The Best Chili Recipe

The Best Chili Recipe

Dinner
370 min
8 servings
346 kcal / serving

This thick and hearty Chili Recipe is filled with ground beef, beans and the perfect blend of spices, then slow cooked to perfection.

Ingredients

  • 1 lb.ground beef
  • 1red bell pepper; seeded and chopped
  • ½onion; diced
  • 1 oz.can pinto beans
  • 1 oz.can kidney beans
  • 1 oz.can black beans
  • 1 oz.can tomato sauce
  • 1 ozcan tomato puree
  • 1 ozcan rotel diced tomatoes with green chilies (chili fixin’s)
  • 1 tbspsugar
  • 2 tbspchili powder
  • 1 tspgarlic powder
  • 1 tsponion powder
  • 1 tspcumin
  • ½ tspred pepper flakes
  • 1 tspsalt
  • ½ tspblack pepper

Directions

  1. 1

    Brown ground beef till no longer pink, drain, and add to crock pot.

  2. 2

    To the crock pot add the bell pepper, onion, all the beans (drain about 85% of the liquid from the beans before adding to the slow cooker), tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, and tomato puree. Add all the spices, and give it a good stir.

  3. 3

    Cover and cook on LOW for 6 to 8 hours or HIGH for 3 to 4 hours.