This chili is pure comfort food. It’s nice to eat a chicken chili– one without beef or beans– that is just simply packed with chicken, tomatoes and other veggies. Ina Garten’s Chicken Chili is a non-traditional chili. It has tons of yellow and red bell peppers as well as fresh basil. It’s spiced up lightly with chili powder, cumin, red pepper flakes and cayenne pepper. Add more cayenne for heat.
How to make Ina Garten’s Chicken Chili:
This is a super easy chili recipe to make. Onions and garlic are sautéed in a large pot. Bell peppers and spices are added in. Then you’ll add in a lot of crushed canned plum tomatoes and fresh basil. That’s all simmered for 30 minutes before adding cooked chicken and simmering a bit more. Sometimes I like to add a good spoonful of my favorite barbecue sauce to this chili recipe to add a little sweet flavor to it. Try it, it’s good!
What I love about this recipe:
It feeds a crowd! Ina Garten’s Chicken Chili recipe makes a hearty 12 servings. I almost always make this particular recipe when I’m having people over to watch games on football Sundays. It easily feeds a hungry bunch, and everyone is happy to eat a chicken chili recipe! Great job in creating this recipe, Ina Garten (also known as Barefoot Contessa)!
If 12 servings is too much for you, it’s okay to cut the recipe in half.
Served up family-style with a sprinkle of cheddar cheese, a dollop of sour cream and crushed tortilla chips or corn chips, this is a great chili recipe. If you’re following the Weight Watchers program, this chili computes to just 1 point per serving for blue and purple plans and 2 points per serving for the green plan. Wahoo!
Here are a few more chili recipes you might enjoy:
Beef and Dark Beer Chili California Chili Pumpkin Chili Slow Cooker Chili Spicy Vegetarian Chili Halftime Chili Thick and Beefy Beanless Chili Spicy Turkey Chili
