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Cozy and Quick White Chicken Chili

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Bowl of white chicken chili topped with Fritos cilantro jalapeño avocado and sour cream.
Photograph by Isa Zapata, Food Styling by Spencer Richards, Prop Styling by Marina Bevilacqua

This quick white chicken chili recipe is all about achieving a velvety texture and deep flavor with minimal ingredients. Our trick? Smash a portion of the beans against the soup pot with the back of a spoon, and eke out big flavor from ground chicken, warming spices, and canned green chiles.

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  • Linda Gee

      a year ago

      Good but after reading reviews I doubled the spices.

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    • MELISSA

        9 months ago

        Easy and tasty, but I did end up adding more spice

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      • Sally

          a year ago

          Nice, quick pantry chili recipe. Agree it's low on spice. (I tripled the chili spice and added quarter t. cayenne.) But so easy to riff on. This is gonna be a staple recipe.

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        • Anonymous

            2 years ago

            Very easy for a weeknight. I used ground turkey and upped the spices by about 50%. It did thicken after about 10-15 minutes of simmering. The lime and cilantro are a must in my opinion. Nothing revolutionary, but you can't beat a solid dinner that comes together in under 45 minutes and feeds a family.

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          • Jenny

              2 years ago

              Delicious and a very flexible recipe. I decided to dice up and throw in a zucchini that was starting to shrivel up in my fridge, which gave it a veggie boost and a pop of dark green to this pale soup/chili. This will definitely be in my rotation of quick, cozy recipes for soup season. Loved it!

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            • Tracy

                3 years ago

                This is some damn good chili. What else can I say?

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              • Anonymous

                  3 years ago

                  This has been a regular in our house for the last few months, although after making it a few times I usually make a few tweaks to the recipe: 1. I think it might partially be because we prefer a thicker chili in general but smashing some of the beans never got the dish even close to thickened, so now I just throw in a slurry of cornstarch + water (2 tbsp of each). 2. It somewhat depends batch to batch, but most times I've made it I usually end up adding in at least another tsp of salt. I think this could depend on what beans you're using, so YMMV. 3. IMO, this recipe is missing a bit of acid so I'm usually squeezing multiple lime wedges over it at the table to brighten it up. I'd be curious to try adding a small bit of vinegar to it to even out the starchy flavors.

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