Recipe(tried): Chili (similar to Wendy's)

Dawn,NYS (12:37:37 PM) :

Similar to Wendy's Chili (very good - a staple around my house!)

1 1/2 lb Ground beef
2 ts Vegetable oil
1 cn Onion soup
2 ts Chili powder
2 ts Ground cumin
1/2 ts Pepper
2 ts Cocoa !
2 cn Kidney beans, undrained
6 ts Tomato paste
15 ts Tomato sauce
2 ts Brown sugar
1 ts Vinegar
6 c V8 juice

Brown beef in oil. Break meat into tiny rice size pieces. Place onion soup and half of cooked beef into a blender and process on high speed until it resembles cement mortar. Place with unblended beef into 2-1/2 qt saucepan. Add remaining ingredients and simmer until flavors are blended.