Who doesn't love a crockpot chili recipe? As our family aims to maintain a low oxalate diet, I've had to tweak a standard chili recipe to keep it meat based and low oxalate per serving.

With some simple swaps its very possible to enjoy chili and maintain a healthy range for oxalate consumption!

Crockpot chili is a great dish for the family, its wonderful in the fall and winter months and makes it easy to create a meal full of nutrient dense ingredients that isn't boarding. I love the crockpot because it allows you to cook a great meal without all that time over the stove. https://www.allrecipes.com/longform/history-of-chili/

We love to pair our chili with some corn chips, Mexican cheese, sour cream and avocado or guacamole.

** Check out my recipe for a delicious, easy, homemade, sour cream that pairs so well with chili: https://thelowoxalatechef.com/homemade-sour-cream-recipe/

Equipment:

You will need a crockpot, sauce pan, pairing knife, wooden spatula, cutting board, strainer and measuring spoon and Pyrex measuring cup. It's important to have all you equipment ready to go, so the cooking process moves smoothly. I do try and make sure that I use stainless steel cookware to lower our level of toxicity.

Ingredients:

Ground beef and a mix of the old world version (liver and heart mix)
Yellow onion
Red bell pepper
Orange bell pepper
Cherry tomatoes
Rosemary
Red pepper flakes
Chili powder
Maple syrup
Half and half
Beef broth
Tomato paste
Butter

Crockpot Chili Recipe:

Gather all your ingredients, chop your veggies and prepare to move through the cooking process quickly. It really helps to have everything measured and chopped.

Beef broth and tomato paste for chili recipe

Add your beef broth and your tomato paste into the crockpot and mix them well, I like to turn on the crockpot and let the broth warm while I am prepping the rest of the ingredients.

browned ground beef and organ mixture for chili

Add your ground beef to your pan to brown. Sprinkle your ground beef and organ mix with Redmond's salt, brown your meat fully.

Chopped vegetables to add to my chili recipe

While your ground beef and organ mix is browning, chop your onion, peppers and cherry tomatoes.

Browned ground beef and organ mix to add to my chili recipe

Once your ground beef, organ mix has finished browning, add it to the strainer and let the extra fat drain off the meat. Too much fat will ruin your crockpot chili recipe.

While your ground beef mix is straining, add some butter to your pan, add your onions, sprinkle the onions with Redmond's salt. Sautee your onions for about 5 minutes, then add your peppers and let them soften.

Once you have prepped and cooked your meat, sauteed your vegetables and cut up your cherry tomatoes, add them to the the crockpot. Add your spices. I like to stir to combined all ingredients.

Once all your ingredients have been added to the crockpot cover with your lid and let it cook for 4 -6 hours on high heat. I prefer to cook for 4 hours.

Crockpot Chili Recipe

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A twist on the standard high oxalate chili recipes, it's easy to make, delicious and nutrient dense and allows you to control your oxalate intake.

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Prep Time 30

Cook Time 4

Total Time 4 30

Course Lunch, Main Course

Cuisine American

Servings 8

Calories 4030 kcal

Equipment

1 Crockpot
1 Sauce pan
1 Pairing knife
1 Wooden cutting board
1 Strainer
1 Wooden Spatula
1 Pyrex measuring Cup
1 Measuring spoon

Ingredients

2 lb. Ground beef No oxalate
1 lb. Old world mix No oxalate - Ground beef and organ mix - If you don't have this you can just use 3 lb. of ground beef.
1 Yellow onion 3 mg of oxalate
2 Red Peppers 18 mg of oxalate
2 Cups Cherry tomatoes 36 mg of oxalate
2 teaspoon Rosemary 2 mg of oxalate
2 teaspoon Chili powder 9 mg of oxalate
2 teaspoon Red pepper flakes 4 mg of oxalate
2 tablespoon Maple syrup 2 mg of oxalate
½ Cup Half and half no oxalate
3 Cups Beef broth no oxalate
10 tablespoon Tomato paste 40 mg of oxalate

Instructions

Gather all your equipment and ingredients to move smoothly through the recipe.
Add your beef broth and your tomato paste to your crockpot, whisk them together and turn on your heat, I like to warm the broth while I am preparing the other ingredients.
Start browning your ground beef and organ mix in your skillet, once you have browned your meat, you want to strain it to let the fat drain. Too much fat will over take the recipe.
Chop and dice your peppers, onions and cherry tomatoes.
Sautee your onions till they caramelize, 5 or so minutes. Then add in your peppers and sauté them till they are soft.
Add your cherry tomatoes to the broth, then add in your sauté vegetables and then add your meat.
Add your rosemary, red pepper flakes and chili powder to the crockpot.
Add in your maple syrup and your half and half.
Stir all your ingredients together.
Cover with your lid and let it cook for 4-6 hours on high heat. I personally think 4 hours is perfect on high heat.

Notes

This entire meal comes to 114 mg of oxalate for a 6 quart crockpot, that's a lot of food. If you get 6 servings it is 19 mg per serving, if you get 8 servings it is 14 mg of oxalate, if you get 10 servings its 11 mg of oxalate and if you get 12 servings its 9 mg of oxalate. Everyone's serving size is different, so I gave you 4 options to help with portion sized and calculate your oxalate intake.

For my family I try to maintain their oxalate around 75 - 100 mg a day.

Some people require a low oxalate diet, which is 60 mg or less of oxalate daily.

Understanding how much oxalate is in a particular food, allows you to be able to play with medium to low oxalate items and maintain a good level of oxalate that works for you.

This chili dish gets us 2 - 3 days of meals.

My family loves to pair this with some corn chips, our homemade sour cream, Mexican cheese and guacamole or fresh cut avocado.

Lastly, I have broken down the recipe so you can can tweak to your liking, if you want to use less cherry tomatoes you can or less tomato paste, it makes it easy for you add or remove ingredients that don't work!

Keyword Chili, Crockpot chili, easy crockpot chili, homemade crockpot chili, meat, nutrient dense

Nutritional Notes:

Ground beef is such a great nutrient dense food. I love using it for the base of my chili and a great mix up is added the organ meat for some extra vitamins and minerals. Chili is a delicious meal but many of the recipes are very high in oxalate, I wanted to create a meal that still gives the chili feel but with safer levels of oxalate per serving. Ground beef provides and organ meats provide B vitamins, protein, good fats, carnitine, zinc and selenium, to name a few. It's important to remember that high oxalate foods deplete the nutrients from the food and from the body. Our goal when eating nourish our bodies, if the toxicity of the food is too high, we are doing the opposite.