Sharing Walt’s Chili recipe today inspired from Disneyland! This award winning chili recipe makes the perfect chili night!
Award Winning Chili
If you ask me, Walt’s Chili is absolutely an award winning chili! This is a version inspired by Carnation Cafe on Main Street, U.S.A. I tested it today and let me tell you, it’s perfect! In all honesty, I probably won’t ever need to make another chili recipe. It’s that good! I love to enjoy Walt’s Chili from Carnation Cafe on Main Street, U.S.A. The best!
Be sure to also try Loaded Baked Potato Soup from Disneyland too! Follow Picky Palate on Instagram for daily recipe inspiration!
What You’ll Need
- extra virgin olive oil for sautéing vegetables
- onion
- green bell pepper
- jalapeños
- garlic
- parsley
- pinto beans
- diced tomatoes
- water
- chicken broth
- butter
- ground beef
- ground sausage
- kosher salt
- black pepper
- ground cumin
- chili powder
- sour cream
- diced fresh tomatoes
- green onion, chives or chopped parsley
How To Make The Best Chili
- Heat oil in large soup pot over medium heat. When hot, saute onions, green bell pepper, and minced jalapeno. Cook for about 10 minutes until tender. Add pinto beans, diced tomatoes, 3/4 cup parsley and water.
- In a separate medium pot, melt butter over medium heat. Add ground beef and sausage. Season with salt and pepper, cooking until browned. Drain most of fat, leaving a little still in meat. Season with chili powder and cumin, stirring to combine.
- Transfer cooked beef/sausage to vegetable pot, carefully stirring. Cover and simmer for 30 minutes to 1 hour.
- Place chili into soup bowls and top with shredded cheddar cheese, fresh diced tomatoes and sour cream drizzles. Add additional chopped parsley on top if desired.
Once vegetables are sautéed, add beans, tomatoes and chopped fresh parsley.
Add water and chicken broth. Let simmer.
In a separate pot or large skillet, melt butter and brown ground beef and sausage. Season with salt and pepper, stirring until cooked and browned.
Once the beef/sausage has cooked, drain and add cumin and chili powder. Stir to combine.
Add cooked beef/sausage to the vegetables and bean pot, stirring to combine. Cover and let simmer for 30 minutes to an hour before serving.
For each bowl of chili, top with shredded cheese, fresh chopped tomatoes…and to get the sour cream drizzle, I put a scoop of sour cream into a ziplock baggie, snip an end and drizzle over soup.
Garnish with either chopped green onion, chives or chopped parsley.
How To Serve Walt’s Chili
Enjoy this bowl of chili with a side of saltine crackers just like it’s served at Carnation Cafe. A soft roll is another great option. We also serve our chili with a big chopped salad.
Walt's Chili Recipe (Inspired by Carnation Cafe, Main Street, U.S.A.)
Equipment
- Stove
- cutting board
- chef knife
- soup pot
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 large green bell pepper diced
- 1 large white onion coarsely diced
- 2 tablespoons minced garlic
- 2 large jalapeños minced
- 2 15 ounce cans pinto beans
- 2 15 ounce cans diced tomatoes in juice
- 1 cup parsley chopped
- 2 cups water
- 1 1/2 cups reduced sodium chicken broth
- 1 stick salted butter
- 2 1/2 pounds ground beef
- 1 pound ground sausage I used Jimmy Dean in roll
- 1 tablespoon kosher salt
- 2 teaspoons freshly cracked black pepper
- 1/3 cup chili powder
- 2 tablespoons ground cumin
Garnish
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh tomatoes
- 1/4 cup chopped green onions chives or parsley (I had parsley on hand so used that)
Instructions
- Heat oil in large soup pot over medium heat. When hot, saute onions, green bell pepper, and minced jalapeno. Cook for about 10 minutes until tender. Add pinto beans, diced tomatoes, 3/4 cup parsley, water and broth. Reduce heat to low to simmer.
- In a separate medium pot, melt butter over medium heat. Add ground beef and sausage. Season with salt and pepper, cooking until browned. Drain most of fat, leaving a little still in meat. Season with chili powder and cumin, stirring to combine.
- Transfer cooked beef/sausage to vegetable pot, carefully stirring. Cover and simmer for 30 minutes to 1 hour.
- Place chili into soup bowls and top with shredded cheddar cheese, fresh diced tomatoes and sour cream drizzles.
Best chili hands down! Loved the spices and added some canned beef broth as well.
Thank you for this recipe. I’m going to try it out this weekend. I noticed it’s different than the “Walt’s Chili” recipe on the D23 website so I may substitute a few ingredients. I realize these recipes are Disney “inspired”. Thank you for the step-by-step directions and photos.
I’m usually not a big chili fan but I made this for my family and loved it!
I made this tonight and it was seriously delicious! My entire family loved it! Can’t wait to make it again, it’s definitely going on our monthly menu schedule!
I have never commented on a blog or recipe before but I had to for this. This is the best chili I’ve ever had! Possibly better than Disneyland’s. My friends made this for me and it was the best. (And they are just learning to cook) I took some leftovers to my parents and they loved it. My dad said he never liked chili til he tried that chili. I was worried there was too much chili powder but it was perfect. Not spicy at all because they de-veined and de-seeded the jalapenos.
One notable change though- they used ground pork instead of sausage. I would make it that way every time. Not sure if I’d like it as much with Jimmy Dean’s breakfast sausage.
This recipe is different from the Walts chili that Disney posted but I think this one is better.
Thank you for sharing this recipe. ❤
In your recipe it says 1/3 CUP of Chili powder. That is A LOT….are you sure that is right? Thanks!
Hi Samantha, that is correct 🙂 It makes lots of chili.
I loved this! But I couldn’t find where to use the minced garlic?
Hi Sarah, it goes in with the onion. I’ll go make sure I make it more clear in the instructions. So glad you enjoyed 🙂