This smoky quinoa chili is full of flavor, packed with nutrition, and cooks in one pot for easy cleanup!

Y’all know that I have you covered if you want to put the effort in to make real deal vegan chili. It can’t be beat!
But sometimes you (and I) just don’t want to dirty the extra dishes and pans, and that’s where this One Pot Smoky Quinoa Chili comes in. Despite eliminating a lot of the extra steps that my traditional chili requires, I’ve kept this recipe flavorful, and upped the nutrition by adding quinoa!
While I’m not going to try to convince anyone that quinoa resembles ground meat, I think it’s important for chili to have a granular textural element to give it body. It’s what differentiates chili from being just a peppery soup. In my go-to chili, I use textured vegetable protein for this purpose, but quinoa does the trick, soaks up the chili flavor beautifully, and is a less processed alternative to TVP.
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