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This Award Winning White Bean Chili Recipe remains one of our favorite and cherished recipes. Combining chicken and Italian Sausage with lots of mouthwatering creamy ingredients, this is a crowd pleaser.
Update: Winning the Michigan State Chili Championship, this recipe comes from my friend Richard. It’s a delicious white bean chili recipe that wonderful for feeding a crowd. Since I posted this recipe, Richard has passed away. RIP.
What Makes This Chicken Chili Recipe So Darn Special?
If you win a Championship, I would feel comfortable calling this one of the best white bean chicken chili recipes around.
It’s a creamy white bean chicken chili (yes please) and it’s laced with Italian Sausage.
It brings some heat with jalapeno peppers and a hint of sweet due to the sweet corn.
And every time I’ve made it, people shower me with compliments. But before we get to the recipe.
Can I see a show of hands of how many of you watch “Giada At Home” on Food Network???… Ok, good…a few.
A couple of weeks ago I unwittingly posted a White Bean Chicken Chili recipe that I watched Giada make on her program.
Delicious, so I quickly blogged, and confidently exclaimed that it was thebest White Bean Chicken Chili EVER. Why? Because it’s a great recipe and it’s really really full of flavors that compliment each other.
Let The smack down begin
Soon after the post, I received an email from Buffalo Dick over at “Opinions and Rectums, We All Have One”saying that he had an Award Winning White Bean Chili recipe.
Well it appears that we had a White Bean Chili smack down on our hands. How could I resist a comparison.
I promptly began the begging process for his recipe, gained his permission to blog about it and here’s my opinion (see he’s right, we all have one) about his Chili.
This just might be the best White Bean Chili recipe EVER! Folks, my husband and I had a FIT over this recipe, right there at the dining room table – a FIT. I highly recommend you give this a try because it’s a white chicken chili with Alfredo Sauce.
In Conclusion
A great chili recipe for feeding a crowd, perfect for your Super Bowl party, or any excuse you have for gathering y0ur friends around your table.
There are some special nuances about this recipe.
- Toasting cumin seed, love that idea.
- A combination of orange (or red) sweet bell pepper and green bell pepper
- 3 – 6 jalapeno peppers – choose your heat level
- Jarred Alfredo Sauce makes this a creamy white chicken chili. Using jarred makes it easy.
- The addition of Salsa Verde. You can make your own Homemade Roasted Tomatillo Salsa, it easy. Or use your favorite jarred version.
- The soup includes both chicken and Italian sausage – love all of that heartiness.
- Black olives and Parmesan cheese for garnish. Unique and a nod to the Italian sausage.
- This can also be made in the crockpot – great for making ahead and serving when the hungry crowd arrives.
Award Winning White Bean Chili Recipe
I hope you give this recipe and try and if you do, please leave a comment about your experience. And, please give the recipe a star rating.
And thanks to “Buff” (Richard) for the inspiration to try another white chili recipe.
More Chili Recipes
- How To Make Hatch Green Chili Colorado with Pork
- Giada’s Ground Chicken Chili with White Beans
- Award Winning Bison Chili with Black Beans and Lime Crema
- Cowboy Chili With Kidney Beans
And if you’re looking for more, don’t miss my Soup category. You’ll find a ton of slurp-worthy recipes. Including the most popular chili recipe on my site for Anthony Bourdain’s New Mexico Style Chili.
Award Winning White Bean Chili
Michigan Award Winning White Bean ad Chicken Chili Recipe
5 from 3 votes
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Course: Soup, Stews and Chilis
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 45 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 45 minutes minutes
Total Time: 1 hour hour 30 minutes minutes
Servings: 10
Calories: 782kcal
Author: Lea Ann Brown
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 3 pounds chicken thighs Boneless, skinless, seasoned with light salt and white pepper, cooked and cubed
- 1 large onion chopped
- 1 yellow bell pepper chopped
- 1 green bell pepper chopped
- 3-6 Jalapeno peppers seeded and fine chopped
- 2 cloves garlic peeled and chopped
- 1 pound sweet Italian sausage crumbled and browned.
- 2 15-oz cans chicken broth low sodium
- 30 ounces Great Northern white beans canned, rinsed and drained
- 2 teaspoons white pepper
- 2 teaspoon Mexican Oregano
- 1 teaspoon cumin seeds toasted
- 15 ounces sweet corn canned, drained
- 22 ounces Alfredo Sauce jarred. About a jar and a half
- 1 cup Salsa Verde your favorite brand, I prefer Jardines
- Grated Parmesan or Romano cheese for garnish
- Sliced black olives for garnish
Instructions
Cut chicken thighs into bite sized pieces. Set aside. In a large Dutch oven, heat oil. When hot, add onion, and all peppers. Cook, stirring frequently until onion starts to look translucent. Stir in garlic and cook until fragrant. Less than 1 minutes.
Tear the Italian sausage into pieces and add to vegetable mixture. When fat starts to render, add pieces of chicken. Stir and cook until meat is just undercooked. Drain fat.
At this point, if you want, add the ingredients to a slow cooker. Or you can continue with stove top cooking.
Heat a small dry non-stick skillet over medium high heat. Add cumin seeds and cook just until fragrant. Add to soup.
Add chicken broth, beans, spices, Alfredo sauce, salsa verde and corn. Heat through until meat is cooked and flavors are well blended. About 40 minutes on medium low. Stirring frequently.
If you’re using a crockpot. After adding meat and vegetable mixture. Add the remaining ingredients to the slow cooker. Cook on low 3 – 4 hours.
Garnish when served in bowls with grated Parmesan or Romano cheese, and sliced black olives. Drizzle with chile oil for some color and even more flavor.
Nutrition
Calories: 782kcal | Carbohydrates: 37g | Protein: 41g | Fat: 52g | Saturated Fat: 19g | Cholesterol: 209mg | Sodium: 2891mg | Potassium: 1413mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 6g | Vitamin A: 489IU | Vitamin C: 78mg | Calcium: 129mg | Iron: 6mg
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Award Winning White Bean Chili Recipe … It’s What’s For Dinner
Lea Ann Brown
Why Trust These Recipes? Lea Ann Brown has lived, worked and played in Colorado for 45 years. She has immersed herself in the Colorado Culinary space, is a Culinary School Graduate and publishes her Colorado food Blog, Cooking On The Ranch.
