Super Bowl 50 is this Sunday and if you are looking for some tasty recipes and beer pairings for you and your guests to enjoy, Sapporo Beer has something to offer. Here we have chili, and short ribs, two delicious recipes using Sapporo Premium as an ingredient to add an additional flavor component, as well to cut some of the richness.

Sapporo Chili Recipe

Ingredients

5 strips of bacon

Olive Oil (enough to coat the bottom of a large sauté pan)

¼ cup of Minced Garlic

1lb of ground turkey 85/15 (or other ground meat of your choosing. You can also combo other meats also like pulled chicken, ground beef, ground pork, etc.)

1/8 cup of granulated garlic

1/8 cup of granulated onion

1/8 cup of paprika

1/8 cup of ground cumin

A pinch of Italian seasoning

A pinch of ground coriander

A pinch of smoked sea salt

A pinch of ground pepper

2 16 oz cans of organic vegetarian chili (if you cannot find organic canned veggie chili, a nonorganic one is fine also.

*Note: if you prefer and have time, you can use dried beans

1 16 oz can of cannellini beans (rinse and drain)

½ of a 28oz. can of crushed tomatoes

1 6oz can of tomato paste

½ cup of homemade or jarred tomato sauce of your choosing

¼ cup of BBQ sauce (homemade or brand of your choosing)

¼ cup of Heinz ketchup

½ of a 12 oz bottle/ or ½ of a 16 oz can of Sapporo Premium

Instructions

1. Cover bottom of large sauté pan with olive oil and add minced garlic

2. Season ground meat with a pinches of granulated garlic, onion and chili powder and salt and pepper

3. Brown ground meat in large pan with heat turned up about half way so to not burn meat and spice mixture

4. Once meat is browned, transfer to slow cooker

5. Add canned chili or soaked beans, rest of all spices, sauces, pastes, beer and stir in crock pot to blend all ingredients together

6. Bake/fry bacon until crunchy. Break up bacon into pieces. Sprinkle into chili while cooking in pot but reserve some for garnish. Add bacon drippings into chili.

7. Set cooker to low and timer to 8 hours. After 8 hours, cooker will switch to warm if you are not serving right away

8. Make sure to stir every hour or so, so chili doesn’t stick and burn

9. Feel free to top with chopped up aforementioned cooked bacon, fried onions, shredded cheese, sour cream, scallions or anything you like

10. Serve with tortilla chips and an ice-cold Sapporo!

Slow Cooker BBQ Short Ribs Recipe
Feeds 4-6 people (If you are having more people, increase ingredients appropriately)

Ingredients

5 lbs beef short ribs

1 large onion, coarsely chopped

2 cup of barbecue sauce of your choice

2 tablespoons of honey

1 tablespoon Dijon mustard

½ can or bottle of Sapporo Premium Beer

Fine sea salt

Ground black pepper

Granulated garlic powder

Onion powder

Directions

Season ribs with salt, pepper, garlic and onion powders

Brown outside of ribs in pan on the stovetop

Place a layer of roughly chopped onions at bottom of slow cooker

In separate bowl, mix barbecue sauce, honey and mustard together

Add ribs a little at a time to bowl and make sure they are covered in sauce

Place ribs in slow cooker on top of bed of onions

Pour beer over the top once the sauced ribs are in the slow cooker, so that the sauce mixture cascades to the onions at the bottom

Give a stir to ribs

Cover and cook on LOW for 6 to 8 hours

Switch slow cooker to warm setting

Remove ribs from slow cooker and place on a tray or in a bowl

Skim excess fat from sauce

Return ribs to sauce

Serve with an ice-cold Sapporo and side dish of your choice

Note: If there are leftovers, you will need to skim excess fat before storing