# Over the Top Beef Chili

A smoky and hearty chili made with ground chuck and Italian sausage, cooked on the grill in a Dutch oven.

- Cuisine: American
- Category: Soup
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 1 onion
- 1 bell pepper
- plenty olive oil
- garlic
- spices
- diced tomatoes
- tomato sauce
- tomato paste
- chicken stock
- ground chuck (80/20 mix)
- 3 hot Italian sausages
- beans
- Fritos
- cheese
- sour cream
- scallions

## Instructions

1. Dice up an onion and a bell pepper.
2. Add the diced onion and bell pepper to a Dutch oven with plenty of olive oil, garlic, and spices.
3. Add diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato paste, and chicken stock to the Dutch oven and mix it all together.
4. Place the Dutch oven on the grill.
5. For the meat, use an 80/20 mix of ground chuck and three hot Italian sausages.
6. Take the Italian sausages out of their casing.
7. Season the meat mixture with the same spices as the chili.
8. Mix all the meat together and form a large flat patty.
9. Place the meat patty on a wire rack on top of the Dutch oven.
10. Smoke the meat for a few hours.
11. Once the meat is smoked, remove it and crumble it up, leaving it pretty coarse for better texture.
12. Add the crumbled meat back into the chili mix.
13. Add beans to the chili mix.
14. Continue cooking everything together until ready.
15. Plate the chili and finish with your favorite toppings like Fritos, cheese, sour cream, and scallions.

## Equipment

- Dutch oven
- grill
- wire rack

## Tips

- Leave the crumbled meat coarse for better texture.

## Source

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- Extracted: 2026-01-25

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