The Best Chili Recipe

Rating

4.95 stars (3057 reviews)

Keywords

chili, ground beef

Ingredients

• 2 pounds lean ground beef
• 1 onion (diced)
• 1 jalapeño (seeded and finely diced)
• 4 cloves garlic (minced)
• 2 ½ tablespoons chili powder (divided, or to taste)
• 1 teaspoon cumin
• 1 green bell pepper (seeded and diced)
• 14.5 ounces crushed tomatoes (1 can)
• 19 ounces canned red kidney beans (drained and rinsed)
• 14.5 ounces canned diced tomatoes (with juices)
• 1 ½ cups beef broth
• 1 cup beer
• 1 tablespoon tomato paste
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar (optional)
• salt and black pepper (to taste)

Categories

• Main Course

Cuisine

• American
• Tex Mex

Reviews

• Carolbb on 2026-07-02 (5 stars):
  Easy delicious recipe. With ingredients on hand used 28 oz can plum tomatoes dicing 1/2 & crushing rest. omitted salt and sugar. Used better than buillion veggie p/o beef broth. sauted beef with onion jalapeño & garlic in stovetop pressure cooker. mixed broth with rest of ingredients except green bell pepper which was layered over beef. pressure cooked 20 minutes with natural release, fabulous!
• Joseph Stamboni on 2026-07-02 (5 stars):
  Mz Holly : I have to tell you , Your chili recipe is by far , my favorite ! Thank You for sharing it with us . I have made it 8 or 9 times so far, always a good turnout . Thank You again
• Alexandra on 2026-07-01 (5 stars):
  Great recipe. I make this often and have tweaked as followed for my family: use diced tomatoes instead of crushed, add celery and corn, and omit beer. Very tasty! The tomato paste makes it.
• Colleen Renwick on 2026-06-27 (1 stars):
  I found this way too watery! didn't need the beef broth at all imho.
• Kim H on 2026-06-27 (5 stars):
  I make this chili often, it’s delicious and easy to make. I make small changes to the recipe, to suit our taste, but the changes aren’t a big deal, more of this, less of that. We love heat so I increase it! Thanks for a great recipe 👍❤️
• Kelsey on 2026-06-23 (5 stars):
  Wow! Absolutely delicious! My whole family loved this chili, including my 2.5 and 1.5 year old!seems a bit sacrilegious to go against my mom’s chili recipe, but there’s no turning back now… And to all the haters out there comments about other’s recipe adjustments… I’m so thankful for comments like that because when I’ve got 2 lbs of beef to cook up that day, but don’t have all the ingredients on hand, I turn to the comments to see what still worked when some ingredients were taken out or adjusted! Sooooo thankful for this classic chili recipe!
• Candi on 2026-06-12 (5 stars):
  Absolutely / a keeper for sure 👍
• Steph on 2026-06-09 (5 stars):
  I’ve made this chili twice now and it’s delicious! The only change I make is rotel instead of diced tomatoes. Other than that exactly as written and it’s a huge hit. Topped with crunched up tortilla chips and some grated cheddar. Chefs kiss. Thanks!
• A Weninger on 2026-06-02 (5 stars):
  While I hate when people adapt a recipe right away...I did have to make 2 slight changes...however I woukd say that the original recipe is fantastic! My changes were.. I only had and Orange bell pepper and I had a batch of homemade baked (navy) beans I needed to use up. I hadn't noticed that this recipe only had Kidney beans lol. silly me. I doubt they changed the flavor of the recipe though. The final thing, in case anyone has this question, I cook it in the Instant Pot, following the cooking instructions here. Final step was Pressure Cook 15 mins on high, Natural release. It turned out to be the exact amount taking it to the Max line! like it was meant to be. It was too hot here today to cook it on the stove lol.