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    Home / Recipes / Main Dishes / Chicken Recipes

    Creamy White Chicken Chili

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    Top photo is ingredients for Creamy White Chicken Chili. Bottom photo is Creamy White Chicken Chili in a brown soup bowl with a spoon. Text: Creamy White Chicken Chili - Add Salt & Serve logo

    This White Chicken Chili is delicious and a great way to use up leftover chicken. We are using cooked chicken from the freezer, but when I buy a rotisserie chicken, I make broth from the carcass (just simmer overnight with water in a crockpot) and use the broth and leftover chicken in soups like this.

    Ingredients for Creamy White Chicken Chili: whipping cream, flour, onion, Great Northern Beans, chicken broth, milk, Tabasco sauce, chili powder, ground cumin, green chilies, cooked, diced chicken, shredded Monterey Jack cheese, and sour cream

     

    Sauté onion in 2 tablespoon of butter until softened.

    Diced onions in a skillet.

     

    In a large pot, melt remaining 6 tablespoon of butter over moderately low heat.

    Stick of butter melting in a skillet.

     

    Whisk in the flour. The flour and butter mixture is called a roux, which is the base for a white sauce.

    A whisk mixing flour and melted butter in a skillet.

     

    Cook the roux, whisking constantly, for three minutes.

    A whisk mixing flour and melted butter in a skillet.

     

    Heat the roux until it is bubbly and continue to cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, for about a minute.

    A whisk stirring boiling white soup

     

    Stir in the onion; gradually add the broth, milk and whipping cream, whisking the whole time. Bring mixture to a boil; simmer, stirring occasionally until thickened.

    Milk being poured from a measuring cup into a soup pot.

     

    Stir in Tabasco, chili powder, cumin, salt and pepper.

    Photo is half a teaspoon of chili powder over a skillet of roux.

     

    Add beans, green chilies, chicken and cheese; cook over moderately low heat, stirring occasionally for 20 minutes.

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    Add sour cream immediately before serving.

    Photo is sour cream being scooped out of a container above a skillet of roux

     

    The chili can be served with cilantro, jalapenos, tomatoes, etc. as garnishes. Sadly, we didn't have any of these to pretty up the picture, but it was just as delicious without!

    Creamy White Chicken Chili in a brown soup bowl with a spoon.

    Creamy White Chicken Chili in a brown soup bowl with a spoon.

    Creamy White Chicken Chili

    Creamy White Chicken Chili is delicious and a great way to use up leftover chicken. Try it with leftovers from a roast chicken using homeade broth!
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    Prep Time 5 mins
    Cook Time 30 mins
    Total Time 35 mins
    Course Main Dish
    Cuisine American
    Servings 6 servings
    Calories 555

    Ingredients
      

    • 15 oz. can Great Northern beans, drained
    • 1 large onion, chopped
    • ½ cup unsalted butter, divided
    • ¼ cup all-purpose flour
    • ¾ cup chicken broth
    • 1-½ cups milk
    • ½ cup heavy whipping cream
    • Tabasco sauce to taste, I only used a dash
    • ½ teaspoon chili powder, or more if you prefer
    • 1 teaspoon ground cumin
    • ½ teaspoon pepper
    • ½ cup can diced green chilies, diced
    • 1 ½ lbs. chicken, cooked and chopped (from freezer)
    • 1 ½ cups Monterey Jack cheese, grated
    • ¼ cup sour cream
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    Instructions

    • Sauté onion in 2 tablespoon of butter until softened.
    • In a large pot, melt remaining 6 tablespoon of butter over moderately low heat and whisk in flour. Cook the roux, whisking constantly, for three minutes.
    • Stir in the onion; gradually add the broth, milk and whipping cream, whisking the whole time. Bring mixture to a boil; simmer, stirring occasionally until thickened.
    • Stir in Tabasco, chili powder, cumin, salt and pepper. Add beans, green chilies, chicken and cheese; cook over moderately low heat, stirring occasionally for 20 minutes.
    • Add sour cream immediately before serving. Optional: can be served with cilantro, cheese, jalapenos, tomatoes, etc. as garnishes.

    Nutrition per serving

    Calories: 555 calCarbohydrates: 23.89 gProtein: 24.63 gFat: 40.72 gSodium: 375.59 mgFiber: 4.44 gSugar: 2.97 g
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    Posted by Mary Ann on February 6, 2011; Updated on September 16, 2021Filed Under: Chicken Recipes, Recipes Using Cooked Chicken, Recipes Using Leftover Roast Chicken, Soups and Stews, Stovetop Recipes

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    1. Chelsea

      August 05, 2013 at 7:25 pm

      Sounds rich! Making this during the week sometime!

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