Vegetable Turkey Chili

One of my all-time favorite meals is chili. It’s the perfect bowl of comfort, spice and hearty goodness to curl up with on a fall, winter or rainy night. Even better than regular chili is vegetable turkey chili. And even better than that? Leftover chili! Note: If you prefer beef, you can use ground beef in this recipe instead of ground turkey.

Vegetable Turkey Chili — A Nutritious One-Pot Wonder!

Vegetable turkey chili is high in protein, high in fiber and packs plenty of vitamins. It’s also gluten-free and dairy-free. Most important, it’s simply delicious. It’s also easy to make, can be whipped up pretty quickly and requires only one pot!

One-pot meals were one of my mom’s specialties, and most of my childhood favorites could be ladled out of a large pot (or container of leftovers)! Some things never change … and my kids grew up with plenty of one-pot wonders too.

Chili and Cornbread

Depending on my mood, I like to eat this vegetable turkey chili with some corn tortilla chips or my popular dairy-free cornbread.

Leftover Vegetable Turkey Chili

This recipe makes a large pot of chili … providing plenty for leftovers! Three cheers for leftovers!!! (and three exclamation points too, if you didn’t notice). LOL.

I don’t know about you, but I LOVE leftover chili! Unless I’m feeding a large crowd, I typically freeze half of each batch. During a busy week when I don’t have a lot of time to cook, it’s so nice to pull an already-made meal out of the freezer. It’s easy on the ‘ol budget too.

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Vegetable Turkey Chili

Nothing beats a good pot of chili on a fall, winter or rainy day! This Vegetable Turkey Chili is high in protein, fiber and vitamins. Most important, it's simply delicious!

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Course Main Dish, Soup

Cuisine Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free

Ingredients

  

• 3 lbs ground turkey (or ground beef, if you prefer)
• 1 onion, chopped
• 2 cans organic tomato sauce
• 2 cans Ro-tel
• 4 16 oz. cans chili beans
• 2 zucchinis, cubed
• 2 cups frozen corn
• 1 Tbsp chili powder (adjust based on level of spice you prefer)
• 1 1/2 tsp garlic powder
• 1 1/4 tsp ground pepper
• 1 tsp onion powder
• 1/2 tsp cumin
• 1/4 tsp sea salt

Instructions

 

• Brown the ground turkey with the chopped onions in a large pot.
• While on medium heat, add the beans, tomato sauce and spices (suggestion: start with 1/2 Tbsp of the chili powder and add all or a portion of the remaining 1/2 Tbsp chili powder later, depending on how spicy you prefer your chili).
• Add the zucchini and corn and simmer for an hour.
• Taste and add any additional spices to your taste (note: most chili powder has salt in it, so don't add any salt if you're adding chili powder until you have tasted it with the additional chili powder).

Notes

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