Home-made Wendy's Chili

[Nancy Rivers 24]

Tonight I ended up making a single serving size of chili. I wasn't sure exactly how it would come out, but it wasn't bad at all! I'm a single person, so it's tough to find recipes for just one to make. I'm sure you could multiply the ingredients to size it up if needed.

4 oz lean ground beef (I used 96/4 Meijer brand angus beef that I found on sale a week or two ago)

1/4 cup Ragu Old World Style Sweet Tomato Basil Pasta sauce

2 ounces left over chicken Soup sans chicken (chicken broth, diced onions, diced tomatoes, diced bell peppers - green, red, yellow and orange that was part of my crockpot chicken Soup that I made a couple of days ago - but I didn't cut up the chicken, so it was without chicken)

1/4 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp pepper

1/4 tsp Mrs. Dash salt-free fiesta lime spice

1/4 cup shredded low-fat cheddar cheese

Brown the ground beef, add in the Pasta Sauce and chicken broth with veggies. Let it simmer for a while and then add the spices. Continue simmering until liquid is reduced to about 1/2 of original. Serve in a bowl and top with the cheddar cheese.< /p>

I'm sure you could substitute any meat for the ground beef. But I wouldn't use anything that would have more fat.

[Indymom 132]

Sounds good, but I like a little "fire" in my chili so i'd probably get rid of the cinnamon and go with some chili powder and cumin instead. The leftover Soup sounds like a perfect chili base of veggies!!

[Nancy Rivers 24]

I can't handle a lot of spice - although the Mrs. Dash Fiesta Lime spices has as the first ingredient Chili Powder. I absolutely LOVE the taste of cinnamon - that's why I included it. With that combo of spices though, it was hard to taste the actual cinnamon. But it was really good.

[Indymom 132]

I'll have to check out that flavor of the Mrs. Dash, I love chili powder and cumin!