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Better Than Yo Mama’s Chili
Ingredients
- slices
- thick cut apple wood smoked bacon
- (cut into 1/2 inch pieces)
- d:8
- pound
- lean ground beef
- d:1
- spicy or mild ground sausage
- 15-ounce can
- black beans
- drained and rinsed
- kidney beans
- 28-ounce can
- crushed tomatoes
- diced tomatoes
- use juice
- cloves
- garlic
- minced
- d:4
- tablespoon
- jarred minced garlic
- large
- yellow onion
- diced
- red bell pepper
- remove ribs & seeds and dice
- yellow bell pepper
- tablespoons
- chili powder
- ground cumin
- chipotle chili powder
- teaspoons
- dried oregano
- d:2
- red pepper flakes
- smoked paprika
- 1 1/2
- brown sugar
- d:1.5
- salt & pepper to taste
Steps
- Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F. & turn your crock pot to low heat.
- Cook bacon to a crisp for about 10-15 minutes. Remove and let cool.
- Brown your ground beef in a skillet and add to the crock pot.
- Brown the sausage in a skillet and add to crock pot.
- Once bacon is cooled, pat with paper towel to remove excess grease and cut into 1/2 inch pieces.
- Pour the canned items into the crock pot. (Black beans & Kidney beans, drained and rinsed. Crushed tomatoes and diced tomatoes with juice.)
- Mix all of the seasonings in a bowl with a whisk. Pour over mixture in crockpot. Mix everything in crockpot well.
- In a large skillet over medium-high heat, sauté your diced onion, minced garlic, jarred garlic and diced peppers.
- Once softened, add to crock pot.
- Mix everything well. Put lid on crockpot and let simmer on low for 1 hour.
- Great with shredded cheese and lime hinted sour cream on top! To make the lime sour cream, simply squeeze the juice of 2 limes into a pint of sour cream. Pair sweet cornbread with your chili and enjoy!