"Janet" > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove wrote:
>> I've never had this. Don't think I would like it because of the
>> chicken but I do like chili. Angela OTOH doesn't like chili but does
>> like chicken. Then again she has never had the white chicken chili. But
>> all of the recipes I see for it call for white beans. Has anyone
>> tried making it with no beans? Or more chicken and half the amount
>> of beans?
>> I suggested to her that she try canned chili that was all meat but
>> since it was beef she wasn't interested. My MIL made chili that way
>> and I thought it was good but I prefer mine to have beans.
>
> Do you mean that the chili is made with white meat chicken, or is the
> chili literally "white," as in no tomatoes and no red chili papper? That's
> hard to imagine.

I believe it is literally white. No tomatoes. Recipes vary but there
always seems to be cumin.
>
> These days I make turkey chili using ground turkey quite frequently. I
> usually use either pink or black beans, although I used pigeon peas the
> other day, and they were fine. I make my own chili powder from a variety
> of dried chilis and other spices.

I don't like ground turkey at all. Not sure Angela could eat pigeon peas
because of her pea allergy. Are they a true pea? Or do they just call them
that?

I think (but am not sure) it is mainly the beans she objects to in chili.
But I got some bean soup imported from Italy and she really loved that. It
did have white beans in it and a tomato sauce.