This is all wrong, as chilli should really be made with pinto beans, a member of the kidney bean family.

A preferred alternative is to substitute black beans for the pinto beans.

The young pods may also be harvested and cooked as green pinto beans.

Studies have indicated pinto beans can help reduce cholesterol levels.

Then came drought, which left the land too dry to produce pinto beans.

New Mexico is also a significant producer of pinto beans and grapes.

A small, hard, whole pinto bean shot out of his mouth like a bullet.

I tried pinto beans and they were as good as the black beans.

"We discovered that Texans ate 100 million pounds of pinto beans a year and there were none being grown in the state," he said.

I've made it with both cannellini and pinto beans.