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This sauce is a sweet Chili KickStart Sauce that is completely ready for your pot, crockpot or your roasts, pots of soups and even your Brunswick stew.

The KarenKave Chili KickStart is the foundation to your pot of chili for those tailgating parties, holiday gatherings or just a good hardy meal. But, it’s versitilty is contagious. Check out our featured recipes from customers that will be a winner on your table.

LUCKY KICKSTART CORNED BEEF HASH BAKE

Ingredients

  • 1 bag (20–24 oz) frozen hash browns, thawed

  • 2 cups cooked corned beef, chopped or shredded

  • 1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese

  • 6 large eggs

  • ¾ cup milk or half-and-half

  • ¼ cup KarenKave Chili Kickstart sauce

  • 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard

  • ½ teaspoon black pepper

  • ½ teaspoon garlic powder

  • 2 tablespoons butter, melted

Optional topping:

  • sliced green onions or parsley

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 375°F.

  2. Prepare the hash brown base
    In a bowl combine hash browns and melted butter.
    Press evenly into a greased 9×13 baking dish.

  3. Add corned beef layer
    Sprinkle chopped corned beef evenly over the hash browns.

  4. Make the egg mixture
    In a bowl whisk together:

    • eggs

    • milk

    • Chili Kickstart sauce

    • Dijon mustard

    • black pepper

    • garlic powder

  5. Assemble the casserole
    Pour egg mixture over the corned beef and hash browns.
    Sprinkle shredded cheddar cheese evenly on top.

  6. Bake
    Bake 35–40 minutes until the eggs are set and the top is golden.

  7. Rest before serving
    Let sit 5–10 minutes before cutting.

Optional Chili Kickstart Cream Drizzle

This adds a great finishing flavor.
Mix together:

  • 3 tablespoons Chili Kickstart

  • 2 tablespoons sour cream

  • 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard

Drizzle lightly over each serving.




Chili Mac

Just in time for Monday night football!! Thank you Jonathan of Fuquay, NC for this creative recipe to warm up the start of the week!!

Ingredients:

KarenKave 16oz jar of CHILI KICKSTART!

1/2 pound ground meet

1 can 14oz red kidney beans.

A pan of Mac and Cheese

Frito chips

Sour Cream or Greek Yogurt

Avocado (optional)

Here is how it comes together.

Brown your meat. Open that jar of kickstart and pour it in a pot, add your meat and beans and simmer.

Pull out your favorite bowl, take a nice scoop of that good old mac & cheese and put it in your bowl, now take a nice warm serving of chili and pour it over that mac & cheese. Add your Frito corn chips and give it a tender stir. Top it off with some Sour cream and avocado!

Can’t beat it for a Monday night football dinner and game!

Karen Kave Bloody Mary

YES!! It’s 5 o’clock somewhere.

And start off that hour with your KarenKave  chili kickstart bloody Mary!!

RECIPE:
1 16 oz. Jar of KARENKAVE Chili Kickstart 
1 teaspoon horseradish
1 1/2 teaspoons Texas Pete hot sauce
1 teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon fresh black pepper.
1/4 cup vodka. 
Water, as needed.

Add all ingredients to a blender and mix till smooth. Add cold water to blended mix to make your Bloody Mary thinner (optional)

Pour over chipped ice.

Wipe rim with lemon and season with a Bloody Mary Rimmed seasoning.

Add:
Celery, shrimp, candied, bacon, olives, mozzarella cheese for garnishes. Be creative and dress up you Bloody Mary just your way.

  • One 32oz jar of KarenKave Chili Kickstart

  • 3 tbsp Avacado oil, divided

  • 2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite size pieces

  • 1 pound Andouille sausage, thinly sliced into rounds

  • 2 small bell peppers, cleaned and sliced lengthwise (one yellow, one red)

  • 4 gloves garlic, peeled and minced

  • 3-4 cups chicken stock

  • 1 1/2 cups uncooked long-grain white rice

  • 2 tbsp. Cajun or Creole seasoning (or to taste)

  • 1 1/4 tsp. dried thyme, crushed

  • 1/4 tsp Cayenne Pepper

  • 2 bay leaves

  • 1 pound raw large shrimp, peeled and deveined

  • 1 cup thinly -sliced Okra (optional)

  • Sea salt and fresh cracked pepper to taste

Directions:

  1. Cook your rice and set aside.

  2. Sauté the chicken and sausage in 2 tbsp. of avocado oil. Sauté until the chicken is cooked through and the sausage it lightly browned. Transfer to clean plate and set aside.

  3. Add 1 tbsp. of oil to the pot used to brown chicken and sauté the red and yellow peppers and garlic in the same pot until soft.

  4. Add one 32 oz. jar of KarenKave Chili Kickstart, chicken stock and seasonings, Cajun/Creoloe seasoning , thyme and bay leaf and mix well.

  5. Cover and simmer for 5 minutes.

  6. Add the okra and shrimp. Cook for another 5 minutes or so until the shrimp is pink and cooked.

  7. Add the chicken and sausage back in along with the cooked rice and mix it all up well.

  8. Taste and season. Add extra seasoning to your desire along with pepper and salt. Garnish with fresh green onions or chives (optional)

Cabbage Soup with a Kickstart !!

I had some carrots and celery left over from my pot of chicken soup and decided to put them to good use with this delicious recipe from Jackie D. in Pine Knoll Shores, North Carolina.

Jackie used the KarenKave Chili Kickstart to literally give her cabbage soup that extra step up. You will know when you taste it that it’s better than that boring cabbage soup you have been eating for years.


Options for this recipe are to include ground meat or a mild sausage cut up.

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 green cabbage, chopped

  • 1 1/2 quarts of Chicken Broth

  • One jar of KARENKAVE CHILI KICKSTART (16 oz.)

  • On rib (or more) of celery chopped for crunch

  • 2-3 carrots, chopped

  • 3 tbsp dried chopped onion

  • 1/2 tsp black pepper

  • 1/4 tsp sea salt

    Combine all ingredients and cook in a crock pot / slow cooker on LOW for 6-7 hours.

    NOTE: For faster soup making. Steam your chopped cabbage, carrots and celery in an instapot or steamer until tender. Combine all your ingredients and simmer until warm.

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Over 80 recipes that will garnish your tables and create memories for your family.

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Our State

Celebrating North Carolina

Written By

Rebecca Wolz

Photography By

Stacey Van Berkel

Published:  Our State Magazine  (North Carolina Publication)
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