By Anne-Marie Nichols
This Easy & Quick Chili recipe is perfect to serve on a cool and busy fall night.
Or any night when you don’t have time to cook.
This trim& TERRIFIC® recipe comes my friend and contributor’s, Holly Clegg’s cookbook, Kitchen 101: Secrets to Cooking Confidence.
She loves serving it after a busy night of trick or treating on Halloween. But I think this wholesome chili recipe is perfect any time you want a hearty meal.
Chili is also perfect for entertaining. Just double the batch and keep it warm in your slow cooker.
You can find more of Holly Clegg’s trim& TERRIFIC® recipes at The Healthy Cooking Blog.
Check out Holly’s trim & TERRIFIC™ cookbooks on Amazon, too!
Update on Holly: Holly was diagnosed with gastric cancer in 2018. For the latest on Holly’s health, see her Instagram page.
You can learn more about Holly’s Cancer Journey and donate to the Holly Clegg Gastric Cancer Research Fund at MD Anderson Cancer Center on her behalf.
Satisfy a crowd with Easy & Quick Chili
With Halloween coming up, sure candy is on the minds of little ones. But there’s more to this fun filled night than just sugar-loaded snacks.
Even though this Halloween recipe focuses on the children, there are always adults around.
And all of that trick-or-treating can really make a crowd hungry!
A simmering pot of hearty chili on the stove is a satisfying economical dinner that not only feeds a crowd, but also this one-pot meal leaves little cleanup.
And not much else hits the spot on a crisp fall evening than a big bowl of Easy & Quick Chili.
It’s full of flavor and oh-so-simple to whip up!
Not enough bowls to go around? Don’t worry! Pull out mugs for easy entertaining.
This Mama’s tips for making Easy & Quick Chili
If you’re gluten free, make sure you use a gluten free low sodium, chicken broth. My favorite is Imagine Organic Free Range Chicken Broth.
To cook this quick chili recipe in slow cooker, first cook ground sirloin and onion in a large skillet until done.
Then add the cooked ground sirloin and the rest of the ingredients to your slow cooker. Cook on low for 6-8 hours or high for 3-4 hours.
For easy crock-pot cleanup, use slow cooker liners. They’re WONDERFUL.
Now that I use them, I no longer have to soak my crock-pot overnight and scrub it using Bar Keepers Friend Cleanser and a scouring pad.
Serve this Easy & Quick Chili recipe with chopped red onions, avocado, and shredded reduced-fat cheese.
A cheaper and delicious alternative to lean ground sirloin is lean ground turkey.
More awesome recipes from Holly Clegg
● Easy Chicken and Sausage Gumbo
● Blueberry Muffin Streusel Cake
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground sirloin
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 (15 ounce) can low sodium, chicken stock (gluten free)
- 1 (10 1/2-ounce) can diced tomatoes and green chilies
- 1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
- Dash ground cinnamon
- Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 1 (15-ounce) can black beans, drained and rinsed
Directions
- In large nonstick pot, cook meat and onion until done; drain off any excess fat.
- Add remaining ingredients and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and cook over low heat about 10 minutes.
- Serving size: 1 cup
- Calories: 318
- Calories from Fat: 64 (20%)
- Total Fat: 7g
- Saturated fat: 5g
- Unsaturated fat: 2g
- Sodium: 759mg
- Total Carbohydrates: 31g
- Sugar: 9g
- Fiber: 11g
- Protein: 34g
- Cholesterol: 62mg
Dietary Exchanges: 1 starch, 3 vegetable, 4 lean meat
Recipe and photo used with permission of the author.
Originally posted October 23, 2012. Updated with new pictures and information.
Do you think this would taste good with turkey instead of beef? My son and husband don’t tolerate beef.
Linda, ground turkey would be terrific with this as well. In most chili recipes, using any type of lean ground meat is fine – buffalo, beef, turkey, chicken, or venison.
That looks SO yummy!!! Sounds flavourful and very very tasty.