This EASY Carroll Shelby Chili Recipe is a classic mix of ground beef, tomatoes, and beans that’s perfect for everyday or feeding a crowd. With only 20 minutes of hands-on time you can have a homemade, crowd-pleasing dinner made on the stove, in the slow cooker, or in an electric roasting pan. Plus, it’s a large group favorite on game days or fall get-togethers.
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- 🥇Why it’s great!
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- 🔪 Instructions
- 👨👩👧👦 For a crowd recipe
- 🙋 Questions and Answers
- 📖 Other comfort in a bowl recipes
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Every year for the past 20+ years, 30 to 50 of our friends and family gather together on the Sunday before Halloween to carve pumpkins in the afternoon. As the evening chill sets in, I serve this easy chili recipe alongside moist cornbread (or cheddar jalapeno cornbread) for dinner. This chili made with Carroll Shelby Chili Mix is the best meal for serving a big group on a cool autumn evening or cold days.
My classic chili menu always stays the same. Yes, because it’s delicious, but more importantly because it’s easy. After chopping the veggies and browning the beef, everything gets dumped into the cooking vessel and simmered for hours. It’s the easiest way for me to look like I slaved away for hours on end. It’s an illusion, I promise. But an illusion I will happily continue to use.
Once it’s ready all you have to do is grab a bowl, ladle in a large scoop of homemade chili, top with sharp cheddar cheese, diced white onion, and (if you are me) sour cream.
Quick trivia: Did you know that there is a Carroll Shelby Museum? I took my kids there on a field trip many years ago at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. It has nothing to do with chili…it’s all about cars. Before that trip I thought he was only famous for chili!
🥇Why it’s great!
- Only 20 minutes of hands-on time!
- It’s an inexpensive meal that’s perfect for serving a crowd or freezing ahead for an easy dinner in the future.
- It’s the perfect blend of seasonings, meat, and beans with just a handful of ingredients.
🐄 Ingredients
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Ground beef: 90/10 lean ground beef is the perfect balance between beefy flavor and fat. If you are using a fattier grind be sure to drain really well.Celery & onion: Use large onions and celery ribs for this recipe.Beans: Four types of canned beans (pinto beans, Northern bean, black beans, and kidney beans) make for a colorful bowl of chili.Tomatoes: Canned crushed tomatoes are an easy open-and-dump ingredient. I find them to be better than tomato paste or tomato sauce.Chili spice packet: Carroll Shelby’s Chili Mix (affiliate) is the brand I use. Nothing else tastes as good. It comes in a brown box next to the rest of the premade chili spice packets. Just in case you are wondering, I am not getting paid to say this. I have honestly used this exact packet for 20+ years. It has never let me down.
🔪 Instructions
This really is as easy as:
- Chop
- Brown
- Dump
- Stir
Begin by dicing the celery and the onion. Place the ground beef and vegetables in a large stock pot and cook beef until no pink remains. My favorite tool for this is this meat chopper (affiliate) – it makes easy work of breaking up the meat. Add in the chili packet and cook in the hot beef to bring out the flavor of the spices. Add in the beans and tomatoes, then stir really well. Allow to cook on low to medium-low for 3-4 hours.
If you are cooking in the slow cooker (affiliate) or electric roaster (affiliate), the ground beef can be browned in a skillet or stock pot. After adding the chili packet to the ground beef and vegetable mixture for 30 seconds over medium heat, dump the remaining ingredients into the chosen cooking vessel and stir really well.
Allow to cook on low heat for 8 hours or high for 4 hours. It is very important to allow the chili to cook long enough. It is during the cooking time that the heat begins to deepen the flavor. If you watch carefully you will see the tomatoes deepen in color.
Serve this big pot of chili to the whole family with diced onion, cheese, and sour cream. If your group is anything like mine, don’t forget the cornbread…and lot’s of it! The next day use leftover chili on hot dogs, or a creative idea is do a chili bar! I just might use that idea for the Super Bowl.
👨👩👧👦 For a crowd recipe
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I have used this Carroll Shelby Chili Recipe to serve a crowd repeatedly. When preparing for a large group do as much preparation the day before as possible.
That means to chop the vegetables and brown them with the meat on medium-high heat. Add in the spice packet towards the end of browning the meat and allow to cook for 30 seconds. Allow this mixture to cool and refrigerate for up to 2 days. On the day of serving, place all the ingredients in the desired cooking vessel and cook on low for 8 hours or high for 4 hours, allowing the chili to develop its deep flavor.
If you are serving more than 12 people make sure you use an extra large pot, multiple slow cookers, or an electric roaster. To make sure that the cooking vessel (any of the three) doesn’t water down your chili, leave the lid slightly off center so that some of the steam can escape. Otherwise the condensation will drip down into the chili and cause it to water down.
💯 Chili for 50 or 100
If you are making chili for 50 people it will require 3 to 4 of these recipes. If you are serving several side dishes, then only make three recipes, but if you are mainly serving chili I would make four batches. Multiply those numbers by 2 if serving 100 people.
Chili for 50 will require 6-8 pounds of ground beef and 4 Carroll Shelby Chili spice packets. If possible buy the tomatoes and beans in large cans. Just add up the total number of ounces you will need and buy accordingly. When making chili for 50 or 100 I prefer to use electric roasting pans to heat it through.
🙋 Questions and Answers
📖 Other comfort in a bowl recipes
- This crazy good White Chicken Chili is an easy, flavorful, and healthy dinner that can be made on the stovetop or in the slow cooker. The perfect meal for any chilly night!
- This warm, comforting Chicken Tortilla Soup is everything you want a soup to be. Easy, fast, accidentally healthy, and soul satisfying. A rich broth thickened with tortillas that is layered with deep Mexican flavors, tender bites of chicken, and a hint of spice.
👨🏼🍳 Tips & Tricks
- Use this meat masher when cooking the beef. It makes super easy work of breaking up the meat evenly.
- If the ground beef is too liquidy, be sure to drain it before adding the Carroll Shelby spice packet.
- Don’t shortcut on the cooking time. It really does develop a deeper flavor the longer it cooks.
- If making in the slow cooker or electric roaster, cook with the lid slightly off center, allowing some steam to escape. This way your chili won’t be watered down.
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