Baby it's cold outside. Our Chicken Chili recipe will warm you up!

When it’s cold outside I like to cook myself up a little bit of chicken chili. Here’s one of my favorite recipes:

Chicken Chili

1 Roasted Chicken-$5.00  (I grab one of those roasted chickens that they have at Safeway or Fry’s. Did you know that if you go after 9 PM they are sometimes half off! You can get one of these and pull off all the meat for soups or tacos or salads, any old thing. Freeze it or stick it in the fridge to use during the week.)
1 Packet McCormick’s White Chicken Chili Seasoning Mix $1.50
1 Can kidney beans $1.00
1 Can White Beans $1.00
1 Onion $.80
1 Bell Pepper (any color will do) $.80
1 Large Can Diced Tomato $1.50
1 Avocado $1.00 (optional)

As you can see this is a pretty cheap dish and it serves about 4-6 people for under $15.00. Score!
As many of you know (including my long suffering husband) I am not what you would call a “cook”. I would much rather go grab some take out before cooking. I don’t like all that dicing and sauteing and whatnot. This dish is super easy. There is a little dicing and sauteing but if I can do it then anyone can. 



The first thing I do is chop off the chicken breasts and pick the meat off the roasted chicken. Then I dice up the chicken pieces and put them in a bowl to the side. I can tell you that I have a great audience sitting juuuust outside the kitchen while I do this.


Then I chop up the pepper and the onion add them to a hot pan with a swirl of olive oil in the bottom of the pan. Stir everything around a little bit, until the onion is kind of translucent, this should take about 2 minutes. You can add a little salt, pepper and garlic powder if you wish. When you are done with that step go ahead and dump the whole pan into the crock pot (you can also just use a large pot of any kind)

Once the onion and pepper are in the pot, dump in the can of tomatoes, the chicken, the chili powder packet, both cans of beans (rinsed) and just a little bit of water. I usually fill the can that the tomatoes were in about half way full and pour that in. Stir everything together and put it in the crock pot or a regular pot on medium for about 15-20 minutes then turn it down to low until you are ready to serve.

When I serve this up I slice a few pieces of avocado and squirt on some sour cream (if I have it on hand)  It really gives it a little boost!