The Best Vegetarian Bean Chili

A 100% vegan chili recipe that has all of the deep chili flavor, textural contrast, and rib-sticking richness that the best chili should have.

Chili for Chili Burgers, Chili Dogs, or Chili Fries

[Photograph: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt] This chili ends up with a homogeneous, saucy texture perfect for topping burgers, hot dogs, or fries. Leftover chili can be stored in the fridge for up to 1 week. The chili is best with the...

The Best White Chili With Chicken

Tender, creamy, spicy, and bright, this is the stuff even a dyed-in-the-wool chili con carne traditionalist will dip their finger into when they think nobody is watching.

Original Texas Chili Con Carne

A blend of chilies and spices provide this classic Texas chili con carne with maximum depth of flavor.

Chili Recipe | Cook the Book

"All along I had been searching for a chili that tasted like chiles, and this one was it." [Photograph: Caroline Russock] Recently I have been craving nothing but spicy food—really spicy food. Not just hot sauce spicy but tingling, lip-burning,...

1-Hour Pressure Cooker Texas-Style Chili con Carne

Real Texas chili con carne is all about the beef and the chilies. In this version, we start with toasted whole dried chilies and puree them with broth and spices before adding beef chuck and cooking the whole thing down in a pressure cooker. Thirty minutes later, you've got spoon-tender chunks of beef in a rich, complex chili-based stew.

Pressure Cooker Chunky Beef and Bean Chili

Unlike a lot of chili recipes that call for short cooking times but deliver terrible flavor, this classic chunky beef-and-bean recipe saves time the right way: by using a pressure cooker, not by cutting corners.

Chili dogs

The best chili dogs are made with a beef chili sauce cooked for hours that's thick and molten flavoured with a secret spice mix! Ben's Chili Bowl copycat.

Campfire Chili in a Dutch Oven

You can use any kind of relatively fatty meat with plenty of connective tissue in it such as beef short rib or chuck, pork shoulder, or lamb shoulder. The sausage can be any raw sausage you like the flavor of, or can be replaced with more stew meat. Stick with medium to small beans like kidney, cannellini, garbanzo, or navy. Store-bought chili powder can be used, but for best flavor, grind your own chile powder (or make a chile puree by cooking toasted chiles in water or chicken stock and blendi...

Better Than Chipotle Beef Barbacoa

This crazy tender barbacoa with oxtails and a blend of fruity chiles puts the fast food version to shame.