Turkey Vegetable Chili in Sourdough Bowls
Turkey Vegetable Chili served in Sourdough Bowls is an easy, but festive dinner for a cold night when comfort food is just what you need!
- Prep Time: 20 mins
- Cook Time: 7 hours
- Total Time: 7 hours 20 mins
- Yield: 6 1x
- Category: Slow Cooker
- Cuisine: Dinner
Ingredients
Scale
- 6 small sourdough bread rounds
- 1 20 ounce package ground turkey
- 2 green bell peppers, seeded and chopped
- 1 large yellow onion, peeled and chopped
- 3 cloves of garlic, peeled and finely minced
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
- 8 ounces (about 2 whole) carrots, peeled and diced
- 2 15 ounce cans of dark red kidney beans
- 1 cup frozen corn
- 2 14.5 ounce cans diced fire roasted tomatoes
- 1 6 ounce can tomato paste
- Shredded cheddar cheese, for garnish
- Sour cream, for garnish
- Cilantro leaves, for garnish
Instructions
- Brown ground turkey in a large skillet (about 5 minutes), breaking meat up into crumbles.
- Add green bell peppers, onion and carrots, stir to combine and sauté for about 5 more minutes.
- Add garlic and the rest of the spices, stir and sauté until meat is nicely browned and veggies are translucent.
- Transfer meat mixture to slow cooker.
- Add kidney beans, corn, canned tomatoes and tomato paste.
- Stir to combine all ingredients.
- Cover slow cooker with lid and set slow cooker to low; cook 5 to 7 hours.
- When one hour is left until serving, remove lid of slow cooker to allow gravy to thicken.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Slice a small piece of the top off of each sourdough bread round.
- Using a melon ball scooper, scrap out inside of bread rounds, leaving a 1/2 inch border around bottom and sides (reserve bread cubes for another use).
- Wrap each bowl with lid in aluminum foil.
- Place in preheated oven and bake for 15 to 20 minutes until bowls are hot.
- Remove from oven and keep warm until ready to eat.
- When ready to serve, plate each bread bowl and fill with chili.
- Serve extra shredded cheese, sour cream and cilantro for garnish on the side.
Notes
This makes approximately 7 cups of chili. Also, if you like spicier chili, increase chili powder. One tablespoon chili makes for a nicely mild chili. One and a half tablespoons chili powder is for medium heat. Two tablespoons will make a spicy (as in hot) chili!
