This Slow Cooker Pinto Bean Chili will fill your house with mouth-watering, chili flavor. This recipe is sponsored by Luck’s.
When autumn comes to the south, I look forward to two things.
Leaves on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Slow cooker meals.
Knowing that my favorite chili recipe is cooking in the slow cooker while exploring the vibrant colors of fall on the Blue Ridge Parkway is the best of both worlds. If you live in the south, you know exactly to what I’m referring. If you do not, place an autumn trip to the Blue Ridge Parkway on your bucket list. Regardless of your location, this Slow Cooker Pinto Bean Chili should go on everyone’s fall recipe list.
My husband deemed this “the best chili that has ever been in this house.” He’s partial to anything with pinto beans. As a child, his southern grandmother had a family favorite recipe known as Bean Biscuits filled with, well, pinto beans. It was a scratch made biscuit filled with Luck’s Pinto Beans. Luck’s Pinto Beans are soaked and simmered longer than other pinto beans, making them flavorful for southern-style recipes. I took that same, familiar pinto bean flavor and made a fantastic fall chili.
Rather than using traditional kidney or chili beans, this recipe utilizes pinto beans. The southern flavor shines through with pinto beans, and cooks can add their own variety and amount of spices. Cooking with canned beans makes this recipe easy and convenient, especially for busy families.
Are you ready to crank up that slow cooker? Grab these ingredients and get to cooking!
Slow Cooker Pinto Bean Chili Ingredients:
- (2) Cans of Luck’s Pinto Beans
- (1) pound ground beef
- (1) red onion, diced
- (1) green pepper, diced
- (1) jalapeno pepper, diced
- 13 ounces crushed tomatoes
- 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
- 2 tablespoons chili powder
- 2 tablespoons cumin
- Pink Himalayan sea salt
- Black pepper
- Water
- Optional toppings: mild cheddar shredded cheese, green onion
Directions to Make
Cook the ground beef in a skillet just until browned. This may be done the night before and placed in the refrigerator if you are making the recipe while at work the next day or you do not have time to cook the ground beef right before placing ingredients in the slow cooker.
Place the browned ground beef, onion, green pepper, jalapeno pepper, tomatoes, apple cider vinegar, chili powder, cumin, and Luck’s Pinto Beans in the slow cooker. Stir.
Add sea salt and black pepper as desired. Stir.
Add water, one cup at a time, until the chili is at the desired thickness.
Cook on low for 6 hours.
Serve with optional toppings, chips, or cornbread.
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Luck’s.
What a great recipe. I know my kids would love this. It’s simple enough and looks quick for an amazing after school meal. Thank you for sharing this!
Yummy! I’ve been thinking about making chili for a while now, and my stepson is asking for it. I may have to try this recipe, it’s been so long since I’ve made it I don’t remember it really so this is helpful! Thanks for sharing, I’m game for anything slow cooker!
Oh yum! I love finding new Crock Pot recipes for easy fall and winter cooking on the week days. This one is going to be added to our meal plan for sure. Looks so good and super easy to make. Love that.
Nothing better in the fall than chili! Saving this recipe!
There’s nothing better than comfort food in the fall. This recipe looks delicious and I can’t wait to try it while binge watching Netflix.
Chilli is such a great recipe for the fall. My mouth is watering thinking of how amazing homemade chilli tastes. I’m just starting to transition from vegetarian to vegan and my mother makes the best chilli. It’s a shame there’s ground beef in chilli, I’ll just need to find a recipe that’s vegan friendly.
WOW this looks sooo good! I love chili so much, especially on a cool fall day! I have to try making your recipe. I only have tried a few different ones for chili but I’m always trying to add flavors so I can’t wait! It looks delicious – now if only it would cool off here in New York so I can enjoy a bowl of this on the couch haha!
This looks so gooood! I love chilli and especially the kind that’s cooked this way. This can definitely make for some good comfort food for me. I’ll be trying this out for sure!
I don’t think I give beans enough credit – the only one I really use is garbanzo beans, but your dish looks absolutely delicious! Yum yum yum!