Texas Crock Pot Chili

Texas Chili... What is it? Well it could be any chili cooked in Texas or by a Texan but the consensus seems to be a beef chili with no beans. I will go with that...

I have been home alone for 6 weeks due to a family emergency so I'm "cooking for one". Plus I'm working 12 hour days. So I'm doing my cooking in chunks with left overs for heating up in the evening. I trying to avoid the "I'm hungry and have nothing at home so let's hit the drive-thru" syndrome. This all spells "Crock Pot" to me so this blog may look like a crockpot blog for a while.

I'm a believer in low glycemic diets for weigh loss and I need to recover from two years of food blogging. So even though beans are very healthy, I'm keeping carbs low at the moment.  As usual, I read way to many recipes and have no specific recipe to attribute as inspired by but several on Tastebook.com were quite useful.

See a newer spicier version: Spicy 3 Chilies Texas Chili a la Crock Pot


Rating:

It was good. I'm use to beans in my chili but I could get use to this. I was expecting more heat. So it didn't really qualify as  a 4. I will be repeating this soon since I'm on a low glycemic diet but I'm adding some other chilies and spicing it up some.

Notes: A 5/10 on the spice scale.

Start with 2 pounds of beef roast of you choice. Trim and cut into 1 inch cubes. Use pre-cut "stew meat" if you want.

Heat a tsp of oil over medium high heat. When hot add the beef along with 1 tsp each of salt and pepper. Cook until brown. About 5 minutes.

 Add to crockpot with the juices.

De-vein and mince one Jalapeno, chop two Poblano and chop a medium onion.

 Add the peppers and onion to the pot. Now add 3 cloves crushed garlic, 2-14 oz cans diced tomatoes, a 14 oz can beef broth, one can green chilies (4 oz) and 2 tsp each of cumin, oregano and chili powder. Optional 1 can black beans drained.

Cook on low for 8 hours.

Texas Crock Pot Chili

by DrDan at 101 Cooking for Two February-11-2012

A mildly spicy slow cooker chili in the Texas style with chunks of tender beef and no beans.

Ingredients

• 2 pounds beef roast trimmed and cut into 1 inch cubes or use stew meat
• 1 t pepper
• 1 t salt
• 1 t oil
• 1 jalapeno pepper minced
• 2 poblano pepper chopped
• 2 - 14 oz cans diced tomatoes
• 1 -14 oz can beef broth
• 1 - 4 oz can green chilies
• 2 t cumin
• 2 t oregano
• 2 t chili powder
• 1 can black beans rinsed (optional)

Instructions

1) Start with 2 pounds of beef roast of you choice. Trim and cut into 1 inch cubes. Use pre-cut "stew meat" if you want.2) Heat a tsp of oil over medium high heat. When hot add the beef along with 1 tsp each of salt and pepper. Cook until brown. About 5 minutes. Add to crock pot with the juices.3) De-vein and mince one Jalapeno, chop two Poblano and chop a medium onion. 4) Add the peppers and onion to the pot. Now add 3 cloves crushed garlic, 2-14 oz cans diced tomatoes, a 14 oz can beef broth, one can green chilies (4 oz) and 2 tsp each of cumin, oregano and chili powder. Optional 1 can black beans drained.5) Cook on low for 8 hours.

Details

Prep time: 20 mins Cook time: 8 hour Total time: 8 hour 20 mins Yield: 6 serving

Updated

February 11 2012

DrDan