The Secret to the Best Smoked Over the Top Chili

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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