Name: Easy 30-Minute Smoky Ground Beef Chili
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: Lightlife Smart Ground Mexican Style Meatless Ground Beef; Vidalia Brands Sweet Onion Petals, Sour Cream and Onion Flavor; Napoleon Co. Grille Garlic Cloves; Bush's Best Black Beans; Bush's Best Reduced Sodium Dark Red Kidney Beans; SIGNATURE SELECTS Tomatoes, Petite Diced; Hunt's Tomato Sauce; La Victoria Green Chiles, Diced, Fire Roasted, Mild; Talking Rain AQA Water, 9.5 pH; SIGNATURE SELECTS Chili Powder; McCormick Ground Cumin; McCormick® Smoked Paprika & Onion Seasoning; David's Kosher Salt; Morton & Bassett Black Pepper, 100% Organic, Fine Ground; Morton & Bassett Spices Cayenne Pepper; McCormick Gourmet™ Organic Turkish Bay Leaves; O Organics Cane Sugar, Granulated, Organic; Signature Farms Lemon Juice; Daisy Light Sour Cream

To a large Dutch oven, add the beef, onion, and cook over medium-high heat until beef is cooked through and onions are translucent, about 7 minutes; crumble beef as it cooks and stir intermittently to ensure even cooking.

Add the garlic and cook for about 1 minute, or until fragrant; stir nearly constantly.

Add the the black beans, kidney beans, fire-roasted tomatoes, tomato sauce, green chiles, water/broth (if you prefer thicker chili start with 1 cup), chili powder, cumin, chili powder, smoked paprika, salt, pepper, optional cayenne, bay leaves, and stir to combine. (Note - there’s already salt in the many of the canned goods but I chose no-salt added products when possible. Depending on the saltiness of your products, the amount of salt you add will vary).

Bring to boil and allow chili to gently boil for about 5 to 10 minutes or until chili has reduced and thickened some.

Stir, taste, optionally add sugar to taste (I added 3 teaspoons because the sugar balances the acid from the tomatoes and tomato sauce), optional lemon/lime juice (brightens up the flavor), and additional salt, pepper, etc. if desired.

Remove bay leaves, ladle into bowls, and optionally garnish with your favorites.

Easy 30-Minute Smoky Ground Beef Chili

Serves 8

5 mins prep

25 mins cook

30 mins total

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