Crock-Pot Turkey Chili is made in the slow cooker with three beans, lean ground turkey, bell pepper, yellow onion, seasonings and tomatoes. Top with whatever goodies your family enjoys including sour cream, shredded cheddar cheese and tortilla strips.
This Turkey Chili is a family favorite for those chilly days through the winter. The simplicity and wholesome comfort makes this meal a real winner. We like to add beans to our chili to give more flavor and heartiness. The recipe also calls for ground turkey and V8 juice to give more nutritional value and less fat than a typical chili. Try our homemade Chili Seasoning and add this to the dinner lineup!
Crock-Pot Turkey Chili
Get slow cooking!
Begin by browning the ground turkey on the stove-top with a bit of olive oil and season with salt and pepper before adding to the crock-pot. Chop the onion and bell pepper and add to the crock-pot followed by all the beans, tomatoes, tomato paste, V8 Juice, hot sauce and chili seasoning. We like to prep this chili the night before so in the morning everything just gets dumped in the crock-pot before work and we can home with a zero hassle, warm, comforting family dinner.
Toppings
Switch up your Crock-pot Turkey Chili with different toppings! Here are some ideas to mix and match:
- Red onion
- Serrano or Jalapeno
- Sour Cream
- Tortilla strips
- Hot sauce
- Cilantro
- Shredded cheese
- Avocado slices
- Salsa
- Guacamole
Crock-Pot Turkey Chili
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 5 hours
- Total Time: 5 hours 20 minutes
- Yield: 10 servings 1x
Description
Crock-Pot Turkey Chili is made in the slow cooker with three beans, lean ground turkey, bell pepper, yellow onion, seasonings and tomatoes. Top with whatever goodies your family enjoys including sour cream, shredded cheddar cheese and tortilla strips.
Ingredients
- 1+ pounds ground turkey
- olive oil
- salt
- pepper
- 15 ounce can kidney beans (drained)
- 15 ounce can great northern beans (drained)
- 15 ounce can black beans (drained)
- 15 ounce can diced petite tomatoes (drained)
- 1 red bell pepper (chopped)
- 1 yellow onion (chopped)
- 3 cups tomato vegetable juice (I like the V8 brand )
- 1 envelope chili seasoning
- 6 ounces tomato paste
- 1–3 Tablespoons Hot sauce (optional)
Instructions
- Brown the ground turkey on the stove-top with some olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Place into crock-pot.
- Drain the beans and tomatoes. Add to crock-pot.
- Chop the onion and bell pepper. Add to crock-pot.
- Add in the tomato paste, 1 envelope chili seasoning and hot sauce. Add 2 Tablespoons for a medium spice level, 1 for mild and 3 for HOT depending on how your family likes it. My family likes it with 2 Tablespoons.
- Stir ingredients together with the vegetable juice and cook on low for at least 5 hours.
- Serve with toppings of choice. We enjoy serrano peppers, sour cream, shredded cheddar cheese and tortilla strips.
- Category: dinner
- Method: Crockpot
Keywords: Chili, slow cooker
This chili is delicious and a hit with my family! Do you know how many servings this recipe is? Apologize if I’ve missed it somewhere.
It is about 10 servings. My family of 4 can eat it for two meals if that helps.
I love chili, especially turkey chili! Yours looks absolutely delicious! And that cornbread! Pass some my way please.
★★★★★
Cornbread and chili is the perfect cold weather pairing.
This is definitely chili weather and I had some ground turkey I didn’t know what to do with. I saw your recipe and I decided to give it a go. We usually use beef or venison. But this chili was delicious. I shared some with my daughter and her family and they loved it.
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Glad you enjoyed Marisa!
Yum! There is nothing better than a big pot of chili on a cold day! I love your list of topping too as we like to dress our bowls up with all the fun peppers and cheese too. This will be a tremendous dinner to carry through the winter months.
★★★★★
It is one of our go to recipes all winter long.
I like this lightened up version of chili…especially using V8 juice. What a great idea!
Always great to add some extra nutrients where possible and the V8 adds some great flavor also.
There’s nothing like a pot of chili going on the stove, even better a slow-cooked turkey chili that’s ready with little work!
★★★★★
So easy and so comforting.
So DELICIOUS!! I forgot the V8 but I had a can of tomato soup in the pantry so I substituted with that and added a can of water. Turned out GREAT! Eating for a second night right now. Thank you??.
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Tomato soup was a great sub. Glad you are enjoying it! We love having this for leftovers too.
Vegetable juice..like tomato juice or vegetable broth?
V8 tomato juice is what I like.
This looks great for Fall! I love that you use turkey as well for a healthier recipe!
Turkey chili is one of my favorite alternatives to a classic. This recipe looks great!
Turkey chili is one of our favorites once it gets cold out 🙂 it freezes well and reheats beautifully so we make a big batch and feast on it for awhile! This sounds perfect!
Same here. Dinner that lasts for 2 nights!
I can’t wait for the fall so I can make chili 🙂
Yum! This looks delicious. I can’t wait to try it!
This looks amazing! A must try for this fall! Thank you for sharing!
You better upload a recipe for that delicious cornbread too! 🙂
Ohhh it is coming soon!
Yum! This looks delicious! Love the jalapeños!
Yummy! I love turkey chili…and jalapeños!
xo, Amanda
Yum! This is my kind of recipe! I am pinning for later!
I have never thought to make chili in the crockpot but now you’ve perked my interest. I’m going to add this to my list of menu options.
So easy! Give it a try!
Another yummy crockpot dish to add to my fall line-up!! I love the idea of doing turkey instead of the ground beef too! Yum!
We try and use ground turkey instead of ground beef as much as possible. Just a little but healthier and doesn’t change the flavor!
Looks delicious, and simple. Cant wait to add this to our dinner rotation this fall!
In cooler months we eat chili at least twice a month, using ground turkey would make a nice chance.
We love our crock-pot too!
Looks delicious! I love making new chili recipes. Espeically with my crock pot. Makes clean up so easy!
I love chili made with ground turkey and I am so ready for cooler weather!