Vegetarian Chili

Last night, it was chili night! I swear this tastes like regular chili. CRH swears it is yummy, but does NOT. He said that it's like when I go on a diet and I "forget" how regular food tastes. At any rate, this was super easy and delicious!!

Simmering on the stove before I added the tomato juice and sugar.

In it's final glory, we did add way more sugar than the recipe called for. We ended up with about a 1/4cup and we added a tsp. of cumin. I also added minced garlic (2 heaping huge tsp.), crushed chili pepper flakes, lots of hot sauce, and garlic salt.

Ingredients
2-3 onions
1/4 cup olive oil
1 bag griller bits (Morning Star)
1/2 green pepper
2-4 tsp Chili powder
2 cans Bush Chili beans (15 oz - small size)
1/2 tsp garlic powder
15 oz can diced tomatoes
Rounded 1/2 tsp white sugar
15 oz can tomato sauce
1/2 large can tomato juice

Directions
Saute 1” X 1” pieced of onion in the olive oil until tender and add pepper
Then add griller bits and saute 5-10 minutes scraping bottom until crispy
Then add tomatoes, tomato sauce, chili powder, garlic powder, and beans.
Simmer 5-10 minutes
Add tomato juice and sugar, simmer 10-15 minutes
Overall simmer on low 45-50 minutes
Add salt to taste (1/2 – 1 tsp)

About Recipe submitted by Pam C.
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