Turkey Chili – Hot and Fabulous

If your trying to lose weight don’t use black beans. Also unless your buying lean ground turkey your only saving about 20 calories per serving compared to lean ground beef FYI. For more flavor try adding some paprika, ground mustard, a dash of liquid smoke. To spice it up you can use a little hot sauce, asian chilli sauce like sriracha, diced jalapeno (always try them first to see how spicy they are), or crushed red pepper. I use all of the above. Go easy on each, you can always add any off the elements to each individual bowl to suit everyone’s taste. To really add some depth and some kick trying using chipotles in adobo sauce, the adobo will give you a deep rich flavor and each chipotle you use will kick up the heat a notch. For a soupier chili add some beer, anywhere from a 1/3 bottle to the whole thing, a cheap lager will do fine or a nice dark beer will add some character. Also chicken or beef broth will give you this effect. Chicken or beef stock will thicken. I use whatever I have and if I have beer and broth I use a little of both. Also after you refridgerate your chili the flavors seem to marry even more, you can make a large batch and freeze for later, it will keep perfectly well. One more thing, when you refridgerate your chili it will absorb some of the liquid, maybe almost UP to a 1/3, so keep this in mind whether your looking for a chunkier or more liquid like chili. I hope you find some of this useful.