Easy Slow Cooker Chili
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Come home to the best homemade chili! It’s an amazingly hearty, cozy beef chili that cooks low and slow for 8 hrs in the crockpot!
Is it too late in the year to still be whipping up crockpot recipes?
I mean, I did just mention it was going to be 63 degrees F this weekend, but it’s also raining today. Oh and I think I see a forecast of snow sometime next week…
But that’s another story.
Anyway, Butters is currently in his adorable ruffled yellow rain coat while I’m letting this chili cook low and slow, filling up the house with the best kind of aroma: beef chili.
All you need to do is crumble up your ground beef and then dump the rest of your ingredients in your slow cooker.
And if you have a saute function in your crockpot, you have yourself a true one pot wonder.
But as I’m waiting for this to finish cooking through, I’ve also gone through an entire bag of corn chips. You know, the corn chips that were meant to be used for a garnish here.
My bad.
Easy Slow Cooker Chili
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 pounds lean ground beef
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 medium sweet onion, diced
- 1 poblano chili, minced
- 2 ½ cups beef stock
- 1 16-ounce can red kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 16-ounce can black beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 15-ounce can crushed tomatoes
- 1 14.5-ounce can petite diced tomatoes
- 3 tablespoons chili powder
- 2 teaspoons smoked paprika
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano
- 1 ½ teaspoons ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon hot sauce, optional
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- ½ cup sour cream
- 2 green onions, thinly sliced
- 1 cup corn chips
Instructions
- Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Add ground beef and cook until browned, about 3-5 minutes, making sure to crumble the beef as it cooks; drain excess fat. Add garlic, onion and chili. Cook, stirring occasionally, until tender, about 4-6 minutes.
- Place ground beef mixture into a 6-qt slow cooker. Stir in beef stock, kidney beans, black beans, crushed tomatoes, diced tomatoes, chili powder, paprika, oregano, cumin and hot sauce; season with salt and pepper, to taste. Cover and cook on low heat for 7-8 hours or high heat for 5-6 hours.
- Serve immediately, garnished with sour cream, green onions and corn chips, if desired.
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Amazing. I have made this loads of times. Usually a double batch. I always add gochujang as well, gives it a great kick!
Dear Damn Delicious team,
I LOVE your recipes! I have made this chili countless times because it is the best I have ever tried. All my guests are crazy about it as well AND it tastes just as good the next day! Keep up the amazing work!
This is my go to chili recipe. I use it to make moose chili. It’s a hit with the family every time I make it!
I add a can of chipolte adobo peppers and then pull the peppers out when it’s ready to eat. I also add a small can of hatch green chili’s to it. It adds a little more Smokey-chipotle flavor to the chilli.
I can describe this in one word….Great!!!!
I think the seasonings really make this the best chili ever! Specifically, the smoked paprika. I don’t think I’d ever added that to chili before. I have my second batch in the Crock Pot now. My husband isn’t a huge fan of chili, but said it was amazing the last time I made it!
I made this for the first time during the lockdown when my picky-eater-son was living with us. It was a hit! Though there are just my husband and me now, I still make it and freeze the leftovers. I just leave out the chili and hot sauce. So easy and delicious!
I’m new to cooking and I love this recipe. So does the family. I decided to make it again and was in a hurry and forgot to brown the meat. It is cooking all day but I have terribly screwed up?
I’m interested to hear how that turned out for you… I’ve made this recipe several times and it’s always really good!
Maybe everything to the T except for except for my fresh tomatoes..
Very tasty recipe. I added a can of spicy green chiles to the recipe (I’m from Colorado), and it wasn’t very spicy. I will add 2 cans next time. The flavor was great! Will make again.
Snow day finally in Colorado. Made this recipe today in my crockpot. Kids will love it with cornbread when they’re home. Very good recipe. Followed directions all the way.
Fabulous. Have made this 6 times already and has become a regular “do it again” meal!
Um…yum.
I have a time crunch today…soooo..is it going to scorch on high? Anyone cook this on high and it was just fine? I normally cook on low…
But I really want to make this today. Cooking on High scares me.
Do it for 3 1/2 hours on high
Very easy to make and my son really enjoyed dish
This is the second time I’ve made this recipe, we love it! Thank you for putting it together to make life easier for us who can’t make up recipes!
good idea…but!!!!, ground turkey, cook your own beans…canned beans are for the Flintstones…canned tomatoes are toxic…fresh everything if you’re cookin’ right!!!
corn chips (totopos de maiz) and fritos are two different of my favorite things…
yellow onion has best flavor…ancho chile pepper powder…tapatio salsa picante por todos…
…use homemade chicken/beef/pork/turkey stock from bone and veggie soup…
Some day, when I don’t have a full time job, and have endless hours to devote to cooking, I’m looking forward to frequenting your recipe website, “Fresh Everything If You’re Cookin’ Right!!!”. I am certain that you, also, are looking forward to the day that you write your own recipes. It will be a lot more fulfilling than not bothering to try recipes yet feeling free to critique them.
That right there is the most well written burn I’ve ever read!!
Thank you for this reply to #GEORGE VIAU.. UNC’ ST. G – I give the biggest AMEN available. And #damndelicious – ignore the obnoxious comments left by these type of people and continue what you’re doing. The rest of us appreciate what you do.
I love this recipe. For the nasty person talking about toxic canned tomatoes……… Seriously? But same person eats chips out of a bag. By the way I love chips out of a bag!!!! Just love this recipe! my family too. Never a left over! I actually use lots of damn delicious recipes!
I bet he drives a Prius! And voted for Biden ♂️
At least he didn’t vote for the clown that lost!
Trump didn’t lose by the way! Evil liberals scammed the system. That’s the only way they get what they want! Pathetic children!
I drive a Prius AND voted for Biden…and I LOVE this recipe. #notthesamecomparison
love that you wrote this reply- he left such a shameful classist comment- GIVE HIM THE BEANS (in a can!)
Why bother writing a book? If you don’t like what he says move on!
Really George?
Remind me never to invite George to my house for a meal (or anything else, for
that matter.) This site is for REAL, appreciative, FUN people who like to eat
food with REAL, appreciative, FUN people. Take a hike, George. Everyone else,
“come on down!”
You just said you put in Fritos. #processed
Just got everything into the slow cooker. I added 4 fresh jalapeños diced. (Seeds and all) I also added one jar of chili sauce and put only 1 and a half cups of beef broth. Oh also diced up 2 celery stalks. Can not wait to have later while watching NFL. Maybe some Chili cheese fries and or a chili dog!!!! My mouth is watering as the wonderful smell is filling my small apartment!
Finally, I’ve found my slow cooker chili recipe-thank you! I’ve tried so many recipes, so many packaged products in trying to find a slow cooker chili that I would love. I sort of created my own recipe that initially was very good, but changed it so many times that I just couldn’t get it right anymore. THIS chili totally is perfection, it’s got that “taste” that I’ve been looking for and I didn’t change a thing in the recipe. The spices just go together perfectly-I’m looking forward to another bowl on this the second day (chili usually tastes even better after a night in the refrigerator!). Thank you….looking forward to trying more of your wonderful looking recipes!
I make chili in the crockpot often because I have many guests. I live near a ski mountain. This recipe, hands down, is my favorite and my guests favorite. It is PERFECTION !!!! Keep the amazing recipes coming and updates on you and your Corgis! Love your website.
Delicious Chili! I made it exactly as directed, cooking it for 5 hours on high, the last hour with no lid to thicken it up a bit. It smelled so good cooking that I confess I had a scoop after 3 hours and it tasted so good! My family keeps showing up in the kitchen, asking what time we’re having dinner (it’s still afternoon). Sometimes the simplest recipes yield the most delicious meals. Thanks for another great, easy recipe!