😋 Why make this recipe
This hearty bowl of chili is an easy recipe to make with not much prep time. It's just like eating out at Roadhouse but in the comfort of your own home. Put on your pjs, light a fire in the fire place and injoy this hearty chili watching a movie.
❓FAQ
Texas chili is thick and hearty with the flavor focus on the chilis compared to traditional chili. It's more like eating a bowl of thick stew. Also, many recipes do not contain tomato sauce but instead crushed tomatoes.
Texas chili is thick and hearty with the flavor focus on the chilis compared to traditional chili. It's more like eating a bowl of thick stew. Also, many recipes do not contain tomato sauce but instead crushed tomatoes.
Traditionally Texas chili does not have beans. However, beans are a great addition to Texas chili.
Texas Roadhouse chili has some spice to it. However, when you make this copycat recipe at home you can spice up even more or not at all by omitting the jalapenos.
🥘 Ingredients
- Ground beef - 80%/20% - You could also use beef chuck cut into 1/2 inch cubes
- Garlic - fresh diced
- Onion - yellow onion or white onion would be good
- Cumin powder
- Smoked paprika
- Black pepper
- Salt
- Italian seasoning
- Brown sugar
- Tomatoes - Do not use fresh but canned tomatoes
- Kidney beans - A true Texas chili does not have beans
- Vinegar
- Jalapenos - Use a little or a lot, depending on you your taste buds tolerance to spicy food
- Crushed red pepper flakes - These add another layer of heat to your chili
- Masa harina - This is just traditional corn tortilla flour. It acts as a thickening agent and gives this chile a thick stew-like consistency.
- Cheddar cheese - optional topping
- Red onions - optional topping
🔪 Instructions
- In a dutch oven or large pot on medium heat, cooking the beef. Stir often to help break it apart.
- Place onion and garlic into the pot and cook for two minutes, stirring often.
- Drain any extra grease from the pan and return to heat. Stir in chili spices, chili powder, cumin powder, smoked paprika, black pepper, salt, Italian seasoning blend, and brown sugar. Stir the chili mixture well to coat the hamburger. Turn heat to medium-low and continue cooking for one minute.
- Stir in the crushed tomatoes
- Add kidney beans
- Stir in vinegar chili flakes and diced jalapenos.
- Bring to a soft boil over medium heat.
- Stir in the masa harina and cook for 10 more minutes so the chili will thicken.
- Serve topped with cheddar cheese and diced red onions.
💭 Top tip
Always start with quality ingredients such as grass feed hamburger meat. Also, be sure your seasonings are fresh. They keep in your pantry for 6 months or so but then start to lose some of their flavors.
To drain the fat off of the hamburger, I like to take the pan off the heat and set it on hot pads so one side is a good bit higher than the other. After a few minutes, I place a few waded-up pieces of paper towel in the lower end of the pan to soak up the grease. Discard paper towel and repeat.
📖 Serving variations
- Top your chili topped with Cowboy Candy and a side of cornbread.
- Sever over Instant Pot Baked Potatoes and top with cheese.
- Serve over steak fries and top with cheese for a hearty chili cheese fries meal.
- Pour over tortilla chips with topping typically found on nachos
- Make a sourdough bread bowl filled with chili and toppings.
- Serve topped with saltine crackers, onions a dollop of sour cream and hot sauce.
- Add macaroni noodles instead of beans for a great chili mac dinner
🪄 Substitutions
- Instead of ground meat substitute stew meat such as chuck beef cubes that have been cut into 1/2 inch pieces
- You don't have to use beef base meat. You also might like ground turkey or chicken.
- Try fire-roasted crushed tomatoes instead of plain canned tomatoes
- Change up your beans, try pinto, navy beans or black beans.
- Make the chili vegan by skipping the meat and adding a variety of beans.
- Add in diced sweet potatoes and sautéed mushrooms instead of beans
🍽 Equipment
You don't need much equipment for this recipe, just a cutting board, a good knief, measuring tools and a big dutch oven or heavy pot. This is an easy one pot meal.
🥗 Best side dishes
Try this quick 10 minute Beer Bread that has a sweet chewy crust on the outside with a soft scrumptious yeasty inside.
Then after enjoying a hearty bowl of chili serve som Copycat Starbucks Madeleine. They are a sweet cake-like cookie with a touch of lemon zest and smooth vanilla flavor. The golden-brown madeleines dusted with a bit of powdered sugar will be a treat to your taste buds.
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Best Copycat Texas Roadhouse Chili Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 lbs Ground beef - 80%/20% - You could also use beef chuck cut into 1/2 inch cubes
- 2 tablespoons Garlic fresh diced
- 1 cup Onion - yellow onion or white onion would be good diced - yellow onion or white onion would be good
- 2 teaspoons Cumin powder
- 1 tablespoon Smoked paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon Black pepper
- 2 teaspoons Salt
- 1 tablespoon Italian seasoning
- 1 tablespoon Brown sugar
- 2 14 oz Tomatoes Canned crushed tomatoes. Do not use fresh but canned tomatoes
- 1 14 oz Kidney beans Canned, rinsed, and drained
- 1 tablespoon Vinegar
- 1/8 cup Jalapenos Use a little or a lot depending on you your taste buds tolerance to spicy food
- 1/8 teaspoon Crushed red pepper flakes These add another layer of heat to your chili, a little or a lot
- 2 tablespoons Masa harina This is just traditional corn tortilla flour. It acts as a thickening agent and gives this chile a thick stew-like consistency.
- 1 cup optional topping
- 1/4 cup Red onions optional topping, chopped
Instructions
- In a dutch oven or large pot on medium heat, cooking the beef. Stir often to help break it apart.
- Place onion and garlic into the pot and cook for two minutes, stirring often.
- Drain any extra grease from the pan and return to heat. Stir in chili spices, chili powder, cumin powder, smoked paprika, black pepper, salt, Italian seasoning blend, and brown sugar. Stir the chili mixture well to coat the hamburger. Turn heat to medium-low and continue cooking for one minute.
- Stir in the crushed tomatoes
- Add kidney beans
- Stir in vinegar chili flakes and diced jalapenos.
- Bring to a soft boil over medium heat.
- Stir in the masa harina and cook for 10 more minutes so the chili will thicken.
- Serve topped with cheddar cheese and diced red onions.
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