Crock Pot Chicken And White Bean Chili

This is a light, healthy and complete white bean chicken chili healthy meals which you can serve with tortilla chips or bread. For a fabulous dinner or lunch top the chili with sour cream.

This easy chicken recipes version is a healthy, colorful and delicious chili recipe is made with boneless and skinless healthy chicken recipes cut into chunks, Great Northern beans and whole kernel corn, cooked in a crock pot with chicken broth, flavored with onions, cloves, celery, dried basil, lime juice, and hot pepper sauce, and seasoned with salt and pepper.

By increasing the amount of hot pepper sauce you can increase the heat of this chili or you can add hot pepper flakes or chili powder, or fresh chili to the mix depending on your preference. Just make sure you can take the heat. Also everyone you are going to serve the chili to, otherwise, you can spice up your individual serving with some chili powder.

Great Northern Beans are a kind of white beans with a luscious creamy color popular in North America and are related to the kidney and pinto beans. They are smaller than cannelinis, and look like white baby lima beans. Delicately flavored with a dense and nutty taste they have a slightly grainy texture. They absorb flavors really well and are perfect for salads and soups, and therefore make excellent chili. They are available in the supermarket either canned (and precooked) or dried (and raw). You can also use navy beans or cannelloni beans to make this recipe if you can’t find Great Northern beans.

You will have to soak the beans in water before cooking them if you are using dried beans. Sort through them and remove any debris and beans that have an odd color or shape before soaking the dried beans. Soak the beans overnight and before cooking drain well.

Ingredients

1 tbsp. olive oil

2 lbs. boneless, skinless chicken, cut into chunks

1 can (14.5 oz) chicken broth

1 medium onion, diced

2 garlic cloves, minced

1 stalk celery, diced

1 tsp. dried basil

2 cans (16 oz.) Great Northern beans, drained and rinsed

1 can (16 oz.) whole kernel corn, drained

2 tbsp. lime juice

2 tbsp. minced cilantro

2 tbsp. hot pepper sauce

Salt and pepper to taste

Preparation Instructions

1. In a large skillet heat oil over medium-high heat. Then add chicken chunks. Cook for 4-5 minutes, turning pieces over, until chicken is lightly browned on all sides. Drain the fat.

2. Transfer chicken chunks to the bottom of a crock pot. Then add the chicken broth.

3. Measure and add remaining ingredients. Cook covered for 3-4 hours on high heat or 5-6 hours on low heat, or until chicken and beans are tender.

4. Serve Top with sour cream, if desired. Then serve.