Recipes

Paleo Friendly Chili

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Here is how we make a paleo friendly chili.

Chili is a staple meal in our household, we usually make it every other week or less.When we decided to follow a paleo based diet this concerned me because beans are discouraged on a paleo diet. How the heck can you have chili without beans?

Well here’s how we do it. I assembled some supplies.

I had some ground beef from a friends farm in the freezer yet, so I threw that in a pan

The carrots were from a local farm that is sold through the grocery store here in town. Rural life is good.

So I chopped them up into about 3/4in cubes and threw them into the crock pot.

I peeled and halved the butternut squash.

I chopped that up in 3/4 in pieces and threw them in the crock pot as well.

I chopped up the green pepper and red pepper and threw that into the crock pot.

Colorful, isn’t it?

So I grabbed the garlic.

To quickly peel garlic without losing a finger, just peel off a clove.

Lay your knife blade flat across it and push down on the blade to squish the garlic, tilt the blade down a little so you don’t cut yourself.

The result is a crushed clove with the garlic halfway popped out of the skin.

So I chopped that up and threw it into the crock pot.

I dumped a 1/8th cup of chili powder on top.

And poured two 8 oz cans of tomato sauce and a large can of crushed tomatoes over the whole thing.

By this time the beef was well cooked so I quickly drained the excess grease.

And poured that over the tomatoes and another 1/8th cup of chili powder to basically build layer of flavors.

I stirred it all up and set the crock pot on high for 5 hours, making sure to stir it every hour.

It was outstanding, my wife and I both agreed it would make a excellent spaghetti sauce, so we will be making a couple more big batches and canning it up for the pantry.