Seafood Chili
Shrimp, scallops, and fish swim in a vegetable, green chile, and cumin based chili with cannelini beans. Seafood Chili is definitely one your guests will not expect.
I love chili. All kinds of chili. Well, I should say all kinds of chili that isn’t flaming hot and makes your mouth so burning hot that you can’t even tasty anything. By then, what’s the point? You can’t taste anything…
Anyway. I’ve made a few chili recipes myself. I’ve got some Game Day Chili, Chili Mac with left over chili, and I’ve revamped some White Bean and Turkey Chili from Cooking Light. I say revamp because I NEVER follow a recipe. Unless it’s my own, that is. *snort*
This week, #SundaySupper is doing a chili cook off! There is some pretty tough competition. Scroll down to the bottom to check out the other competitors. Not now!! Finish my post and check out my recipe first! Sheesh!!
There’s a TON of recipes out there. Beef, ground or chopped. Chicken, turkey, meatless, vegetarian with lentils, vegetarian with tofu or seitan, shrimp, you name it. There are endless possibilities out there on the internet. There are very few seafood chili recipes. I don’t know why. Seafood chili is SUPER tasty.
Just look at all that tasty goodness in there!! There’s cannelini beans, scallops, shrimp, clams, fish, onions, celery, garlic, and spices. All these ingredients are swimming in a tasty, clam juice and vegetable broth. I know what you’re saying. “How in the world can that be chili?” But it is! It tastes like chili!
The spices are key. Cumin, of course. I LOVE cumin. I’d put it on everything if S loved it as much as I did, but he doesn’t. There’s some chili powder, but not too much. There’s a little bit of heat in the ground chipotle powder. Yeah. That’s stuff’s delicious! It’s a bit of heat with added smoke. It enhances the smoky flavor of the cumin which seals the deal that this is chili. Seriously. It’s chili. The only way to convince you, I guess, is to have you make it for yourself!
NOW you may scroll past my recipe and check out the other competitors in this #SundaySupper Chili Cook Off.

Seafood Chili
There's a TON of recipes out there. Beef, ground or chopped. Chicken, turkey, meatless, vegetarian with lentils, vegetarian with tofu or seitan, shrimp, you name it. There are endless possibilities out there on the internet. There are very few seafood chili recipes. I don't know why. Seafood chili is SUPER tasty.
Ingredients
- 1 cup onion, diced
- 1 cup celery, diced
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 teaspoons ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/4 teaspoon chipotle chili powder
- 8 ounces green chiles
- 30 ounces cannelini beans, rinsed and drained
- 4 cups vegetable broth
- 8 ounces clam juice
- 2 cups shrimp, chopped
- 1 cup halibut, chopped
- 2 cups bay scallops, chopped
- 8 ounces clams, chopped
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
Instructions
- Heat a Dutch oven coated with cooking spray over medium high heat. Add onion, celery, and garlic. Cook until tender.
- Add the next 8 ingredients (cumin through clam juice). Bring to a boil and simmer until the beans are heated through.
- Add the clams and their juice. Simmer 3 to 4 minutes. Add the fish and scallops. Simmer 3 to 4 minutes. Add the shrimp and simmer 4 to 5 additional minutes or until all the seafood is cooked through.
- Add the heavy cream, stir to combine, and serve.
Beef and Bison Chili
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- Moroccan Harissa Spiked Chili from MarocMama
Chicken, Duck, and Turkey Chili
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- Shockingly Delicious Chili Mole with Red Beans and Raisins from Shockingly Delicious
Mixed (meat combo) Chili
- Best Damn Chili Ever from Noshing With The Nolands
- Chili con Tres Carne from Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks
- Leslie’s Best Chili from La Cocina de Leslie
Fish and Seafood Chili
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Vegetarian Chili
- Easy Vegetarian Chili with Raisins and Cashews from Delaware Girl Eats
Twist-on-Chili
- Chicken Chili Cheese Fries from Cindy’s Recipes and Writings
- Chili Cornbread Cupcakes from In The Kitchen With KP
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I never would have thought of using seafood in my chili!
What a gorgeous idea! I never even though of adding seafood.
I was so intrigued to check out this recipe, as I've never heard of a seafood chili before! So cool – and the combo of flavors and textures definitely seems awesome.
I have never heard of seafood chili, but this is seriously calling my name!
I have never had a seafood chili before. You make it look so easy and delicious. I have to give this a try!
Very creative! I had never heard of a seafood chili before, and I would LOVE to try it! It looks so tasty!!!
So creative – would have never thought of this but it looks wonderful!
This is so interesting and looks wonderful! I think seafood is the one type of chili I've never tried, I think I may have to correct that soon. 🙂
So intrigued by the idea of a seafood chili!
Wow! Thats' a lot of seafood! It sounds like a delicious and unusual chili!
Seafood chili? My daughter would love this!
I have never had seafood chili before, what a scrumptious idea!!
Amazing chili for sure! So glad you made a seafood one for our cook-off today. Love it.
Never heard of seafood chili but I like the way yours looks!
I am SO glad someone made a seafood chili! And you hit this one out of the ballpark! Delish!
Seafood chili! This is one crazy chili and I love it! I would have never dreamed of seafood chili! I love it!!
I toyed with the idea of making a seafood chili for this cook off but in the end had a change of mind. But I am so glad you made one, this looks so good I need to make it for us.
One of my Facebook fans said a seafood chili was her favorite. I gave her your recipe!
Yum! I'm a pescatarian, so this chili is SO right up my alley. Love that you went way out of the box and are the only one with a seafood chili!