Pumpkin Turkey Chili

In celebration of this week being the start of fall we wanted to stick with the theme of everyone's favorite fall ingredient....Pumpkin! So for this week's game day recipe we cooked up some Pumpkin Turkey Chili.  This is a super easy dish.  Minimal prep is involved and all you have to do is brown the turkey, throw all the ingredients in the crock pot, stir, put that bad boy on low for a few hours and you are good to go. The only real difficult part of the recipe is cubing up the fresh pumpkin.  You could easily just substitute 2 cups of canned pumpkin or 2 cups of cubed sweet potato, but I was walking through the Co-Op and saw that they had some fresh pumpkins in the produce aisle so I went for it.  This is a deliciously different take on chili.  Your guests will definitely be talking about this unique dish!

Ingredients

• 1 lb ground turkey
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 jar House of Webster Hot Green Chili Salsa (or your favorite)
• 2 cups cubed fresh pumpkin
• 1 can (15 ounce) chili beans
• 1 can (15 ounce) black beans
• 3 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
• 1 tablespoon chili powder

Directions

1) Remove stalk from pumpkin, halve, remove seeds, and cube out two cups worth of the "meat".  I used a medium sized pumpkin and it took less than half of the pumpkin to get two cups worth.

2) Heat a bit of olive oil over medium heat in a skillet and brown the turkey, stirring often.  Cook until you get all the pink out of the turkey.

3) In a crock pot, mix turkey, hot green chili salsa, pumpkin, chili beans, black beans, brown sugar, pumpkin pie spice, and chili powder.  Set cooker to Low and cover.  Cook until the pumpkin becomes tender and soft.  Cook for at least a few hours.

Serve with sour cream and cheese.  Enjoy!

Here's the recipe!

Ingredients

• 1 lb ground turkey
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 jar House of Webster Hot Green Chili Salsa (or your favorite)
• 2 cups cubed fresh pumpkin
• 1 can (15 ounce) chili beans
• 1 can (15 ounce) black beans
• 3 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
• 1 tablespoon chili powder

Directions

1) Remove stalk from pumpkin, halve, remove seeds, and cube out two cups worth of the "meat".  I used a medium sized pumpkin and it took less than half of the pumpkin to get two cups worth.

2) Heat a bit of olive oil over medium heat in a skillet and brown the turkey, stirring often.  Cook until you get all the pink out of the turkey.

3) In a crock pot, mix turkey, hot green chili salsa, pumpkin, chili beans, black beans, brown sugar, pumpkin pie spice, and chili powder.  Set cooker to Low and cover.  Cook until the pumpkin becomes tender and soft.  Cook for at least a few hours.

Serve with sour cream and cheese.  Enjoy!