Bill's Crock Pot Chili

Total Time: 8 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 8 hrs

Ingredients

• 1 lb beef (i like the chuck blade steak cut into thumb nail size pieces)
• 1 (16 ounce) can tomato sauce
• 1 (16 ounce) can red kidney beans (with the liquid)
• 1 (16 ounce) can pinto beans (with the liquid)
• 1 cup onion (diced)
• 1 cup celery (diced)
• 1 (14 ounce) can diced tomatoes
• 1 cup jalapeno pepper (remove the seeds and dice)
• 2 teaspoons cumin powder
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 tablespoon flour

Recipe

• 1 in a large skillet, heat the olive oil and start to brown the meat.
• 2 when the meat starts to lose it's pink color, push to one side of the pan and add the onions in the fat.
• 3 saute the onions until nearly transparent, stir the meat and onions together and pour into a crock pot.
• 4 add the rest of the ingredients, except the flour and butter, and cook on the low setting for 8 hours. or if you are in a hurry, 4 hours will be enough on the crock pot's high setting.
• 5 stirring occasionally about an hour prior to serving, melt the butter in a small frying pan, add the flour and stir until a brown paste has formed.
• 6 add to the crock pot and stir.
• 7 complete veggie crock pot chili is a vegetarian version of this chili, using rice.