red cabbage in chili

I ground up some cooked red cabbage with the meat grinder and it came out resembling the texture of ground beef.  What a cool kind of trick.
I made a chili using the rather bland kidney bean dish I had already made and adding the cabbage, some cayenne powder, a fresh cayenne pepper, some chili powder, paprika and black pepper.  It ende up very tasty.  Oh, I cooked it in that fancy barbecue sauce from around the Buffalo area.