Slow Cooker Turkey Chili
I love chili. I especially love chili when I can just put it in the Slow Cooker and come home to a wonderfully aromatic kitchen. Sometimes, I prefer overnight cooking. Talk about your sweet dreams! Let’s face it, a Cooking Girl’s favorite perfume is onion, right?
My Slow Cooker Turkey Chili is an extremely easy, inexpensive combination of meat, canned goods and a chopped onion. It’s also one of my favorite recipes, and the reason I included it in The Unemployment Cookbook.
For less than $10, this fills my 4-quart Slow Cooker and offers up bowlful after bowlful of hearty, hot, and healthy eating.
Bowlful of Goodness
INGREDIENTS:
- 2 lbs. ground turkey
- 1 can whole kernel corn, drained
- 1 can white or Great Northern beans, drained
- 1 can black beans, drained
- 1 can kidney or chili beans, with liquid
- 1 can tomato paste
- 1 can crushed or diced tomatoes, with puree
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- Seasonings (1/2 TBS chili powder, 2 tsp oregano, 1 tsp paprika, salt and pepper to taste)
DIRECTIONS:
- Put 2 lbs of ground turkey in the bottom of the Slow Cooker. Break apart.
- Separately, mix together the canned goods and chopped onion.
- Separately, mix together the seasonings.
- Add 1/2 seasonings mix to the canned goods mixture.
- Top ground beef with canned goods mixture.
- Top with remaining seasonings.
- Cook on low for 6 – 8 hours, or on high for 3 hours.
The best part is that you can change this recipe anyway your taste buds want. For a meatier dish, change the kidney beans to a can of chili with beans and meat. Or add diced tomatoes seasoned with garlic and onion. Through in a packet of taco seasoning mix. Omit the corn or replace with a can of mixed veggies.
However you like your chili, let the Slow Cooker do the cooking for you. You’ll have more time with your family, your favorite book, or just your favorite chair.
As always… Happy Eating!
Bowl of Chili
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Man oh man how I want to make this! My honey doesn’t like corn and I love it, so it looks like he’s gonna have to suffer one night! This looks great!
You can always make it without corn, Janice. Or make it, then add corn to just some of it. Hmmm… if only you had a Cookbook to write such personalized recipe ideas in…
Think I may have to make this with regular hamburger..Sounds delicious!
Thanks for stopping by, Nicole. If you do make this recipe, please return and let the readers know how it turns out! Happy Eating!
Chili with turkey and corn – looks so good!!! I want to try this!!!
Thanks for the recipe!
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It’s so delicious, Ann! Let me know how yours turns out, and what change-ups you make to the recipe!
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Looking forward to trying this! I love black bean and turkey chills, so together it must be great! Tonight I made a large pot of white bean w/rosemary soup by I. Garten. Oh, it was great and so inexpensive to make as I had everything except the rosemary (normally do thru Fall, but the herb garden is done for the year…) Thanks for the recipe.
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I hope you like it, Winnie. It’s a family favorite, and I love how easily changeable it is. Happy Eating, my friend!
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Great recipe, when do you add the onion?
Oh my goodness, Leslie! Good catch. Thank you! I’ve already updated the recipe in this post. You would put the onion immediately on top the turkey (or other meat), or you can mix it in with the canned goods. Happy Eating!
I made it today. So easy to throw in the crock pot before church and come home to the house smelling great. It was delicious! My husband has declared it his new favorite and wants to have it weekly. This is my first crock pot recipe with ground turkey not being pre-cooked, fantastic! I always shy away from the ones that say to brown the meat first because, what’s the point of cooking twice and twice the dishes? Thank you so much for this, Molly Jo! :)
Thank you SO MUCH, Leslie! What a great comment! Can I ask, how did you find my Blog/the recipe?
Leslie, just wanted to let you know your comment made me smile so much, I’m gonna share it on my Facebook page. Thanks for the great review!
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I saw it on Winco’s Facebook page.
Wonderful! I absolutely LOVE WinCo!
Take the beans out of the equation, and then we’re talking….
Aren’t beans the general definition of what makes a chili? ;)
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