Can Super Bowl chili be healthy and hearty?
Beans may be good for you, but that doesn’t mean every bowl of bean-rich chili is good for your diet. If you take a look under the hood of many chili recipes, you’ll often find less-than-lean meat. Vegetarian versions fix that, but it’s not impossible to keep the meat and keep it healthy. If your recipe calls for ground meat, use lean, ground turkey, chicken or even 93-percent lean ground beef. If you make your chili with chunks of beef, stick to leaner cuts, such as sirloin or bottom round. Pork loin also works well. Just keep in mind that lean chunked meat dries out easily, so you might want to brown it and add it to the other ingredients just before the chili is finished. Diced chicken and turkey also can be great in chili, but again, precook it and add it in at the end so it doesn’t dry out and toughen up. Another way to keep things healthy is to make sure your ratio of meat to beans and vegetables leans more toward the latter ingredients. It’s always good to load chili up with lot
