Orange Chicken Chili (Don’t know why it’s called that.)

This is the famously delicious meal Mark and Julie have generously prepared and served at their home on occasion for missionary comings and goings -- as transcribed by Julie.

The Big Batch!

(Feeds 35 hungry teachers)

Sorry guys, this is as much as I could get from Mark

Big bag of fresh boneless skinless chicken thighs at Costco

8 14 oz. cans of 33% reduced sodium chicken broth

6 large onions cut up in long thin slices—purple onions are better but more expensive

1 cup olive oil

1 rounded T chopped garlic (Costco) Or do it yourself—we like the stuff we found at Cotsco because our fingers stay out of the fray – and it lasts forever so you always have garlic on hand. But not on finger :)

1 bottle Cholulah hot sauce—with the wooden knob. (Maceys)

8 cans of black beans, strained and rinsed.

3 cans Orange Juice 12 oz.

Approx ½ container of Tones chicken base (Costco)

6 red peppers sliced into strips (Costco)

3 bunches of Cilantro (chopped)

Lots of limes

Sour cream

Avocados (Blech!)

Serve over Rice. Fancy Brown/Wild mix from Costco, or just plain old white.

Ready? OKAY!

In a LARGE stockpot combine oil and garlic--watch and stir ‘til fragrant but not browned.

Add chicken and coat it with oil and garlic and brown it a little—we never have time for that but it would be cool.

Add broth and onions and Choluah and simmer until chicken is almost fall-apart tender. (The longest part.)

Then add the orange juice (no water) and the red peppers (you add the OJ later than everything else so it won’t burn, and the peppers late so they are not mushy.) Add the beans now too—because you have to add them sometime. Simmer awhile longer and then start tasting it. It will probably need salt but don’t add it--instead add about ¼ container of Tone’s chicken base. Mark used between a ¼ and ½ of it. He’s not sure. Just add it until it tastes right.

Somewhere in the middle of making all this, try and remember to get the rice going.

If you decide to make the fancy brown/wild rice remember it takes a lot longer than white rice. Also, I like to add the Tone’s chicken base to the rice as well because it rounds out the flavor.

When you serve it, make every one squeeze a lime on it and add the sour cream, chopped cilantro and avocado to the top. Unless they hate and despise avocados then they can leave them off—but encourage them to at least try the lime and sour cream and cilantro because it just makes the whole thing taste perfect.