Homemade Frito Pie Recipe (video)

[Saviolo]

Hubby comes from Texas, and this is a very simple sort of Tex-Mex one-pot comfort food: Frito pie! This one can be extremely quick and easy. Both the chili and the refried beans can be bought canned, and you can definitely use your favourite brand for either of those. We think it tastes better if you make them yourself, of course! But really, this is a very low-effort big casserole meal that has lots of nice flavour.

We made chili for this recipe, and tried to make it very much in the style and texture of a canned chili (but homemade). It's quite a bit different from the Texas chili we made for the channel a long long time ago, but was also extremely delicious. We had some really nice locally sourced corn chips, but just plain ol' Fritos will work fine. We find them a bit too salty, but they are the classic! For the cheese, any kind of decent melting cheese will do. A monterey jack sort of cheese will do better than, for instance, a cheddar, which gets oily when it melts. For a little extra flavour, crumble up some feta or goat cheese on top with the monterey jack!

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[MLAA]

1. Yum.

[packman]

2. Looks a bit salty

[Saviolo]

3. We didn't use "real" Fritos

The corn chips we used were far less salty than real Fritos, and it made a significant difference. Also, the refried beans tend to soak up a *lot* of salt, so it definitely didn't taste salty.

If you're using canned beans or canned chili, you may want to try to use low-salt versions so you can control the salt content.

[luvs2sing]

4. I'm having high school football game flashbacks.

Frito pie is a lifelong favorite. Can’t wait to try this recipe!

[Saviolo]

5. We're going to do a video soon on the chili.

We've done a video on Texas chili before, but that one is more of a long-cooking braising chili with big chunks of seared beef in it. This was made with ground beef and had a shorter cooking time to mimic the texture of a canned chili. Hopefully the video for the chili will be done soon.

[mitch96]

6. First time I had Frito Pie was in the hill country of Texas. It was in a gas station and

It was served in a Frito bag!! They just put the beans, chili and cheese into the bag on top of Fritos. Delish and I was thirsty all day...
Thanks to the beer gods I was ok...😉
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