meals for summer. This is a chunky chilli that goes together really fast. So if your like me and keep hitting the snooze button, you can still put this on to cook and get out the door on time. After work just make the rice and serve. 
Chunky Sausage and Hominy Chili
Ingredients:
For Chili:
1 ¼ cups bottled salsa
1 cup red bell pepper, cut in 1 inch pieces
1 cup yellow bell pepper, cut in 1 inch pieces
1 Tbsp chili powder
1 (15.5 oz) can white hominy or whole kernel corn, drained
1 (12 oz) package Chicken sausages with habanero chillies & tequila
(such as Gerharo's), cut into ½ inch pieces **
Remaining Ingredients:
2 cups hot cooked long grain rice
¼ cup crushed baked tortilla chips
¼ cup chopped fresh cilantro
¼ cup green onions, chopped
¼ cup fat free sour cream
Directions:
Combine all chili ingredients in slow cooker
. Cover and cook on low for 8 hours.Too serve spoon ½ cup rice in each of 4 bowls. Top rice with 1 cup cooked chili, 1 tbsp crushed chips, 1 tbsp cilantro, 1 tbsp green onions and 1 tbsp sour cream.
Makes 4 servings.
**Note: can substitute smoked turkey sausage for chicken sausage.
FYI: Hominy is made from the dried kernels of the Maize plant. The English word for Hominy is derived from the Powhatan Indians
name for Maize. In fact many Native American cultures used hominy in their diets.
