Award winning chili recipe
Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire editor. We may earn a commission from these award winning chili recipe. Spicy and complex, this chili is the real deal.
Debbie Ashman, winner of the Terlingua International Chili Championship, has a 22-pound jalapeño statue that proves her chili is the world’s best. She shared the recipe for her Hot Rod Texas chili—and some wisdom—with Esquire. You do need grease in your chili, but you need to get a lot of it off. After I gray the meat, I put it in a colander and pour water over it to drain, to get some grease off of it. 20 beef—80 percent lean, 20 percent fat. Don’t take the lid off too often—you lose a lot of flavor. You put your different dumps in, and then every once in a while, stir it to make sure it’s not getting too thick.
Different blends of chili powders and spices. I have three dumps that I add at different times. Why not just put it all in at once? Things like cumin you can’t get too hot, so you want to add that at the end. From zero to five, mine’s probably a four. But you can add a drop or two of lime juice to tone it down. Texas chili doesn’t have beans in it, right?
They call that a “foreign object. What should you drink with chili? Separately mix the spices for each dump. Gray the meat and drain grease. Slow boil meat in beef broth and 1 equal can of distilled water. Add Dump 1 and medium boil for 60 minutes. Add Dump 2 and medium boil for 45 minutes.
Add Dump 3 and medium boil for 15 minutes. In last five minutes taste for heat—adjust as required. 5 0 25 0 25 0h-. 00743 11 40 C 11 55. 007431 69 40 69 C 47.
Crockpot Chili– My Award Winning Chili Recipe! See the privacy policy linked in my footer. If you’re in the market for a good, basic crockpot chili recipe, this one is it! This chuck roast chili is studded with big pieces of beef, chiles, and black beans and comes together super quickly before being slow-cooked for hours.
If you have a chili cookoff coming up, I think you’re going to want to tuck this award-winning chili in your back pocket for later. This is my award winning beef chili recipe that has taken first place at many cook offs! Made in the crockpot it’s super simple to throw together and you’ll be amazed at how flavorful and rich it is with how little work it takes! I mean, we don’t have pot roast competitions or scalloped potato cook-offs. Why the heck do we feel the need to show our kitchen prowess in the form of meat and beans and spices? I mean, chili IS delicious and there are about 25,478 different ways to make it, so I guess that might have something to do with it. Being that chili-cookoffs are so popular, I’ve thrown my hat into the ring more times than I’d probably like to admit and have won more times than I’d like to admit as well.
