Cowboy Bacon Chili Cheese Fries
This Chili Cheese Fries Recipe is flavorful and decadent. The bacon is the added flavor bonus. Use any type of french fries that you want.
Chili Cheese Fries Recipe
Hold on tight, you’ll be pleased to know that these chili cheese fries are fresh, home-made, hand-made and fried with only the best yukon gold potatoes and grape seed oil. No need to sneak through the drive-through to satisfy your greasy cravings. You can do that in the sacred privacy of your own home.
Cardiologists will probably hate us for this recipe and what they’d call Early Death Chili Cheese Fries. But for those of us who want who want to indulge in something special and lathered in rich love, we call it Holy Shit Chili Cheese Fries. Better yet, we’ve cowboy’ed ’em up made them in the style of thick, rustic-cut potato wedges and added a spicy kick to the chili. The sky is the limit.
Bacon. Ground Brisket and Top Round. Beer. All cooked together with sweet onion, garlic, spices, and BBQ sauce. It is one hell of a chili.
We love a little heat in our chili, so it’s an addd option to the recipe. Homemade Sriracha sauce is a regular part of our pantry, our chicken wings usually get the spice treatment, and we often indulge in our Viet mother’s make-you-want-to-cry spicy Bun Bo Hue soup.
Second version: Eat more chili with your potatoes!
We’ll vary on how lazy or meticulous we are feeling in making our fries. Going all out, we’ll make them the Les Halles method of soaking, drying, soft frying, then crisp frying the little pa-taters. If we are feeling lazy, then we’ll just slice, dry, and fry. Either way, we nearly always use yukon golds and either grape seed oil or peanut oil for frying. Gives it that special touch.
You only live once, so don’t hold back. The joy from the occasional indulgence easily offsets the caloric vice-filled meal. At least in our book it does, just don’t tell the doctor! So what is everyone else’s favorite wintertime indulgence? Share your favorite undoing!
Rock On,
-Todd and Diane
Bacon Cowboy Chili Cheese Fries
Ingredients
Bacon Cowboy Chili
- 2 lbs (910g) Ground Beef , combination of top round and brisket is our favorite
- 6 strips (227g) Bacon , diced
- 1 large Sweet Onion , diced
- 4 cloves Garlic , crushed
- 1 cup BBQ Sauce
- 1 Tablespoon Chili Powder
- 2 teaspoons ground Cumin
- 2 teaspoons Paprika
- 1 Tablespoons Brown Sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon fresh cracked Black Pepper
- 1/2 teasspoon kosher salt , or to taste
Additional Ingredient for Chili Cheese Fries (choose as many or few as you like)
- 1 pound fries , cooked
- 1 cup shredded cheese , or as much as you want
- 1 cup caramelized onions
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/2 cup sliced green onion
- extra bacon
Instructions
- Heat a large sauce pan (preferably cast iron) over med-high heat. Add bacon and cook until crisp. Add ground beef, onions and garlic cook until beef is nearly cooked through and browned, stirring occasionally.
- Add BBQ sauce, chili powder, ground cumin, paprika , brown sugar, fresh cracked pepper and salt. Stir to combine, bring to a simmer, then lower heat to keep at a gentle simmer. Cook for about 20-30 minutes. If the chili is too thick add about 1/4 cup of water (flavors will develop more with the longer cooking time but isn't a requirement).
- Serve the chili warm with fries & other favorite additions. Or use chili as a base or alongside - tortilla chips, crusty bread, in a quesadilla, over a sausage dog or burger, as a pizza sauce, with pasta.
Looks delicious, even after Thanksgiving and all the over indulgence of the last weekend!
love the creativity! and the pics! rock stars in my book, for sure!
Looks very very good! Like the second version!
Man…I can NOT let my husband see this!
Oh. My. God. Is this heaven or what?? I’m not a huge french fry fan (shocking, I know), but when they’re homemade like this, I’m definitely down. And the chili?! Just wow!
Are you kidding me? This dish looks ridonkulous! And I just got out of my human nutrition class, too! I’d still eat a big skillet of these 🙂
I think the only place to really fully enjoy such a dish is at home, surrounded by copious napkins, away from the judgmental eyes of the public as one hurts oneself on this! In fact, I might go so far as to suggest fully sequestering oneself in a private room at home and not sharing with family is the best way to proceed. At least, that’s what I’d do. Fabulous work!
The tummy ache I would have after eating these fries would be well worth it:)
My Cardiologist would be having a fit if he knew I was even looking at this, but… what he doesn’t know can’t hurt him, right. I have to tell you that there is a step in the recipe that is missing. There is a final step. 2 laps around the block. I’m getting my running shoes on now.
You make your own Sriracha? How rock-star cool are you guys? You are also very, very naughty for posting a recipe like this. My butt is already mad at you. These sound and look amazing…worth every dang calorie!