Sweet Turkey Chili

Ingredients

· 2-3 lbs bulk ground turkey
· 1 large yellow onion chopped
· 1 red pepper chopped
· 12 oz bottle Heinz chili sauce
· 1 28 oz can Hunts crushed tomatoes
· 15 oz can Dark red kidney beans
· 15 oz can Light red kidney beans
· 30 oz water (2 times kidney bean can)
· ½ cup honey
· 2 Tablespoons Lawry’s Seasoned Salt
· 1 Tablespoon minced garlic
· Fresh parsley to flavor
· Chili powder to flavor
· Salt and Pepper to flavor

Set up

Set BGE to 350 degrees indirect heat. (platesetter legs up) with grid on top.

Procedure

Brown turkey, onion and red pepper in large sauce pan. Add salt and pepper to taste, and then transfer mixture to a Dutch oven. (You could probably do all cooking in the Dutch oven, but I find the stove handy for browning the meat.)

Add Lawry’s season salt, chili sauce, crushed tomatoes, kidney beans, water, honey, minced garlic and parsley. Simmer for 2 – 3 hours. I leave the lid off the Dutch oven for the first hour or so to allow some BGE flavor to infuse the chili, and then I use the lid on to keep it from becoming too thick.


Since this is a sweet chili, add chili powder to taste. I tend to add a good teaspoon or two to the pot for a nice combination flavor. Also when my wife is not looking, I add a bit of BGE seasoning to the browning turkey. It just seemed like the right thing to do.