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Chili fries

Filed Under: Cooking with canning Tagged With: Chili

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A hearty lunch or a light supper: 2 cups of delicious French fries, with chili on top, garnished of course with sour cream and hot sauce.

You can make this with minimal work and expense — because you have the jars of home-canned chili on the shelf ready to use!

And even though this might seem or taste like fast food, it isn’t: it’s actually a really healthy meal.

Consider serving on a plate with a light side salad.

This recipe uses:

Home-canned chili

You may also wish to try this with Home-canned sloppy Joes.

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  • 1 Chili fries
    • 1.1 Ingredients
    • 1.2 Instructions
    • 1.3 Notes
    • 1.4 Nutrition
  • 2 Nutrition information

Chili fries

Delicious and healthy Tex-Meal meal.
Course Main Course
Cuisine American
Keyword Beef, Potatoes
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Servings 1 serving
Calories 539kcal
Metric - US Customary

Ingredients

  • 1 teaspoon duck fat (or 1 tbsp oil)
  • 250 g potato (½ lb)
  • 250 ml home canned chili (1 cup / ¼ litre jar / ½ US pint / 8 oz)
  • 2 tablespoons sour cream (fat-free. Or regular.)
  • hot sauce
Metric - US Customary

Instructions

  • Wash potato and cut into fries; leave skin on if desired.
  • Melt duck fat.
  • Toss potato in fat.
  • Bake in oven at 175 C (350 F) for 35 to 45 minutes until golden and crisp, tossing occasionally.
  • (NOTE: Instead of the above, if you have an air fryer such as an Actifry or a Philips AirFryer you can just follow the directions for Shrink-Me Fries.)
  • Open the jar of chili, zap in microwave.
  • Put cooked, hot fries in a bowl or on a plate. Pour the chili out on top of the fries.
  • Garnish it with two tablespoons fat-free sour cream.
  • Optional: sprinkle with hot sauce, shredded lettuce, chopped fresh tomato, fresh coriander leaves (aka cilantro) if available. Also nice with a few slices of avocado.
  • Serve immediately piping hot.

Notes

You can cut the potato by hand or if you have a chipper, a chipper will make fast work of it.
Leaving the skin on the potatoes adds fiber and makes this dish just a little more filling and satisfying.
Instead of duck fat you could use goose fat, or beef fat. An animal fat such as that is more satisfying to use than a similar amount of oil, as it doesn't all evaporate away and provides more satisfying foods for around the same number of calories. Instead of a teaspoon of melted duck fat, you could use 2 or 3 teaspoons of oil (more calories.)

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 539kcal | Carbohydrates: 74.7g | Protein: 36.2g | Fat: 10.9g | Saturated Fat: 4.4g | Cholesterol: 69mg | Sodium: 113mg | Fiber: 12.6g | Sugar: 9.6g

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Nutrition information

Serving size: 2 cups (175 g) of French fries (chips) plus 1 cup (8 oz / 250 ml) of chili

Per serving:

  • 539 calories, 113 mg sodium
  • Weight Watchers PointsPlus®: 14 points. 6 points for fries, 7 points for chili, 1 point for sour cream.

chili fries nutrition

* Nutrition info provided by https://caloriecount.about.com

* PointsPlus™ calculated by healthycanning.com. Not endorsed by Weight Watchers® International, Inc, which is the owner of the PointsPlus® registered trademark.

* Herbamare ® is a registered trademark of the A. Vogel Corporation.

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Filed Under: Cooking with canning Tagged With: Chili

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