This weekend I made EGGfest Chili for the second time. This recipe is from the new Big Green Egg Cookbook. I’m a big fan!

What makes this chili unique is that you smoke it for a while on the Big Green Egg. Here is the Le Creuset going on the grill.

Blue Le Creuset dutch oven filled with red chili containing beans, carrots, celery, and ground meat, sitting on an open Big Green Egg ceramic grill outdoors in winter.

A couple of hours later and you can see that the chili has darkened and steeped itself to deliciousness.

Steaming pot of dark red chili simmering in a black Dutch oven on a Big Green Egg ceramic grill outdoors in winter

What was a blue pot, now looks completely black. That is the smoke residue. Don’t worry, an SOS pad gets it looking like new in no time.

Large black cast iron Dutch oven filled with deeply browned tomato-based chili sitting on a gas stovetop burner

This is easily the best chili I’ve ever made.