Sweet Potato Chili
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
-
4-6
ingredients
- 1 -2 Italian sausage
- 2 onions, peeled and chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, peeled and minced
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
- 1 teaspoon oregano
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 1⁄2 - 2 1⁄2 teaspoons cayenne (to taste) (optional)
- 1 (28 ounce) can diced tomatoes, juice included
- 2 medium sweet potatoes, peeled and chopped (approx. 1/2" cubes)
- 1 (19 ounce) can red kidney beans, drained and rinsed
- 1⁄2 teaspoon sugar (optional)
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt (optional)
- chopped cilantro or parsley (to garnish) (optional)
directions
- Remove sausage casings and crumble sausage meat.
- In a large pot, brown sausage meat over medium heat until no pink remains.
- Add onion, garlic, chili powder, oregano, cumin and cayenne (if using) to sausage.
- Cook for 2 minutes.
- Add tomatoes and their juice, beans and sweet potatoes to meat mixture.
- Increase heat to medium high, bring to a boil, stirring often.
- Cover, reduce heat to low and simmer for 30 min.
- or until potatoes are soft.
- Stir occasionally.
- Add sugar and/or salt to adjust taste.
- Serve garnished with cilantro or parsley.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Boxerwing
London, Ontario
I work as a part-time nurse in our city's burn unit. In my spare time, I really enjoy browsing cookbooks, cooking magazines, and the web for recipes. I am always looking for new ways to combine common ingredients to mix things up a bit. I try to avoid recipes that call for bizarre or hard-to-get ingredients or require a special kitchen widget I will only use once. If someone were to give me something unusual, I certainly would give it a try! However, my husband and I are adventurous diners and are always willing to try something new at least twice (in case there was a problem the first time!) We enjoy everything from German to Japanese; we want to try Vietnamese next.
My husband and I own a Gold Wing motorcycle and love to travel in the warmer months. We also have three dogs: Roxy, who is a rather large (42 lb.) fox terrier cross (shown above, with me!), Shadow, who is pure-bred reverse-brindle boxer, and Maggie, a brindle boxer. They love it when "Mom" cooks because they know something yummy inevitably hits the floor!