Beans with Turkey Sausage Chili

This is a quick and easy bean soup recipe.  I like to shop the bulk bins at the grocery store, and so my recipes usually contain dried beans.  If you prefer to purchase canned beans, that's perfectly fine!  You don't have to go through the work of soaking and/or boiling dry beans if you do not want to, or don't have time to.  :)  Canned beans will work just as well.

3 Bean Turkey Chili

Ingredients:

1 pound turkey sausage (your favorite flavor, smoked, spicy, whatever you want to use), cut into thin slices

1 cup dried kidney beans, prepared (soaked/boiled)

1 cup dried black beans, prepared (soaked/boiled)

1 cup great northern beans, prepared (soaked/boiled)

1 - 20 ounce package frozen corn

3 cups salsa

1 green bell pepper, diced

1 chili pepper, diced

1 onion, diced

5 cloves garlic, diced

1/2 tablespoon ground cumin

Instructions:

Prepare dried beans, use over night soak method or boil method.  Drain and rinse well.

Cook sausage if you purchased uncooked.  If you purchased the pre-cooked kind, just slice it up and toss it into the slow cooker.  Another option is to fry up the sausage like a ground meat, and then add into slow cooker.  It just depends on how you prefer your meat. ;) 

Put all ingredients into a 6 quart slow cooker, give it a stir, cover and set to low for 6 hours.

Yep - it's that easy!  Enjoy! :)