Reddit reviews La Morena Chipotle Peppers in Adobo Sauce, 7-Ounce Tins (Pack of 6)

For smoke flavour you can either buy liquid smoke or you if you like chilli then you can buy Chipotle In Adobo (http://www.amazon.com/Morena-Chipotle-Peppers-Adobo-7-Ounce/dp/B002N3XZ6I).

http://www.seriouseats.com/2015/04/canned-chipotles-in-adobo-sauce.html

I would suggest perhaps buying a big block of chuck steak and making a chilli.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/139165/dakotas-texas-style-chili/

This recipe is fairly simple for a beginner and it also has bacon (vegetarian kryptonite) and will add more smoke flavour (assuming you use a smoked or double smoked variant).

Proportions are in the recipe, takes 3 hours to cook the meat tender and it's a one pot dish so your clean up is small. You'll have some leftovers for the rest of the week.

The guy asking about red wine is probably going to suggest Beef Bourguignon which requires a lot of red wine and is very delicious but harder to prepare than chilli in my opinion and doesn't have any of those smokey flavours you are after.

NEEDS MOAR JALAPENOS

Note: Jalapenos can vary widely in spiciness - I highly recommend tasting them before you try my suggestions. They should be a fair more spicy than you normally can stand, but not zomg i need a fire extinguisher for my tongue.

Substitute chipolte in adobo sauce for ketchup. It's possible to get the Adobo by itself, but adding peppers + sauce into a food processor/blender/ninja-like chopping session can work well too.

Suggestion #2:

Just add some finely diced fresh jalapenos.

Suggestion #3:

Get some pickled jalapenos, dice them, and add them to the beef. Add the juice to the ketchup. It'll be pretty runny at that point, so you might wanna plop it into a saucepan to reduce the liquid by 1/2 for awhile.

adobo

Ah, sorry, so it's a Native American/Central American way of cooking jalapeño peppers. When you smoke jalapeño peppers they become chipotles. And when you cook chipotles in with salt and sugar and vinegar, they become Chipotles in Adobo Sauce.

Here in the states, you can typically find them in the ethnic food section of our grocery store. They usually come in a small little 7 oz container like this.

http://www.amazon.com/Morena-Chipotle-Peppers-Adobo-7-Ounce/dp/B002N3XZ6I


The flavor is spicy (so you should deseed them if you don't want it to hot), and very smoky. I think that these really make this particular stew.

If you haven't worked with this before in the stew recipe I gave you, pour the chipotle, cilantro (coriander), and tomato puree in slowly, and try the stew to see what spice and smokey level you like. I like it really spicy and really smokey so I go gangbusters.