White Bean and Turkey Pumpkin Chili

Sharing a favorite turkey pumpkin chili today! My White Bean and Turkey Pumpkin Chili is perfect during this soup season! Your guests will love this one!

 

Turkey Pumpkin Chili

This pumpkin chili is hearty, flavorful and perfect for soup season! So good with crusty bread for dipping and a side salad. If you still have leftover Thanksgiving turkey or even if you don’t chicken works great too, you’ve got to make my chili this week. It’s comfort food in a bowl. Don’t be afraid of the pumpkin, it makes the chili thick and perfectly flavorful. I promise it doesn’t taste like pumpkin pie 🙂

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You’ll start by sauteeing your veggies until softened, about 10 minutes.

How To Make Pumpkin Chili

  1. Heat oil in a large dutch oven or soup pot over medium heat. Saute onion, carrots and celery for about 10 minutes, until slightly softened. Stir in garlic and cook for an additional minute. Stir in cooked turkey or chicken, chicken broth, cream, pumpkin, beans, salt, pepper, garlic salt and cumin. Cook and stir until hot, about 15 minutes then reduce heat to a simmer. Simmer on very low until ready to serve.

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Add your leftover turkey or chicken breast.

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Stir in your chicken broth.

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Stir in your pumpkin puree and a touch of cream is optional 🙂

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Season with salt, pepper, garlic salt and ground cumin and let simmer until ready to serve! Simple and delicious.

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White Bean and Turkey Pumpkin Chili

This White Bean and Turkey Pumpkin Chili will warm you right up this soup season! It's packed with savory pumpkin flavors your guests will love.
Course: Dinner
Cuisine: American
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Servings: 8
Calories: 292kcal
Author: Jenny
Cost: 15
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Ingredients

  • 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 cup finely chopped white onion
  • 1 cup diced carrots
  • 1 cup diced celery
  • 2 teaspoons minced garlic
  • 3 cups cooked shredded turkey or chicken
  • 32 ounces reduced sodium chicken broth
  • 15 ounce can pumpkin puree
  • 1/4 cup heavy cream optional
  • 2 15 ounce cans drained white beans
  • 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
  • 1/4 teaspoon Lawry’s Garlic Salt
  • 2 teaspoons ground cumin

Instructions

  • Heat oil in a large dutch oven or soup pot over medium heat. Saute onion, carrots and celery for about 10 minutes, until slightly softened. Stir in garlic and cook for an additional minute. Stir in cooked turkey or chicken, chicken broth, cream, pumpkin, beans, salt, pepper, garlic salt and cumin. Cook and stir until hot, about 15 minutes then reduce heat to a simmer. Simmer on very low until ready to serve.

Nutrition

Calories: 292kcal | Carbohydrates: 23g | Protein: 28g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 57mg | Sodium: 327mg | Potassium: 862mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 11139IU | Vitamin C: 5mg | Calcium: 92mg | Iron: 4mg
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21 Responses
  1. Jamie

    This looks and sounds delicious! I guess I’ll have to make another turkey so I can try it out, lol.

  2. Julie Armel

    I am seriously making this tomorrow night. I have all the ingredients on hand already, just need to soak the beans (mine are dried, not canned). Yummy!

  3. Emily

    Made this last night and it was delicious! Would have ended up tossing out most of our leftover turkey if I hadn’t found this. Thanks for the recipe 🙂

  4. Jessica

    This looks amazing Jenny! I have no idea how you are doing it with a new baby, but I want to come over for dinner at your house! …I’ll baby sit and do the dishes! 😉

  5. April

    Aloha!
    Thank you for the wonderful chili recipe – it was GREAT! My leftover turkey has spoiled – discovered in the middle of making this chili – thankfully I had a couple of cans of Costco chicken in the pantry – which I had been kicking myself for buying -who uses that! Now I do! This came out so good and my whole family liked it. I served it with a sweet cornbread (like cake!) muffins.
    Mahalo
    April

    1. Kathy

      April, I keep the canned chicken on hand because you can use it in ANY recipe that calls for chicken. It makes wonderful chicken salad, and it makes recipes really easy to have your chicken already “prepared”..

  6. Carlas Confections

    I can only eat so many turkey sandwiches, so this looks perfect for the leftover turkey!!!

  7. Monica Ray

    Thank you for the great recipe, I made it for dinner tonight with our leftover turkey and it was delicious 🙂 A perfect dish for a chilly Portland night. Thanks again!

  8. Madeleine

    Love this! Everyone always thinks pumpkin is only good in baked goods, but I love it in savoury dishes too!

  9. Loretta | A Finn In The Kitchen

    What a great non-traditional way to use up leftover turkey! I’m extremely bummed I don’t have any…

  10. Cookbook Queen

    I totally deserve this, since I just had a baby and all. When are you bringing it over?

  11. Averie @ Averie Cooks

    Pumpkin + chili is a great combo! And I saw Bridget make your bars – hubba hubba, they look fabulous!

  12. Blog is the New Black

    Looks great! I made a pumpkin chili this fall and I just loved the earthy flavor it added.

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