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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Very good, the only change I made was 2 teaspoons of Cumin instead of 1-1/2 tsp
This recipe was AMAZING, my son LOVED IT my coworkers LOVED IT and I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT!!!!
Rave reviews! That’s awesome. Thanks, Kyss!
This was so easy to make and very delicious, thanks!
You are so welcome, Jill! Glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
How much salt/pepper do you recommend for this recipe? I know the recipe and many others say to use salt and pepper to taste, but being an inexperienced cook, I am looking for some kind of baseline and then I know I can add more.
Love every recipe I’ve tried so far!
Thanks!
You have my 5 stars….This dish is looking to good to be true…yamy yamy
“DAMNED DELICIOUS” MY MOUTH IS WATERING. You have such great recipes, and I love them, and again you are a cutie..
Dang I would love to come home to this!! Big fan of slow cooker recipes! (:
ME TOO, i LOVE A GOOD CHILI!!!!
I have made this recipe on many occasions but would suggest that you use diced beef instead of minced beef – delicious!
Why be so negative, this lady is a good cook, but good for your input. I buy my 90% beef (ground) and I make ii to my way of cooking!!!!!!
Great easy, simple recipe. A few things I changed, I used 90% lean ground beef and didn’t drain the juices before adding onion and garlic, instead of black beans I used pinto, and towards the last hour of cooking I added half a can of sweet corn.