146 chuck recipes

From-scratch beef chuck chili with dried pinto beans, blended vegetables, tomato paste, and a slow 3-hour simmer. A big-batch recipe built for deep, layered flavor.

This is pleasently warm but not mouth burning hot!

Cincinnati chili: thin, spiced ground beef sauce with cinnamon, allspice, cloves, and a touch of molasses, simmered low and slow. Serve over spaghetti with cheddar, onions, and beans.

A deeply flavored beef stew braised in Burgundy wine and rich stock with carrots, potatoes, rutabaga, mushrooms, and caramelized tomato paste. Thickened with a dark roux for velvety body.

Southern pot likker chili built on collard-green broth with smoked chuck, ground beef, pintos, chipotle, habanero, and a splash of beer. Long-simmered, deeply smoky, bowl-licking good.

Large pasta tubes get stuffed with a mixture of mashed meatballs and spinach, then layered with slow-simmered tomato sauce and Parmesan for an Italian feast that feeds a crowd.

Italian-style jalapeño chili with hot Italian sausage, ground chuck, fennel, red wine, and three kinds of peppers. A sturdy bowl for game day or cold-weather feeding.

The flavor was combination was excellent. Next time will add some whole dried chili peppers to give it a bit more kick. We served it over brown rice and could hardly stop eating it.

Friendship fruit starter ferments pineapple, peaches, apricots, and cherries in brandy and sugar for three weeks. A boozy heirloom base for cakes, ice cream, or gifting.

Quick vegan one-pot meal with black beans, pineapple, corn, and tomatoes spiced with curry and ginger. Serve over rice or pasta in 25 minutes flat.

Ensalada de Nochebuena, a traditional Mexican Christmas Eve salad with oranges, bananas, beets, jicama, pineapple, peanuts, pomegranate seeds, and sugar cane on a lettuce-lined platter.

Slow cooker sausage and bean casserole with pineapple chunks, brown sugar, and apple cider vinegar. Dump it in, set it, and forget it for 7-10 hours.

Easy sweet and sour chicken velvets chunks of chicken with egg white, stir-fries them with bell pepper, carrot, and pineapple, then glazes with a light sherry-pineapple sauce.

Chocolate chunky muffins loaded with rolled oats, bran flakes, chocolate chunks, and chopped nuts. A hearty, fiber-rich muffin with deep brown sugar flavor and chewy texture. Built from pantry staples with powdered buttermilk for tender crumb.

Hong Kong pork stew is a slow-cooker sweet and sour pork dish with pineapple, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, and green peppers. Tender pork shoulder simmers all day in a tangy molasses-pineapple sauce.

Hawaiian yam bake loaded with sweet potatoes, pineapple, tempeh, and lentils in a honey-mustard sauce. A hearty vegetarian main dish baked low and slow until tender.