Easy Homemade Chili
Easy Homemade Chili recipe is delicious & full of flavor. It’s an easy one pot meal. Add cornbread, corn chips and other additional toppings to complete it – suggestions down below.
This easy homemade chili recipe is always a crowd-pleaser in our home, and would make the perfect food to serve to your guests or at a football party.
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easy homemade chili
This chili recipe is loaded with meat, beans, and vegetables. It can also be easily adjusted to your preferences.
My family loves a good pot of homemade chili, it’s flavorful and packed with nutritious ingredients. My favorite way to cook chili is with my Dutch Oven, it makes clean up a breeze. We also really enjoy adding our own choice of toppings; I prefer cornbread/chips, green onions, and then either sour cream or cheese.
Easy homemade chili ingredients
- Beef: the recipe calls for 1 lb of ground beef, I prefer to use lean, and you could opt to use ground turkey too.
- Beans: I use either a can of dark or light kidney beans, you could substitute or add an additional can of black beans, or pinto beans as well.
- Vegetables: vegetables is a must add for me, and cooking the ground beef with the diced onion and bell pepper bring out the flavors more. You can use a red, yellow or green bell pepper.
- Canned tomatoes: if you’d like to add more kick to your chili, use a can of diced tomatoes with green chilies.
- Spices: can’t forget the seasonings, if will make the world of difference for your chili!
What are my must haves for making homemade chili?
A Dutch Oven, makes cooking chili so easy and convenient. We use our dutch ovens at least 3 times a week and this one is so affordable.
A Wooden Soup Ladle, makes serving so nice!
The Meat Chopper, really helps breaking up your ground beef.
A Slow Cooker, if you’re making the chili for a party or gathering. A Crockpot is what you need to keep your chili hot and delicious!
can this chili be made vegan?
Something I love about this chili recipe is, you can easily modify it.
Substitute the ground beef for another can of beans, garbanzo beans, tofu, mushrooms, or more diced veggies.
Substitute the beef broth for just water or vegetable broth.
If you love soups, try this recipe next!
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Easy Homemade Chilli
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1 onion diced
- 1 bell pepper diced
- 1 15 oz can tomato sauce
- 1 15 oz can of kidney beans red or light, drained
- 1 14.5 can diced tomatoes with juice
- 1 1/2 cups beef broth
- 2 Tbsp chili powder
- 1/2 tsp smoked paprika
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- salt and pepper to taste
toppings: optional
- corn chips or cornbread
- jalapenos diced
- sour cream
- cheddar cheese shredded
- green onions chopped
Instructions
- Place the ground beef, onion and bell pepper in a large dutch oven. A large saucepan will work as well. Over medium heat, cook and stir until the meat is browned, onion and bell pepper is tender.
- Season with garlic powder, chili powder, smoked paprika, salt and pepper. Stir in tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, kidney beans, and beef broth.
- Bring to a boil, reduce the heat to low and then cover and let simmer 20 minutes.
- Serve warm, with optional toppings.
Hope you try making this delicious, flavorful and easy homemade chili! Superbowl Sunday is coming up and it’d make a great addition to your spread. Leave a comment below if you’ve tried it yet, or if you have any recipe requests.
