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white chicken chili with homemade bone broth and dried beans
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White Chicken Chili from Dried Beans

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 minutes
Cook Time 4 hours
Additional Time 10 minutes
Total Time 4 hours 20 minutes
Servings 12 servings
Calories 254kcal
Author Lisa

Ingredients

Chicken

  • 1 whole chicken
  • 1 1/2 cups water

Beans

  • 1 pound great northern beans
  • 1/2 gallon bone broth

Veggies

  • 1 bulb garlic
  • 3 large bell peppers or 10 small sweet peppers, diced
  • 2 cups sweet corn
  • 2 onions chopped

More Bone Broth

  • 1 quart homemade bone broth after beans are cooked

Seasonings

  • 2 tablespoons salt
  • 1 teaspoon cumin
  • freshly ground black pepper
  • juice from one fresh lime
  • 1/2 cup chopped 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.

Nutrition

Calories: 254kcal | Carbohydrates: 17g | Protein: 25g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 48mg | Sodium: 1306mg | Potassium: 453mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 1466IU | Vitamin C: 57mg | Calcium: 44mg | Iron: 2mg