Award Winning Chili Recipe. Combining Italian Sausage and Ground Pork And Ground Sirloin builds a layer of flavors that is unforgettable. This is simply the best chili recipe winner. Let’s take a look.
Serve this with my recipe for Cornbread with Creamed Corn. It’s a perfect side for this recipe.
This is what one would officially refer to as “hauling out the big guns”. I’m sharing my award winning Chili Recipe.
About five years ago, I won 2nd Place with my chili recipe in a Douglas County Chili Cook-off down in Castle Rock. I had to come up with a name for it when I entered. Since it was somewhat like my Dad’s “Chili Soup” that he used to make when I was growing up, but then again nothing like my dad used to make, I decided on “Toto, I Have A Feeling We’re Not In Kansas Anymore Chili”.
Chili cook-offs are fun! If you’re looking to win a prize, take a look at this Denver chili cook-off winner for Bison Chili. With black beans, this is a popular choice.
What makes this recipe different and delicious? You see, I’m a big Italian Sausage fan and just couldn’t resist throwing some into my family version.
With the wonderful mix of spices in this chili recipe, it doesn’t over power and seems to blend right into the mix. The usual suspects, pinto beans are present, but I also added in kidney beans for additional texture and color.
The key to any successful soup or stew recipe is good quality meat and spices and a long perking simmer. There’s always packets of chili seasoning you an buy at the store, but why not concoct your own.
This recipe includes a great spice combination for a rich flavored bowl of chili. I’m particularly proud of adding smoked paprika. I always like a little sweet, so this recipe contains a bit of brown sugar.
And then there’s some red wine.
Sprinkle with some grated cheddar and chopped cilantro, and serve with warm flour tortillas, saltine crackers, or even corn chips. Dig in.
Award Winning Chili Recipe
I hope you give this award winning chili recipe a try. And if you do, please come back and let me know how you liked it and give the recipe a star rating.
Your feedback is valuable to me for developing future recipes. And if you have a favorite award winning chili recipe, let me know, I’d love to give it a try.
And if you’re looking for more comfort food soup and chili recipes, don’t miss my Soup Category. You’ll find lots of great recipes, including the most popular on my site for Hatch Green Chili with Pork.
More Beef Chili Recipes:
- Anthony Bourdain’s New Mexico Style Beef Chili
- Bourbon Beef and Bean Chili
- or make a Burrito with that left over Chili, Chili Burrito Recipe
The biggest reward a cook can have is hearing from fans.
Award Winning Chili Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 pound Ground sirloin
- 1 pound ground pork
- ½ pound Italian sausage bulk
- 2 whole onions chopped
- 2 jalapeno pepper seeds and stems removed and minced
- 1 cup chopped green bell pepper
- 8 garlic clove chopped
- 2 Tablespoons Chili Powder
- 3 Tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 Tablespoon ground cumin
- 2 teaspoons smoked paprika
- 3 Tablespoons tomato paste
- 1 Tablespoon ground coriander
- 1 Tablespoon Mexican oregano
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 California bay leaves
- 1 ½ cup Merlot Wine
- 28 ounce can chopped tomatoes fire-roasted is good here
- 28 ounce can Pinto beans drained and rinsed
- 14 ounce can Kidney beans drained and rinsed
- 1 Cup water
- 1 teaspoon Better than Bouillon beef bouillon
- ½ cup sharp cheddar cheese shredded
Instructions
- Heat a large dutch oven over medium high heat. Add 2 tablespoons olive oil.
- Add sausage, onion, sirloin, pork, jalapeno, green bell pepper and garlic.
- Cook 8 minutes or until sausage and beef are browned. Add chili powder and next 10 ingredients (through bay leaves) and cook 1 minute stirring constantly.
- Stir in wine, tomatoes and drained beans. Dissolve bouillon in water and add to chili. Add more water if necessary for consistency.
- Cover and cook on low for at least 1 hour, stirring occasionally.
- Uncover and cook on low for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Discard bay leaves.
- Serving suggestions: grated cheese, saltine crackers, flour tortillas, corn chips, fresh chopped onion, thin sliced radishes.
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Award Winning Chili Recipe … It’s What’s for Dinner.
Why Trust These Recipes? Lea Ann Brown has lived, worked and played in Colorado for 45 years. She has immersed herself in the Colorado Culinary space, is a Culinary School Graduate and publishes her Colorado food Blog, Cooking On The Ranch.
I’ve always like you ;).
The Aji Amarillo chile powder sure looks interesting. I’ve been using the paste, but I could see where the powder would add a bit of zip to a lot of dishes.
Your chili sounds great – I haven’t made any in ages. Oh, how I would love a store like that near to me!
Great job and congratulations on the chili! And, this is a blast from the past – I haven’t thought about that shop in years! My sister-in-law and brother must still go there. I remember they had the best dip mixes! Oh my gosh – I forgot all about that. Seems like there was a bacon dressing that was out of this world. I used to live in Littleton, and Englewood and Aurora. Thanks for sharing your award winning recipe!
And I liked you on Facebook!
First of all, thanks for that killer chili recipe! WOW! is all I can say.
I went over to the spice shop and got carried away with the extracts. That’s what I’d love. Saw several there I wanted.
The chili looks and sounds outstanding! I can see how it won with it! And I LOVE Savory Spice … I order stuff from there all the time!! The one thing I have never ordered that I would love to try.. their vanilla bean paste…. oh the things I could make with that!!!!
Whoa. With all those delicious spices…I can definitely see why this is award-winning!
What a beautiful chili!
I like your page on Facebook and I found: Mahlab – I would love to try this in baking a sweet bread or two!
Congratulations! What a creative name for your chili!
Wasabi poder tickles the nasal passages and it is great with sushi..pure, unadulterated wasbi powder is rare to find ..
I liked highlandsranchfoodie too!
Congratulations! What a creative name for your chili! Does Anise essential oil qualify as a spice? When I visited their website, I was intrigued by the thought of using it not just in pastries and desserts but in savory dishes as well. Real pure wasabi powder is also hard to find and it quickly tickles nasal passages!
Oh boy you are on FB and I liked it. The Powdered Honey caught my eye. I think it would be great in barbeque rubs. I did not know it existed till now.
Oh my goodness, I am so jealous of you! A local spice shop!! That is wonderful!
This chili looks fantastic. No wonder you placed in the contest. I love Savory Spice Shop too. I do have to say that I stumped them some time ago with a request for pandan. I didn’t know whether to be sad that they didn’t have it or amazed that I had one up on them. Beautiful photo!
I WOULD LOVE TO TRY THE VANILLA BEAN PASTE, BLACK CUMIN, MEDITARREAN THYME
Love the Savory Spice Shop, too! Their spices are wonderful.
Congratulations on your first place. You never shared this.
The ingredients to the chili sound very tasty, I will safe the recipe to be tried. Thanks!
Hi Lea Ann. I’m not entering the giveaway but wanted to comment on how wonderful your chili recipe looks! I love sirloin in chili and really love chili! Also share your sentiments about Savory Spice shop. I did a post about our local shop sometime ago and am mad for all the different spices they offer. Really an amazing store.
I had difficulty leaving a comment this morning on your Joy the Baker post and wanted to say OF COURSE you can bake! We’ve seen you do it. Glad you’ve gotten on board with this fun endeavor but don’t sell yourself short! You are a wonderful cook.
First – congrats on the contest showing. Second – Thanks for sharing your recipe – It sounds delicious and we’ll have to try it. Third – I visited the spice site again and I can see why you like it, plus I know they are good. I like their spice names and the one that caught my eye was “Red Rocks Hickory Smoke Seasoning” for use in my scrambled eggs of course. Finally I did that facebook thingy.
Done and done! I feel like I have already won because Savory Spice has sent me so many crazy good spices and blends, AND I have your prize winning chili recipe. I love these unusual ingredients like wine and Italian sausage. Yum!
I already “like” you on Facebook – I’ve been liking you forEVER! 🙂
LOL, and now that I’ve left a comment on Savory Spice, I’ll tell you that I am SMITTEN with their shop and the crazy good service and spices! I just got my Harissa blend and made some sauce that I put on a frittata and I tried it on baked chicken, too. LOVE it!
It’s always fun to see what they will throw in as a freebie when I get my orders, too. I’m a total fan of that shop and enjoyed those pictures!
Fine looking chili… And hats off to you supporting a local small business. I just put them on my link page.