Heart Crock Pot Chili Recipes

Steps:

• In a large skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat. Add green pepper, onion and garlic; cook and stir 3-4 minutes or until tender. Transfer to a 6-qt. slow cooker., Working in batches if necessary, cook beef in the same skillet over medium-high heat until no longer pink, 8-10 minutes, breaking meat into crumbles. Using a slotted spoon, transfer to slow cooker., Stir tomatoes, tomato sauce, chiles, parsley and seasonings into beef mixture. Cook, covered, on low 6-8 hours to allow flavors to blend. Serve with rice and toppings as desired. Freeze option: Freeze cooled chili in freezer containers. To use, partially thaw in refrigerator overnight. Heat through in a saucepan, stirring occasionally and adding a little water or broth if necessary.

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients in Crock Pot.
• Cover; cook on HIGH for 3 to 4 hours.
• Note: To make on stovetop, mix all ingredients in a big soup pot; cover and simmer for about an hour or so.

Steps:

• Brown ground beef and onion in a skillet just until browned.
• Transfer the beef and onions to either a crock pot or a large pot on the stove.
• Add all of the liquid ingredients then all of the spices and stir together. If you think you need or like a little more liquid add a little bit of water, use your judgment on the amount of liquid, it should cover the beans and beef easily but not be overly soupy.
• Cook covered over low heat on the stove for at least an hour or two, stirring gently every 20 minutes or so, OR cook in a crock pot on low for about 6 hours.
• Let sit off the heat for about 15 minutes and serve with some crackers or bread and some shredded cheese. Enjoy! :).

Steps:

• In a large skillet, heat the olive oil and start to brown the meat.
• When the meat starts to lose it's pink color, push to one side of the pan and add the onions in the fat.
• Saute the onions until nearly transparent, stir the meat and onions together and pour into a crock pot.
• Add the rest of the ingredients, except the flour and butter, and cook on the low setting for 8 hours. Or if you are in a hurry, 4 hours will be enough on the crock pot's high setting.
• Stirring occasionally About an hour prior to serving, melt the butter in a small frying pan, add the flour and stir until a brown paste has formed.
• Add to the crock pot and stir.
• Recipe # 85268 is a Vegetarian version of this chili, using rice.

Steps:

• Combine first 8 ingredients in 4 1/2qt. slow cooker.
• Add hominy, beans, chicken and broth. Stir well to combine. Cover and cook on LOW 7 hours or High 5 hours.
• If thicker gravy is desiered, combine 1 Tbl flour and 3 Tbl of cooking liquid in small bowl. Add to crock-pot and cover. Cook on high for 10 minutes or until thickend. Serve in bowls and garnish as desired.

Steps:

• Brown ground beef with onion and garlic. (if using stew meat or buffalo meat only brown the meat, do not fully cook!).
• Drain meat if necessary.
• Combine meat/onion/garlic mixture with the remainder of the ingredients and put in slow cooker.
• Cook on low for 8 to 10 hours.
• Remove bay leaf prior to serving.
• I use Frontier Co-op spices that I purchase at my local health food co-op. I find their spices are extremely fresh and their 90,000 hu cayeene is great for slow-cooking recipes!
• If making this as a vegetarian chili, simply skip the meat and add more beans. I love to add black beans. Yum!
• Serve over rice or eat as is.

Steps:

• Sauté onions and celery, set aside.
• Brown 1/2 beef to remove fat; drain and add to pot.
• Add 1/2 ingredients.
• Brown 2nd half beef and repeat.
• Mix and then cook on low 5-6 hours.
• Serve with Trader Joe's cornbread and cubed Jack cheese.

Steps:

• Cut up onion and out in skillet with ground beef then brown till all meat is brown.
• Cut up peppers (green and jalepeno) and place in crock pot.
• Once beef is brown add to crock pot along with rest of ingredients except beans.
• Cook on low for 6+ hours.
• Add beans 1-2 hours before servng.