| | |  | Chili | Home » » » » Carroll Shelby's Original Texas Chili Kit, 4-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 12) | | | | | | | Description: | | Carroll Shelby's world-famous chili kit is a favorite of chili connoisseurs everywhere; with four individual spice packets that let you season to taste two pounds of ground beef or poultry. | | | Features: | |
• Pack of 12, 4-ounce box (total of 48 ounces)
• original Texas brand
• Fix it mild, fix it hot
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 12.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 6.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 6.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 3.13 pounds | | Package Length:
| 11.0 inches | | Package Width:
| 9.4 inches | | Package Height:
| 6.4 inches | | Package Weight:
| 4.3 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 44 reviews |
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15 of 15 found the following review helpful:
 Best Chili EverMar 27, 2007
By jerry i h
This dandy chili mix makes great chili. It is one of the best things I have tasted in a long time. It has a clever concept, which explains why it is a `kit'. The bag has 4 separate packets: a main chile packet (the chili powder has almost no heat, but lots of flavor), a small packet of cayenne, a small packet of salt, and a larger one with masa harina. This way, you adjust the heat, salt, and thickness to your liking; some chile mixes has everything combined, and you cannot change it. One kit is enough for 2 pounds of meat, so larger batches will require more kits.
Course, I did not follow the included recipe. I tossed the salt (I used sea salt instead) and masa flour (it was plenty thick without it) packets, used beef chuck cut into 1 ½ inch cubes instead of ground beef (course, it took that much longer to cook, but so what?), and all of the cayenne packet. Boy was it good.
14 of 15 found the following review helpful:
Ordering it again!Oct 02, 2008
By Philip L. Sevetson
I'm on the website today to order a second twelve-pack of this mix. I haven't shopped around a lot; Carroll Shelby's is the first and only mix I've tried, and I'm very happy with it. I found it on Amazon earlier this year after being unable to find it in local stores, and I've just recently gone through the first twelve-pack (okay, I gave one pack to my mother-in-law).
I've converted my daughter and my mother-in-law to it, as well; they're both chili lovers and we use this recipe together with dark red kidney beans, diced tomatoes, a small can of tomato sauce, and ground turkey (healthier, and cheaper, and there's a small difference in texture and none in taste from ground beef). We recommend going with the recipe option that calls for a large can of diced tomatoes, and about half the cayenne packet, and about 32 oz of canned dark red kidney beans, drained (the recipe only recommends 16 oz), and between 2 and 3 lbs of ground whatever.
Ground beef, not too lean, or chopped chuck, or cubed pot roast are all good candidates for the meat. As the package used to say, fifteen years ago, don't waste your money on expensive cuts of beef here.
The directions are pretty basic and perfectly adequate to produce a good hearty meal. Use a _big_ frying pan, 13" if you've got one, and have a larger stew pot/saucepan of some kind standing by in case your ingredients are too much for the pan. Do stir frequently once you've added the spices and flour, because there's some tendency for the mix to thicken up and form a skin on the bottom of the pot, and you'll lose good flavor that way (not to mention the bottom might get burned and ruin the whole recipe).
With 2-3 lbs of meat, two cans of beans and a large (28 oz) can of diced tomatoes in tomato juice, the whole thing makes six or seven _really_ generous portions (12-14 oz each). I make it and freeze most of it in individual portions, taking it in to work and microwaving it at lunch.
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
Delicious Chili Kit with Lots of Flexible Customization OptionsDec 16, 2010
By Duane Bryant
"Not Easily Impressed...Lover of Variety (the spice of Life)"
Friends, I love good food. This Chili Kit by Carroll Shelby is excellent. It creates an extremely savory basic chili that is easy to adjust to your particular taste in the areas of: spicy/hot, salt, or thickness.
The flavor created by the spices in the main packet is the best attribute. Lots of deep, low, earthy tones that have excellent complexity and subtlety.
Another great feature is the brilliant strategy of putting the cayenne pepper in a separate pouch. I only put in a little. My wife likes her chili slightly warm: warm enough to be interesting. So, I put about 1/8th of the cayenne pouch when I cook the chili, then I sprinkle extra on only my serving when I eat my bowl-full. I like a little more warmth to add to the complex flavors without so much heat that I begin to loose the ability to taste all those wonderful layers of tastes.
It is another exceptionally brilliant idea to put the salt in yet another separate pouch. Again, my wife does not like very much salt at all, so I don't put any in while cooking. I salt my bowl-full with some sea-salt, and in my opinion a little sea-salt REALLY brings out the complex flavors in this chili mix. I hope more products begin to put the salt in a separate packet. I think most folks would be appalled to see exactly how much salt is in the average meal-mix they buy: like Hamburger Helper for example. Plus for some reason good sea salt just tastes better than the cheap salt.
Lastly, Mr. Shelby puts a packet of thickening powder in his kit - in addition to the main chili pack, the cayenne packet, and the salt packet. The thickening agent is simply finely ground corn meal and it does a nice job of thickening the chili if that is what you like and prefer. I have prepared this kit many times both with and without the thickening, and I like it both ways. I now just alternate for variety.
PREPARATION TIPS from my personal preferences:
*Saute LOTS of onion to go in the chili. At lease one large yellow onion, and I sometimes do one-and-a-half.
*Always use the optional 15oz can of diced tomatoes (don't forget to reduce the amount of water used, like the direction on the box say.
*Always use the optional 15oz can of beans. My favorite are dark kidney beans, but greatly enjoy black-beans, pintos, or about any chili-style bean. TIP: drain the liquid from the can of beans into a bowl, and use the liquid as substitute for part of the "water" called for in the recipe.
*Some favorite toppings in the bowl: sea salt, cayenne powder, diced white onions, pepper jack or cheddar cheese, black olives, guacamole, salsa, sour cream, tortilla chips.
I will address some of the complaints by negative reviewers:
1)A few said the chili was not very flavorful. Unfortunately in the USA most folks confuse "salt" with flavor. Since the mix has separate salt packet and none in the mix, I believe that nay-sayers have just not put in the prodigious amount of extra salt that they are used to associating with "flavor". As I wrote earlier, the chili benefits from some sea salt, but for my taste, does not need large amounts.
2)Some may say the lack of heat is not flavorful enough. Well, there are folks who like things thermo-nuclear-hot, and you just can't get there with the little extra cayenne packet supplied in the kit. The chili with no cayenne at all is slightly warm, and varying amounts of the cayenne powder will satisfy the tastes of 99.999% of folks. For those who like more heat, add whatever crazy-hot stuff you require to get the heat you want.
3)If your complaint is that it does not taste exactly like you want right out of the box (like some other brand perhaps), I disagree strongly, because I believe that the customization offered by the different pouches included, is a greatly beneficial feature. If they made it to taste exactly like YOU want, then it probably wouldn't taste like many other folks want.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Chili Cook Off!Nov 14, 2011
By THEliz
When my dad wanted to compete in his office chili cook off, my mother (from New Jersey) had no idea what to do. She used this kit... and he won... and then she had no idea what to tell everyone asked for the recipe! It's absolutely delicious! We always add an onion or two, the diced tomatoes, a can of kidney beans, and sometimes some chopped green pepper. If we're taking it to a party, I reduce the cayenne, but usually we use the whole package!
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
yum yumMar 03, 2011
By c
this is the best chilli mix out there and it is fast and convenient for the working person and not enough time in the day
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