For many people Chili is a very specific dish. For me it is more like a wide variety of dishes. It is a wide variety of stews that contain beans, tomatoes and heat (spicy heat that is). As a matter of fact, I would say that most stew recipes could be turned into chili by adding beans, tomatoes and hot sauce. You would probably want to remove really starchy ingredients that might conflict with the heat like potatoes, pasta or barley.
Chili is one of the best leftover dishes. Almost anything can be used as an ingredient in chili.
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