Simple Warm & Cozy Chili

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 lb lean ground beef
• 2 (10 ounce) cans diced tomatoes with green chilies (rotel type)
• 2 (8 ounce) cans tomato sauce
• 1 (15 ounce) can pinto beans, drained and rinsed
• 3/4 cup diced onion
• 1/4 cup diced celery
• 1/4 cup red bell pepper
• 2 garlic cloves (pressed)
• 1 1/2 teaspoons sea salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons chili powder
• 1 teaspoon cumin
• 1 teaspoon chopped roasted and seeded hot hatch green chili
• if using mild hatch chile, increase amount to taste
• you can use any canned green chili, hatch chilies just have a really well balanced flavor

Recipe

• 1 brown the ground beef with about half the onion and all the garlic until thoroughly cooked, drain off any fat. next place all the ingredients in a crock pot. use the high setting to have it ready in 1 1/2 hours, or medium setting for 3 to 3 1/2 hours.
• 2 top with grated cheese and a dollop of sour cream
• 3 * easy indoor way to roast chilies:.
• 4 heat oven to broil. place cleaned and washed fresh pepper(s) on a broiler pan, place under broiler for approximately 5 minutes, turn and rotate approximately another 5 minutes, continue to rotate all the way around, until their skin is thoroughly charred. remove from oven and place immediately in a ziploc bag. close tightly. wait about 15 minutes, and then the skin will easily peel, easy being a relative term -- .