This can be made with all Homemade Chili or just use your favorite store-bought canned chili in a pinch.
Our recipe today is going to include fluffy biscuits on the top reminding me of a pot pie biscuit-topped chili combination or a cornbread topping shown below in our recipe card.
Plus if you're not a biscuit fan you can also top chili with your favorite homemade or packaged cornbread recipe.
Keep the biscuits or cornbread plain or mix in some chopped onions to sliced olives, try some chilies or hot jalapeno peppers in the dough.
The chili makeovers below can be created into so many possibilities, just pick something your family likes and adapt away!
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Easy Leftover Chili Remakes
- Top baked potatoes with leftover chili
- Make a taco salad bowls
- Top chili refrigerator biscuits, cornbread mix, or broken-up tortilla chips (see recipe card below for cornbread topping recipe or biscuit recipe)
- Make a chili cheese dip
- Fill enchiladas or burritos
- Make corn tacos or flour tortilla tacos
- Pour over cooked pasta for a chili mac or make a taco rice
- Make a layer of chili and tortilla lasagna
- Topping for chili hamburgers and chili hotdogs
- Chili top cheese fries
- Nachos
- Make hot pockets filling tortillas and bake or air fried
- Pour hot chili over hard-crusted bread, English muffins, or refrigerator-baked biscuits
- Make a white chicken chili version of goulash using elbow macaroni
- Make a Frito pie
- Use as a filling for Stuffed Peppers or, Stuffed Chili Pasta Shells
- Use as a filling for Eggplant Boats or Stuffed Zucchini topped with cheese
- Use it as a topping for pizza
- Use as a topping for polenta (pizzettes)
- Use as a filling for empanadas
Garnish and Serving Suggestions
- blue cheese dressing
- ranch dressing
- sour cream
- lettuce
- crackers, tortilla chips, pita bread points, garlic toast, potato chips
- crumbled cooked crispy bacon
- tomato diced
- chopped onions
- diced jalapeno peppers or other peppers
- cayenne pepper for extra heat
- thickly sliced or shredded sharp cheddar cheese
- sliced black or green olives
- chopped pickle slices
- cilantro
- diced green onion
- green chilies
- whole kernel corn
- chopped green peppers
- shredded carrots
- finely chopped radishes
- taco sauce
- enchiladas sauce
- salsa
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Repurpose That Leftover Chili It Has Endless Possibilities
Whether you use this as a topping or filling, leftover chili can be another amazing delicious meal and so easy.
Use your favorite chili recipe or our Old World Chili recipe.
Even a little Chicken Chili or our Southwest Chicken Chili, or our Merlot Chili will be delicious in this dip.
We also freeze the leftover chili in containers to repurpose on one of those busy days to make a quick meal during the week.
Yield: 8
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20 Ways to Repurpose Leftover Chili
20 ways to repurpose leftover chili ideas plus homemade cornbread or biscuit topping recipes
Prep time: 25 MinCook time: 25 MinTotal time: 50 Min
Ingredients
- Biscuit or Cornbread Topping Chili Bake
- 4 cups or more of leftover chili
- 1 small package of biscuit or cornbread mix to package instructions ( your brand you choose should make around 8 biscuits or scattered cornbread dumplings
- Note: we have also topped the chili with refrigerated buttermilk biscuits
- See under notes for optional mix-ins for the cornbread or biscuits below
- Homemade cornbread recipe:
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
- 1 cup milk
- 1 large egg
- 1 1/4 cups cornmeal
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- Optional additions: diced chilies, shredded cheddar cheese, chopped black olives
- Homemade Biscuit Recipe:
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 8 tablespoons cubed butter
- 3/4 cup milk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to the instructions below or on the package of mix you're using. Grease a 10 x 10 casserole dish.
- Pour the chili into the greased baking dish.
- After mixing the desired topping for the chili, place the cornbread or biscuits on top and bake until golden brown either to the package instructions or by using the homemade instructions for each topping below.
- Directions for Cornbread Topping:
- Whisk the butter, milk, and egg until evenly blended.
- Fold in the dry ingredients.
- Add tablespoons randomly over to the top of the chili.
- Bake in the oven in a preheated oven at 400 degrees until the cornbread looks dry in the center of the biscuits around 20 minutes.
- Directions for Homemade Biscuit Topping:
- Preheat the oven to 450 degrees.
- In a large bowl mix the sugar, salt, baking powder, and flour with a whisk.
- Add the butter and with a fork blend the soft butter into the flour mixture until it look like cornmeal.
- Make a well in the center then add the milk and mix until well blended.
- Roll out the dough and make a round biscuit using a floured glass or biscuit cutter.
- Place on top of the chili.
- Using a pastry brush, add melted butter on each biscuit, with shredded cheddar cheese, granulated garlic powder, and any other topping you prefer.
- Bake at 450 degrees until biscuits are golden brown around 15 minutes or more.
Notes
Easy Leftover Chili Remakes
- Make a layer of chili and tortilla lasagna
- Topping for chili hamburgers and chili hotdogs
- Chili top cheese fries
- Nachos
- Make hot pockets filling tortillas and bake or air fried
- Pour hot chili over hard-crusted bread, English muffins, or refrigerator-baked biscuits
- Make a white chicken chili version of goulash using elbow macaroni
- Make a Frito pie
- Use as a filling for Stuffed Peppers or, Stuffed Chili Pasta Shells
- Use as a filling for Eggplant Boats or Stuffed Zucchini topped with cheese
- Use it as a topping for pizza
- Use as a topping for polenta (pizzettes)
- Use as a filling for empanadas
- Make a taco salad bowls
- Top chili refrigerator biscuits, cornbread mix, or broken-up tortilla chips (see recipe card below for cornbread topping recipe or biscuit recipe)
- Make a chili cheese dip
- Fill enchiladas or burritos
- Make corn tacos or flour tortilla tacos
- Pour over cooked pasta for a chili mac or make a taco rice
- Top baked potatoes with leftover chili
Garnish and Serving Suggestions
- blue cheese dressing
- ranch dressing
- sour cream
- lettuce
- crackers, tortilla chips, pita bread points, garlic toast, potato chips
- crumbled cooked crispy bacon
- tomato diced
- chopped onions
- diced jalapeno peppers or other peppers
- cayenne pepper for extra heat
- thickly sliced or shredded sharp cheddar cheese
- sliced black or green olives
- chopped pickle slices
- cilantro
- diced green onion
- green chilies
- whole kernel corn
- chopped green peppers
- shredded carrots
- finely chopped radishes
- taco sauce
- enchiladas sauce
- salsa
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More Chili Recipes To Try:
Vegetarian Chili
White Chicken Chili
Southwestern Chili