Slow Cooker Beef and Bean Chili Recipe
Slow cooker beef and bean chili is chock full of flavor from ground beef, beans, and all the classic chili seasonings.
Servings: 8 servings
Calories: 194kcal
Equipment
- slow cooker
- medium frying pan
- wooden spoon
- ladle
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1 15oz can tomato sauce
- ½ can cannellini beans
- ½ can black beans
- ½ can diced tomatoes
- 2 teaspoon garlic powder divided
- 2 teaspoon chili powder divided
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- salt
- pepper
Instructions
- In a large frying pan, add the ground beef and begin to brown on a medium flame. Cook until the meat is 90% of the way cooked, as it will continue to cook as it is in the slow cooker.
- Season the meat with paprika, salt, pepper, cumin, chili powder, and garlic powder. Then set aside.
- In the slow cooker, pour in the ground beef and layer in the other ingredients like diced tomatoes, cannellini beans, and black beans.
- Pour in the can of tomato sauce, then add in another layer of salt, pepper, chili powder.
- Close the lid to the slow cooker and cook on a low setting for up to 5 hours. Stir occasionally.
Notes
If the chili is too thin, you may want to add a little bit of a thickener such as flour, arrowroot or cornstarch. Stir it in and let the chili thicken. My first test was a little runny, so when I added a little arrowroot, it helped!
Browning the meat gives the meat and the chili more depth of flavor but if you'd prefer to just break up the meat and truly treat this as a "dump and cook" chili, you can do that here too.
Stir occasionally as to prevent the bottom of the chili from burning.
Nutrition
Calories: 194kcal | Carbohydrates: 10g | Protein: 13g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 40mg | Sodium: 110mg | Potassium: 286mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 306IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 44mg | Iron: 3mg
