The Best Chili Recipe: How to Make it Easy

I like to use venison in my chili feel free to use beef.

Venison Chili is a meal that you could have anytime of the year! It is extremely simple, cheap to make, and easy to eat. You will want to eat 1 bowl a day. If you start, you won’t be able to stop!

This venison chili will be made partly in an instant pot, and partly in a large soup pot. But, you can make it in a crock pot, slow cooker, large pot, or instant pot like we are doing today!

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Equipment Needed

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Instant Pot buy on Amazon.

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Ingredients

• 4 jalapeños (for mild)
• 6 small white onions
• 3 28oz cans of diced tomatoes
• 5 pounds of venison (or Beef)
• 2 pounds of dry pinto beans
• 1 pound of dry red kidney beans
• 4 tablespoons of chili powder
• 3 tablespoons of cumin
• 2 tablespoons blackpepper
• salt to taste.

Adjust seasoning to taste once you’re done cooking everyone’s chili is different.

How to Cook Your Beans

You will need to begin by cooking up some beans. We like to use a combination of pinto beans and red beans. Pinto beans for flavor, and red beans for flavor and texture. I personally enjoy pinto beans far more than I enjoy red beans, so I put a lot of pintos and a little red bean.

• Before being put in a pot and cooked, beans need to be sorted through.

The way that you sort through beans is to put them on a plate and look through all of them to pick out any gross looking beans, or any noticeable clumps of dirt or rocks.

• Great! Now that you have sorted through your beans, it is time to clean them.

To wash beans, you just need to put them in a container, and put some water in the container and agitate it to take any residual dirt off the outside of the beans.

Discard this water and repeat the process as many times as you need to until the water comes out clean. After all, you don’t want any dirt in your beans.

• Cook your beans according to your instant pot. On mine I push the Bean/chili button it takes 30 minutes then I release the stream.

PREPARE VEGETABLES

• While the beans are cooking, get some other prep work done so that when the beans are done, you are ready to throw it all together.

• You will be giving your vegetables rough chop! Maybe 1/4 to half inch dice on them.

• Now that your onions and jalapeños are prapared, you can get your meat cooked up.

Brown Your Meat

• Cook it up until it is all brown, and the meat is broken down finely enough. You can leave clumps of ground meat for a good bite of ground venison, or you can break it down to a very fine consistency so that it distributes throughout your chili. Either way is a good way to go.

PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

• After your beans are cooking drain and rinse your beans.
• Now it’s time to throw it all together into one big pot to finish up your chili.

• You can use fresh tomatoes, but it is easier and just as good to use canned, diced tomatoes.

• Add your Tomatoes, Onions, Jalapeños, Beans, and Venison (or Beef).

• Just look at that beautiful venison! It has amazing flavor and is much healthier for you than beef.

DRAIN THE GREASE AND DUMP

Mix up all of your lovely ingredients!

Now all we need to do is season it up!

Seasonings

There are 4 seasonings we will be using today, most of which will probably be in your pantry already.

Salt
Black pepper
Cumin
Chili powder

If you want to make it a spicy venison chili recipe, you can add cayenne pepper, or red chili flake. It’s quite good! This will also have to be seasoned to your liking. Try a little bit, if you need it more spicy, add more.

• Now simmer it until your onions and jalapeños are cooked and all of your ingredients have incorporated together. about 20-30 minutes.

Notes and Tips

• Veggies: Chili goes well with quite a few vegetables, but there are a few basics that you are going to want to add in. You can add as much of these ingredients as you have a taste for. You don’t have to measure these vegetables.

• As a rule of thumb though, if you are making a small put of chili, 1 onion should do you nicely. On the other hand, if you are making a large put of chili, you might want somewhere between 3 to 5.

• The quantity of jalapeños you add will probably replicate the amount of onion you put in as well, if you are making a small put of chili, you could use 1 or 2. If you are making a large pot of chili, you could use more like 3-5.

• Meats: Right here I have some very good quality doe meat. This deer I harvested last hunting season, and the ground meat I mixed with some homegrown pork fat to give extra flavor. You by no means need this addition to your venison, but it is a way to add good flavor and fat with something that I already had too much of.

• If you hunt for your own wild game and don’t raise pigs like I do, then you could always by pork fat from your local butcher. Normally they can get it with no problems, and pork fat is normally very cheap compared to other pork products.

• Tomatoes: Put a good number of diced tomatoes in your beans. For as much onions as you put in, you might want to use about 3 times as much volume of diced tomatoes.

Tips for Cooking Beans in the Instant Pot

As an added tip for cooking beans in the instant pot. The general rule of thumb for cooking beans is to put in 1-part beans and 3 parts water.

This means if you put 1 cup of beans in a pot, make sure and put 3 cups of water to accommodate them. Beans absorb a lot of water while they cook and so this quantity of water us necessary.

Also, different kinds of beans will take varying lengths of time to cook, so keep checking your beans by tasting them. Once nice and tender, its done.

THE DIGS ON DEER CHILI

So I have seen people in the past, adding a whole ridiculous amount of ingredients to deer chili. Now, that is not a bad way to do it, so not to bash the folks working harder than me for their deer chili, but you just simply don’t need all of that to make a good deer chili.

I challenge each individual person to taste, and examine what the seasoning does to the pot of chili. Taste your chili and add some, taste and add some more of it needs it.

Your palate is a very gifted one. Add seasoning NOT until you taste the seasoning there, but until you say, wow that is some good chili! At that point, you have added enough of the ingredient and can move on to the other seasoning.

VENISON CHILI IS ON MY TOP 10 RAINY DAY RECIPES

Without a doubt, coming in the house to escape from a rainy, and cold day is perfectly remedied with a hardy bowl of deer chili.

Rich in protein and carbohydrates, this is a comfort food extraordinaire. Being slow to digest, beans can provide you with a steady source of energy all day long. Which can really help on those slow days of inclement weather where your energy seems lower than normal.

Venison is a very nutrient dense, lean, and flavorful organic meat. Many people say they don’t like venison, but that is because they have not tried to like it.

Here on our small farm, I hunt deer during the fall and wintertime and that is all the red meat that we eat throughout the year. While I can admit it is much different than beef, it is also much healthier. I personally like venison more than I like beef.