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Healthy family recipe: Slow cooker fall chili

Warm up your family’s week night meal with this easy fall chili! Flavors of cumin, chili powder, and coriander come through without adding heat, which makes this recipe totally kid friendly.

    by Liz Coover, RD, LDN, clinical dietitian, Healthy Weight Program at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Warm up your family's week night meal with this easy fall chili! Flavors of cumin, chili powder, and coriander come through without adding heat, which makes this recipe totally kid friendly. You can even sneak in extra fiber by adding the butternut squash and two kinds of beans!

TIP: If you are setting this to cook through the day, prep the vegetables and cook the turkey the night before and store in the fridge overnight to save time in the morning. Just toss the ingredients into the slow cooker together and you are ready to go.

Slow Cooker Fall Chili

Ingredients:

  1. 1 pound of ground turkey, 90% or leaner

  2. 1 small butternut squash, skin and seeds moved, and diced

  3. 1 bell pepper, seeds removed and diced

  4. 1 yellow onion, diced

  5. 3 cloves of garlic, minced

  6. 1, 15 ounce can of diced tomatoes*

  7. 1, 15 ounce can pureed pumpkin

  8. 1, 15 ounce can kidney beans*

  9. 1, 15 ounce can of black beans*

  10. 2 tablespoons of chili powder

  11. 2 teaspoons of cumin

  12. 1 teaspoon of ground coriander

  13. 1 teaspoon of ground black pepper

  14. 2 cups of chicken broth*

*Try to look for low salt or no salt added

Optional: 1 to 2 jalapenos for heat

Instructions:

1. In a large skillet over medium-high heat, cook ground turkey for about 10 minutes, until it is no longer pink and juices run clear. Add a tablespoon or two of chicken broth if turkey becomes dry while cooking.

2. Add the cooked ground turkey to the slow cooker.

3. Continue to add the butternut squash, bell pepper, yellow onion, garlic, tomatoes, pumpkin, kidney and black beans, chili powder, cumin, coriander, and black pepper to the slow cooker.

4. Pour in the chicken broth and stir until ingredients are all combined.

5. Cook in the slow cooker on HIGH for 3-4 hours or LOW for 6-8 hours.

Suggested serving size: 1 cup

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