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Pam
I am so glad that I came across this chili bean recipe. My very first time making it. My husband loved it, I will be making this all the time. Thank you
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Linda
Very happy I stumbled upon this chilli bean receipe. Used to make it years ago close to this receipe. Only thing I did was used leftover pinto beans like I used to and & added small amount if catsup to it like I used to when I worked in a school cafeteria. Tasted delicious. Will look forward to following your blog & checking out your other receipes. Thanks so much!
Stephanie
Hi Elise,
Just want you to know that I make this recipe all the time. I read your blog often but comment rarely. This is so good and simple that I make it often.
I made this tonight, It was my first time making chilli and it was delicious, thank you!!
Brandon G.
Very good recipe. I did it a little different to make it more of a one pot meal. I slowly cooked two pieces of bacon which yielded about 2 tbls of grease, took the bacon out to cool and added the onions and garlic per the recipe till translucent. I then added the rest of the ingredients minus the meat, rice and water for the rice until hot. Once hot I added the water for the rice, let it come to a boil, added the rice and let it simmer for about hour per the amount of time needed for the rice. For the meat, instead of doing it per the recipe, I grilled/smoked some beef ribs. To plate, I put a ladle of the pot contents on a plate and added slices of the grilled/smoked beef ribs on top. Slightly different, but very good.
Brandon G.
Forgot one thing, I crumbled the cooled bacon and added it to the pot to simmer with the rest of the ingredients.
Karen G.
Beans cooked in a pressure cooker can be hazardous. the bean will sometimes cover the hole at the top and the pressure cooker can explode.
This is why it is especially important to be careful when cooking beans in a pressure cooker. Never fill the cooker to capacity when cooking beans. ~Elise
Mary C.
I made this for a potluck Saturday and it turned out so good and got many raves :) Thank you again for another awesome recipe!
auntcandie
I made this using canned organic beans (2 cans rinsed) and PACE Medium salsa as my kitchen is under construction. Made such a HUGE quantity I took it for lunch the next day and fed about 8 people. Easy and amazingly tasty. thanks!
Domestic Diva Heather
I love your website. I make meals from your website at least four days a week. Your recipes make me feel like an accomplished chef. I love this quick chili recipe and look forward to many more! Thank you!!!
K
Another Great recipe! I follow your recipes as written to begin with,second time around I’ll make adjustments if I want to. To be perfectly honest, I don’t make changes to often, everything is perfect as is. Thanks for the hardwork you put into your sight. I’m having a good time learning how to be a better cook.
Megan
Hi- I made this tonight for the first time it was super easy and quick for a chili. Served with steamed rice and flour tortillas. Thanks again for another great recipe. Loved it and will make again:) Cheers!
Mrs. R.
I made this last night and we loved it! I added two carrots and used fresh tomatoes since I had them on hand. We ate it with rice and added a little bit lime juice, it was so good! Thank you and I love your blog.
Penny
Served over cornbread, dee-lish! Instead of canned jalapenos, I bought a whole one and roasted it on the gas stove. It added a kick to the dish, but the cheese and sour cream countered that nicely. Simple, healthy high-protein meal. Thanks Elise!
Tereze
Hello, Elise! I was wondering if I can use fresh tomatoes instead of canned? Would it make any difference?
Thanks for your site, I am from France and I use your recipes daily.
Tereze
Hello Tereze, yes you can. You may need to cook them longer in that last step, as canned tomatoes are already cooked. ~Elise
lbc
I liked the flavors and heartiness of this recipe. It was easy to make using canned pintos. I prefer my chili a little more saucy so I added a large can of tomato sauce and it was just right. Without the sauce, it was more of a sloppy joe consistency. Will definitely make again using this addition.
Lisa
WOWZA! Last night my husband said “I’d like some chili.”
I googled Turkey Chili and was thrilled when the first recipe was here on simplyrecipes! Made it today, served it with cornbread. Delicious!
And I am not a fan of chili flavors. This is amazing though!
Thanks!
Carrie Steere-Salazar
I wanted to let you know we used your Mom’s Chili recipe to feed 90 men at the church’s Winter Shelter program last night (the choir was in charge of cooking for the evening and I was the “lead” chef).
The church obtains most of the food from the SF food bank so some of the ingredients had to be substituted. We used 25 lbs of meat, five 6-lb cans of pre-cooked beans (kidney and black since pinto beans were not available), 30 cups of uncooked rice, 15 onions, 30 garlic cloves, two 6-lb cans of diced tomatoes and a mix of chili powder, cumin and salt/pepper. We served this with hot corn bread and offered lots of cilanthro as a topping for the chili. The men loved the recipe and many of them came back for seconds and thirds–those quantities made more than 90 portions, thank goodness.
D A
Very Nice….. And right in context. We in the south call this dish CHILI BEANS because it’s a sweet take on regular chili! Don’t forget the sweet jalepeno/pimento cornbread!!!!! Thanks for sharing! I don’t comment ever! ( I used brown sugar dark and light one of each for about 2 tblsp with cayenne!)
katie
I made this dish for dinner tonight and lets say it was a keeper! My boyfriend is veg, so I substituted the ground meat for veggie ground “beef”. I also used one canned chipotle pepper (needed to get rid of it) w/ some of its sauce instead of the jalapeno and, with that in mind, was conservative with the chili powder. Thanks for the great recipe! This is going in my regular rotation, for sure.
Aya
Tried this for dinner last night, and it came out amazing! I have never browned meat before and your instructions (moving aside the onions, adding chili powder directly to the meat as it cooks) yielded spectacularly flavorful results. I’m just disappointed that I was unable to find pinto beans in any of my neighborhood supermarkets and used romano beans. They weren’t all that great. Which beans are most similar to pinto?
For this dish probably red beans. For more Mexican dishes I would say black beans. ~Elise
Chloe
Another great recipe. Awesome Blog!
Jennifer
DELICIOUS!
Jessica Grimes From Dallas
Made this tonight for the 1st time. SO good, SO fast and SO affordable! Used canned beans and ground turkey. Husband loved it! Going on the weekly rotation thats for sure!
Cosima
I’m coming late to this game, but I made this last night and my family raved about it. So simple, yet it packed a punch. I used Rotel instead of the plain tomatoes and jalepeno and it was delicious. I have loved every recipe of yours I have tried. Thanks!!!!
~M
YUM! Have you ever made this with black beans instead of the the pintos? My husband and I prefer black beans.
Thanks for the idea/substitution to use salsa!
When you make this with ground turkey, do you usually use white meat ground turkey or dark meat ground turkey? I’ve never cooked with ground turkey before and wonder whether you would need to drain fat off if you used dark meat ground turkey (which I prefer, taste-wise).
Thanks!
You could easily make this with black beans. We also have a good black beans and rice recipe btw. Regarding dark vs white turkey meat, I think we use a mix. We don’t drain off the fat because there isn’t enough to drain off; turkey is quite lean. ~Elise
Zoe
Just made this tonight–very yummy and easy! I used ground turkey and kidney beans because I had no pinto beans. Pintos would have been creamier, I’m sure, but kidney beans worked fine. I also replaced all of the parsley with a lot more cilantro, because I’m a cilantro fiend!
Kyle Cachora
Thanks! I’m really down in the gutter and have only pinto beans, ground beef, chili powder, and tomato sauce. I haven’t eaten in 2 days because there is nothing to eat in my house. But I looked all over and have found what is needed to make some food. Thank you!
shabiya
I am an asian, and our foods are very different from this. But when I tried this one, wow. It was simply delicious. My husband enjoyed it very much, it’s easy to make, less prep time, no hard to find ingredients. Thanks for the recipe.
Sharon
In regard to draining the meat, I not only drain the ground beef, but I rinse it in hot water. It eliminates all the grease from the meat making it a bit healthier. (And it doesn’t affect the flavor when using in a dish like this.)
If you are going to go that route, I would just start with extra-lean ground meat to begin with. I also challenge the assumption that getting rid of the fat in this case is healthier. But this isn’t a debate I’m willing to get into on this site or in this post, other than to say that what is unhealthy for one person isn’t necessarily unhealthy for another. ~Elise
Laura
Looks awesome, simple, and delicious.
Just curious, what’s the theory behind moving the onions to one side while doing the ground meat, to cook them more so they are almost carmelized?
Thanks!
Saves dirtying another pan! ~Elise
Lisa Goad
Hello, I can’t wait to make this recipe! Would canned beans change the flavor/texture too much?
Thanks, Lisa
Hi Lisa, you can use canned beans without a problem. ~Elise
betsythegreat
I notice the recipe does not say to drain the fat off the meat after frying. Should you not?
Good question. We usually make this with ground turkey, so there is very little fat. If you find that browning your meat leaves more than a tablespoon of fat in the pan, drain the excess if you want. ~Elise
Nancy
It looks delicious. Funny how family recipes like this have little quirks and traditions; in my house we don’t go to the trouble of non-canned beans, and we add precisely 5 whole cloves to the mix. And the jalapeno would be replaced by a sweet bell pepper. No matter. Great dish!
jenn
Great simple recipe. My nearly 2-year-old gobbled up two kiddie sized bowls of this. We served it over steamed brown rice, with sides of tossed salad and corn muffins. The only change I made was to use canned pintos, in an attempt to use up the canned beans I have on hand.
Iron Chef Ceejay
I am new to cooking and now I’m considered a top chef, am requested all over. Your site really helps. Occasionally I brag and then I have to cook something but I never panic. I just visit your site and BAM I’m Iron Chef. THANK YOU.
Love it with ham; it gives it a boosted flavor.
Karen Lane
I have been making this for 8 months. I add a small can of tomato sauce and use ham cubes in place of the ground beef. I also use lots of black pepper. Thanks for the great recipe. This is definitely a hit with my family and friends.
Chili Beans with Rice
I am so glad that I came across this chili bean recipe. My very first time making it. My husband loved it, I will be making this all the time. Thank you
xxxxxyyyyy
Very happy I stumbled upon this chilli bean receipe. Used to make it years ago close to this receipe.
Only thing I did was used leftover pinto beans like I used to and & added small amount if catsup to it like I used to when I worked in a school cafeteria.
Tasted delicious.
Will look forward to following your blog & checking out your other receipes.
Thanks so much!
Hi Elise,
Just want you to know that I make this recipe all the time. I read your blog often but comment rarely. This is so good and simple that I make it often.
Thanks,
Stephanie
Thanks Stephanie, I’m so glad you like it!
I made this tonight, It was my first time making chilli and it was delicious, thank you!!
Very good recipe. I did it a little different to make it more of a one pot meal. I slowly cooked two pieces of bacon which yielded about 2 tbls of grease, took the bacon out to cool and added the onions and garlic per the recipe till translucent. I then added the rest of the ingredients minus the meat, rice and water for the rice until hot. Once hot I added the water for the rice, let it come to a boil, added the rice and let it simmer for about hour per the amount of time needed for the rice. For the meat, instead of doing it per the recipe, I grilled/smoked some beef ribs. To plate, I put a ladle of the pot contents on a plate and added slices of the grilled/smoked beef ribs on top. Slightly different, but very good.
Forgot one thing, I crumbled the cooled bacon and added it to the pot to simmer with the rest of the ingredients.
Beans cooked in a pressure cooker can be hazardous. the bean will sometimes cover the hole at the top and the pressure cooker can explode.
This is why it is especially important to be careful when cooking beans in a pressure cooker. Never fill the cooker to capacity when cooking beans. ~Elise
I made this for a potluck Saturday and it turned out so good and got many raves :) Thank you again for another awesome recipe!
I made this using canned organic beans (2 cans rinsed) and PACE Medium salsa as my kitchen is under construction. Made such a HUGE quantity I took it for lunch the next day and fed about 8 people. Easy and amazingly tasty. thanks!
I love your website. I make meals from your website at least four days a week. Your recipes make me feel like an accomplished chef. I love this quick chili recipe and look forward to many more! Thank you!!!
Another Great recipe! I follow your recipes as written to begin with,second time around I’ll make adjustments if I want to. To be perfectly honest, I don’t make changes to often, everything is perfect as is. Thanks for the hardwork you put into your sight. I’m having a good time learning how to be a better cook.
Hi-
I made this tonight for the first time it was super easy and quick for a chili. Served with steamed rice and flour tortillas. Thanks again for another great recipe. Loved it and will make again:)
Cheers!
I made this last night and we loved it! I added two carrots and used fresh tomatoes since I had them on hand. We ate it with rice and added a little bit lime juice, it was so good! Thank you and I love your blog.
Served over cornbread, dee-lish! Instead of canned jalapenos, I bought a whole one and roasted it on the gas stove. It added a kick to the dish, but the cheese and sour cream countered that nicely. Simple, healthy high-protein meal. Thanks Elise!
Hello, Elise!
I was wondering if I can use fresh tomatoes instead of canned? Would it make any difference?
Thanks for your site, I am from France and I use your recipes daily.
Tereze
Hello Tereze, yes you can. You may need to cook them longer in that last step, as canned tomatoes are already cooked. ~Elise
I liked the flavors and heartiness of this recipe. It was easy to make using canned pintos. I prefer my chili a little more saucy so I added a large can of tomato sauce and it was just right. Without the sauce, it was more of a sloppy joe consistency. Will definitely make again using this addition.
WOWZA! Last night my husband said “I’d like some chili.”
I googled Turkey Chili and was thrilled when the first recipe was here on simplyrecipes! Made it today, served it with cornbread. Delicious!
And I am not a fan of chili flavors. This is amazing though!
Thanks!
I wanted to let you know we used your Mom’s Chili recipe to feed 90 men at the church’s Winter Shelter program last night (the choir was in charge of cooking for the evening and I was the “lead” chef).
The church obtains most of the food from the SF food bank so some of the ingredients had to be substituted. We used 25 lbs of meat, five 6-lb cans of pre-cooked beans (kidney and black since pinto beans were not available), 30 cups of uncooked rice, 15 onions, 30 garlic cloves, two 6-lb cans of diced tomatoes and a mix of chili powder, cumin and salt/pepper. We served this with hot corn bread and offered lots of cilanthro as a topping for the chili. The men loved the recipe and many of them came back for seconds and thirds–those quantities made more than 90 portions, thank goodness.
Very Nice….. And right in context. We in the south call this dish CHILI BEANS because it’s a sweet take on regular chili! Don’t forget the sweet jalepeno/pimento cornbread!!!!! Thanks for sharing! I don’t comment ever! ( I used brown sugar dark and light one of each for about 2 tblsp with cayenne!)
I made this dish for dinner tonight and lets say it was a keeper! My boyfriend is veg, so I substituted the ground meat for veggie ground “beef”. I also used one canned chipotle pepper (needed to get rid of it) w/ some of its sauce instead of the jalapeno and, with that in mind, was conservative with the chili powder. Thanks for the great recipe! This is going in my regular rotation, for sure.
Tried this for dinner last night, and it came out amazing! I have never browned meat before and your instructions (moving aside the onions, adding chili powder directly to the meat as it cooks) yielded spectacularly flavorful results. I’m just disappointed that I was unable to find pinto beans in any of my neighborhood supermarkets and used romano beans. They weren’t all that great. Which beans are most similar to pinto?
For this dish probably red beans. For more Mexican dishes I would say black beans. ~Elise
Another great recipe. Awesome Blog!
DELICIOUS!
Made this tonight for the 1st time. SO good, SO fast and SO affordable! Used canned beans and ground turkey. Husband loved it! Going on the weekly rotation thats for sure!
I’m coming late to this game, but I made this last night and my family raved about it. So simple, yet it packed a punch. I used Rotel instead of the plain tomatoes and jalepeno and it was delicious. I have loved every recipe of yours I have tried. Thanks!!!!
YUM! Have you ever made this with black beans instead of the the pintos? My husband and I prefer black beans.
Thanks for the idea/substitution to use salsa!
When you make this with ground turkey, do you usually use white meat ground turkey or dark meat ground turkey? I’ve never cooked with ground turkey before and wonder whether you would need to drain fat off if you used dark meat ground turkey (which I prefer, taste-wise).
Thanks!
You could easily make this with black beans. We also have a good black beans and rice recipe btw. Regarding dark vs white turkey meat, I think we use a mix. We don’t drain off the fat because there isn’t enough to drain off; turkey is quite lean. ~Elise
Just made this tonight–very yummy and easy! I used ground turkey and kidney beans because I had no pinto beans. Pintos would have been creamier, I’m sure, but kidney beans worked fine. I also replaced all of the parsley with a lot more cilantro, because I’m a cilantro fiend!
Thanks! I’m really down in the gutter and have only pinto beans, ground beef, chili powder, and tomato sauce. I haven’t eaten in 2 days because there is nothing to eat in my house. But I looked all over and have found what is needed to make some food. Thank you!
I am an asian, and our foods are very different from this. But when I tried this one, wow. It was simply delicious. My husband enjoyed it very much, it’s easy to make, less prep time, no hard to find ingredients. Thanks for the recipe.
In regard to draining the meat, I not only drain the ground beef, but I rinse it in hot water. It eliminates all the grease from the meat making it a bit healthier. (And it doesn’t affect the flavor when using in a dish like this.)
If you are going to go that route, I would just start with extra-lean ground meat to begin with. I also challenge the assumption that getting rid of the fat in this case is healthier. But this isn’t a debate I’m willing to get into on this site or in this post, other than to say that what is unhealthy for one person isn’t necessarily unhealthy for another. ~Elise
Looks awesome, simple, and delicious.
Just curious, what’s the theory behind moving the onions to one side while doing the ground meat, to cook them more so they are almost carmelized?
Thanks!
Saves dirtying another pan! ~Elise
Hello,
I can’t wait to make this recipe! Would canned beans change the flavor/texture too much?
Thanks,
Lisa
Hi Lisa, you can use canned beans without a problem. ~Elise
I notice the recipe does not say to drain the fat off the meat after frying. Should you not?
Good question. We usually make this with ground turkey, so there is very little fat. If you find that browning your meat leaves more than a tablespoon of fat in the pan, drain the excess if you want. ~Elise
It looks delicious. Funny how family recipes like this have little quirks and traditions; in my house we don’t go to the trouble of non-canned beans, and we add precisely 5 whole cloves to the mix. And the jalapeno would be replaced by a sweet bell pepper. No matter. Great dish!
Great simple recipe. My nearly 2-year-old gobbled up two kiddie sized bowls of this. We served it over steamed brown rice, with sides of tossed salad and corn muffins. The only change I made was to use canned pintos, in an attempt to use up the canned beans I have on hand.
I am new to cooking and now I’m considered a top chef, am requested all over. Your site really helps. Occasionally I brag and then I have to cook something but I never panic. I just visit your site and BAM I’m Iron Chef. THANK YOU.
Love it with ham; it gives it a boosted flavor.
I have been making this for 8 months. I add a small can of tomato sauce and use ham cubes in place of the ground beef. I also use lots of black pepper. Thanks for the great recipe. This is definitely a hit with my family and friends.
Just tried the Chili… very good.