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Wild Game Chili in Cast Iron | Cowboy Cooking Outdoors
Sep 19, 2025
Grab the original video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddpkgh-T8oM recipe here: https://kentrollins.com/elk-chili/
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Folks, we are changing it up this week.
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We're cooking up some wild game here at
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the Lazy Tea Ranch in beautiful Wyoming.
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And to start this process, I need you to
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go to the creek first of all, dip the
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water out, get that over on a hot fire,
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get it to warming up. Now, drag out them
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dried chilies. We're using a guilo
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chili, a Hatch red New Mexico chili, and
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we're using an ancho chili. Rough chop
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you an onion. Throw it in there. Four
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garlic cloves. Let's get it to simmering
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along so it can get tender. When I'm
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making chili, I'm going to start with
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the two best cuts that I can find on
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that backstrap tenderloin. I like to put
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it in pretty good bite-sized pieces to
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where it's about like so. I'm going to
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season with our original and we'll give
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it all a good coating. Then we'll toss
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it about and we'll season some more. We
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have to roast some tomatoes today. We're
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just going to use a little Crisco cuz we
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just want to get that meat to where it's
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browned up, simmerred all, got a little
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good sort of a caramelization on it.
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Them chilies got good and tender over
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there. Onion. We're just going to just
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finely chop them. We can just go ahead
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and put this in there right now. The
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next part of this might be controversial
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in a way. When I was raised, we were
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really poor and beans went further than
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meat. Kidney beans is my preferred
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choice of bean if you're going to really
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make chili with oregano. Next, we're
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going to go with our chili seasoning.
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Little black pepper. We're going to use
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about that much beef broth. Then, we
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want to let simmer about an hour and 45
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to two hours or until that elk meat just
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falls apart.
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[Music]
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I'm going to take this bite right here.
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M
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I want you to try this because you told
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me this is my good friend Houston
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Johnson. So since you took that bite and
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you know what happens at these videos,
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that's the reason I called you up here,
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Houston. We got to do a little dance.
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There we go. Come on now. Give it Give
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it all you got. Get in the water if you
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want to, brother. There you go. Let
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loose.
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