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Today we are gonna be making a really simple but delicious easy turkey chili
And we are gonna get started because chili is easy and yummy
and you probably have all these cans of things in your pantry
So it happens to be storming, raining here today and chili is a great thing
Great thing for a cold day. Great thing for a Super Bowl party
or any other kind of party. So I'm gonna get started here. I've got two pounds here of ground turkey
But before I do that, I'm gonna add a couple slices here that I diced of bacon
and I've diced them real small. I'm gonna put those in just for a little extra flavor
You don't have to do the bacon but I thought it would add a nice extra layer of flavor
especially when I'm using turkey. Turkey can be, this is very, very lean
and I just thought it would be nice to have a little extra flavor profile
and a little bit of fat because we'll render the fat off the bacon
and it'll put a little bit of fat in this. Now you don't have to do this step. You don't have to add the bacon
but I just thought, what the heck? Let's throw a little bacon in there for fun
So I just diced it up. We'll get it started rendering. This pan is hot, my favorite pan
My large Le Creuset, I love this pan. One of my most favorite things I got for our wedding gifts
were these Le Creusets. I got several and I love them and have been using them for decades now
So just get this bacon going. This pan is very hot. This induction cooktop gets very hot
So we are getting this bacon started. So to that, I'm gonna throw in my ground turkey here
and get it started. Break it up a little bit
Okay, there we go. So get that going. Gonna cook this till it's nice and brown
You wanna get all the water out of your meat. So any kind of ground meat, of course, works for chili
whatever is your favorite. Ground beef, pork, chicken, turkey, whatever you have
We actually have some frozen bear in our freezer from a friend, a hunter friend that we haven't used yet
So we could make bear chili. Okay. But today I had turkey in the freezer, so I am using that
Okay. Get this going. Starting to sizzle
Okay. Make sure I've got my... So get that started here
What is your favorite kind of turkey? Turkey, favorite kind of chili
I think once any kind of ground meat is cooked, I think you can't really tell what it is
But this is gonna be delicious. Now, after we brown all this and our onions
we could do this all in the Crock-Pot too. All you have to do is brown your meat and then you could throw all this in the Crock-Pot
and forget it and let it go for a few hours and boom, you are ready
But I am gonna get this meat going. See the water starting to come out of the meat
and starting to evaporate here, which is what we want. Yummy. Let's see, I'll tip this up so you guys can see
what's happening here. In the pan. There you go. See? Getting this going
So as soon as it's all, it won't start to brown until the water
is released from the meat. So we need to get that water out
so that it can start to brown. So it's just, let's just chat amongst ourselves. Oh
Do you like to do your chili in a pot like this or do you do it in a Crock-Pot
I think it depends where I'm taking it. Because I usually will cook it in a pot like this
the whole thing, and then if I'm gonna take it somewhere to a party or serve it at a party
it's usually easier to put it in the Crock-Pot, just keep it warm, you don't have to babysit it
And like everything like this, it's always yummier if you make it a day or two before
and let all these flavors meld together, it will be yummy. So this is a great make-ahead dish
for a party or for a family meal or for a potluck
any of those things. I can already smell that bacon just adds another
layer of flavor in here. Because, you know, who doesn't love bacon
Ha ha ha ha ha ha! So the water is releasing here
and it is getting bubbly. So I'm gonna start here, add my
about two cups of diced onion. I will throw that in and let it start to soften up
That is actually one onion dice, but it was kind of a big one
And I chopped the onion very, very fine. Because who likes a big old mouthful of onion
in their chili? So you can also dice some onion, save a little bit of this onion if you want
and save it for a garnish at the end. If you like onion and cheese on your chili
like my husband does, you could save a few of these onions for a garnish
If you don't wanna chop another whole onion. But garnishing this, that's the great thing about chili
You can garnish it with whatever you like. This would be a great for a
that's why it's great, that's why everyone loves chili for Super Bowl because it's all done
you don't have to babysit it while your guests are there if you're having a party
And then you can have all the condiments to go on top. Shredded cheese, onion, cilantro, jalapeno, sour cream
all the yummy things that go on top of chili. A few corn chips you could crunch on top. Yum
So it's all good. I'm gonna let this keep going. Okay, now you hear we've got a little bit of sizzle
going here. We still have a little bit of water evaporating but it takes a few minutes to get the water
out of your meat so it'll brown even though this pan is so hot. So you hear the sizzle
So now I'm gonna start with my spices and start putting some spices in here
so that gets really into the meat. So I'm gonna start here with the garlic
Now, you know me, measure garlic with your heart. Four to six cloves depending on the size of your cloves
Mine were kind of small so I did six cloves of garlic
So I'm gonna throw those in and let those get started. Garlic burns quickly so you don't wanna put the garlic in
at the beginning when you're doing the onions and the meat because it will burn
and we wanna keep our garlic flavor. So got our garlic in there
and now we're starting to get a little bit of brown here on our meat
It's good. I'm gonna move on here to the cumin. I'm gonna do four teaspoons of cumin
Which is basically just a tablespoon and a teaspoon. How many teaspoons in a tablespoon? Three
So I'm gonna do one tablespoon. I love cumin. Yum, yum, yum
And I'm gonna do a teaspoon more. So there's the cumin and then I have some chili powder
Of course, we're making chili so we need some chili powder to make our sauce
Of course, we're making chili so we need some chili powder and I'm going to put in
it says two to four tablespoons. Of course, again, measure with your heart
I'm gonna do, let's see, like three heaping teaspoons of the chili powder
Okay, and then I'm gonna do some black pepper. I got a new grinder here so we will break it in
because we like black pepper around here and I like it freshly ground
So we'll try out our new grinder. Gonna have to break this in a little bit
but we're getting some nice pepper in there. And then I have, of course, a little bit of cayenne
I'm gonna put maybe half a teaspoon of cayenne. I don't wanna make it too spicy
We like it spicy but I don't wanna get it too hot so I'm gonna put about half a teaspoon to start
and if it needs more when we're done, we can always add more but you can't take it out
So easy on the cayenne if you don't want it too spicy
and then I'm gonna do some garlic powder. Even though I put some garlic in, I'm gonna do some garlic powder too, two teaspoons
So let's get this going here. That's one. Two. There we go
Two. And you can see I'm not adding salt at this point
because these tomato products have so much salt. So I'm just gonna get my spices mixed around there
Oh my gosh, starting to smell like chili. Smells delicious. And then we're gonna start throwing in
all our cans of things here. Now if you don't like beans in your chili
no problem, don't put them in but we love beans. So I have a couple of cans here
I'll show you what this looks like here. You can see we've got beautiful color going here
on our chili now with the chili powder. You can see what's going on in there
So I took a can of diced tomatoes, low salt and a can of Rotel and I just mixed it real quick
with the immersion blender because I just don't like chunks of tomato, especially canned tomato in my dishes
So I just gave that a whiz real quick with the immersion blender so I don't have any chunks
and that's just personal preference but you can just throw in a couple cans of diced tomato
I'm gonna start with that, get the tomatoes going in and then I will throw in here
we have two cans of just tomato sauce, again, low salt and that's just a personal preference
I like to try and control the salt if I can because I can always put more salt in
So I'm going to add those two cans. I'm actually gonna add a little bit of water too
with these, I'll rinse these cans out and then I have two cans of kidney beans
that have been drained and rinsed and then two cans of those
and then I have two cans of pinto beans drained and rinsed
Now, if you like black beans, go for it. You like other kinds of beans, use whatever you like
but I like kidney beans, we like pinto beans, so there we go
Again, these happen to be less salt too so there you go and that's just personal preference
So, oh my gosh, looks delicious. Now, you could make half a recipe of this
if you have less people to feed but if I'm gonna go to the trouble to make things homemade
I wanna make enough that I can either serve it for a party, serve it to friends, take it to friends
who might need a meal or I can freeze it for lunches or dinner and we have plenty
So, this next thing I'm gonna add is a can of diced chili
green chilies diced, so add another layer of flavor here. Oh my gosh, yum
And then I also have, this smells so good, I have a can of corn that I'm just gonna throw in
because I had a can of corn and chili, like art, you can make whatever you want
put whatever you want in your chili. So, I am making it like that
So, I think that's everything. Now, once this has a chance to simmer for an hour or so on low
again, if you're gonna put it in the crock pot, you can put it in right now and let it simmer
in the crock pot but I will come back and taste this for salt and pepper and spices
after it has a chance to all get to know each other in the pot and then it'll be delicious
Now, some people like to add sugar to their chili, I don't, so I'm not gonna add that
but you could if you like it. Some people say that the sugar offsets
some of the acidity of the tomato but it's just not my preference
so I'm not gonna put it in. I am gonna though rinse these tomato cans
and put a little bit more liquid in here, I'll show you, it's very thick
and it's gonna simmer for a while so I think it needs a little more liquid. If you like your chili super thick
then leave it, you know, a recipe is just a guide. So, I'm gonna put about a half a can
swirl it around, get all the tomato out, put it in here, swirl it around
get all my tomato out and then put it in there and boom, we will put it on the stove
and let it simmer for an hour or two and see, oh my gosh, smells so good
We'll check for spices, check for salt and pepper and then like I said, if you're ready to serve it
you serve it with all your favorite toppings, whatever you like, sour cream, cilantro, jalapeno
cheese of course, onion and there you have it, easy turkey chili ready to go for your next event
party, dinner, lunch or make ahead freezer meal, ready to go so that is our yummy chili for today
Enjoy, let me know if you try it, you know, I love to see your photos
Thanks for watching, we'll see you next time, you know, here on Hostess Coach