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Turkey Chili with Peppers, Mushrooms, and Olives is so tasty and the spicy flavors plus olives make this one of my favorite chili recipes! This is low in net carbs for a chili with beans, but just skip the beans and use more turkey if you prefer an even lower-carb chili!
PIN Turkey Chili with Peppers, Mushrooms, and Olives.
This Turkey Chili with Peppers, Mushrooms, and Olives is a recipe I rediscovered when I made the recipe with Kara to improve the photos, and we loved this chili recipe with ground turkey, bell pepper, mushrooms, olives, diced green chiles, and pinto beans, especially with a little sour cream and grated cheese.
We cut down the amount of beans when we made it this time, but you could make a delicious low-carb version of this by simply skipping the beans and using a bit more turkey (or just add a second can of beans if you prefer the original version.) And since we took the new photos I’ve made this tasty chili again twice, once just to get some chili to freeze so I can pull it out for a quick dinner.
What ingredients do you need for this recipe?
Do you have to use every ingredient shown here?
This is definitely a chili recipe with lots of interesting ingredients, but if one of the things we used isn’t your favorite, you can definitely adapt this recipe to use the ingredients you prefer.
Want more chili recipe options?
Check out Healthy Chili Recipes Your Family Will Love! for more delicious chili recipes that will make enough to freeze and pull out for a quick dinner later.
Prefer a Low-Carb Chili Recipe?
If you want low-carb chili recipes, check out Instant Pot Low-Carb All-Beef Ancho and Anaheim Chili, Instant Pot Low-Carb Ground Beef Olive Lover’s Chili, Beef Chili with Sausage, Mushrooms, and Olives, or find even more low-carb chili from around the web in my round-up of 10 Amazing Low-Carb Chili Recipes!
Make some chili for Weekend Food Prep!
Recipes like this that make quite a few servings for leftovers suitable to be reheated later are what I feature in the Weekend Food Prep category on my site. And lately I am trying to do better at cooking on the weekend; is that a habit you have at your house?
How to Make Turkey Chili with Peppers, Mushrooms, and Olives:
(Scroll down for complete recipe with nutritional information.)
- In soup pot or Dutch oven, heat one tablespoon olive oil and saute the chopped onion and pepper until they’re just starting to soften.
- Then add garlic, chili powder, ground Ancho chile (affiliate link), Mexican Oregano (affiliate link), cumin (affiliate link), and Spike Seasoning (affiliate link) and cook a couple minutes more.
- Add mushrooms, chicken stock or broth, and petite diced tomatoes and start to simmer.
- Heat the other tablespoon olive oil in frying pan and cook the ground turkey until it’s nicely browned.
- Add ground turkey to the pot with pinto beans and diced green chiles and let the chili simmer on low for about one hour.
- After the chili has simmered to blend flavors, drain the olives, cut into halves lengthwise, and add to the chili.
- Simmer at least 15 minutes more; then stir in the lime juice, season with salt and fresh-ground black pepper, and simmer 5 minutes more.
- Serve the chili hot, with sour cream, grated cheese, and a squeeze of fresh lime to add at the table if desired.
Ingredients
- 2 T olive oil, divided
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 1 red bell pepper, chopped (see notes)
- 1 T minced garlic
- 1 T chili powder
- 2 tsp. ground Ancho chile pepper (see notes)
- 2 tsp. Mexican oregano
- 1 tsp. ground cumin (or more)
- 2 tsp. Spike Seasoning (or other all-purpose seasoning)
- 8 oz. white or brown mushrooms, quartered
- 1 1/2 lbs. ground turkey
- 3 cups chicken broth (see notes)
- two 14.5 oz. cans petite dice tomatoes
- one 15 oz. can pinto beans
- one 4 oz. can diced green chiles (see notes)
- one 6 oz. can black olives, cut lengthwise into halves
- 2 T fresh-squeezed lime juice (see notes)
- salt and fresh-ground black pepper to taste
- For serving: sour cream, grated cheese, cut limes, or other toppings, as desired
Instructions
- In the soup pot or Dutch oven you’re using to make the chili, heat one tablespoon olive oil and saute the onion and red (or green) pepper until they’re just starting to soften.
- Then add the garlic, chili powder, ground Ancho chile (affiliate link), Mexican Oregano (affiliate link), cumin (affiliate link), and Spike Seasoning (affiliate link) and cook a couple minutes more.
- Add the mushrooms, chicken stock or canned chicken broth, and petite diced tomatoes and start to simmer.
- Heat the other tablespoon olive oil in a large frying pan and cook the ground turkey until it’s nicely browned and any water has evaporated.
- Add ground turkey to the pot with the (rinsed or un-rinsed) pinto beans and diced green chiles and let the chili simmer on low for about one hour (or longer is great if you have the time.)
- After the chili has simmered long enough to really blend the flavors, drain the olives, cut into halves lengthwise, and add to the chili.
- Simmer at least 15 minutes more; then stir in the lime juice, season with salt and fresh-ground black pepper, and simmer 5 minutes more.
- Serve the chili hot, with sour cream, grated cheese, and a squeeze of fresh lime to add at the table if desired.
Notes
Use red or green bell pepper, whichever you prefer. If you have homemade chicken stock, I’d definitely use that for this recipe, but two 14.5 oz. cans of chicken broth will also be fine. Just use more chili powder if you don’t have ground Ancho chile (affiliate link). Unless you really want it spicy, use Anaheim green chiles, not Jalapenos for this recipe. I used my fresh-frozen lime juice.
Nutritional information doesn’t include sour cream of grated cheese.
Recipe created by Kalyn.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
8
Serving Size:
1
Amount Per Serving:
Calories: 356Total Fat: 22gSaturated Fat: 4.8gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 14.3gCholesterol: 92mgSodium: 1202mgCarbohydrates: 17gFiber: 5.3gSugar: 3.6gProtein: 26g
Nutrition information is automatically calculated by the Recipe Plug-In I am using. I am not a nutritionist and cannot guarantee 100% accuracy, since many variables affect those calculations.
Low-Carb Diet / Low-Glycemic Diet / South Beach Diet Suggestions:
Turkey Chili with Peppers, Mushrooms, and Olives would be approved for any phase of the original South Beach Diet but dried beans are a limited food for Phase One, so use portion control. For other low-carb eating plans, we made this into a lower-carb version by increasing the turkey and only using one can of beans. Check the nutritional information to see if this is low-carb enough for your preferences, or use one of the Low-Carb Chili Recipes on the site.
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Historical Notes for this Recipe:
This turkey chili was first posted in January 2015. It was updated with better photos and a few slight changes to make it a bit lower in carbs in October 2020 and was last updated with more information in 2021.
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