This Easy Crock Pot Beef Chili recipe is a favorite of my family and one we always get asked the recipe for! Now I will admit I was way late for jumping on this chili train but oh my gosh let me say what a time saver this is for dinner!!! The first time I made this was in 2017, and now we keep batches frozen in the freezer for quick dinners.
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Now this dinner was made even easier in that I had everything on hand to dump and cook it!! I have shared before how to prepare ground beef (see -> here)to have on hand for easy dinners. Seriously I can't believe I hadn't tried making this before at home, it will be going on the menu a couple of times a month from here on out.
Take a lot of prep work out of weeknight dinners and precook and freeze your cooked ground beef! Pull and defrost the ground beef to put in recipes like this for an easy weeknight dinner! (If you aren't sure how to best do this, check out Freezing Cooked Ground Beef)
Spray your crockpot with a non-stick spray, I used my 8-quart crockpot, large enough we have leftovers to freeze!
Now if you don't want to do the nonstick spray you can use crockpot liners, these make clean-up so much easier!
Open up your cans of beans and corn and dump the cans into an over-the-sink strainer rinse your beans and allow them to drip dry.
Either reheat your ground beef or brown your ground beef in a pan and remove the grease.
Slice up your bacon and start to cook it in a frying pan, I didn't cook my fully cause we like juicy chewy bacon.
Start to dump everything in the crockpot beef, beans, and corn
Open up your tomatoes and beef broth. If you are using Better than Bullion starts to make the broth that way.
Dump everything else in the crockpot and stir everything together.
Allow the chili to cook on low for 6-8 hours stirring a couple of times while it's cooking.
What do you put in your chili?
Store in an airtight container in the fridge for 4 to 5 days. You can freeze it in an airtight container or bag in the freezer for up to three months. Reheat in the microwave or stovetop to eat.
Using 93% lean ground beef and regular bacon my chili works out to 7 points a serving. You could reduce how much meat there is and add more beans to lower points. Or even take out the bacon. The ground beef and the bacon are the only ingredients with points in this recipe.
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