chili recipe

chili recipe

Recipes

Atkin's Chili
Halftime Chili
Vegetarian Halftime Chili
Day Before Chili
Hot & Spicy Chili
Seafood Chili
Crock Pot Turkey Chili
Three Bean Chili
Party Chili
Super Bowl 2008Chili
Chili Nachos
Winter Chili

 

How To . . .

Cook Dried Beans
Cook the Best Chili Store and Handle Ground Beef

 

Labor Day signals the end of summer for many families. Why not celebrate the end of summer and the beginning of football season with a great batch of chili?



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Guess what's about to happen at FamousChiliRecipes.com!!

We are about to add a new feature to our website.  In the very near future we will be adding chili reviews to this chili recipes site.  Featured chilis will include chili from different restaurants as well as store bought (or internet purchased) chili kits.  We are very excited about this new feature because it means we get to eat more chili!  Stay tuned for more.

About Chili . . .

Chili is one of America's favorite dishes, and we have searched all over to find such famous chili recipes as Hot and Spicy chili, Crockpot chili, Vegetarian chili, as well as many other famous chili recipes.  There is a lot of controversy surrounding the origins of chili as well as how to make the dish.

Some people believe that in the 1840's Texas cowboys pounded beef fat and dried beef with chili peppers and salt to make a sort of trail food for their treks to the gold fields. They would boil this concoction to make instant chili.

A variation on the cowboy origins of chili recipes says that cowboys would plant oregano, chiles, and onions along their well travelled trails in patches of mesquite to keep foraging cattle from eating them. As they moved along the trails, they would harvest the spices, onions, and chiles and combine them with beef to make a dish called "Trail Drive Chili".

Another version of the origin of chili says that the first chili recipe was made in the Texas prison systems because only the cheapest meats were served in prison. To make the meats a little tastier and less tough, they were cut into very small pieces that were boiled with chiles and spices.

Yet another theory is that Canary Islanders who were transplanted into San Antonio as early as 1731 used peppers and onions combined with various meats to make early chili dishes. This theory also gives credit to Canary Islanders for first bringing cumin, an essential chili recipe spice, to the United States. 

One largely disregarded theory is that chili was founded by the U.S. Army. The first Army chili recipe was published in 1896. Garlic and beans were added by World War I and tomatoes by World War II.

The most plausible origin of chili came in 1828 when J.C. Clopper observed the poor people in San Antonio cutting what little meat they could afford into a has like consistency and stewing it together with as many pieces of peppers as pieces of meat.

However chili was created, it is a dish enjoyed in many homes in America today and in many different ways. The easy chili recipes within this site are just a few of the ways to concoct your own chili specialty. We hope you enjoy!!

 

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Ever wonder what ingredients chefs use in award winning chili?  Some chili secrets are revealed in our newest article.  Why not try your own secret ingredient in a pot of chili this weekend?

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Super Bowl Chili Ideas

Chili - A Has Bean?

Find out how to celebrate your favorite college football bowl team with some of our favorite chili ideas.  Read the entire College Football Chili to see what new ideas we have.