Spicy Paleo Slow Cooker Chili (without Chili Powder)

Making Paleo Chili!

Chili is perfect for a lazy, chilly, rainy day, especially if you can make it in the slow cooker.  It was exactly chili weather the other day so I was definitely craving it… the only issue was I didn’t have any chili powder laying around!  Doesn’t matter to me, here’s how you make paleo slow cooker chili without any chili powder:

Spicy Paleo Slow Cooker Chili (without Chili Powder)

Prep Time: 30 minutes

Cook Time: 8 hour

Ingredients:

• 1 large onion (chopped)
• 1 green pepper (chopped)
• 8 oz sliced portobello mushrooms (I used sliced baby portobello mushrooms)
• 2 cloves garlic
• 2-3 tbsp paprika (If you don’t want it really spicy, go ahead and use 3 tbsp and no cayenne pepper. If you do want spicy, use 2 tbsp of paprika and 1 tbsp cayenne pepper)
• 0-1 tbsp cayenne pepper (it’ll be spicy! so put less or even none if you don’t like spicy!)
• 1 jalapeno (optional, add only if you like it very spicy like me!)
• 1 lb ground beef
• 2 28 oz cans of diced tomatoes (undrained)
• 2 tbsp butter
• Salt, pepper as desired

Ingredients minus Tomatoes

Instructions

1.  Use a chef’s knife to chop up all those things you are supposed to chop up.  This includes the onion, green pepper, optional jalapeno, and mushrooms.

Chopping of veggies

2.  Turn crock pot/slow cooker to high, and dump your cans of diced tomatoes along with the tomato juice in to your slow cooker.  My slow cooker is a 5-Quart Slow Cooker. So anything this size or bigger should work.


3.  Add the paprika in there, and stir.

Tomatoes and paprika

4.  In a large skillet on medium heat, heat up 1 tbsp of butter, and then add the ground beef.  Cook until there’s only a little pink left, and make sure to break it down in to small chunks while doing so.

About to cook ground beef

5.  Dump the ground beef in to the slow cooker (try to keep the buttery meat sauce in the pan to cook veggies in).

6.  Next, it’s time to sauté your veggies (onions, green pepper, jalapenos if using, mushrooms, garlic)!  If you don’t really have that buttery meat sauce mixture any more, add another tbsp of butter.  Sauté until your onions are translucent.

Onions and jalapenos

7.  Add this mixture in to your slow cooker and stir.

Chili in the making

Cayenne Pepper in Chili

9.  Change the slow cooker heat to low and cook for 8 hours, until chili is thickened and then enjoy!

Slow Cooker Paleo Chili without Chili Powder!

It’s the perfect chili for when you want a different taste to your chili, and you like it spicy so you can turn the heat up while it’s rainy and cold outside!

Related Links

• Slow Cooker Chili (fastpaleo.com)
• Paleo Crock Pot Chili (freerange-human.com)
• Paleo Crockpot Chili (gabbysgfree.com)