Slow Cooker Spicy Black Bean and Sweet Potato Chili Recipe (2024)

Looks great but please consider making this healthier with less sugar-- between the 2 Tbs sugar, plus orange juice, and corn and sweet potatoes, this seems way over the top for a healthy meal.

Canned beans for 8 hours?

Made this in my pressure cooker-perfect at 25 minutes. I didn’t have orange juice on hand, so subbed extra water and added a bit more lemon and lime juice. I dumped everything in together—I didn’t add beans at a later stage as another commenter added. I did blend about half of this to finish it. This is delicious—perfect for a chilly evening. I’m sure it will be even better tomorrow.

I love substitutions and tweaking. Onions for onion powder, etc. However, the amount of sugar in the recipe is negligible for the number of servings. It is a sweet potato chili. If sweet potatoes and/or corn aren’t your thing? for whatever reason, don’t criticize the recipe. Choose another recipe.

It doesn’t say whether the sweet potatoes are peeled. Peel or leave the skin?

Love this recipe! I made it in the Instant Pot instead of a slow cooker and it turned out great. 25 minutes on high was perfect. I didn't have orange juice so added a little extra water and some extra lime juice, and I threw in some of my additional dry spices (turmeric, chilly powder, coriander powder) to add a little additional flavor. I know it says 6 servings, but I'm pretty sure I got closer to 10 out of it. Will definitely be making this again during these upcoming colder months!

I made it exactly as the recipe said, used only 1 chili because my family likes it more mild. I cooked 8 hours on low. It was outstanding. Vegetarians and carnivores both gobbled it up.

Could chopped, sautéed onion be subbed for the onion powder?

How about some butternut and carrots so it's not all potatoes?

I will try this but with dry black beans and in InstantPot for about 30 mins. Also a diced poblano or hatch chili pepper might be good addition.

Kirsten, I recommend leaving skins on sweet potatoes only when you roast/bake them (full of nutrition plus delicious). Peel them here. Thanks to all who added guidance for pressure cooking which is new to me. While pressure-cooking briefly pre-soaked black beansI plan to sauté onions stove-top with spices and forgo brown sugar and both onion and garlic powder. I might replace the frozen corn with yellow and red bell peppers.

You don’t need to cook it for eight hours. The whole thing was done at five hours.

I have now made this three times, exactly as written, and it was delicious. The second and third times I have reduced the number of chipotles, as my family is very sensitive to spicy heat.As for common questions: I did not peel the sweet potato, as the recipe says "scrubbed", and scrubbing a peeled potato doesn't make sense to me. I used canned beans. I did not find the beans or potatoes too mushy, but de gustibus non disputandum est.

A crowd pleaser even for a carnivorous clan. The only change I made was adding a little square of dark chocolate to add a rich flavor. Loved it.

I used dry beans (though they might have been old). Soaked overnight, slow cooked in my Instant Pot for 7hrs, they were still quite hard. I pressure cooked for 30min and then another 10. That seemed to help and didn't compromise the sweet potato (which was perfect after just the slow cook). Overall consistency thickened up after the pressure cook. Next time I might cook the beans first, then slow cook together.

This is absolutely delicious. I used 4 chiles and it was spicy, spicy, spicy but yummy. The second time around I'll try just three.

We make this a lot during the winter months. Outstanding. No need to peel the potatoes. We don't add the sugar, and we don't have normally have orange juice on hand, so I've substituted tangerine-mango. Didn't have either the other day but had crushed pineapple, which I pureed. Worked beautifully.

Bam! Delicious! this was one of three Chile pots for our annual winter table dinner, first time with this one and it was the favorite! Incredible.

I made the recipe as directed with no substitutions or omissions. I used the high end of four chipotles and it was zippy which we found to be a bit too much with the sweetness from the orange juice. It is the only meal that I have served where no one said anything about the food.

I sautéed Beyond Meat with onions, and added them to the mix. Even more delicious!

Reduce oj to 1/2 cupI added 1 can garbanzos and 1 can diced fire rossted tomatoes as well as 28 oz puree tomatoes. 3-4 adobo chiles. Excellent

Any suggestions for a corn substitute?

It's nice to have this vegan recipe (though we did sprinkle sharp cheese on ours) as a tasty option.I left out the brown sugar and OJ (just don't need with the sweet potatoes) and oil, except to sautee the onions. I always add more cumin and garlic than called for, but also included coriander and Mexican oregano (Italian oregano would also work). My partner was skeptical about the dish, but loved it.

Made this following recipe. Really good. My new favorite veggie chili. In my crock at least, 6 hours would have sufficed. Maybe add the beans in during the last hour. Looking forward to making again.

I pressure cooked this in an instant pot for 5 minutes and natural release for 5 minutes - came out great! Surprised to see the others with much longer pressure cook times- 5 minutes worked great here!

Not a great dish. One eater noted that it was kind of a sweet and sour taste. The adobo taste is nice but the sweet sour is not.

We just made this in a pressure cooker - 25 minutes. Used an actual onion instead of onion powder....it it really good!

Added 1.5 onions, garlic, and hot sauce in addition to the lime juice. I didn't have any orange juice, so I mixed extra brown sugar with the water and set the crockpot on high for 5 hours. I turned it down to low, and an hour before dinner, set it to warm and added the corn. We ate it with corn chips. Excellent.

We made this using it two chipotles and found it too spicy for us. Maybe we just don’t care for chipotles in adobo.

I’m adding impossible meat to this. Do I need to cook In advance?