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Slow Cooker Chili Casserole

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Slow cooker chili casserole is chili flavored, cheesy, tortilla-layered casserole. Perfect for busy weeknights, Sunday dinners, or game-day events, this casserole allows you to enjoy the flavors of chili but in casserole form. Ground beef, sausage, red kidney beans, diced tomatoes, slow cook together with a homemade chili seasonings. Add in tortillas and cheese and you have a comforting crockpot meal the entire family will enjoy.

Ingredients

Units Scale
  • 1 pound ground beef
  • 1 pound ground sausage
  • 4 tortillas
  • 4 cups cheddar shredded cheese
  • 15 ounces red kidney beans, drained & rinsed
  • 15 ounces diced tomatoes in juices
  • 1/2 cup onion, diced
  • 2 garlic cloves, minced
  • 1 tablespoons chili powder
  • 2 teaspoons cumin
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons salt (or more)
  • 1 teaspoon paprika
  • 1 teaspoon oregano
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper

Instructions

Slow Cooker

  1. In a large skillet over medium-heat, add the ground beef, ground sausage, onion and garlic. Cook approximately 5-7 minutes or until the meat browned and the onion soft. Crumble the meat as it cooks. Drain excess grease. Stir in kidney beans, diced tomatoes, chili powder, cumin, salt, paprika, oregano, and pepper. Mix until well combined.
  2. Spray the slow cooker generously with cooking spray. Spread 1/3 of meat mixture on the bottom, top with 1/3 of the cheese. add 2 tortillas. You may need to overlap the tortillas.
  3. Repeat the layers: another 1/3 of the ground meat mixture, another 1/3 of the cheese, 2 more tortillas.
  4. Top with the remaining 1/3 of ground meat mixture, and then the remaining 1/3 cheese.
  5. Cook HIGH 2-3 hours or LOW 4-6.

BAKE

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Spray a 9×13 baking dish with cooking spray.
  2. In a large skillet over medium-heat, add the ground beef, ground sausage, onion and garlic. Cook approximately 5-7 minutes or until the meat browned and the onion soft. Crumble the meat as it cooks. Drain excess grease. Stir in kidney beans, diced tomatoes, chili powder, cumin, salt, paprika, oregano, and pepper. Mix until well combined.
  3. Spread 1/3 of  the ground meat mixture on the bottom of the baking dish. Top 1/3 of the cheese. Add 2 of the tortillas. You may need to overlap them in the middle to make them fit.
  4. Repeat layers: 1/3 of the ground meat mixture, another 1/3 of the cheese, 2 more tortillas.
  5. Top with the remaining 1/3 of ground meat mixture, and then the remaining 1/3 cheese.
  6. Bake uncovered for 30 minutes or until cheese is bubbling & starting to brown.
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