onions, peppers, chili powder- sautee.
Add beans, cilantro, can of rotel.
add 1/8 cup of chocolate chips.

Yes, it isn't even a recipe really.

Saute some chopped onion and green pepper until soft, add several cloves of minced garlic and saute until fragrant. Add 1 TB chili powder, 1TB cumin, tsp oregano, salt and pepper, and cayenne if you want a kick. Saute to bloom the spices, 30 secs or so. Add a can diced tomatoes (fire roasted are good if you have them), a can of crushed tomatoes, a can or two of of rinsed beans (whatever you want, I usually do red kidney for chili, but black or pinto or "chili beans" work as well). Add about a cup of water. Simmer for a while. Using better than bouillon with the water can be good if you have it. And none of this is set in stone, work with what you have.

I top with grated cheese, minced onion, and sour cream.

Sub quinoa for the ground beef but keep everything else the same, I sometimes add roasted sweet potatoes. All of my meat-eating friend love it.

Anonymous wrote:This is the easiest and I’ve won chili cook offs with it :

https://happyherbivore.com/recipe/salsa-soup/amp/

This doesn’t seem like chili but it looks good, too!

Anonymous wrote:This is the easiest and I’ve won chili cook offs with it :

https://happyherbivore.com/recipe/salsa-soup/amp/

You won a chili cook-off with a recipe that doesn’t have chili powder?

I just do a version of Jacque Pepin’s refrigerator soup.

You start with the basic onion, celery, and carrots- I tend to add a few cloves of garlic. Chip the, up and saute in olive oil. When they are nice and soft I add about two cups of broth and simmer for a while and then I use my immersion blender to thicken things up and a can of tomato sauce - just tomatoes. Let that simmer for a bit. I add a can of white beans with liquid and a can of black beans with liquid. Then I go into my fridge and pull out what3ver veggies I have. If I planned I will put in a cup of frozen corn and a cup of frozen peas, sliced carrot medallions, chopped up potato- maybe some broccoli.

Anonymous wrote:Okay, this one does call for pepper and onion:

https://www.thekitchn.com/sweet-potato-and-black-bean-chili-23744338

I've made it before, I'd recommend some cornbread with it.

Thank you! I do have cornbread mix, too!

Okay, this one does call for pepper and onion:

https://www.thekitchn.com/sweet-potato-and-black-bean-chili-23744338

I've made it before, I'd recommend some cornbread with it.

Just don’t know which recipe to use. Would love any good suggestions!

This is the easiest and I’ve won chili cook offs with it :

https://happyherbivore.com/recipe/salsa-soup/amp/

Anonymous wrote:Do you have either broth or some bullion?

Yes!

Do you have either broth or some bullion?

Anonymous wrote:There's a lot of variety.

Do you have specific ingredients? You can do stuff like bean chili, sweet potato chili, butternut squash chili, etc.

I do have a small number of sweet potatoes right now. Also onions and green peppers. Plenty of beans. Some fresh and some canned tomatoes. Tomato paste. No butternut squash. Probably a pretty basic chili because I suspect I have all those ingredients.

There's a lot of variety.

Do you have specific ingredients? You can do stuff like bean chili, sweet potato chili, butternut squash chili, etc.

Does anyone have an easy vegetarian chili recipe they can share?