The Lone-Star Beef Chili 🌶️ Ketogenic

5 / 5 (3 reviews)

Real chili purists advocate for a chili with little tomato and no beans. The beef is the star of the dish through and through.

By: Gnom Gnom (via Gnom Gnom)
Original Publish: Sep 5, 2017
Last Updated: Mar 1, 2026
Prep: 30 mins
Cook: 210 mins
Yields: 6, 6 servings

Nutrition Facts

245 kcalCalories
15 gProtein
4 gCarbs
17 gFat
Finished The Lone-Star Beef Chili 🌶️ Ketogenic

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Heat up olive oil in a dutch oven or large pot over medium/high heat. Add garlic and sauté until golden. Add onion, and cook for 12-15 minutes over medium/high heat until fully browned.

  2. Lower heat to medium, add ground beef, cloves and a large pinch of salt. Cook until fully browned, 6 to 8 minutes, stirring every so often.

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Chef's Notes

*If no chile ancho powder is at hand, feel free to substitute for ground or pickled chipotle, or more cayenne. 
If you’re restricting carbs further, feel free to sub the beer and stock for water and 2 stalks of celery (sautéed along with the onion).

Notes*If no chile ancho powder is at hand, feel free to substitute for ground or pickled chipotle, or more cayenne. 

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Mia ★ 5.0/5

Hi!
I’ve made the Lone Star chili a couple of times now. The first batch I used beer and it was good but I felt like it was just shy of amazing, so in the next batch I doubled the recipe adding a half a pound of bacon (I sweated the bacon in the pan until I had a nice amount of the fat rendered out before browning the onion and garlic) and I substituted whiskey for the beer. When it was time to set it to a slow simmer I transferred everything to my crockpot, set it low and let it go for about 5hrs.
The end result? AMAZING!!! And a new family favorite!
Thank you so much for posting this recipe!

Devyn ★ 5.0/5

I noticed on the first recipe the instructions do not clarify when the beef stock is added? I added it with the beer.

dianars ★ 5.0/5

So this might just be the BEST chili I ever had (I made the second one- granny's version). I didn't have the ancho chile so I just used the pickled chipotle. I'm not sure what it is out of all of it (the beer?!), but it's really very tasty. there were no leftovers!! so next time i'll make double!

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