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I need a good Ground Turkey Chili recipe

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Posted by: Av8tor

Looking for a good ground turkey chili recipe. Healthy as possible please. Thanks.

Posted by: atherjen

I have a few at home (at work now) will post later this evening for you

Posted by: Jodi

2lb Lean Ground Turkey
1 Can Kidney Beans
1 Can Cannelli Beans
1 Can Black Beans
1 8 oz. Can tomato sauce
1 16 oz. Diced Tomatos
1/2 C. Chopped Onion
1/2 C. Chopped Green Chili Peppers (or 1 4 oz. can diced green chili peppers)
1/4 C +/- to taste Chili Powder
2 tsp. Garlic Powder
1 T. Onion Powder
2 tsp. Pepper
2 tsp. Chipolte (optional)
1 tsp. Salt (optional)

Sautee ground turkey. Drain and rinse with hot water. Sautee Onions and Chili's and then add ground meat back in. Add in the 3 cans of UNdrained Beans (that means include the juice ), Can of diced tomatos and tomato sauce. Add spices (all spices adjust to your taste) Mix together and simmer on low heat for an hour or so.

Posted by: JLB001

I usually just use the ground turkey and add in stewed tomatos, then use the 2 alarm chili stuff. I don't like beans in my chili.

Posted by: Stickboy

Real Chili doesn't have beans in it.

Then again, I don't think real chili has turkey in it either

Normally, any chili recipe will work with ground turkey, so I'd recommend you choose your favorite for beef, and just add that amount of turkey instead.

Posted by: Av8tor

Jodi,

Aren't beans loaded with carbs?

Posted by: Jodi

Quote:

Originally posted by Av8tor
Jodi,

Aren't beans loaded with carbs?

Yes, healthy carbs.

Posted by: atherjen

and alot of those carbs are FIBER!!!

Posted by: atherjen

Black Bean Chili

1 onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 pound ground turkey
3 (15 ounce) cans black beans, undrained
1 (14.5 ounce) can crushed tomatoes
1 1/2 tablespoons chili powder
1 tablespoon dried oregano
1 tablespoon dried basil leaves
1 tablespoon red wine vinegar

-In a large heavy pot over medium heat, cook onion and garlic until onions are translucent. Introduce turkey and cook, stirring, until meat is brown. Stir in beans, tomatoes, chili powder, oregano, basil and vinegar. Reduce heat to low, cover and simmer 60 minutes or more, until flavors are well blended.
Makes 6 servings

Amount Per Serving:
Calories: 346
Total Fat: 7.5g
Cholesterol: 60mg
Total Carbohydrates: 43.9g
Dietary Fiber: 17.2g
Protein: 27.7g

see even though it has a decent amount of carbs, note the fiber intake!

Posted by: Av8tor

Using Jodi's recipe, which I made tonight (It was great) I came up with the following nutritional info:

Makes about 13 cups so each serving is about 1 1/3 cups to make the math easy.

Based on 10 Servings:

247 Calories
2.1 Grams Fat
27.7 Grams Carbs
27.7 Grams Protein
7.3 Grams Fibre

I used 2 lbs Purdue Ground Turkey 99% FF
1 can Bushes Kidney Beans
1 can Progresso Canneli Beans
1 can Eden Organic Black Beans
1 15 oz can Contadina Tomato sauce
1 14.5 oz can Red Gold Diced Tomatoes
1 4 oz can Old El Paso Chiles
1 cup of chopped onion (We love onion)
2 tsp Don Enrique chile chipolte sauce
Added a little splenda to sweeten it up
Copied the rest of the recipe verbatim.

Seems too healthy to be true. Tasted incredibly good.

Note:

1/4 cup of Kraft FF Cheddar melted on top only adds 45 calories
2 grams of carbs and 9 grams of protein.

Enjoy!!

Posted by: Jodi

Glad you enjoyed it - I just so happened to have made that tonight as well. I love the stuff

Posted by: nikegurl

crazy question comin' at ya...

when you make recipes like this (one big pot of anything mixed together like beans and/or brown rice, veggies, a meat source, etc.) do you stress on dividing up the portions so your meals are equal? do you worry about making sure the lb of turkey or chicken or whatever is split into equal amounts or just stir it all up, figure out the totals for the whole thing, eyeball it, divide it into what look like equal portions and call it a day?

Posted by: Jodi

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Originally posted by nikegurl
crazy question comin' at ya...

when you make recipes like this (one big pot of anything mixed together like beans and/or brown rice, veggies, a meat source, etc.) do you stress on dividing up the portions so your meals are equal? do you worry about making sure the lb of turkey or chicken or whatever is split into equal amounts or just stir it all up, figure out the totals for the whole thing, eyeball it, divide it into what look like equal portions and call it a day?

If I'm using 2lbs of meat and I need 5 oz. per meal then the chili will last me 6 meals. I freeze it too

The carbs come out to approx. 20G per serving because its approx. 1/2 C beans per serving. Basically I make it all divide it up and call it a day

Posted by: Av8tor

I added up the Calories, Carbs, Protein etc... for everything I put in the recipe. After I was done, I took a measuring cup and figured out how many cups the total recipe made which equaled 13. To make the math easy, I just divided the cups by 10.
So each serving is 1.3 cups.

I then took the total cals, carbs, protein etc.. and divided by 10 also. This gave me the nutritional info. I posted. Every time we eat some chili, we measure out 1 1/3 cup.

Voila!

I hope this is the correct way to do it, I'm kind of new at worrying about every carb and gram of protein.

Posted by: nikegurl

it's the only way that makes sense. my crazy self was thinking 1 of the 10 servings might have more meat in it than another one....so then i started thinking i couldn't cook the meat in with the rest and then i realized if i do that i'll never be able to enjoy a meal.

thanks!

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