Meg's Mini Chili Bowls:
-1 tube pillsbury biscuits (or any brand...just don't get the "flakey layer" kind, they don't work well for this recipe)
-chili (your favorite kind, we use canned chili with beans)
-cheese
-green onions
-sour cream
-veggie sticks and dip or cut up fresh fruit for a side dish
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
2. grease the backside of a muffin tin with cooking spray (or let your 4 yr old do it and pay the consequences later when you de-grease your back splash and upper cabinet)
3. Have kids (with scrubbed hands...you can only imagine the places they put their little fingers) press biscuits over the backside of the muffins. Press down around the sides, so the biscuits take on a mound shape.
4. Remove plastic toys added by the smaller child.5. Set the muffin pan in the oven like this (upside down with buns on top) and Bake about 7 or 8 minutes. (until LIGHT brown).
6. Heat chili while bowls bake
7. Remove bowls from oven and use a spoon or butter knife or your hands (ouch. Gee, I wish there weren't a giant hole burned into the top of my oven mitt AARON) to pop the bowls off the tin.
8. Fill each "bowl" with a few heaping spoon-fulls of chili and top with cheese green onions and sour cream.
9. Enjoy dinner by the fire. Even our little picky eaters love this recipe.
These little bowls are fun to make a few variations with. We usually fill them with chili, but have had them with pizza sauce and toppings, Ham and cheese, taco toppings (I think that recipe is called navajo tacos) and I've also let them cool and made individual fruit pizzas a few times.
Fun, Easy, and Yummy! Enjoy!
