Award Winning Chili Recipe

This Award-Winning Instapot Chili recipe is the perfect bowl of hearty goodness to dig into on a cold winter day. It’s sure to warm your belly and your soul. It’s also the perfect recipe to wipe that smug look off Ken from accountings face at the next office chili cookoff. Whether you want to impress the family or the respect of your co-workers, this award-winning chili recipe will get the job done.

Office Warfare

Ok, maybe it’s not quite that serious but winning the annual office chili cookoff is lots of fun. In what seems like another life at this point, I worked in a cube farm for many years in the corporate office of a very large grocery chain.

You know the setting, little to no windows, basking in the soft blue glow of your computer screen and flickering fluorescent lights. The constant hum of the copy machine and clattering of keys furiously pecking out the cover letter for their TPS reports is enough to drive you mad. In that melancholy environment, anything to break the monotony of the day was a welcome relief. Pot lucks and chili cookoffs were a welcome distraction and something my office took pretty seriously. There were some pretty good cooks in my office. I had to step my game up to compete. The recipe below is what I concocted to crush the competition.

Instant pot = Easy Button

I originally made this recipe in a cast iron dutch oven. However,  I’ve recently switched over to an Instapot. It’s easy to brown all your meat, sautee your veggies, and then put the lid on and pressure-cook everything to speed the cook-time up. The only other kitchen gadget I use is a food processor to make the chili base. You can use a blender if you don’t have a food processor.

Go Forth and Conquer

The video below is a step by step guide on how to assemble your Award-Winning Instapot Chili. As always, if you make this recipe be sure and drop a comment below or hit me up on social media @ilovemeatdotcom. I wanna see the pic of everyone’s plastic trophy! Good Luck, and may the potluck odds be ever in your favor.

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Award Winning Chili Recipe

This award-winning chili recipe will help you crush the competition. The next office potluck is going to have a new champion crowned!

Cuisine American

Keyword Chili

Prep Time 30 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Total Time 1 hour

Ingredients

Chili Base

• 1/2 Large Yellow Onion Diced
• 1/2 Large Poblano De-seeded and Diced
• 1 Jalapeno De-Seeded and Diced
• 1 De-hydrated Guajillo Chili De-Seeded and re-hydrated in a small bowl of warm water.
• 1/3 cup Chili Powder
• 2 TBS Ground Cumin
• 2 TBS Kosher Salt
• 1 TBS Oregano
• 1 TBS Garlic Powder

Chili Body

• 1 pound Ground Chuck
• 1/2 pound Mexican Chorizo
• 1/2 pound Chopped Sirloin
• 1/2 Large Yellow Onion Diced
• 1/2 Large Poblano De-seeded and Diced
• 1/2 cup Beef Stock
• 1/2 cup Chicken Stock
• 28 oz Can of Diced Fire Roasted Tomatoes
• 16 oz Can of Kidney Beans Calm down Texans, this is optional.
• 2 TBS Tomato Paste
• 1 TBS Minced Garlic
• 1 TBS Hot Sauce I like Crystals.

Instructions

1. Combine all the Chili Base ingredients into a food processor or blender and pulse until smooth.

2. Set Instapot to sautee and add in chorizo and ground chuck until browned. A potato masher works well to break up the ground meat.  If you don't have an Instapot a Dutch Oven will work as well.

3. Removed meat and set aside

4. Add in chopped sirloin and saute until browned

5. Removed meat and set aside

6. Add in remaining onion and poblano and saute until lightly browned.

7. Add in minced garlic, tomato paste, fire-roasted tomatoes, chicken and beef stock.

8. Add Chili Base we created earlier.

9. Splash in the hot sauce.

10. Add in kidney beans if you're not from Texas.

11. Stir the pot.

12. Attach lid and pressure cook on high for 5 minutes.

13. Ladle out chili into a bowl and finish with your favorite toppings.

14. Collect that Plastic Trophy from your co-workers and bask in your accomplishment.

Andrew Armstrong