Lucca's Italian Chili
Created by Lucca on January 30, 2014
- Servings: 6
- Prep Time: 20m
- Cook Time: 5h
- Recipe #11980
Ingredients
- 1/2 pound Italian sausage (mix to liking between sweet & hot)
- 1 yellow onion, chopped
- 1 green bell pepper, chopped
- 2 celery stalks, chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 35 ounces crushed tomatoes
- 1 can (15 ounce) white kidney beans
- 1 1/2 cups tomato juice
- 8 ounces fresh mushrooms, sliced
- 6 ounces tomato paste
- 1/2 pounds pepperoni, sliced
- 1 1/2 teaspoon Italian Seasoning
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- Italian Cheese
How to Make
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Step 1: Remove sausage from casing, brown & drain.
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Step 2: Add onion, pepper, celery – cook until soft, add garlic & cook for 1 minute.
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Step 3: Add sausage, vegetables & rest of ingredients (Not Cheese) into crockpot.
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Step 4: Cook on low 4 – 6 hours.
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Step 5: Sprinkle cheese over ladled chili.
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Step 6: Serve with Chianti (most important step of all!).
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (496.3 g)
- Calories 475.1
- Total Fat - 28.4 g
- Saturated Fat - 9.5 g
- Cholesterol - 61.1 mg
- Sodium - 1637.6 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 34.4 g
- Dietary Fiber - 12.8 g
- Sugars - 9.8 g
- Protein - 22.2 g
- Calcium - 141.1 mg
- Iron - 3.9 mg
- Vitamin C - 59.4 mg
- Thiamin - 0.5 mg