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Instant Pot Slow-Cooked Ground Beef and Cocoa Chili

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Slow-cooking and chili-making are a match made in heaven. The tightened lid of the Instant Pot means that the aroma of the chili stays mostly inside the appliance, although sometimes you’ll catch some of the chili scent wafting out, maybe when you come home from errands or work. It’s bound to whet your appetite. This ground beef version has pleasantly deep, bitter notes from the addition of ground cocoa. Those aromas are a tempting reminder of what’s for dinner—and one of the reasons you have the Instant Pot.

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