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Home » Skillet Recipes » Chipotle Chicken and Black Beans with a Gewürzt

Chipotle Chicken and Black Beans with a Gewürzt

Published: Feb 20, 2016 · Modified: Aug 16, 2020 by Cooking Chat · This post may contain affiliate links

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This Chipotle Chicken and Black Beans recipe has a nice spicy kick. A Gewürztraminer from Alsace, with taste of honey and pear fruit, makes a great wine pairing for the recipe. Read on for more information about the recipe and the wine we paired with it, or click here to jump down to the recipe.
Chipotle Chicken and Black Beans recipe has some good spicy flavors, offset nicely by a white wine with a touch of sweetness.

Typically I like to try a new wine for blogging events like the French Winophiles. But when I heard the French Winophiles would be visiting Alsace today, I decided quickly I’d be opening one of my favorite wines to go with spicy food, which hails from the region. The question was, what would I make.

The Gewürztraminer I’m referencing here today has been paired successfully with Indian food several times. This Gewürzt also paired nicely with a carrot ginger soup that has some good kick. But today I decided to go with chipotle flavor, and the tasty result was this Chipotle Chicken and Black Beans recipe.

I originally was planning to make a vegetarian black bean chili to pair with the Gewürzt. But last weekend I wound up cooking up more chicken than I knew what to do with. So I changed my direction a bit, making a skillet meal that has onions, garlic and chipotle pepper cooking up with black beans. The cooked chicken gets tossed in toward the end. So make note, this Chipotle Chicken and Black Beans is a good recipe to go to when you have extra chicken.

I’m sure you could make this dish by adding uncooked chicken earlier than I call for in the recipe, to give it time to cook. I’ll try that at some point and update with my timing notes.

Chipotle Chicken and Black Beans recipe is easy and tasty, with some good spicy kick.

The Chipotle Chicken and Black Beans get served over rice. The dish came out with a fairly high chipotle spice level, so you definitely want to have the rice with it to take the edge off a bit. Of course, the wine helps with that too. Speaking of which, it’s time to talk wine!

Wine Pairing for Chipotle Chicken

As I noted, we had our wine picked out before we had come up with the Chipotle Chicken and Black Beans. The 2012 Sipp Mack Gewürztraminer Tradition ($20, 13% ABV) has a nice floral nose, with taste of honey, pear, and some cinnamon spice. The wine also has a touch of minerality, always nice for food pairings. The sweet honey aspect of the wine certainly was a good offset for the heat of the chipotle peppers in the dish, and I was certainly happy for each sip of the refreshing wine. Definitely a good pairing.

2012 Sipp Mack Gewürztraminer Tradition is a delicious wine from Alsace with taste of honey and pear. Great wine choice to serve with spicy food.

The Alsace wine region located in northeastern France, on German border. I recall learning about Alsace in history classes due to the conflicts between France and Germany that saw the region under German rule at various points. You can definitely taste the German influence in the white wines from Alsace.

The Alsace wine region is broken into two main areas, Bas-Rhin to the North, and Haut-Rhin to the south. The Sipp Mack winery is located near the top of the village of Hunawihr, which is toward the northern end of the Haut-Rhin region. According to Wine Folly, 19% of the wine form Alsace is made with Gewürztraminer, just a bit less than Riesling and Pinot Blanc. So trying a Gewürztr with our Chipotle Chicken and Black Beans certain gave us a good example of the Alsace region’s wine.
Time to check out the Chipotle Chicken and Black Beans recipe details!

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Chipotle Chicken and Black Beans

Chipotle Chicken and Black Beans recipe is easy and tasty, with some good spicy kick.
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Chipotle Chicken and Black Beans have some good kick! Tasty and easy way to use extra cooked chicken. Served over rice.

  • Author: Cooking Chat
  • Prep Time: 10 mins
  • Cook Time: 20 mins
  • Total Time: 30 mins
  • Yield: 6 servings 1x
  • Category: Main
  • Method: stove top
  • Cuisine: Fusion

Ingredients

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  • 1 large onion, chopped
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 ½ colored bell peppers, chopped
  • 2 garlic, minced
  • 1 tsp cumin
  • ½ tsp allspice
  • 1 14 oz can diced tomatoes
  • 1 14 oz can black beans, drained and rinsed
  • 1 chipotle chile in adobo sauce, finely chopped
  • 1 tsp adobo sauce
  • 2 cups cooked chicken, cut into bite sized pieces
  • rice for serving

Instructions

  1. Heat the olive oil on medium in a large skillet. Add the onion, cook until it begins to soften, about 5 minutes. Add the bell peppers, cook for another few minutes, then add the garlic.
  2. Add the diced tomatoes to the skillet. Stir in the black beans.
  3. Add the chile, adobo sauce, cumin and allspice to the skillet. Stir well to coming.
  4. Simmer the beans and tomatoes with the spices for 5 minutes, then stir in the chicken.
  5. Cook for another 5 minutes to warm up the chicken. Stir occasionally to help combine the flavors.
  6. Serve the the chipotle chicken and black beans over rice, along with a white wine with a bit of sweetness and spice, such as a Gewürztraminer from Alsace.

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  1. Wendy Klik

    February 20, 2016 at 10:14 am

    I’m always looking for ways to use leftover chicken and this recipe sounds perfect. I enjoyed my bottle of gewerztraminer too.

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  2. Martin Redmond

    February 21, 2016 at 3:08 pm

    Great looking dish David! How dry was the Gewurz? I’m thinking if it had some RS, it would have helped with the spice of the dish a bit. Sound like maybe it did…Cheers!

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    • Cooking Chat

      February 21, 2016 at 6:04 pm

      Hi Martin, definitely has a bit of residual sugar, which worked out nicely with the heat.

      Reply
  3. Jill BARTH

    February 22, 2016 at 11:05 pm

    Chipotle chili in adobo sauce. So yummy.
    This makes me think of summer, the pairing would be fun to pack up for the boat or beach. Fantastic!

    Reply
  4. Lori

    May 03, 2016 at 7:59 am

    I love finding new meals for Gewürztraminer. I love the varietal, so the more meals the merrier!!

    Reply

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