Killer Chicken Chili Crock Pot Variation

• 1 14 lbs chicken thigh pieces, chunked and marinade overnight in a
• hot smokey barbecue sauce
• 2 links skinless breakfast sausage, in 1 inch pieces (optional)
• 1 (32 ounce) can pinto beans
• 1 (15 ounce) can garbanzo beans (optional)
• 1 (15 ounce) can black beans
• 1 (15 ounce) can great northern beans
• 2 medium yellow onions
• 12 teaspoon mild chili powder
• 34 teaspoon cumin
• 1 chipotle pepper (mashed or chopped up fine (from the can)
• 12 teaspoon celery seed
• 1 teaspoon liquid smoke or 1 teaspoon mesquite powder
• 12 teaspoon crushed black peppercorns
• 12 teaspoon salt
• 1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar (heaping)
• 14 cup cider vinegar
• 14 cup water
• 1 teaspoon fine grits (optional) or 1 teaspoon cornmeal (optional) or 1 teaspoon masa harina flour, if you've got it (optional)

1. Cut up the thigh meat into fork sized chunks and marinade over night in the BBQ sauce, I used the Seminole Gold#32345.
2. Put the chicken chunks and the optional sausage on a tray in a 350 oven till the chicken is cooked through, 20 min or so, and set aside.
3. Put all the beans{drained} in the Crock pot.
4. I like to mix my beans both for the color and the tastes, but it's not necessary.
5. I like the garbanzos some don't.
6. Rough chop 1 onion add now.
7. Bash the spices down to the Tomato Paste add now.
8. Mix water vinegar and Tomato paste add now.
9. Put the crock pot on high for a couple hours.
10. Add the chicken and optional sausage.
11. Put the crock pot on Med.
12. If it's sloppy in the pot add the grits or Masa and mix in, this is intended as a thick almost FORK EATIN chili.
13. If it gets too thick add a wee bit of water or chicken stock.
14. After 2 to 3 hours or so on medium add the second Onion chopped fine.
15. Give it another hour or so on Med and Dish up.
16. This freezes well.

chicken thigh, hot smokey barbecue sauce, sausage, pinto beans, garbanzo beans, black beans, great northern beans, yellow onions, chili powder, cumin, pepper, celery, liquid smoke, black peppercorns, salt, tomato paste, brown sugar, cider vinegar, water, grits

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/killer-chicken-chili-crock-pot-variation-53497 (may not work)