Pretty Easy Chili

Just an easy slow cooker chili recipe I came up with. Can be varied very easily with different ingredients. Serve with corn muffins and a simple tossed salad for an easy dinner.

Pretty Easy Chili Ingredients

• 1 pound ground beef

• 1 onion, chopped

• 3 cloves garlic, chopped

• 2 (15 ounce) cans pinto beans, drained

• 1 (28 ounce) can whole peeled tomatoes, broken apart by hand

• 1 (15 ounce) can tomato sauce

• 1 (10.75 ounce) can tomato soup

• 2 tablespoons chili powder

• 2 tablespoons white sugar

• 2 tablespoons Italian seasoning

• 2 teaspoons garlic salt

• 1 pinch cracked black pepper to taste

• 4 fluid ounces beer

How to Make Pretty Easy Chili

1. Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir beef, onion, and garlic in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes; drain and discard grease. Transfer beef mixture to a slow cooker.

2. Stir pinto beans, tomatoes, tomato sauce, and tomato soup into beef mixture.

3. Mix chili powder, sugar, Italian seasoning, garlic salt, and pepper together in a bowl; stir into beef mixture. Add beer.

4. Cook on Low, 6 to 8 hours.

Pretty Easy Chili Nutritions

• Calories: 550.6 calories

• Carbohydrate: 61 g

• Cholesterol: 69.6 mg

• Fat: 21.4 g

• Fiber: 13.5 g

• Protein: 31.5 g

• SaturatedFat: 7.7 g

• ServingSize:

• Sodium: 2706 mg

• Sugar: 22.3 g

• TransFat:

• UnsaturatedFat:

Pretty Easy Chili Reviews

• Pretty Easy Chili Haiku: "Love whole tomatoes Squishem with my hands, such fun Subbed broth for the beer." My daughters loved dumping the measured ingredients into the crockpot, along with breaking up the tomatoes. I guess Ive grown accustomed to using canned diced tomatoes in chilis that this was unexpected Took cooks note and instead of water, used chicken broth for the beer. This was a pretty good chili, but alas, the Italian Seasoning was a bit much - next time around, I would halve if not quarter how much of it goes in.

• I thought this was good, but next time I will reduce the Italian seasoning by half, as it somewhat overpowered the rest of flavors. I may also reduce the sugar by half as the chili was a little too sweet for my liking. My house sure did smell good when I got home from work, and it was nice to have dinner ready and waiting. Thanks for sharing your recipe

• Yes, easy and great tasting. Did not add the Italian seasoning though.