Homemade Slow Cooker Wendys Chili Recipes

SLOW COOKER COPYCAT WENDY'S CHILI

Steps:

• In a large skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat. Add ground beef and season with salt and pepper. Press the beef down into the pan to make a really big patty. Cook the beef until it begins to caramelize on the bottom. Then break up the ground beef and continue cooking until no longer pink.
• Drain any grease from the skillet and transfer the cooked beef into a 6-quart slow cooker.
• Add celery, onion, green pepper, stewed tomatoes, tomato soup, water, and tomato sauce to the slow cooker. Stir to combine, breaking up the stewed tomatoes with the spoon as you stir.
• Add chili seasoning, kidney beans, and pinto beans to the slow cooker and stir.
• Put the lid on the slow cooker and cook on LOW for 6 - 8 hours or on HIGH for 4 - 6 hours without removing the lid. This chili will be thin at first and will thicken upon standing once the heat is turned off. If you like a thicker chili, remove the lid during the last hour of cooking, turn the temp to HIGH, and stir occasionally to allow some of the liquid to evaporate.
• Check the seasoning and add salt and pepper to your taste.
• Portion into bowls and garnish with shredded white cheddar cheese and a jalapeno slice or two. Serve warm.

WENDY'S COPYCAT CHILI

Steps:

• Place ground beef in a large pot over medium-high heat. Stir and break the ground beef into crumbles and cook until no longer pink.
• Drain beef of excess grease.
• Return beef to pot, stir in celery, onion, and green bell pepper into ground beef and cook until onion is translucent, about 5 minutes.
• Pour in stewed tomatoes, diced tomatoes with green chiles, tomato sauce, and water. Break apart large pieces of stewed tomatoes.
• Stir in chili seasoning.
• Add kidney beans, pinto beans and season with salt and black pepper; bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat to low and simmer for 1 hour.
• Mix vinegar into chili.
• Ladle into bowls and serve.

JUST LIKE WENDY'S® CHILI

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Press ground beef into the hot oil to form one large patty; let the bottom brown, 8 to 10 minutes. Stir and break the ground beef into crumbles and cook until no longer pink, about 5 more minutes.
• Stir celery, onion, and green bell pepper into ground beef and cook until onion is translucent, about 5 minutes; pour in stewed tomatoes, diced tomatoes with green chiles, tomato sauce, and water. Break apart large chunks of stewed tomatoes. Stir in chili seasoning.
• Mix kidney beans and pinto beans into chili, season with salt and black pepper, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 1 hour. Mix vinegar into chili.