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Ingredients

• 2 lbs ground beef (you can actually use any ground meat combination, turkey, chicken, pork, italian sausage)
• 1 cup yellow sweet onion (1 medium or large chopped or diced vidalia, oso, etc.)
• 1 cup sweet bell pepper (1 whole pepper, chopped or diced, any color)
• 2 stalks celery (chopped or diced)
• 1 carrot (chopped or diced)
• 2 jalapeno peppers (sliced or chopped)
• 2 (28 ounce) cans crushed tomatoes
• 1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
• 4-8 garlic cloves (smashed silly)
• salt and pepper (a few shakes here and there can't hurt)
• 1/4 cup prepared sweet-and-sour mix (pick up a bottle of Mr. & Mrs. T's sweet-and-sour mix from your grocery store liquor aisle)
• 1/8 cup orange juice
• 1/8 cup lime juice (or juice from 1 lime)
• 1/8 cup lemon juice (or juice from 1 lemon)
• 1-2 ounce dark chocolate or 1-2 ounce bittersweet chocolate
• THE KILLER COCOA CHILI SPICE MIX, which contains the following ingredients:
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1 teaspoon cumin
• 1 teaspoon thyme
• 1 teaspoon basil
• 2 teaspoons oregano
• 1 teaspoon Hungarian paprika
• 2 teaspoons Mexican chili powder
• 2 teaspoons garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon onion powder
• 2 teaspoons dried parsley
• 1 teaspoon dried cilantro
• 1/2 cup brown sugar (leave this separate if you want to adjust the sweetness of your chili)
• 1/2 cup cocoa powder

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I Like Cooking And I Love Chili And Chocolate, So If There Was Any Way I Could Combine The Three, I Was Gonna Do It. So Here Is My Quite Excellent Balance Of Sweet, Sour, Salty And…

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