Buffalo Chicken Chili

Description

I won a blind taste test chili cookoff with this chili against nine traditional beef chilis! Garnish with shredded Tex-Mex cheese, crushed corn chips, and sour cream.

Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 2 pounds ground chicken breast
  • 1 large carrot, peeled and finely chopped
  • 1 large onion, chopped
  • 3 stalks celery, finely chopped
  • 5 cloves garlic, chopped
  • 5 tablespoons chili powder
  • 2 tablespoons ground cumin
  • 1 tablespoon ground paprika
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • ½ cup hot buffalo wing sauce (such as Frank’s® REDHOT Buffalo Wing Sauce), or to taste
  • 2 (15 ounce) cans tomato sauce
  • 1 (15 ounce) can crushed tomatoes
  • 1 (15 ounce) can white kidney or cannellini beans, drained
  • 1 (19 ounce) can red kidney beans, drained

Instructions

  1. Heat olive oil and butter in a large pot over medium-high heat. Place chicken in the pot. Cook and stir until chicken is no longer pink
  2. 7 to 10 minutes.
  3. Stir in carrot
  4. onion
  5. celery
  6. garlic
  7. chili powder
  8. cumin
  9. paprika
  10. salt
  11. and pepper. Cook and stir until onion is translucent and carrots begin to soften
  12. 3 to 4 more minutes.
  13. Stir in hot sauce
  14. tomato sauce
  15. crushed tomatoes
  16. and white and red kidney beans. Bring to a boil
  17. then simmer over medium-low heat until vegetables are tender and flavors have blended
  18. about 1 hour.

Prep Time: 15 mins

Cook Time: 1 hr 15 mins

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Servings: 10

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