Pizza Chili
This Pizza Chili is a hearty dish filled with beef, sausage, pepperoni, and green peppers simmering in a salsa pizza sauce. It makes enough to feed a crowd so invite your friends over!
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PIZZA CHILI
Florida was in the 50’s this week. I have a sweater and my seat warmer on if it gets anything below 75 degrees. I’m such a wimp. I don’t know how you guys in cold weather do it. Especially my friends in Buffalo.
I don’t want to workout and have zero motivation to do anything around the house. All I want to do it snuggle on the couch and eat. I usually make this chili every Halloween but this year I decided to try something new. How can you go wrong with Pizza Chili?
I’m not going to lie. This has a ton of meat in it. 3 pounds. It’s enough to feed an army. One thing I did was cook the pepperoni with the beef and sausage to render out some of the fat.
There’s nothing worse than fat skimming the top of your chili. The pizza sauce is key here. It gives it that pizza flavor. I added a little more oregano just because that’s how I like it. The salsa and the pepperoni give it a little kick.
Nothing crazy. Toddlers can eat it – at least mine did.
OTHER SOUP RECIPES
- Panera’s Broccoli Cheddar Soup
- Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup
- Easy Tomato Soup
- Mom’s White Chicken Chili
- Creamy Chicken Potato soup
- Spicy Chicken Enchilada Soup
- Chicken Cordon Bleu Soup
- Egg Drop Soup
- Zuppa Toscana
Pizza Chili
Ingredients
- 2 pounds ground beef
- 1 pound Italian sausage
- 1 (8 ounces) package sliced pepperoni, halved
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 1 large green pepper, seeded and chopped
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 (16 ounces) jar salsa
- 1 can (16 ounces) hot chili beans, undrained
- 1 can (16 ounces) kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 can (12 ounces) pizza sauce
- 1 cup water
- 2 teaspoons chili powder
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 3 cups (12 ounces) shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
Instructions
- In a large Dutch oven, cook the beef, sausage, pepperoni, onion, green pepper and garlic over medium heat until meat is no longer pink; drain.
- Stir in the salsa, beans, pizza sauce, water, chili powder, oregano, salt and pepper. Bring mixture to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 20 minutes or until heated through. Sprinkle servings with cheese.
Notes
Very good recipe. Side note here: when it comes to pizzas at our house, which we do a lot of, (we are on our fifth Presto Pizza Pizzazz maker!) one “go to” we use to season the pizzas is Chef Paul Prudhomme’s Pizza and Pasta Magic Seasoning (green cap.) It works wonders. There also is a red cap Hot and Sweet version. Both are used in our house, on pizza and pasta.
Good to know!
Hey there, I’m a huge fan of pizza, and this spicy pizza looks way awesome!
Thank you!
This looks so good. Two of our favorite things in one. We don’t do spicy so I will will use regular chili beans and maybe 1/2 -1 teaspoon chili powder may just leave it out.
Good call. Hope you enjoy!
We made this last year (2016) for our church chili cook off and won!! Making it again today only doubling it, fingers crossed we bring home the trophy 2nd yr in a row! We used the mini pepperonis and added black olives to the top with the cheese. Thanks for the fun recipe.
I love the mini pepperonis! I love hearing that!
I love spicy pizza! Gorgeous colors, and my kind of ingredients. Looks great! Thx for sharing!
Thank you!
Can it be cooked in a slow cooker so the beans are soft? My husband hates hard beans.
I guess! I don’t like mushy beans and I’ve never tried it in a slow cooker but who knows.
Oh. My. Word. This chili is amazing.
I did a couple things different though – it didn’t seem like there was enough sauce. Following the recipe, the sauce barely covered the meat. Your picture looked like it had plenty of sauce so I was a little thrown off. I’m a fan of hearty chili but I wanted to need a spoon. So I doubled the pizza sauce, salsa and water and it was perfect. Still super-hearty.
Next -I used mild chili beans since Aldi’s only had mild, no hot. Then I was worried there wouldn’t be enough spice, so I bought hot Italian sausage instead of plain pork sausage. Spicy, but my 2 yr old just ate half my bowl so it must not have been too spicy.
It. Rocked.
Thank you. 👍😊
Thank you! and I love your changes too!
I’m looking for something to take to a chili cook off. This sounds like something different so I’m going to try it. What kind of sausage do you use? Pork sausage?
Yes, pork sausage!
Where did the recipe go?! It sounds so good!
Did you ever find where the pizza chili recipe is ?? It sounds so good…would love to have the recipe. We love pizza !! If you licate it would appreciate your shsring it. Thanks.
Sorry! It’s back. It disappeared.
THIS IS MY FATHER’S IDEA! ‘ BUK (HIS NAME) SOUP ‘
I CAN CORN BEEF
2 CANS CAMPBELL’S VEGITABLE BEEF (ABC) SOUP
( NOT VEGITARIAN)
MIX SOUP & FORK CHIPED CORN BEEF IN PAN – STIR
ADD V E R Y LITL WATER
HEAT IN MIKROWAVE UNTIL HOT – STIR
SERVES 2 – 3
PS: BE SURE TU USE HIS NAME
Haha. Thanks!! I love it.
Im not going to lie I was a little skeptical about this, but I was going to my moms for her birthday and had to make something last minute so I tried this. You would have thought I was Martha Stewart herself! Everyone loved its so thank you very much!
Glad you liked it. I just made it again tonight and everyone loved it.
I definitely am in the mood for chili tonight after seeing this post! Incredibly delicious images especially… pinned!
Yummy! Perfect winter comfort food!
This looks amazing and will be a get alternative to the tradition chili I make for my family!
I love chili during the winter. This is change up version of it which I KNOW will be quite popular.
This has football Saturday and food coma written all over it in the best possible way!
Wow! This sounds wonderful. Pepperoni in chili, yum! And I am so with you on cold weather. I hope all the predictions for this winter are wrong and it’s a very mild winter. But it’s not looking good right now…
I totally feel you on the cold thing! California has been in the mid 60s all week (it’s about time) and I have been bundled up. You’d think it was the dead of winter with my outfits. Maybe this fantastic pizza chili will do the trick in keeping me warm! It looks so delish. Can’t wait to try 🙂
Pizza Chili, yum … very interesting dish:)
Oh my – pizza chili??? Yum!!!
This sounds perfect. I’m all over any soup that only takes 20 minutes to simmer. Also, pepperoni in soup?? Awesome.
Two of my absolute favorite things in one! This sounds so warm and cozy 🙂 Unfortunately, I’m a wimp, too, but live in Seattle, and grew up in Iowa! 😉