Chipotle Butternut Venison Chili

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 cups butternut squash, peeled and cubed
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• salt
• pepper
• 1 lb ground venison or 1 lb lean beef
• 1 cup green pepper, chopped
• 1 cup onion, chopped
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1 (15 ounce) can diced tomatoes
• 1 (10 ounce) can rotel tomatoes
• 1 (15 ounce) can black beans, rinsed and drained
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cumin
• 1 1/2 teaspoons chili powder
• 2 1/2 teaspoons chipotle chiles in adobo
• 1 teaspoon salt

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• 2 spray a cookie sheet or jelly roll pan with cooking spray.
• 3 mix the butternut squash with olive oil, spread out on pan and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
• 4 bake for 10 to 15 minutes or until tender but not mushy. set aside.
• 5 brown meat with green pepper, onion and garlic until no longer pink.
• 6 add diced tomatoes, rotel, black beans, cumin, chili powder, chipotle pepper and salt.
• 7 simmer for 15 minutes.
• 8 add butternut squash and simmer another 10 minutes.