Beef Rib Chili

Preparation info
  • Makes

    6 to 8

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Barbacoa: The Heart of Tex-Mex Barbecue

By Brandon Hurtado

Published 2025

  • About

Chili is one of those dishes that everyone makes, but not everyone makes it with a smoked beef rib that would typically cost $50 to $65 at a craft barbecue restaurant. When I operated out of a food trailer, I’d sometimes have trouble selling out of beef ribs and would be left with two or three racks that I couldn’t reheat to sell again. So, I figured, beef rib chili—why the hell not? It was an instant hit and I found myself selling more beef rib chili than I could smoke beef ribs to make. C