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★ Why You'll Love this Recipe ★
This creamy turkey pumpkin chili is scrape-the-bowl-clean good.
Cozy Comfort in a Bowl
This creamy pumpkin chili is the perfect cold-weather comfort food that’s both hearty and wholesome. Whether you're craving something warm on a chilly fall day or looking to use up leftover Thanksgiving turkey, this recipe has you covered. It’s quick to make and full of cozy flavor thanks to the blend of spices and creamy texture.
Healthy Ingredients, Big Flavor
Made with lean ground turkey, white beans, carrots, spinach, and pumpkin puree, this chili is loaded with protein, fiber, and vitamins. The pumpkin adds a subtle sweetness and a boost of vitamin A, while the beans and spinach help keep you full and energized. It’s comfort food that won’t weigh you down.
Easy Weeknight Favorite
This one-pot meal comes together fast, making it ideal for busy nights. Just brown the turkey, stir in your veggies, beans, and broth, then add cream and spices to bring it all to life. You’ll love how satisfying it is, and your family will ask for it again and again.
For the Love of Fall
The reason for ALL THINGS PUMPKIN is—actually there are two reasons.
One: I love fall and fall things. It's such a short and colorful season of change that I always seem to be on a mission to soak it all in while it lasts.
Whether that's taking the tree-lined road home, getting outside for a hike with the kids, or talking a walk around the block with a friend before the roads are covered in snow. So, cooking pumpkin recipes is just one of those fall things that I try to do while the grocery stores have their shelves lined with cans of pumpkin puree.
Two: Pumpkin is actually full of vitamins! If you look at the nutrition facts, you'll see it's loaded with vitamins!
★ Ingredients You'll Need ★
Here's a look at everything you need to make a delicious turkey pumpkin chili that's creamy and flavorful!
- Ground turkey. Or use leftover turkey.
- Carrots.
- Celery.
- Onion. White or yellow.
- Butter.
- Pumpkin puree. This comes in a can.
- Diced tomatoes. Canned.
- Chicken broth.
- Navy beans.
- Cannellini beans.
- Fresh spinach leaves. Frozen can also be used just thaw and squeeze out excess liquid.
- Fresh thyme. Dried thyme can also be used.
- Chili powder.
- Honey. Or you can use sugar.
- Sour cream. This makes it creamy!
- Salt and pepper. Add these at the end to bring out all the flavors.
★ Tips & FAQs ★
Are you serious about soup-making?
I know a lot of people that are just excited about soups. Eating them. Making them. Using a crockpot, Instant Pot or the stove top. Even cooking soup over a campfire if you're the camping type. I think it's kind of similar to how people either tend to like baking or cooking. Soup making is almost it's own category of cooking.
My favorite pot for soups: the Dutch oven
My favorite method for making soups and that's using a dutch oven. I think of it as sort of an old school Instant Pot. You can saute in it, brown your meat and then add the rest of your ingredients so everything's done in one pot.
You obviously don't have the pressure cooking feature like the Instant Pot does which is cool, but you don't really need it in most cases if you're just cooing ground meat or smaller chunks of protein.
So, if you're interested in getting serious about your soup making, I highly recommend getting yourself a dutch oven.
I currently have a 6-quart Lodge dutch oven and I love it!
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Yes. Pumpkin packs vitamin A, potassium, vitamin C, calcium, iron, fiber as well as potassium. And it's low in all the bad stuff — sugar, carbs, cholesterol and has no fat. It's like an unsung superfood! So I'm here to sing about it, and try to work it into as many recipes as possible. 🙂
Creamy pumpkin soup pairs well with bread or a grilled cheese sandwich for dipping. Beer bread made with pumpkin ale is a fun match or just plain garlic bread works too and is easy. Add a fresh fall salad like my cranberry apple blue cheese salad. For something heartier, try a side of spinach quiche souffle. Top the soup with toasted pumpkin seeds, bacon crumbles, or herbed croutons for extra flavor and crunch.
★ More Pumpkin Recipes ★
Love soup? Browse all my easy soup recipes.
This Scrape-the-Bowl Creamy Turkey Pumpkin Chili was featured on South Your Mouth, Hearth and Soul and Southern Plate!
Creamy Turkey Pumpkin Chili
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1.5 lbs ground turkey or leftover Thanksgiving turkey
- 2 carrots chopped
- 2 stalks celery
- 1 small onion diced
- 2 tablespoon butter
- 15 oz pumpkin puree
- 14.5 oz diced tomatoes
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 15 oz navy beans drained and rinsed
- 15 oz cannellini beans drained and rinsed
- 1 cup fresh spinach leaves chopped
- 1 tablespoon fresh thyme
- 2 tablespoon chili powder
- 2 tablespoon sugar or honey
- 2 tablespoon sour cream
- salt and pepper to taste
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Instructions
- Sauté aromatics. Melt butter in a dutch oven over medium-high heat.Add sliced carrots and cook for 3 minutes, stirring frequently. Add sliced celery and cook, stirring, for 3 minutes. Next add diced onions and cook for a final 3 minutes or until onions are translucent.
- Cook turkey. Add ground turkey* to dutch oven and stir, with vegetables, until cooked thoroughly (about 8-10) minutes. *If using leftover cooked turkey, cook vegetables alone for an additional 5 minutes and add cooked turkey, with other ingredients, in the next step.
- Create broth. Add pumpkin puree, tomatoes, beans, chicken broth, chopped spinach, spices and sugar or honey. Bring to a boil. Finally stir in sour cream and remove chili from heat.
- Season to taste with salt and pepper.
- Serve. Spoon into bowls and serve!
Kristin says
Delicious and so easy to make! This is definitely going into my regular rotation.