlic, and onion. I also smoked. Then everything went into the crock pot and simmered for 5 hours. The last hour, I tossed in some beans. This chili can compete with any other chili out there; and will crush all in its path. It is worth every minute of the 36 hours it takes to prepare.
Equipment
- Electric Smoker
- crock pot
Ingredients
Smoked Pork Steaks
- 4 lbs pork steaks 1 1/2” thick
- 1 tbsp salt
- 1 tbsp paprika
- 1 tbsp black pepper
- 1/2 tbsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tbsp onion powder
- 2 tsp white pepper
The Rest of the Chili
- 6 roma tomatoes
- 1 large white onion sliced in half horizontally
- 2 heads garlic
- 4 large jalapeños
- 3 tbsp vegetable oil
- 3 ribs celery chopped
- 1/4 cup tomato paste
- 4 cups pork stock
- 2 tsp hot chili powder
- 3 cans beans pinto, black, and dark kidney
- salt to taste
Garnish
- green onions chopped
Wood Chips
- mesquite wood chips
Instructions
- Rib the pork steaks on all sides with the dry spices. Let rest on a rack in the refrigerator for 24 hours. Lest rest at room temperature for 2 hours before smoking.
- Place the tomatoes, onion, jalapeños, and garlic on a smoking rack.
- Preheat your smoker to 250 degrees. Smoke the pork steaks for 6 hours. Smoke the vegetables for the last 2 hours.
- Place the cubed pork steak, chopped smoked vegetables, whole peeled garlic cloves, celery, tomato paste, and chili powder in a crock pot. Mix all of the ingredients, making sure that they’re coated in the tomato paste.
- Pour in the pork stock. Place on the cover. Cook on high for 5 hours.
- Stir in the beans. Simmer for 1 more hour.
- Season with salt to taste.
