Coffee in brown gravy

[Panik]

A little OT but coffee tastes so good with chili, I thought about adding coffee to the chili recipe. Risky though.

I've added a small amount of coffee to chili, improved flavor without tasting like coffee. Adding soy sauce to chili has same effect...

I could see that adding some depth and complexity to the gravy, sounds good. I too add coffee to my chili for the same reason. Depth and complexity

In a similar, but slightly off-topic comment I regularly add a good bit of either semi-sweet or dark chocolate to my chili and have used coffee as part of making sausage gravy for biscuits - they both add really good background depth and complexity to the flavor without being a recognizable forward flavor.

 

[RobertN]

In a similar, but slightly off-topic comment I regularly add a good bit of either semi-sweet or dark chocolate to my chili and have used coffee as part of making sausage gravy for biscuits - they both add really good background depth and complexity to the flavor without being a recognizable forward flavor.

Chocolate is a great addition to chili. We have been doing that for years.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

In a similar, but slightly off-topic comment I regularly add a good bit of either semi-sweet or dark chocolate to my chili and have used coffee as part of making sausage gravy for biscuits - they both add really good background depth and complexity to the flavor without being a recognizable forward flavor.

Yep, dark chocolate in my chili here too. Need to add some sweet to cut down on the acidity of the tomatoes anyways, might as well make it interesting.

 

[Panik]

Yep, dark chocolate in my chili here too. Need to add some sweet to cut down on the acidity of the tomatoes anyways, might as well make it interesting.

Aww heck depending on what I'm throwing into the chili, I've gone as far as to add some dark brown sugar near the end of the cook to balance either the acidity and/or the flavor from the corn chips I use to thicken it. Tends to go well with the warm heat I like in my chili.