Skyline Chili's 5-Way, a Hot Dish shrouded in secrets (2024)

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Skyline Chili's 5-Way, a Hot Dish shrouded in secrets? ›

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.

Serve your chili as follows (items for the 3,4, and 5 way listed in ingredients- others may require items not listed). 3-Way: chili, spaghetti, and cheese. 4-Way: a 3-Way plus onions or beans. 5-Way: spaghetti, chili, onions, beans and cheese.

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.

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.

Four-way bean: spaghetti, chili, beans, and cheese. Five-way: spaghetti, chili, beans, onions, and cheese.

I would say the real secret is in the addition of cocoa and cinnamon and the large amount of spices you add. The chili tasted really hot at first, but as it cooked, the flavors mellowed and created that just right blend of spices that makes Cincinnati chili so different.

Skyline began as a lone chili parlor on Glenway Avenue. This restaurant overlooked the Cincinnati skyline, inspiring the name of the parlor. Lambrinides ran the restaurant with his five sons, and the chili he developed was neither a traditional Greek nor Mexican dish known to other areas of the United States.

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.

Is Skyline actually chili? ›

The term is used to describe a unique type of chili that originated in the Cincinnati area. Based on Greek family recipes, it is different from Southwestern or Texas-style chili.

I don't know if I've ever had a chili that I didn't like, until I ate here. It was thin, kinda watery and had a cinnamon flavor, which I really don't care for, especially with... I don't know if I've ever had a chili that I didn't like, until I ate here.

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.

The chili at this Cincinnati institution can be served plain, 3-way, 4-way, 5-way or 6-way. Learning the lingo didn't take long for Guy Fieri. He ordered the 6-way, which includes everything: chili, spaghetti, beans, onions, cheese and fried jalapeno caps.

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