Smoking Over the Top Chili is a fun recipe method that packs a ton of smoky flavor into our most popular Texas Chili recipe. This method imparts smoky flavor into the chili by simmering a pot of chili in the smoker and also by smoking a ball of ground meat on a rack over the pot. While that ball of seasoned meat smokes, it drips flavorful fat into the pot of chili below. After the smoked ground meat reaches 165 internal temperature, the ball is broken up to to simmer in the pot of chili for the rest of the day.
We used ground venison in this recipe to make it deer chili, but you can use ground beef. Venison is lean and packed with flavor and a favorite in my home as we are an avid outdoors family.
As always, this recipe includes our award winning Texas Chili Seasoning. This recipe does not include beans, but it is a great base recipe, so you can add any fillers that you want to add to make the recipe our own.
Even though the chili is ready as soon as the ground meat is cooked, my preference is to simmer chili all day to impart a lot of smoke into the chili and to let the flavors really meld together. And remember, chili always tastes even better the 2nd day!
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28 Comments
Put a bottle of Guinness in it
Who works 3 hrs lol
What size is the Dutch oven? I’d like to copy this recipe but for 20 people.
Making mine today.
After I watched your video a couple weeks ago I made your recipe for over the top chili. The only variation I took was I cut up 5 jalapeños and added them. Best darn chili I’ve ever ate! Honesty, I was hesitant to not use beans with this recipe, so glad I did not add them! Thanks so much for sharing all your great recipes!
This was absolutely AMAZING!!! I added about a pound of stew meat also. So much flavor going on in this chili. This will be my new go to…
looks so good! this method would work great with white chicken chili too! i love the idea of the smoky meat dripping into the chili
"Well, I'm a man" lol
Texans are so adamant about not including beans because as you say it is more about the flavor of the chilis. When you dumped all those tomatoes in your pot you explained that the original recipes only included chilis. Isn’t that the same issue as diluting the flavor of your chilis with beans…? You are diluting the flavor of your chilis with tomatoes. I like chili with or without beans. Just wondering.
Texans are so adamant about not including beans because as you say it is more about the flavor of the chilis. When you dumped all those tomatoes in your pot you explained that the original recipes only included chilis. Isn’t that the same issue as diluting the flavor of your chilis with beans…? You are diluting the flavor of your chilis with tomatoes. I like chili with or without beans. Just wondering.
What size dutch oven do you use? Would 5.5 qt be enough?
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Thanks for the recipe man! My wife is excited to try it!
Looks so simple and easy to do. My wife and i are renovating the kitchen and the hotplates and oven I'll be ripping out today. My Ironwood XL will be getting a hammering until i finish the kitchen so this will be one of the first thing i will be making on it. As always thanks for sharing. Cheers
Bruce
"Why not in a slow cooker? I'm a man"
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FYI. I would not leave a pellet grill unattended. Ie. while you sleep or while at work. They can catch fire. It happened to me.
Did I miss something? The written instructions say beer is in this, but I don’t see it added during the video.
what brand dutch oven do you use ?
is there any benefit to throwing a whole jalapeno in vs just chopping it up.
interesting technique, imo you could get alot more flavor out of the ground meat if you formed it into a big donut instead of a ball. huge gains in surface area, so you'll get more of that browning/smoke flavor, and you should still be able to fit the whole thing above your pot to catch all the drippings.
I've been using your rubs/recipes for years. My one question on this recipe is at what point did you remove the jalapeño and cinnamon sticks?
Need a Shiner beer in there. I used hamburger, chili meat grind and stew meat. To add different bites.
I use chocolate or a cup of dark black coffee.
"I don't use bean bc the flavor should come from the chilis"
"I'm using a pound of breakfast sausage"
Ok dude
FYI 5.5qt dutch oven is not big enough, I used 10qt and its about 1-2” from the top
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Wish there was an ingredients list, helpful at the store
Anxious to try this tomorrow. Does the jalapeno really break all the way down or is it better to chop it up? I do plan on simmering as you said, 8-9 hours
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