Most Indiana Chili has some type of pasta.
Is it spicy?
i add pasta to chili because I LOVE pasta. I do the brown whole wheat pasta and in general avoid the whites. white rice, pasta, bread... mine is a bastardized version according to Texas standards. Most in Ohio add beans but not necessarily pasta. It is one of the budget stretchers.. Like potatoes, rice etc. I won a chili cookout in Cleveland in the 90s. I did my veggie crumbles.. the judges did not know. With all the spices and adding butter and olive oil and good quality tomatoes (mine was home grown tomatoes and I made the sauce. Well I won first prize. I KNOW it was the spices I developed. Add nutmeg, a bit of cocoa lots of garlic, enough fire to make it interesting. . One of the judges (1 out of 8) had a hissy fit when she found out that there was no meat in it. The other judges were all over her saying there was no requirement what was in. If someone wanted to enter macaroni and cheese and call it chili.. they could. They wouldn’t win however. LOL
Won 100 gift certificate to a tex mex restaurant and a few other gift certificates that were donated.
i add pasta to chili because I LOVE pasta. I do the brown whole wheat pasta and in general avoid the whites. white rice, pasta, bread... mine is a bastardized version according to Texas standards. Most in Ohio add beans but not necessarily pasta. It is one of the budget stretchers.. Like potatoes, rice etc. I won a chili cookout in Cleveland in the 90s. I did my veggie crumbles.. the judges did not know. With all the spices and adding butter and olive oil and good quality tomatoes (mine was home grown tomatoes and I made the sauce. Well I won first prize. I KNOW it was the spices I developed. Add nutmeg, a bit of cocoa lots of garlic, enough fire to make it interesting. . One of the judges (1 out of 8) had a hissy fit when she found out that there was no meat in it. The other judges were all over her saying there was no requirement what was in. If someone wanted to enter macaroni and cheese and call it chili.. they could. They wouldn’t win however. LOL
Won 100 gift certificate to a tex mex restaurant and a few other gift certificates that were donated.