Creamy Smoky Slow Cooker Chicken Chili

This smoky slow cooker chicken chili is a great way to change up your chili game now that the cooler weather has arrived! Jessica Merchant from How Sweet It Is is sharing a great recipe to make deliciously simple Chicken Chili in your slow cooker.

We loooove chili in our house. In a rather depressing statement shortly after we got married, my husband declared that he didn't care for soup very much. He definitely didn't consider most soups to be a meal. Maybe with a whole sandwich, but usually not. This completely broke my soup-loving heart. Since we have cold weather in Pennsylvania for about half of the year, it's not strange to find me eating soup once a day for almost six months straight. As I picked my jaw up off the floor, he claimed that he did, in fact, love chili and would gladly eat it as often as he could. So at least there's that! This means that even now, eight years into our marriage, I'm constantly looking for new and exciting chili recipes. Variations that I can make or a spin that I can put on the classic beef chili. I prefer chicken in my chili and always gravitate towards a smoky, creamy based with tender, pulled chicken thighs and a few different beans. Enter: the chicken chili soup mix! Oh my word, this is so, so delicious. I had one plan in my mind, and it included my slow cooker. There is nothing that I love more than a GOOD slow cooker recipe. The emphasis has to be on "good," because many times I feel like after using the slow cooker for a few days, everything starts to taste like a slow cooker. It all starts to taste the same. In fact, this kept me from breaking out my slow cooker for months. But then I had a baby and the amount of time that I had to throw dinner together dramatically decreased, so out came the slow cooker again and it made life so much easier. I absolutely love that this chicken chili mix uses dried beans. Beans rank up there as one of my favorite foods, especially when they are made from scratch. They are so creamy and rich. When they are actually cooked IN the soup, that creaminess translates into the entire pot and makes for such a lovely, thick soup. This checks off all the items on my list. Super flavorful, hearty, creamy, satisfying and the perfect consistency for dipping a big hunk of cornbread. It's perfection!