American · meal

Turkey chili

Name: Turkey chili
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 lb Ground turkey; 1 can Canned diced tomatoes; 2 whole Bell pepper; 1 whole White onion; 4 cloves Garlic; 2 tbsp Chile powder; 1 tsp Cumin; 2 whole Zucchini; 2 tbsp Olive oil; Salt and pepper (to taste)

One pot that makes four meals and freezes well. It is the one you make on Sunday so you do not have to cook on Tuesday.

Serves

2 people

Amount

2 servings

Time

35 min

Steps

Why this one and not another

Fifty-four grams: tied with the Low Country boil for the highest number of the 155. In exchange it is one of the few that freeze well, so the pot takes care of a day that has not arrived yet. It falls on day 22, the shopping day of week 4 — you cook it with what you just carried up — and on 24 you eat it without going back to the stove.

Where it comes from

Chili con carne comes from San Antonio, Texas, where it was sold from stands on the plaza, and it drags along the oldest argument in American cooking: beans or no beans. In Texas the answer is no. This version steps out of the fight from another side: there are no beans, and what takes their place is diced zucchini that goes in at the end; the meat is not beef either, it is ground turkey. What it does respect is the step that separates a chili from a stew with powder on top: toasting the chile powder and the cumin in the fat for a minute before the tomatoes go in.

Raw chicken and raw vegetables, the same kitchen

Never the same board for raw meat and for what goes in the juicer. If you only have one, vegetables first and meat after. And don't wash the chicken: it splatters.

1Ingredients and how to prep them

Ingredient	Amount	How to prep it
Ground turkey	1 lb	—
Canned diced tomatoes	1 can	Diced, with no added sugar: read the label.
Bell pepper	2 whole	In cubes.
White onion	1 whole	Chopped.
Garlic	4 cloves	Minced.
Chile powder	2 tbsp	The straight kind, without salt as the first ingredient.
Cumin	1 tsp	—
Zucchini	2 whole	In cubes. It goes in place of the beans.
Olive oil	2 tbsp	—
Salt and pepper	to taste	—

Ground turkey1 lb
—
Canned diced tomatoes1 can
Diced, with no added sugar: read the label.
Bell pepper2 whole
In cubes.
White onion1 whole
Chopped.
Garlic4 cloves
Minced.
Chile powder2 tbsp
The straight kind, without salt as the first ingredient.
Cumin1 tsp
—
Zucchini2 whole
In cubes. It goes in place of the beans.
Olive oil2 tbsp
—
Salt and pepperto taste
—

2Steps

In this order. The box on each step is the specific pitfall: what goes wrong there and why.

1
Brown the turkey and break it up with the spatula
6 min
Medium-high heat, breaking it apart as it browns.
Heads up
Leave it alone for the first minute so it takes color before you break it up. Stir it right away and it boils gray instead of browning.
2
Onion, bell pepper and garlic
5 min
With the turkey already browned, until they soften.
3
The spices dry, one minute
1 min
Chile powder and cumin straight onto the meat and the vegetables, before the tomatoes.
Heads up
Toasting the spices in the fat for a minute before any liquid goes in wakes them up. Thrown in afterward they taste like raw powder. It is the step almost nobody does.
4
Tomatoes and low heat for 20 minutes
20 min
The whole can with its juice, lid half on, barely bubbling.
5
The zucchini for the last 8 minutes
8 min
In cubes, going in place of the beans: it gives body without the carbohydrate.
Heads up
At the end. From the start it breaks down and disappears.

3If something goes wrong

What happens	Why	What to do
It tastes like powder	The spices went in with the liquid.	One dry minute on the meat before the tomatoes. It changes the dish.
It came out watery	The can had a lot of liquid in it.	Take the lid off for the last ten minutes.

It tastes like powder
Why: The spices went in with the liquid.
What to do: One dry minute on the meat before the tomatoes. It changes the dish.
It came out watery
Why: The can had a lot of liquid in it.
What to do: Take the lid off for the last ten minutes.

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Why this one and not another

Where it comes from

▲Raw chicken and raw vegetables, the same kitchen

1Ingredients and how to prep them

2Steps

Brown the turkey and break it up with the spatula

Onion, bell pepper and garlic

The spices dry, one minute

Tomatoes and low heat for 20 minutes

The zucchini for the last 8 minutes

3If something goes wrong

This recipe is one of the meals in the plan

Raw chicken and raw vegetables, the same kitchen