Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Chili
This Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Chili is made with a mixture of extra-lean ground turkey, sweet potato, onion, bell pepper, tomatoes, and beans. It is a perfect hearty bowl of chili for a cold day!
For me, there’s nothing that says “winter” like a bowl of slow cooker chili. These days have been very cold and the only thing I would like to eat is warm and comforting foods like chili. So here I am again with one more chili recipe, but this time, I tried to make it even healthier by adding sweet potato. I also used extra-lean ground turkey since it has lower fat content.
I would have never thought that sweet potatoes would be good in a chili, but they are really tasty! It makes it slightly sweet and I love my chili just a bit sweet. It’s also thick and meaty, full of beans, and sweet potatoes that are simmered in a hearty tomato-based sauce in the slow cooker. This time I made a double batch and my husband and I ate it for lunch all week. But you can also freeze the extras for a busy night or for lunches.
Another great sweet potato slow cooker recipe for you! Click on the picture to go to the recipe!
For this Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Chili recipe, I used my slow cooker that has an awesome automatic switch to warm and comes with this Little Dipper for warming dips and keeping sauces at desirable serving temperature. I totally love my slow cooker to make delicious and comforting food especially now that the weather is really cold.
Want to browse all of my healthy recipe posts? Follow my Primavera Kitchen Board on Pinterest!!! I also have great Pinterest Boards such as Healthy Dinner, Healthy Pasta Meal, Healthy Slow Cooker Meals and Soups and Stews. I hope you enjoy all the delicious and healthy recipes I have there!!
Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Chili
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 cup diced onions
- 2 garlic cloves — minced
- 1 lb extra-lean ground turkey
- 1 cup red bell pepper — seeded and diced
- 1/2 cup diced celery
- 1 cup diced carrots
- 2 cups sweet potato — diced
- 1 can (19 oz/ 540 ml) diced tomatoes — undrained
- 1 cup tomato sauce
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 2 tsp red pepper flakes
- 2 tsp ground cumin
- 2 tsp paprika
- 1/2 tsp ground coriander
- Salt and pepper
- 1 can (19 oz/540 ml) red kidney beans — drained and rinsed
- Chopped green onions for garnishing
Instructions
-
Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
-
Add onion and sauté for 3 minutes, then add garlic and sauté for 30 seconds longer.
-
Add extra-lean ground turkey and cook, breaking up the turkey with a wooden spoon, until the turkey is cooked through, about 5 minutes.
-
Pour browned ground turkey into slow cooker.
-
Add red bell pepper, celery, carrots, sweet potato, diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, 1/2 cup chicken broth, red pepper flakes, cumin, paprika, coriander, salt, and pepper to taste.
-
Stir mixture, cover with a lid and cook on low heat for 5 - 6 hours.
-
Add red kidney beans and allow to heat all the way through, about 10 minutes.
-
Top with green onions.
Nutrition Information
Amount per serving (1/6) — Calories: 335, Fat: 9.4g, Saturated Fat: 0.6g, Cholesterol: 54mg, Sodium: 627mg, Carbohydrates: 38.9g, Fiber: 10.3g, Sugar: 12.2g, Protein: 27gIf you make this recipe, follow @primaverakitchen on Instagram, snap a photo and hashtag it #primaverakitchen. I'd love to see what you're making!
If you like this Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Chili recipe, please share with your friends and family. Do you want to taste more? Subscribe to my newsletter and follow Primavera Kitchen on Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, Instagram, and Facebook for all delicious recipes updates. As always, I really appreciate you stopping by.
Try one more Healthy Slow Cooker Recipes!
I wish I planned more slow cooker meals for these snow days I’m stuck working at home! This would have been perfect!
I LOVE sweet potato chili! This looks so warm and cozy!
I love chili! And love making it the slow cooker. I think I make it at least twice a month. During the Fall I make a Pumpkin Chili, but never made a Sweet Potato one before. Will try it next time chili is in the menu!! Thank you for the delicious recipe, my friend.
I just bought a huge bag of sweet potatoes at Costco (like, 20 pounds), and am now putting sweet potatoes in everything! I can’t wait to make this chili!
This looks so comforting and delicious! Chili is our faovrite especially when it’s been so cold out lately. Love the sweet potatoes and turkey in here!
Simple and delicious!
I don’t use sweet potatoes as much as I should. This slow cooker chili looks fabulous!! So healthy…
What a gorgeous chili, Olivia! Love the sweet potatoes in here. Sounds delish!
I’ve been making chili at least once every other week this winter! This version looks delicious with the sweet potato – one of my very favorites!
Hi Olivia, the other Olivia (from Olivia’s cuisine) told me about you. What a beautiful work you are doing here. Nice to see another ‘Ribas’ doing food blog. This sweet potato chilli seems scrumptious, it is now on my to do list!! Beijos Georgina
Perfect dish for a cold winter evening. It’s so colorful it brings happiness at home on rainy days!
1) I love slow cooker meals
2) I love… LOVE chili
3) Sweet potatoes rock my socks
In conclusion… gimme this chili! Bookmarking so I remember to make this!
Sounds like something I will really enjoy. I wish that this and all of the other recipes listed the nutritional values.
This is so warm and hearty! We love it here! Do you think it would freeze well?
yes for sure!
Made this last night, and WOW it is delicious! I have enough chili to last me a full week of cold, rainy days. Thank you!
You are so welcome, Vivian 😉 I am glad you enjoyed this recipe!
Well, this recipe looks good, but enough kudos for the chef! Did anyone actually make this dish, and have some constructive criticsm or suggestions in order to improve it?
Sorry, that came off a little coarse. It’s a good looking recipe, and inspired me to buy some ingredients I don’t usually use. I’ll let everyone know how it goes!
This dish came out very nicely. A few notes: 1) it doesn’t seem necessary to mix the ingredients after tossing them into the slow cooker one by one. 2) I’d recommend tasting whole cumin and coriander before finding/adding to the browning step (not the slow cooker step) 3) I used chunky canned tomatoes instead of tomato sauce.
I’m gonna try this again today and substitute beef for turkey, and toss in some chipotle for a kick.
Thanks, and happy cooking!
Brandon, thanks for your notes. Chunky canned tomatoes is a great replace for tomato sauce. I made this recipe one time with chunky tomatoes and it worked well. Let me know how this recipe will taste with beef instead.
just wondering Brandon how this recipe turned out using beef instead of turkey??
Hi Wanda! I’m happy to report that it turned out quite well. The beef tended to retain more of the juices that stewed along with it after browning. When I attempted the recipe with lean turkey, the meat stayed dry even after cooking with all of the other ingredients for 8 hours. It was still good, but the texture was a little inconsistent to my liking. If you’d like to experiment, perhaps you can try doing a 50/50 mix of beef/turkey- I’ll bet it’d be pretty tasty! Lets us know 🙂
Brendon ? please shut up arguing with yourself. This chilli was great considering how easy it is to make, thanks for the recipe.
Use the leftovers for nachos, add guacamole, tortilla chips and sour cream. Amazing.
*brandon.
Thanks for the clarification, Scott.
As I said earlier, I felt like my initial comment came off with a little too much cynicism than was intended. This was mostly because I felt like others were just commenting on the photos and not the recipe itself. It tends to be a common trend these days- there are more cooking shows on than ever before, yet we have this historically low number of people actually doing the cooking! One can find evidence of this fact in the comments section of a simple recipe online, for example. With this in mind, I give you credit for putting the dish together.
That being said, Scott- I’d recommend refraining from any meager attempts to offend those who are having a constructive discussion about an art form such as cooking. If you choose not to follow that advice, of course that’s no skin off my back. After all, I apologized for any miscommunication some 8 months ago. However, if you do choose to troll, perhaps you could redeem yourself by exercising some originality when offering an adaptation of the given recipe so that it could present a boon to all who see the conversation. Perhaps, even, something beyond the fascinating and ingenious personal discovery you had when you made nachos.
In short, it appears you have some lessons to learn in and out of the kitchen. Good luck.
May I ask what kind of ground turkey you used? Was it packaged ground turkey? I never have good luck with ground turkey or chicken. Thank you!
It was packaged ground Turkey, Stephanie.
It’s truly very complex in this busy life to listen news on Television, so I
only use the web for that reason, and get the most recent information.
My daughter and I both loved this chili! Absolutely delicious flavor! Only issue I had was it took longer to cook as my crock pot is a 6 qt one so I had to turn up the heat and cook for a few more hours before the sweet potatoes were cooked, as it was only half full. Also recipe doesn’t say when to add the bell pepper so I added them in step two, with the onion and garlic.
I made this tonight, substituting green peppers for the red because I forgot to buy red. It was FABULOUS! My whole family ate it and loved it!!
That’s awesome! I am so glad to hear that.Thanks for stopping by and giving me your feedback 😉
This recipe was absolutely delicious. I made it for all my coworkers and they gobbled it up!
Awesome to know that 😉
What size slow cooker did you use for the preparation of this meal? Thanks!
I doubled up the recipe and my 6qt slow cooker just barely fit that.
This was absolutely delicious! Thank you for posting!
That’s awesome! Thanks for your comment 😉
Great recipe my wife and I both really enjoyed it.
Sweet potatoes are nice touch for additional colour in Fall and tasted just right
Fast easy to prepare a great recipe.Six hours on low was just right in slow cooker.
Not too hot or too spicey.
My wife really enjoyed it and the sweet potato is nice
touch looks Autumnal and tastes good.
Glad you like it 😉
So I made this recipe today before leaving for work and put the slow cooker timer to 5 1/2 hours. When I got home this evening the sweet potatoes are still hard. 🙁 It’s pizza for dinner tonight I guess. I’m going to leave it cooking the rest of the evening and see. Fingers crossed.
Oh too bad! How it turned out?
Followed recipe exactly!! Delicious and even better the second day! A little too spicy for my young kids but they don’t really like chili anyhow unfortunately.
That’s sad your kids don’t like chili, but I’m glad to know you enjoyed this recipe!
Has anyone tried this using different beans or using a combination of beans?
Thanks for any feedback.
Has anyone tried this with other kind of beans or using a combination of beans?
Thanks for any feedback, if so.
I haven’t tried it, but I feel like black beans or even garbanzo beans would also work.
Made this today, followed the recipe almost to a t. Easy, healthy and delicious. My husband, 13 year old and picky 10 year old all went back for seconds. Thanks!
HOME RUN!! Amazing and healthy chili the whole family loved:)) usually it’s always so heavy and fatty feeling aka food baby, but everyone feels great and full. Thanks out for this recipe. Will use for years to come!
Happy to hear that 😉
2 tsp of red pepper flakes is too much. I only used 1 and it was too hot.
It’s because my family and I love spicy food. But I am happy you didn’t add 2 tsp. It would be a lot for you. Next time you can add only 1/2 teaspoon. Thanks for stopping by 😉
Great recipe! Had to add some sugar to it!! Chilli was way too spicy! However the sauce never thickened!!! Sweet potatoes never cooked! Had to put it on high for the last hour! Very hearty! More like eating minestrone not chili!
Sorry to hear you had few issues with this recipe, Jennifer. I really don’t know why this happened because I always make this recipe and it always ends up well.
I just bought a crockpot and this was my first ever recipe. Wow, turned out GREAT!! Thank you!
Wonderful! Happy to hear that 😉
I meant, when do you add the red BELL pepper?
When you add the celery. I just adjusted the recipe to clear further confusion. Thanks for pointing it out!
What size slow cooker did you use?
It’s a 6-Quart Slow Cooker.
If I have a 4.5 quart, do I need to cut down the recipe at all?
No you will be totally fine 😉
When it says tomato sauce, is this ketchup or chopped tomatoes?
Any tomato sauce of you preference. It’s not ketchup. I have a tomato sauce recipe here for you to take a look.
if my squash is frozen but cooked – can i put this recipe on high for four hours?
Sorry, Paige. I’m not totally sure. But I think it may work.
I scrolled most of the comments and didn’t see the answer to my question- how many cups is a serving? I am planning to make this for meal prep for about 10 people and need to know if I should keep the recipe as is or count on double servings…thank you for your help!
It about 10 cups. Hope it helps 😉