Recipe: Perfect White Chicken Chili

White Chicken Chili.

You can have White Chicken Chili using 17 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of White Chicken Chili

1. It's 1 of small onion diced.
2. It's 1 tbsp of olive oil.
3. Prepare 2 cloves of minced garlic.
4. Prepare 2 (14.5 oz) of cans low sodium chicken broth.
5. Prepare 1 (7 oz) of can of diced green chillies.
6. It's 1 1/2 tsp of cumin.
7. You need 1/2 tsp of paprika.
8. You need 1/2 tsp of dried oregano.
9. It's 1/2 tsp of coriander.
10. Prepare 1/4 tsp of cayenne pepper.
11. Prepare to taste of Salt and pepper.
12. Prepare 1 (8 oz) of package Neufchâtel cheese.
13. It's 1 1/4 cup of corn.
14. You need 2 (15 oz) of cans of cannelloni beans.
15. It's 2 1/2 cups of shredded chicken.
16. You need 1 tbsp of lime juice.
17. Prepare 2 tbsp of cilantro.

White Chicken Chili instructions

1. Heat olive oil in a 6 quart enameled dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add onion and saute 4 minutes minutes. Add garlic and saute 30 seconds longer..
2. Add chicken broth, green chilies, cumin, paprika, oregano, coriander, cayenne pepper and season with salt and pepper to taste. Bring mixture just to a boil then reduce heat to medium-low and simmer 15 minutes..
3. Drain and rinse beans in a fine mesh strainer or colander then measure out 1 cup. Set whole beans aside, transfer 1 cup beans to a food processor along with 1/4 cup broth from soup, puree until nearly smooth**..
4. Add Neufchatel cheese to soup along with corn, whole beans and pureed beans and stir well. Simmer 5 - 10 minutes longer..
5. Stir in chicken, fresh lime juice and cilantro. Serve with Monterrey Jack cheese, more cilantro, avocado slices and tortilla chips if desired..