Denise's crockpot chili. To get started with this recipe, you must prepare a few components. You can cook denise's crockpot chili using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Denise's crockpot chili:
- Take 2 lb of ground beef.
- Prepare 2 of onions finely chopped.
- Prepare 2 clove of garlic finely chopped.
- Take 2 of generous tbsp flour.
- Get 1 of generous tbsp cocoa powder.
- Make ready 2 tsp of oregano.
- Prepare 3 tsp of sugar.
- Prepare 3 tbsp of chili powder.
- Take 3 tsp of salt.
- Make ready 22 oz of bottle of crushed tomato.
- Prepare 1/2 of small can of tomato paste.
- Get 2 cans of pinto or kidney beans (12 oz each) rinsed and drained.
- Take 1 1/2 cup of beef broth.
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup of beer (if no beer on hand, use 3 cups of beef broth).
- Make ready 1 of bay leaf.
Steps to make Denise's crockpot chili:
- In a large skillet cook the beef, onion, and garlic together until the meat is no longer pink.
- Drain off any excess fat and place in the crockpot.
- Sir in flour, cocoa, salt, sugar, chili powder, oregano and tomato paste.
- Sir in all other ingredients; cover and cook on low for 4 hours.
- If you would like the chili thicker, uncover and cook another hour.
- Remove the bay leaf before serving.
- You could use the instant pot for the above cooking. I prefer to do the above steps in a regular pan on the stove top, then add all ingredients to the instant pot. If cooking in instant pot, cook time is 18 minutes set on manual. At end of time, quick release the steam..
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