Chicken and White Bean Chili with Anaheim Peppers

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The other day we had a huge dilemma in front of us. Do we do yard work or make some chicken and white bean chili. Well I guess it wasn’t a huge dilemma but when the yard is surrounded by oak trees and we’ve spent most of this fall picking up buckets of acorns and now that it’s getting cold and the leaves (those millions of leaves) are falling there is a lot of work in front of us. Yes it’s leaf raking season! Hey, don’t get me wrong we love our house and where we live. But I really am starting to get a true dislike for oak trees!! Haha.

Hey it’s 40 degrees outside and only about half the leaves have fallen from the trees. So do we rake the leaves now or do we go inside and make something that will warm us up from head to toe. We decided the leaves can wait. I mean Mother nature dropped them there maybe she will blow them away. And we don’t want to fill up the landfill with our leaves!!! Plus, in a few weeks they will be covered by the snow. Just kidding we will see if we can hire someone to help us move these leaves to our compost pile!

Chicken and white bean Chili with Anaheim peppers (or Hatch chiles) is so easy to make. I know white beans might sound boring. Let me reassure you this is not a boring white bean chili there so many flavors and just a little bit of spicy.

Chicken and White Bean Chili

We used dry beans in this recipe because we had time. The great thing about this recipe you can swap out the dry ingredients with caned beans. Just use what you have on hand. We did a mixture of navy beans and Cannellini beans because that’s what we had in the house. The great thing about this recipe is you can swap the ingredients for what you have in the pantry. So if you have great northern, navy, Cannellini, and baby lima beans in your pantry they will work great. Using the two different types of beans is fun with flavors and the different shapes and textures.

One of the best parts of this soup besides the great flavor and the ease to make. If you are on Weight Watchers this is only ONE (1) Point per serving. Plus, the serving sizes are big!!!!!

Chicken and White Bean Chili with Anaheim Peppers

Chicken and White Bean Chili is packed full of flavor, low in calories and is so easy to make.

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Course: Main Course, Main Dish

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Soup, White Bean Chili

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Simmer Time: 1 hour

Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes

Servings: 6

Calories: 223kcal

Cost: 10

Equipment

Stock Pot

Ingredients

2 Chicken Breast About 1 Pound
1 Cup Navy Beans (Dried) Or 2 Cans Navy Beans
1 Cup Cannelli Beans (Dried) Or 2 Cans Cannelli Beans
1 Medium Onion
2 Cloves Garlic
1 1/2 Tablespoon Chicken Bouillon powder
1/2 Tablespoon Dried Oregano
1 teaspoon Ground Cumin
1 teaspoon White Pepper
2 Cans Green Chilies 4.5 ounces cans or use Fresh Anaheim/Hatch Peppers
32 ounces Chicken Broth
1 Cup Cilantro or Parsley
4 Green Onions

Instructions

Preparing Beans

This steps is only if Using Dried Beans. If using Caned Beans Skip this step
Soak beans overnight in water
After Beans have soaked. Drain

Prep Ingredients

Measure Spices (Cumin, Boullion, White Pepper, Oregano)
Chop Onion
Chop Garlic
Cut Chicken Breast into bite size Piece
Chop Chili peppers

Thickner for Soup – If using Canned beans skip the first three steps. Go directly to Placing the beans into the blender.

Take 2 Cups of the beans and place in Sauce Pan
Add 1 Cup Chicken Broth and 1 Cup of Water
Bring to Boil turn down to Simmer until beans are nice and soft
Place Beans into Blender. Mix until smooth. If using Canned Beans. Take One Can of the beans and Puree in Blender.

Chili

While the 2 Cups of beans are cooking prepare the chili
Place Olive Oil into Stock Pot. Add the Onions and Garlic. Cook until onions start to soften about 4 minutes
Add Spices and Chicken to the Onions.
Cook until Chicken until it has all turned white. About 5 minutes
Add The Chicken Broth
Add 4 cups of water and the rest of the beans
Bring to Boil and cook for about an 40 minutes to one hour. Until beans are soft.
Add the Pureed Beans to the Chili. Cook for 10 minutes
Stir in the Chili peppers to the Chili