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Easy Stove Top Chili

5 from 2 votes
This easy-to-make chili recipe is made with ground beef, beans, and a few other simple pantry ingredients.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Servings: 6
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: American
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • ½ cup red onions
  • 1 can diced tomatoes
  • 1 can kidney beans
  • 1 ounce tomato sauce
  • ½ teaspoon cumin
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • Salt and black pepper to taste
  • ½ cup water or more
  • 1 tablespoon chili powder
  • 1 teaspoon Onion powder
  • 1 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1 pound ground beef

Equipment

  • Dutch oven
  • Meat breaker
  • Spatula
  • Knife
  • Can opener

Method
 

  1. In a large dutch oven or large pot, add lean ground beef and cook it over medium heat. Use a spatula or meat breaker to break up the ground beef as it browns.
  2. Drain the oil and then add in the chopped onion as well as the spices. Stir and cook them all for a couple of minutes or until the onions begin to turn translucent.
  3. Next, add in diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, and water, and stir. Cover and simmer the pot of chili over low heat for 30 minutes to 1 hour.
  4. Serve your beef chili in a bowl with a sprinkle of cheddar cheese and a dollop of sour cream on top. Feel free to top it with your favorite chili toppings. I usually add a few shakes of hot sauce to it for a bit of heat.

Notes

Onions: This recipe calls for red onions but you can use yellow onions as well as green onions. Green onions can also be used for garnish.
Diced tomatoes: This recipe calls for canned tomatoes, but feel free to dice whole tomatoes. Also adding a few diced jalapeno peppers will add some extra spice to your chili.
Kidney beans: Pinto beans, black beans, and chili beans are other alternatives to kidney beans.
Tomato sauce: Tomato paste can be used in addition to tomato sauce.
Sugar: We used white sugar in this recipe but brown sugar can also be really good for this
recipe.
Salt and pepper: Add salt and pepper to taste.
Water: You can use beef broth or chicken broth instead of water.
Spices: Adding cayenne pepper and red pepper flakes will increase the spice level of your chili.
Ground beef: The best kind of beef is lean beef but 80/20 ground beef will do just fine. Just be sure to drain excess fat. You can use ground chicken as well as lean ground turkey instead of ground beef.