Recipe: Dave The Cooker's Chili

This chili has great flavor with medium heat. Its best when made the day before, refrigerated overnight, and then reheated over medium heat until it begins to simmer again.

Dave The Cooker's Chili Ingredients

• 1 pound beef top sirloin, diced

• 1 pound pork butt, diced

• 1 pinch chili-lime seasoning (such as Tajin)

• salt and ground black pepper to taste

• 2 tablespoons olive oil

• 1 large onion, chopped

• 2 jalapeno peppers, seeded and minced

• 3 cloves garlic, minced

• 1 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes with juice

• 1 (12 fluid ounce) can or bottle lager-style beer

• 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce

• 1 cup diced roasted red peppers

• 1 cup water

• 1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste

• cup chili powder (such as Gebhardt)

• 1 tablespoon chili-lime seasoning (such as Tajin)

• 1 tablespoon ground cumin

• 2 teaspoons garlic powder

• 1 teaspoon salt

• 1 teaspoon ground black pepper

• teaspoon cayenne pepper

• 6 bay leaves

• 1 (15 ounce) can chili beans, drained and rinsed

How to Make Dave The Cooker's Chili

1. Combine beef and pork in a large skillet over medium-high heat; season with 1 pinch chili-lime seasoning, salt, and black pepper. Cook and stir until meat is evenly browned, about 10 minutes. Drain excess grease.

2. Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium heat; cook and stir onion, jalapeno pepper, and garlic until onion is softened and translucent, about 5 minutes.

3. Stir beef-pork mixture into onion mixture; add diced tomatoes with juice, beer, tomato sauce, roasted red peppers, water, tomato paste, chili powder, 1 tablespoon chili-lime seasoning, cumin, garlic powder, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon black pepper, cayenne pepper, and bay leaves.

4. Bring tomato-meat mixture to a boil, add chili beans, reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer, stirring occasionally, until thickened, at least 2 hours.

Dave The Cooker's Chili Nutritions

• Calories: 295.9 calories

• Carbohydrate: 25.3 g

• Cholesterol: 45.2 mg

• Fat: 11.6 g

• Fiber: 6.4 g

• Protein: 22.5 g

• SaturatedFat: 3.1 g

• ServingSize:

• Sodium: 1293.7 mg

• Sugar: 8.8 g

• TransFat:

• UnsaturatedFat:

Source: Dave The Cooker's Chili