A Frito Pie Recipe That’s Fast, Easy, and Delicious | America’s Test Kitchen
If you’re looking for a dish that feeds a crowd and is fun to assemble, we have a fast and easy recipe for Frito pie. The secret to Frito pie starts with great chili, so Ashley Moore shows Bridget Lancaster how to make a great homemade chili that rivals its canned counterpart. Plus, Ashley gives assembly tips on how to easily eat Frito pie straight from the bag.
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The recipe looks great, but I'm left wondering how many times someone can say "so" in just one video.
So that began to stick in my craw. So I began to stop listening and just watching.
I like the bowl idea but same effect!
So basically, make good chili and put it on Fritos.
Ground beef and a can of rotel makes a decent hotdog chili or frito pie topping, if that's all you have in the pantry.
Frito pie isnt just in Texas. Doritos make a walking taco.
No Texan has ever called this a walking taco!
Don't tell me how much chili to put lol
At the National Storytelling Festival around 1993 in Jonesboro, TN, they had a food truck that sold something very similar to this. They called them "pedros." Loved them.
That's called a Frito boat, I've had 'em since I was a little kid and I'm 51 now.
No sour cream!!!!!! Blasphemy!!
so, first of all, awesome. the chili part was really a lot easier than i thought.
second, if you don't already, i hope you do a whole vein of recipes as midwest re-done, or something.
Frito pie is a New Mexican thing using NM red chile.
I just use pure NM red chile
Jalapeños! Frito Pie always needs jalapeños. 😁
In the south Houston suburb we lived in in 1973 when I was 10 and my Dad worked at NASA this was the ONLY thing about being on a Little League baseball team I enjoyed. My next door neighbor friend's Dad was the coach of the team and my Dad had encouraged me to join the team (with a little bit of my Dad encouraging the neighbor friend's Dad to accept me on the team) as Dad felt it would be "good for me". Dad had been a high school football star and was now a computer specialist at NASA helping put men on the moon while I, his only son, was clearly poised to be neither of those things. So between chasing missed pop-ups in center field then throwing them half-way to first or second base (whichever was the wrong choice) and sitting on the bench after my standard 3 swings and 3 misses strike-outs and after my fellow teammates finally stopped screaming at me I would have the chance to go over to the snack hut and buy one of these and eat it. It was so good, and the only reason I really stayed on the team the whole season. Mercifully Dad could see how little I liked being on the team and never suggested I sign up for another season. Two summers later Dad was promoted and transferred and off we went to discover the totally alien world of New York where kids there said "what?" to me all the time because they had difficulty understanding my thick southern accent. Halcyon days.
Wolf Brand Chili only lacks one thing: Meat!😂It’s supposed to be in it but a teaspoon per can max must be the limit.
ATK, are you okay?
Wow ATK what's next, cream of mushroom soup poured over chicken?
Too bad they can't say the word "Fritos."
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MEXICANOOOOOO 100%
Thanks for posting
Dont they do this in prisons?
Use Ramen noodles ln lieu of Fritos.
Ladies you need a good squeeze of lime on that before you dig in.
Ladies you need a good squeeze of lime on that before you dig in.
Always a pleasure to see Ashley!😁
Wow this is garbage.
ATK has hit a new low.
Disgusting!!!!
I love you guys I watch you on tubi all the time. Are y'all still on the create network
As a native I can attest this is the traditional walking taco. However, nowadays people are making them with any sort of chips: doritos, takis, flaming hot cheetos are popular for example. People are piling all sorts of things on top. Even gummi bears, seriously.😀
This was a popular school lunch in some California schools in the 1980s. I was long out of school by that time, but the kids gave me instructions for making it using canned chili.
Go back to MY childhood … I grew up in North Central Texas, went to junior high '68 to '71, high school '71 to '75, played in the band ALL those years so I had to go to EVERY football game. And during our "third quarter break," we in the band could always count on finding Frito pie in a bag just EXACTLY like this at the concession stand, home or away, plus half lemons with a striped peppermint stick stuck into them so you could suck up the lemon juice through the peppermint stick for that sweet-and-sour experience.
Ashley, for all that yer a Yankee, you nailed this recipe right to the wall!
The earliest mention of it being served in a split Fritos bag dates to the Woolworth's in Santa Fe, NM.
There are newspaper references to Frito Pie as early as 1946 in Texas.
An Oklahoma recipe in 1948.
A documented serving of "Fritos Chili Pie" at a Dallas event in 1949.
But the bag seems to have started at that Woolworth's.
I throw the cheese in first then the meat melts it into the fritos… and you shake it so it combines
Served on the square in Santa Fe since the early 1950s, possibly earlier.
It's not chilli if it doesn't have beans and onions can be cooled with the meat
There's a chain in the DC area called Flavor Hive that does a Halal version of the walking taco.
It started as a food truck, and in the past two years, it turned into half a dozen locations.
My family has done this as a casserole in the oven. Just mix everything up with some chips in it and topped with more chips and bake it 30 minutes or so
A concession stand in Texas. Or prison. Lol. Looks good!
My childhood reincarnated 🥄
This seems like a health hazard.
It's the 80's and its Friday night in Texas. … at the HS football stadium … best place to eat those
Fritos, chopped brisket, pinto beans, bbq sauce, sour cream and cheese.
That’s what we call TX trash 🤤