A delicious no bean chili with chunks of diced tomatoes and plenty of protein-rich meat to fill you up. A mix of peppers gives a moderate amount of spice.
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Although I have a previous recipe posted for keto Texas style chili, that chili is somewhat watered down to keep the carbs low. This chili is a bit higher in carbs. That's because it has more tomatoes so the portion size should be kept small to keep the carbs within reason.
If you are in a maintenance phase or not currently trying to lose weight, like me, this recipe will give you about five good meal size servings with close to 16 net carbs each. I try to limit each dish to about 15 carbs or less so a larger helping of this no bean chili is fine for me.
Since this is the time of year a lot of people get together to watch the big football games, I thought it would be nice to post another chili recipe without beans. I have made chili with black soy beans before to keep the carbs low, but I prefer my chili with no beans and plenty of meat.
We always have a freezer loaded with ground venison so I always make tons of dishes with this ground meat. Chili is one of my favorite ways to cook ground venison. The tomatoes will cover any gamey taste that the deer meat may have.
Although I made this no bean chili on the stovetop, it could easily be made in the crock pot. The meat would need to be browned first and this could be done ahead of time.
Are you into slow cooking using a crock pot? It's best to brown large batches of ground meat and freeze them in bags or containers.
Keeping frozen ground meat in the freezer that has already been browned makes it a breeze to make meaty chili in the slow cooker. Just freeze the meat in amounts typically needed for your crockpot recipes.
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Recipe
Chunky No Bean Chili
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ pounds ground beef
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 tablespoon dried onion or ¼ cup finely chopped fresh onion
- 28 oz can crushed tomato I used Tuttorosso
- 15 oz can diced tomatoes or 10 oz can Rotel
- 2 tablespoons chili powder
- ¼ cup balsamic vinegar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon allspice
- ½ teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 1 tablespoon worcestershire sauce
- 1 low carb sugar substitute packet(s) optional
Instructions
- Brown the meat and drain fat if needed.
- Add the garlic, onion and chili powder and cook with meat for a couple minutes.
- Add the remaining ingredients.
- Simmer for about an hour.
Notes
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Nutrition
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Chuck
Made this tonight. Wow, very good. This chili has a kick to it - and I like it!
Christina
Best chili! Thanks for sharing
Lisa MarcAurele
Glad you enjoyed the recipe!
Monica
Lisa, just made this tonight. Delicious! Added a little cheese and oyster crackers and we were set. Thx for sharing!
Lisa
You're welcome Monica!
Cassandra Kramer
cook time says 15mins but directions say simmer for an hour? didn't care too much for the tanginess of the balsamic vinegar. Tasty though.
Lisa
Thanks for catching that mistake. The recipe has been updated.
Robin
I made it today and we love it! So yummy!
Lisa
Thanks for letting us know Robin! 🙂
Theresa
Omg so good. I topped the chili with onion cheese and sour cream.
Lisa
Cheese and sour cream are my favorite toppings.
Kuulei
Great recipe! We had this last night. We prefer our chili on the spicy side so used Ro-Tel Diced Tomatoes Hot (Diced Tomatoes with Habanero) and added 1/2 tablespoon of smoked Chipotle powder.
Maureen luvandwa
I'm trying this for my boss today
Lisa
I think your boss is going to love it!
patti
This is really good, and easy! Thank you, Lisa, for such a quick response. I followed the recipe exactly and also measured the total cups in the recipe and it came out to about 2/3 cup per serving for an 8 serving recipe. Cooked in crockpot for about 3 hours and it turned very well.
Lisa
I think with this one, I made the servings a bit smaller to keep carbs low. I do usually eat it in a cup size and it's not full.
patti
How many servings are there in this recipe and what cup amount/serving?
Lisa
The info was lost when the recipe was converted from one software to another. It makes about 8 one cup servings.
Laura Walsh
This is delicious! Had to omit onions and garlic due to IBS/SIBO and this was still exceptionally tasty! Thank you and I will be making it again very soon!!
Lisa
You're welcome Laura! So glad you liked it!