50 Best Super Bowl Recipes
Chicken Wings with Blue Cheese Dip
These classic buffalo wings pair perfectly with a creamy homemade blue cheese dip.
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El Original Queso
"In Texas, whether you're at a restaurant or a house party or a church youth group meeting, there are always people gathered around a nice, big bowl of queso—almost like they're gathered around a fire," says Lisa Fain of New York City restaurant El Original.
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Game-Day Pork and Black Bean Chili
Chef Andrew Zimmern serves this hearty chili with limes, minced chiles, homemade hot sauce, sour cream, sliced avocado, crumbled cheddar cheese, corn chips and flour tortillas.
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Smoky Chipotle and Bacon Guacamole
This smoky, salty guacamole is a great game-day dip—but you might want to double it if you're having friends over. Anything with bacon tends to disappear quickly.
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Mojito Jell-O Shots with White Rum and Fresh Mint
Instead of combining vodka with flavored Jell-O mix, chef Michael Symon concocts a refreshing mojito and stirs unflavored gelatin into the mint-and-lime-spiced rum drink to mold a fun and sophisticated version of the lowbrow shot.
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Cheesy Nachos with Fried Eggs and Giardiniera

Food & Wine's Justin Chapple makes his next-level nachos with sausage, tangy pickled vegetables and fried eggs. They're perfect all-day nachos.
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Pimento Cheese with Salt-and-Pepper Butter Crackers
Chef Carla Hall makes her own crunchy crackers to serve with her cheese spread, a riff on a Southern classic.
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Sriracha Chicken Wings
Sriracha lovers will devour these spicy, crispy chicken wings.
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Garlic Bread Fries with Marinara Ketchup
In this imaginative party snack, addictive garlicky bread sticks and marinara sauce resemble french fries and ketchup.
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Slow-Cooker Barbecued Pulled Pork
Serve the pulled pork with coleslaw and pickles, or mound it on hamburger buns and top with coleslaw and thinly sliced onion and dill pickles.
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Japanese Pizza
Think fried rice meets pizza," says Chicago chef Grant Achatz, who makes this crazy-fun dish for dinner with his kids. You can pick your toppings, he says, but the most important one is the Manchego cheese, which has a flavor profile that's similar to miso.
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Buffalo Chicken Fajitas
Doused in buffalo sauce and nestled in a chewy tortilla, this mash-up of game day classics can easily be scaled up or down, depending on your number of guests.
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Edna’s Lunchbox
Edna's is a legendary bar in Oklahoma City with dollar bills stapled to the walls. Its signature drink is an unlikely mix of three ingredients: fresh orange juice, amaretto and light beer. Key to the surprisingly tasty cocktail: a frosty mug.
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BLT Hot Dogs with Caraway Remoulade
These "BLT" hot dogs are topped with crispy bacon, fresh tomatoes and crunchy lettuce dressed with a creamy caraway-pickle mayonnaise.
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Shrimp-and-Crab Gumbo
This gumbo from New Orleans chef Donald Link owes its flavor to the roux, a mix of flour and oil that's cooked until it's coffee-colored.
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Habanero Chicken Quesadillas
This quesadilla packs a serious punch, thanks to fiery habaneros. Feel free to dial it up or down, depending on your tolerance.
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Hogs in a Blanket
This fun, high-brow take on pigs in a blanket swaps spicy andouille sausage for the hot dogs, with sweet mustard chutney as a condiment.
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Citrusy Chicken Tenders
In these chicken fingers for grown-ups, thin strips of chicken are marinated in ale and citrus juices, then fried until golden-crisp.
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Flaky Beef Empanadas
The chopped beef filling for these delicious empanadas is cooked in lard, so it’s extra succulent.
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Muffuletta Calzone
This simple, smart recipe uses the ingredients in a classic muffuletta sandwich (salami, ham, provolone, roasted peppers and olives) in a calzone that's baked until warm and melty.
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Fried Chicken Tacos
"Right in Tijuana's red-light district sits Kentucky Fried Buches, where cooks fry chicken necks, skin on, to fill soft corn tortillas. I can't stop eating them," says Andrew Zimmern. "At home, I fry skin-on chicken thighs until they're supercrisp, then eat them with avocado-tomatillo salsa, my family's favorite."
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Italian Sausage Heroes with Peppers and Onions
The big and messy sausage-and-pepper hero is a staple of every Italian American street fair. This neater version—made with smaller rolls and sausage halves—is perfect for a quick weeknight dinner at home and requires little cleanup.
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Broccoli Bread
This fantastic bread is stuffed with broccoli and two types of cheese.
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Sriracha-and-Wasabi Deviled Eggs
Chef Joanne Chang's mother used to make hard-boiled eggs for dinner: She would add them to the beef or chicken she was braising in soy. This is Joanne's riff on those eggs, made spicy with hot sauce and wasabi.
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Crispy Buffalo Potatoes
For her fun take on Buffalo chicken wings, F&W's Kay Chun tosses oven fries with a delicious two-ingredient sauce.
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Three-Cheese Mini Macs
Cooked in mini muffin pans, these mini macs can be assembled early and baked just as guests arrive.
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Potato Skins with Broccoli Pesto
Broiled instead of deep-fried, and filled with a nutrient-packed pesto made from broccoli and fresh herbs, these potato skins are extra healthy. Toss any leftover pesto with pasta or use as a sandwich spread. Peel and shred the broccoli stems for slaw.
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Ginger Shandies
These super-easy drinks are made with Hoegaarden, ginger beer, mint and lemon.
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Buffalo Chicken Legs
When wings aren’t hearty enough, make these spicy chicken legs.
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Brat Reubens
Here, chef Viet Pham tucks bratwurst into hearty hoagie rolls along with juicy pastrami and sliced Swiss cheese, then spreads them with his homemade Russian dressing.
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Grandma Zimmern’s Tailgating Pot of Love
Whether you're at the game or at home on the couch, this one-pot meal is fantastic football food.
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Parmesan Cheese Popcorn
Cheesy popcorn gets an upgrade with freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano, salt and pepper.