Butternut & Black Bean Chili

Sweet roasted butternut against smoky black beans in a chipotle chili — better on day two.

💪 Where's the protein? Right here — 19g

Black beans (14g)
Pepitas (3g)

🍃 Sugar-Free Option

No added sweeteners in this recipe — it's sugar-free as written. Any sugars in the nutrition panel come from whole vegetables, grains, and fruit only.

Ingredients (all organic)

✓ Black beans, 1.25 cups
✓ Butternut squash, 2 cups, cubed
✓ Fire-roasted tomatoes, 1 cup
✓ Chipotle in adobo, 1, minced
✓ Onion + garlic
✓ Cumin + oregano, 1 tsp each
✓ Low-sodium broth, 1.5 cups
✓ Pepitas + lime + cilantro

How to Prep

1Sauté onion and garlic; bloom cumin and oregano.
2Add squash, beans, tomatoes, chipotle, broth; simmer 25 minutes.
3Mash a few squash cubes to thicken.
4Serve with pepitas, lime, and cilantro.

#soup#freezer-friendly#gluten-free#meal-prep

📍 Buy the ingredients — Chicagoland

Every ingredient above is stocked organic at these local spots:

Whole Foods Market — Lakeview
Fresh Thyme Market — Bucktown
Pete's Fresh Market — Bridgeport
Mariano's — Throughout Chicagoland
Dill Pickle Food Co-op — Logan Square
Sugar Beet Food Co-op — Oak Park

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21g protein

Butternut & Black Bean Chili

Ingredients (all organic)

How to Prep

📍 Buy the ingredients — Chicagoland

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