Substitute for kidney beans

[Rocktown Gal]

can I use cranberry beans. I want to make chili tomorrow but ran out of kidney beans...yikes.

[Kmac15]

I can't see why not, I use pinto since I got them cheap so I have a lot of'em.

[Rocktown Gal]

Thanks, I will use them and see how it taste

[dancingfatcat]

A woman at the grocery store was making chili with great northern "white" beans, so I guess you can use any kind you want. I myself have used pintos as well as kidney. Taste great.

[salmonslayer]

I make chili with kidney beans or pintos or navy beans etc....but I dont even know what a cranberry bean is. Is this a local vernacular for another name?

[sammyd]

Any bean would work. Or you could make it WI style with macaroni. Of course you will have to leave out any hint of seasoning as well yuch.

[Alice In TX/MO]

Yes, you can.

[FarmersDaughter]

Salmonslayer,

Cranberry beans are an actual type of bean, not just a local name for some other kind of bean. They are quite good, in my opinion, and would be very good in chili.

Hollie

[stranger]

Originally Posted by Faughts Run Farm

can I use cranberry beans. I want to make chili tomorrow but ran out of kidney beans...yikes.

pintos work great, there really is no rule for beans in chili anyway as real chili had no beans in it, just ground beef.

[Rocktown Gal]

I am cooking the cranberry beans now to put in the chili. I will let you know how it turns out.

Cranberry beans are good. We cook them just like pinto beans and eat them with hot bread.

[marvella]

i have a recipe that uses black beans for chili too. any kind will work.

[SteveD(TX)]

For real chili, just SKIP the beans.

[ronron]

I used navy beans and black beans mixed the other night I was out of canned chili beans so I put half a bag of navy and half a bag of black into my pressure cooker filled the cooker (not canner) half full of water cooked at 15 pounds of pressure for 25 minutes the black beans take longer to cook and were still a little hard but I rinsed them and put them into the rest of my ingredients and the chili was ready in about a half hour, D.H. loved it.
I have a relative in North Dakota who uses pork and beans it's good but not to colorful.
We also make no bean chili mostly use it for what we call 'Coney Islands' witch is a grilled hotdog on a bun with the no bean chili poured over It does taste different than a chili dog.

[Rocktown Gal]

Chili tasted just great.