Fantastic Foods Vegetarian Chili, 6.4-Ounces
June 13, 2010 by Vegan
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This is a great vegetarian chili. It tastes homemade like the kind you grew up eating that your mother made. I highly recommend this for vegans and vegetarians. Being a Texas girl growing up on Mexican food I add chopped jalepenos to mine.
Rating: 5 / 5
I first stumbled upon this mix a good ten years ago when I was a more strict vegetarian. I have since become a little more lenient in my diet but this is an old favorite. I do the beginning as suggested, boil 2.5c water and then add the chili mix (1 box) but from there, I do my own thing. They suggest using 1 can of diced tomatoes and 1 can of beans but I find that I get a much more mellow but still hearty, flavorful chili and it either feeds several more or leaves a good bit leftover by adding the following: 1 can of Great Northern beans, 1 can of black beans, 1 can of diced tomatoes, and a bit of powdered garlic (I picked the different beans for flavor/color/texture variation and the garlic is based on your personal tastes). If it’s too thick for you, add up to 1 can of stewed tomatoes so that it thins it without diluting the flavor.
Anyways, it tastes great fresh out of the pot with cheese and sour cream or on top of a baked potato. Unless I am serving others, my son and I always have leftovers but they freeze well if we don’t want to eat them in the next couple of days. The real taste test was serving this to both my grandfather and my dad…they are big meat eaters who would have refused to eat it if I had told them up front it was vegetarian. Both liked it enough to ask for seconds and I’ve since made it for them and others on multiple occasions.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is the best vegetarian chili I have tried. The box says to add 1 can of tomatoes and 1 can of bean. I like alot of tomaotoes in my chili so I always add 2 cans of fire roasted tomatoes. Black beans are awesome in this but you can use any kind you like. I like to spice mine up a bit with cayenne pepper too. My boyfriend who is a meat and potatoe guy loves it, and usually he will never eat my vegetarian food.
Rating: 5 / 5
It has a distinct flavor that I can’t put my finger on. Definitely not a substitute for meaty chili. This would be great for camping though. Easy to make. We plan to use it as a base for regular chili.
Rating: 3 / 5
I love this chili!. For me it’s flavorful enough to handle an extra can of beans (or corn) in addition to the one can each of beans and tomatoes suggested on the box.
I started out making it just for myself while the other four people in my family would eat our traditional beef-and-bean chili, which they swore they would never give up. At some point, I started secretly using the vegetarian chili as a base for chili con carne. In addition to the box recommendations, I add 1 lb cooked ground turkey, a can of Bush’s chili beans, and an additional can (or even two) of plain (black, kidney, or pinto) beans. My whole family enjoys a hearty chili meal (with leftovers!), and I am happy knowing they are eating less saturated fat, and overall less meat than they otherwise would. They know what I’m up to now, and are fussing because I’m OUT of Fantastic Foods Vegetarian Chili. Who would have ever thought it?
Rating: 5 / 5