Recipe: Skyline Chili Cheese Dip - The Food Hussy (2024)

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What kind of cheese does Skyline Chili use? ›

IT'S SKYLINE TIME. Our secret-recipe chili with beans and onions topped with shredded cheddar cheese and sour cream.

American diners were already familiar with chili-topped Coney Island hot dogs, but the Kiradjieff brothers put their own spin on it, adapting a Mediterranean stew spiced with cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon, and adding chili powder along with other spices they'd grown up with.

Why is Skyline Chili so popular? This dish has a Mediterranean influence in flavor so it is really unique! It has the traditional chili powder and cumin but also cinnamon, allspice, and cloves. Skyline Chili has perfected their recipe so well that it is even sold in grocery stores.

-1 large brown/yellow onion (I have seen these called both brown or yellow, just don't use white onion. Red onion is good too, but it gives the chili a different flavor.)

Skyline Chili is unique in that it is not chili con carne, the meat dish that originated in (and is the state dish of) Texas. Instead, Cincinnati chili is a sauce usually used over spaghetti or hot dogs, containing a unique spice blend that gives it a very distinct, sweet-and-savory taste.

Shredded cheddar is here for all your oozy dairy needs. Whether you're topping some chorizo chili or making a classic grilled cheese, shredded cheddar melts extremely well. It also brings that slightly sharp quality to the table to keep things interesting.

Answer: Nope, according to Dann Woellert, author of "The Authentic History of Cincinnati Chili." For the 2013 book, Woellert spoke with the owners of all the local chili parlors – Skyline, Gold Star, Pleasant Ridge and Price Hill, to name a few – and they all confirmed chocolate was not an ingredient in their recipes.

The transaction leaves The Williams Family (along with internal business partners and associates), Mr. McDonnell and the Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GCF) as the sole owners of Skyline. GCF became a partial owner of Skyline in 2019 through a donation of ownership shares, valued at $8 million, from Mr.

Cincinnati chili (or Cincinnati-style chili) is a Mediterranean-spiced meat sauce used as a topping for spaghetti or hot dogs ("coneys"); both dishes were developed by immigrant restaurateurs in the 1920s.

Description: This classic Cincinnati dish starts with a foundation of spaghetti noodles coated in Skyline's secret blend of seasonings. A heaping spoonful of kidney beans goes on next, followed by Skyline's "original, secret-recipe chili," some chopped onions and a heaping mound of finely shredded aged cheddar.

Why does Skyline Chili taste weird? ›

The chili itself is, well, different: gone are the common flavors of chili powder and cumin. Instead, you'll find cinnamon, Worcestershire sauce, paprika, vinegar, cloves, and other flavors that are harder to parse.

Our signature dish – steaming spaghetti covered with our original secret-recipe chili and topped with a mound of shredded cheddar cheese.

To quickly thicken it, put some cornstarch in a cup with liquid from the chili, stir, add to the chili. For a more "authentic" thickening, just keep it on a low simmer, but it will take longer.

Chocolate. Some people swear by using dark chocolate while others think simply adding in some cocoa powder does the trick. While it does not exactly sweeten the chili, it is supposed to add more depth to the dish. This recipe from Foolproof Living explains why they add cocoa powder to their chili.

Traditional red chili often includes cumin, paprika, garlic powder, and onion powder, though it's not limited to these spices. Cincinnati chili, on the other hand, has a sweeter edge with spices like cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and allspice. Some recipes also use cocoa powder.

Something that is rather unusual, however, containing three types of peppers: red tabasco, red jalapeño peppers, and red cayenne peppers, it actually has a bit of a ground pepper kick to it.

In 1949, Lambrinides and his sons opened the first Skyline in Price Hill, which has since closed. However, near and dear to the UC campus is the oldest standing Skyline, which opened in 1966.