Keto Paleo Crock Pot Chili
This Keto paleo recipe is a yummy chili made with ground turkey and bacon, with plenty of protein in each serving. Bacon also helps add fat to your meal. Inside the chili is also chopped zucchini, bell pepper, and green onion. Don’t worry, the chili isn’t spicy at all, but it does have a strong peppery flavor. If you like hot chili, you can add red pepper flakes, hot paprika, or pepper and vinegar-based hot sauce. Our paleo recipe is made in the crock pot, so you can leave it for a few hours while you tend to things around the home, or you can cook the chili for up to 8 hours on a low heat while you’re away at work.
How to Make It
Step 1
Add ground turkey and olive oil to a large pan over high heat on your stove. Break up the turkey into small pieces, and season it with salt, pepper, cumin, onion powder, and garlic powder. Cook the turkey until it’s browned all over.
Step 2
Add all the turkey and juices to a crock pot, then return the pan to your stove. Dice your bacon and cook it in the pan over high heat until crispy. Once done, add the bacon and all the fat from the pan to the crock pot.
Step 3
Dice green bell pepper, zucchini, and green onion. Remember, you want all the ingredients to be diced small to fit on a spoon for eating later. Add your greens to the crock pot.
Step 4
Pour beef broth into the crock pot. Add tomato sauce, salt, chili powder, cumin, and paprika (leave the nutritional yeast out). Stir the ingredients together and choose to cook the chili for either 8 hours on low or 4 hours on high heat. The choice is yours!
Step 5
At the end of cooking, stir the nutritional yeast into the chili to thicken it slightly. Optionally, to thicken the chili more, leave the crock pot lid off while you continue to cook the chili on high heat for another 30-60 minutes. Some of the excess moisture will cook off and thicken your chili slightly.
Ingredients
- Ground turkey, lean, 7% fat (93% lean meat)
1 lb
- Olive Oil
1.5 tsp
- Salt
0.25 tsp
- Black pepper
0.25 tsp
- Cumin, ground
0.5 tsp
- Onion powder
0.13 tsp
- Garlic powder
0.13 tsp
- Bacon
4 oz
- green bell pepper
3.5 oz
- Zucchini
4 oz
- Scallions
1.5 oz
- Beef broth
2.5 cup
- Tomato sauce
0.75 cup
- Salt
0.25 tsp
- Chili powder
0.5 tsp
- Cumin, ground
0.5 tsp
- Paprika
0.5 tsp
- Nutritional Yeast
3 tbsp