White Chicken Chili

Ingredients:

1 lb. Great Northern white beans (3 normal-sized cans)
2 lb. boneless skinless chicken breast (the frozen chicken breasts are fine)
Olive oil
2 large onions
Garlic, minced
1 4-oz can chopped green chilies (chopped/diced jalapenos work too)
2 tsp ground cumin
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
1 1/2 tsp oregano
1 tsp chili powder
Optional: cilantro leaves, sour cream


Directions:

Beans

• If using canned beans:
• Drain beans and place in a pot.
• If using real beans
• Rise beans well, pour into a bowl, cover them with water and soak overnight
• Drain and rinse beans
• Place beans in a pot and cover with water.
• Add 2 Tbs olive oil and 4 whole garlic cloves. Salt and pepper to taste.
• Cook until tender (about 1 hour).
• Remove garlic, drain beans, and place in a pot.

Chicken

• Put chicken breasts in a pot and fill water to the top of the chicken
• Boil chicken breasts for 15 minutes (until cooked through), remove from pan and cool.
• Save 6 cups of the water you boiled it in for broth. Add 1 or 2 chicken bouillon cubes to the broth while still hot. 
• Make sure to take out all the gross chicken floaties. Add this to the beans in the pot
  
• Cut off any extra fat or other gross parts from the chicken. Tear the chicken into bite-sized pieces and set aside.

Onions and spices

• Chop onions. Mince 4 large garlic cloves (or just use minced garlic - I'm not sure how much, just make it up.
• Heat 4-6 Tbs olive oil in pan and add onions. Sauté for 10 minutes
• Stir in garlic, chilis, cumin, oregano, cayenne and chili powder and cook two minutes
• Add to beans and chicken in the pot.

Bring the chili to a boil, reduce heat and simmer until beans are tender. Sprinkle cilantro leaves and add sour cream on top of each serving as desired.

A few notes:

• It's hard to put in too much cumin, so don't worry about adding a little extra if you want to.
• I doubled the recipe when we ate it for dinner group and there was still probably half left after everyone finished. The chili freezes really well, too.
• If you use the frozen chicken breasts it may take a little longer to boil (I'm not sure).
• Club crackers are delicious.