Easy Crockpot Chicken Chili
This Easy Crockpot Chicken Chili is the perfect fall dish to start in the morning, forget about all day, and then enjoy for dinner that night.
It’s November. So in theory, it’s time for fall food. Stews, soups, chili. Fall really is my favorite food season of the year (don’t even get me started on how much I love Thanksgiving!)
This year has been a weird year though. Hubby and I spent last weekend soaking up as much sunshine as we could. The highs both days were in the upper 70s and we even hit the low 80s. And even yesterday, we went downtown to vote early and it was 81 out. On November 2. Unreal.
But today we’re back to more seasonal temperatures, which makes me want all those delicious, stick-to-your-ribs kind of foods. Enter this crockpot chicken chili. It really is easy. And tasty. What more could you want?
I topped ours with some fresh avocado and cilantro – two of my favorite ingredients. Speaking of cilantro, I’m sure you’re all aware that there are people who HATE it. We all know someone like that. In fact, my sister hates cilantro.
For some reason, I was recently parusing the website ihatecilantro.com and came across their haiku page. Now, I hated writing haikus in high school english class, but I found these haikus about hatred towards cilantro pretty freaking hilarious. Check them out if you need a chuckle.
Easy Crockpot Chicken Chili
This Easy Crockpot Chicken Chili is the perfect fall dish to start in the morning, forget about all day, and then enjoy for dinner that night.
Ingredients:
3 cans white beans
1 can fire roasted tomatoes
3 cups salsa
8 oz pepper jack cheese, shredded
1 Tbsp cumin
1/2 Tbsp ground chipotle (optional)
3 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
Garnish as you prefer, such as chopped cilantro, avocado, sour cream, green onions, tabasco, etc
Directions:
Combine the beans, tomatoes, salsa, cheese, cumin and chipotle in a crockpot.
Add the chicken breasts to the mixture and cover completely.
Cook on low for 6-8 hours. remove the chicken and shred it with two forks. Stir chicken back in to chili and serve with your favorite garnishes.
Recipe from Beantown Baker













I am Jen the Beantown Baker. Engineer by day and baking maven by night. Hubby serves as my #1 fan and official taste tester. We got hitched back in 2006. Barefoot. In the sand. With the waves crashing behind us. It was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. 






This does look easy and the ingredients seem really flavorful! I love simple meals like this that have a lot of flavor and make great leftovers 🙂
I love Indian Food! I totally agree about the smell of garam masala cooking!
sounds like a delicious easy meal! Great to see you and hubby last night!
BB – what is garam masala? What spices are in it (maybe I can recreate with what I already have).
Looks like an easier dinner made a bit more fun with the Indian twist!
Mom-in-law: I buy garam masala at a small Indian market near our place. I did a quick Google and came up with this recipe.
I love garam masala!!! It’s one of my favorite ingredients.
Yum! I love Indian food and this is a great way to make it at home without a whole lot of work. And pretty healthy, too 🙂
Sues
These Indian spiced beans look great! Thanks so much for the recipe.
This will be cooked in Prague today with minor modifications 🙂 (Occhio beans..)
beantownbaker — January 7th, 2013 @ 8:52 pm
Oh fun! I hope you enjoy them.
Would be helpful if the can size of the tomatoes were provided.