We love making white chicken chili from dried beans in the farmhouse. Hearty, cozy filling, and made with gut healthy homemade bone broth, this soup is a fall staple in our home.
Course Soup
Cuisine American
Keyword chicken chili, dried beans, white chili
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 4 hourshours
Additional Time 10 minutesminutes
Total Time 4 hourshours20 minutesminutes
Servings 12servings
Calories 254kcal
Author Lisa
Ingredients
Chicken
1whole chicken
1 1/2cupswater
Beans
1poundgreat northern beans
1/2gallonbone broth
Veggies
1bulbgarlic
3largebell peppersor 10 small sweet peppers, diced
2cupssweet corn
2onionschopped
More Bone Broth
1quarthomemade bone brothafter beans are cooked
Seasonings
2tablespoonssalt
1teaspooncumin
freshly ground black pepper
juice from one fresh lime
1/2cupchopped fresh cilantro
Instructions
Place a whole chicken in the Instant Pot with 1.5 cups filtered water on high pressure for 45 minutes. (You can also cook it in a Crock Pot on low for 8 hours or high for 4 hours.)
Meanwhile, get one pound of dried and rinsed great Northern beans going in a large stockpot with a half gallon of bone broth. Allow them to simmer for 2-3 hours, or until they are almost soft.
Pull the chicken out of the pressure cooker, or slow cooker, and pick all the meat from the bones. Roughly chop it.
Once the beans are almost done, but not mushy, add the chicken, diced peppers, minced garlic, chopped onion and sweet corn to the pot.
Add two tablespoons salt and freshly ground black pepper.
Allow it to simmer for another 30 minutes to an hour.
Once the soup is about 5-10 minutes out from being served, add the chopped fresh cilantro and lime juice.
Add more salt to taste. (We ended up using 3 tablespoons total).
Serve warm with a dollop of sour cream, shredded cheddar cheese and a big old slice of Cast Iron Einkorn Cornbread.
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Notes
For this recipe, I cook everything in bone broth to get more of the good stuff into my family’s bodies. The white beans soak up the bone broth like little broth sponges. We end up going through almost a gallon for this one recipe. It serves our family for two meals.