 Hey y'all, welcome to What Chelsea Eats. Thank you so much for joining me today. I want to share with you this sweet and Spicy Chipotle chili that I made. It is so good. It's wonderful for a cold evening Or if you're just sick and tired of eating cold food and you need something warm in your belly It will hit all the spaces on your taste buds the salty the spicy Sweet in the sour it hits them all and it hits the spot I really love this chili and I have a special ingredient in this chili that helps to lower blood sugar if you are Struggling with blood sugar issues. So if you'd like to see how I make this soup Please stay tuned But next we're gonna look at spices just a little bit. I'm gonna tell you exactly which spices I put in this In this chili and exactly how much it'll be in the link in the description below so you can get all of it But what I want to say here is Most people fail on their healthy eating program because their food just tastes bland and it just doesn't taste good It's because we grow up and we learn how to cook a certain way and we don't use herbs and spices that are We're gonna add variety to our foods so that we could bring flavors into our foods so they don't taste Disgusting the bottom line is this healthy foods in general are just not going to taste like the unhealthy foods So what we have to do is train our taste buds for one and use herbs and spices in order to cause our Food to taste much better, but first we're gonna start with a pot I just have a plain pot and I'm going to start with the vegetables, but I'm gonna put some water in the pot and That's what I'm gonna use to start to saute my vegetables and Everybody always says to me well Chelsea if I don't use oil. What am I gonna use well water water vegetable broth? Vegetable juice whatever you want to use to flavor or saute your vegetables In this instance, I used water and most of the time when I cook that's what I use and I put Seasonings in my food like we just showed you in the last clip to make the flavor come out You do not need oil to make flavor in your food Frying food with oil is carcinogenic. It causes cancer. You should not fry your food I don't care if you're not frying it heavy. You just should not cook with oil. It's just it's it's not good So what I have here is about a half of a chopped white onion a half of an orange bell pepper a half of an a green bell pepper and I chopped about six or seven Shiitake mushrooms and what I'm gonna do here is just let them get a little Hot in the pan. You see how the water is starting to bubble up. I'm just gonna saute them around and If any point when you're sauteing your vegetables in water and it starts to stick to the pan All you have to do is add more water and now I'm gonna add some Zucchini I Have one zucchini that I chopped here Just adding that to the pan and I chopped about a quarter of us of a head of celery Here and I chopped it Very small you can have big chunks in your chili if you would like I just wanted mine small and really what I wanted that for is to give it a more of a like up Like a salty taste because I didn't want to add salt you guys know that I only add salt to my food if I Absolutely have to But other than that I use pink Himalayan crystal salt. Sometimes I use Celtic sea salt I think that is very important not to use what they call sea salt in the store because that's just basic Table salt so you want to find mineral salts? Which are Himalayan pink salt gray salt red salt Celtic sea salt you get the picture So next I'm gonna add one can of organic diced tomatoes If you're gonna use diced tomatoes try to use the organic variety Because tomatoes is one of those crops that are heavily sprayed. There are some that you can buy That are pretty inexpensive Like I get a case from Costco case of eight of them for like six or seven dollars, and I think that's a good price And next I'm gonna add two cans of tomato sauce so that's what's really gonna be the base of this chili and We'll base in body of the chili so you see I added one can and It looks like I'm gonna need another can so that's why I'm adding two so we let that heat through a little bit and Then we're going to add our beans are red beans Do you really add whichever kind of beans you like? I wanted red kidney beans because I wanted this to be like your traditional chili So but you can use whatever you want. You can use a mix of beans. I just wanted red beans So stir those through Now we're going to get with those spices that we talked about earlier Really, it's about one teaspoon of chipotle powder One teaspoon of coriander or cumin one vegetable boy in cube a Quarter to a half teaspoon of cinnamon. That is the secret ingredient That is the thing that helps the lower blood sugar and a half a tablespoon of garlic You can really use as much garlic as you want and I have one teaspoon of parsley and a half a tablespoon of time And be sure to adjust these seasonings for your taste buds You might want more and you might want more chipotle You might want it spicier or you might not want it as spicy as I have it just Experiment and and test the spices to your liking. That's how you learn how to be a good cook With healthy foods a lot of people are healthy food cooks with the unhealthy foods that they grew up on and have No idea how to cook healthy foods. You can learn how to be a good cook for the healthy food So just want to tell you that I'm tasting it now as you can tell and this turned out wonderfully my husband tore this up I Did to and there was nothing left. So it's really good So you let this heat through a little bit more You don't want to cook it too long because you want your vegetables to be a little crunchy But the last thing you do is add the secret other secret ingredient is Avocado this is one whole avocado chopped and the thing the reason I like using Avocados in these soups is because the way it is it's very very low fat and You want the you want the fat in the soup To actually make you feel like you're getting something Sticking to your ribs. So you might say ew avocado Well, the thing about avocado is it takes on the flavor of whatever you add it to so when you eat this soup It's gonna taste like the spices in this soup. It's not you're not even gonna taste the avocado You're gonna taste the body that the avocado Avocado adds to the soup like the heaviness that the the avoc the fat that the heaviness of the Avocados fat in the soup. That's what you're gonna taste. I hope that makes sense But I let this heat through bring it to a boil and really all I'm gonna do now is serve it and eat it So if you like this video Please give it a thumbs up share it with a friend Don't forget to subscribe and thank you so much for all your love and support and I will talk to you all soon. Take care