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Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Lentil Chili

11/26/19

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This Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Lentil Chili is a healthy, vegetarian spin on comfort food that's perfect for chilly weather! Dump everything in your crockpot and let the flavours mingle! 

Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Lentil Chili

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Ingredients in sweet potato lentil chili

This Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Lentil Chili is here to break all expectations of what a proper chili should be. And coming from one meat-eater to another, you're gonna LOVE this stuff! Here's what you need to make it:

  • onions
  • celery
  • garlic
  • red and green peppers
  • sweet potatoes
  • brown lentils
  • corn
  • spices
  • crushed tomatoes
  • vegetable broth
  • spinach

Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Lentil Chili

How to make sweet potato lentil chili

This sweet potato lentil chili is SO easy to make thanks to the help of your slow cooker! You pretty much just dump and press start. Here are the instructions:

  1. Dump all ingredients except for spinach in the slow cooker in the order they appear. Cook on low for 8 hours until sweet potatoes are tender and lentils are soft.
  2. Stir in spinach, then serve with toppings of choice.

Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Lentil Chili

Making it on the stovetop

You can easily make this recipe on the stovetop! Here are the instructions:

  1. Saute onions, garlic, celery and sweet potatoes with olive oil over med-high heat in a large pot for 5-6 minutes until softened.
  2. Stir in spices, then rest of the ingredients. Bring to a boil, then lower heat and simmer for 45 minutes with a lid on, stirring occasionally.
  3. Stir in spinach, then serve and enjoy.

Making it in the Instant Pot

You can easily make this recipe in the Instant Pot. The sweet potatoes may be a bit mushy, so I suggest you cut them into larger chunks before cooking under pressure. Here are the instructions:

  1. Add all ingredients to Instant Pot in order in which they are listed, besides spinach.
  2. Cook on high pressure for 2 minutes, then do a quick release of the pressure.
  3. Stir in spinach, then serve and enjoy.

Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Lentil Chili

Ingredient substitutions

This recipe is pretty versatile and you can switch it up very easily. Here are some ingredient substitutions you can make.

Lentils – I used brown lentils in this recipe, but you can easily use green lentils instead. I don't recommend red lentils because they will turn mushy. Chickpeas, kidney beans and navy beans would also be great additions.

Sweet potatoes – Instead of sweet potatoes, you can use butternut or acorn squash. You can even use regular potatoes too!

Vegetables – I love what bell peppers add to this chili, as well as the corn, celery and onions. I recommend keeping the onions for flavour, but the rest you can easily swap out with other vegetables.

Spices – I use chili powder, cumin and smoked paprika as the main spices in this recipe, and you do need the chili powder. However, you can use regular paprika or add in coriander to the mix.

Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Lentil Chili

What to serve with sweet potato lentil chili

This sweet potato chili is super hearty on its own, but you can serve it with sides to make it a larger meal. Here's what I would suggest:

  • Crusty bread
  • Side salad
  • Oven fries
  • Roasted or steamed broccoli
  • Cauliflower rice
  • Wild rice
  • Quinoa

Toppings for lentil chili

You can also top this chili to make it even more out of this world! Here's what you could use:

  • Jalapenos
  • Sour cream
  • Cheese
  • Cilantro
  • Pico de gallo
  • Avocado
  • Lime wedges

Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Lentil Chili

Storing and reheating

You can easily store this chili in the fridge up to 5 days. I recommend storing in individual portions in glass meal prep containers so all you have to do is reheat in the microwave for 2-3 minutes.

Freezing lentil chili

You can also freeze this chili! Store in glass containers with lids up to 3 months. Reheat from frozen in the microwave for 6-7 minutes, stirring halfway through. You can also reheat on the stove.

More vegetarian slow cooker recipes

  • Slow cooker African peanut stew
  • Slow cooker butternut squash dal
  • Instant Pot/slow cooker minestrone

Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Lentil Chili

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  • I use brown lentils like these ones here
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Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Lentil Chili

Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Lentil Chili

This Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Lentil Chili is a healthy, vegetarian spin on comfort food that's perfect for chilly weather! Dump everything in your crockpot and let the flavours mingle!
4.39 from 39 votes
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Course: Soup
Cuisine: American
Keyword: brown lentils, celery, chili, corn, sweet potato
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 8 hours
Total Time: 8 hours 20 minutes
Servings: 6 servings
Calories: 371kcal

Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 yellow onions, diced
  • 4 stalks celery, chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic minced
  • 1 red pepper, chopped
  • 1 green pepper, chopped
  • 2 sweet potatoes, peeled and chopped
  • 1 cup brown lentils
  • 1/2 cup Corn
  • 1 tbsp chili powder
  • 1 tsp cumin
  • 1 tsp smoked paprika
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp pepper
  • 1 (750mL) can crushed tomatoes
  • 4 cups vegetable broth
  • 2 cups chopped spinach

Instructions

  • Dump all ingredients except for spinach in the slow cooker in the order they appear. Cook on low for 8 hours until sweet potatoes are tender and lentils are soft. Stir in spinach, then serve with toppings of choice.
  • Will keep frozen up to 2 months - to reheat, microwave on high for 5-7 minutes, stirring halfway through.

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Nutrition

Calories: 371kcal | Carbohydrates: 55g | Protein: 14g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 5g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Sodium: 766mg | Potassium: 926mg | Fiber: 15g | Sugar: 13g | Vitamin A: 12600IU | Vitamin C: 61.9mg | Calcium: 60mg | Iron: 4.9mg

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Comments

  1. emilie deveau says

    April 21, 2020 at 08:15

    That recipe was delicious! I’m a big fan of your website! I used green lentils and it was perfect. Thanks again for sharing 🙂

    Reply
    • Taylor Stinson says

      April 21, 2020 at 08:47

      I’m so happy you enjoyed, Emilie 🙂 Thank you for the kind words!

      Reply
  2. Marta says

    April 30, 2020 at 04:36

    Hi. Totally I love your slow cooker ideas – for sure I will be doing them soon.
    But I’m going through decision which crock pot should I buy (the size) as mostly I’m prepping for myself for 3-4 days my lunchboxes.
    That’s why I wanted to ask how big is your crock pot? Just to have an idea if 3,5 l (European sizing) will fit me for my meal prepping and occasionally to cook for my guests.

    Reply
    • Taylor Stinson says

      April 30, 2020 at 08:25

      Hi Marta! I have a 6 quart crockpot – not sure what that is in European sizing but you should be able to Google to equivalent to make sure. I find this is a good medium-sized crockpot that would work for 4-6 servings.

      Reply
      • Marta says

        April 30, 2020 at 12:08

        Thank you Taylor.
        I found that quarts are equal to liters. Than 3,5 l would be 3,5 quarts than maybe too small for good few days preparing.
        Can’t wait to prepare some of your meals !

        Reply
  3. Brooke says

    June 12, 2020 at 06:28

    5 stars
    Love this meal, delicious and healthy.

    Reply
  4. Elona says

    August 20, 2020 at 21:03

    5 stars
    This is so good! Started too late so I made it stovetop and it came out great. I added a little cayenne for some heat and reduced the salt to half teaspoon. Ate it with garlic naan!

    Reply
    • Taylor Stinson says

      August 24, 2020 at 07:55

      Glad you enjoyed 🙂

      Reply
  5. Jodie says

    September 30, 2020 at 22:38

    Is it really 2 full onions? Is there a closer measurement like in cups?

    Reply
    • Taylor Stinson says

      October 1, 2020 at 07:57

      Hi Jodie – you could use 1 cup onions.

      Reply
  6. Victoria says

    October 7, 2020 at 10:00

    Hello, for the Instantpot Instructions– is 2 minutes the correct instructions?

    Reply
    • Taylor Stinson says

      October 7, 2020 at 14:04

      Hi Victoria – yes. It will take about 15 minutes to come to pressure and during that time, it’s cooking.

      Reply
  7. Chris says

    December 19, 2020 at 22:40

    4 stars
    Great recipe! Our family enjoyed it. A couple things we did a little bit different: use just one onion. Next time will use a little less vegetable broth so that it’s a bit thicker. Other than that thought it was great!

    Reply
  8. Mimi says

    December 20, 2020 at 09:39

    5 stars
    This was delicious! I left the sweet potatoes in large chunks ,so prevent them being mushy at the end. I / we do not care for green peppers I just an orange one. My husband who is much of a carnivorous person than me “ this an absolute do again”
    Thank you for this delicious recipe!

    Reply
  9. Monica says

    January 12, 2021 at 17:36

    This was yummy. So easy to put together. I did not have the 8 hours so I did high for 3 hours and I put only one yam then low for another 3 and I added the other yam . Worked great. A good hearty and healthy meal. Hello from Bloor/Royal York.

    Reply
    • Taylor Stinson says

      January 13, 2021 at 08:00

      Hey Monica! So good to know it works on high for 3 hours, thanks for sharing 🙂 So glad you enjoyed!

      Reply
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