Over the Top Chili Recipe

If you are looking for an interesting game day meal look no further. Over the top chili is chili cooked on the smoker with a giant meatball cooking above it dripping into the chili. The smoked meat from the meatball when added to the chili mix makes for some amazingly flavorful chili that you will want ot make agian and again.

Recipe Information

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Preheat your smoker or grill to 225 degrees (If smoking hickory, apple, or cherry are good wood choices)
  2. Chop up onion, red pepper, and kelbasa
  3. Put oil in pan and toss in onion, red pepper, and mushrooms to saute for 6 - 7 minutes
  4. Add sauted vegetables to cooking pan along with kelbasa, rotel, diced tomatos, tomato sauce and chili seasoning and mix well
  5. Form hamburger into a giant oval meatball and season with salt and pepper (or your own favorite seasonings for burger)
  6. Place meatball on wire rack and place wire rack on top of cook pot
  7. Put cook pot in smoker and let cook until internal temperature of the meatball reaches 155 degrees (about 2 hours)
  8. Remove meatball and chop up the meat and mix into the chili mix.
  9. Let cook for another hour or two on the smoker
  10. Serve and enjoy!