Grammy's Kitchen · Chili · Easy Weeknight Chili
One of 163 chili recipes we measured
from ourbestbites.com
8 cooks on ourbestbites.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 163.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 49% | 23% |
| fat | 2% | 1% |
| aromatics | 19% | 16% |
| salt | 1% | 0% |
| vegetables and beans | 88% | 58% |
| collagen idx | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| marbling idx | 0.6 | 0.6 |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 454 g | 1 pound ground beef (10% lean) |
| 14 g | 1 tablespoon olive oil (extra virgin) |
| 150 g | 1 onion, medium (finely chopped) |
| 120 g | 1 green pepper (finely chopped) |
| 10 g | 3-4 cloves garlic (minced) |
| 8 g | 1 tablespoon chili powder |
| 1 g | 1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning |
| 9 g | 1 1/2 teaspoon salt |
| 1 g | 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper |
| 411 g | 1 can light kidney, black, or pinto beans (rinsed and drained) |
| 411 g | 1 14.5 ounce can diced tomatoes |
| 227 g | 1 8-ounce can tomato sauce |
| 425 g | 1 15-ounce can beef broth (or equivalent; such as concentrated beef bouillon dissolved in 15 oz. water) |
| Corn chips (like fritos) | |
| shredded cheese | |
| diced onion | |
| Avocado |
Method: 4 steps, published by ourbestbites.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“In our family we ALWAYS ate our chili with Italian bread covered in peanut butter on the side. As an adult, this really doesn’t make any sense to me, but growing up, I thought that was just what you did. When I was in college, my roommates and I were eating ch” — a cook
“OMG I have to chime in because I thought I was the only one. All my life I firmly believed that the appropriate accompaniment for spaghetti and also for beef stew was…blueberry muffins! It makes me wonder what weird things I am teaching my daughter that I thin” — a cook