I haven't tried to make any American style Hot Dog before. Hot Dogs here in New Zealand are quite different – just a short sausage with a stick in it dipped in batter then fried and doused with ketchup.
So having bought some American style frankfurters I decided to start with a New York style hot dog.
Ingredients:
Frankfurters
Hot Dog buns
Sliced onions
Oil
Tomato paste
Spicy American mustard
Small amount of red chili
Method:
I started a few hours early with slicing the onions and slow frying them in oil and quite a bit of tomato paste. I also added some chopped red chilli (not authentic but I tweaked it)
After your onions are ready, the rest is very quick. Just heat some water to a boil – the pan needs to be big enough for the frankfurters. Turn it down once it has boiled and pop in the frankfurters to heat through. Don't boil them or their skins will burst.
Make up the hot dog with the onion mixture, the frankfurter and generous squirts of mustard. No ketchup is allowed in a New York hot dog.
The flavour was ok but I found the bun a bit soft.
haha. Yes, traditional American hot dog and hamburger buns are quite soft. We usually use a "better" type of roll or bun.
ReplyDeleteOh and BTW: the ketchup / no ketchup on hot dogs is a thing. The BFR household is a no-ketchup on hot dogs family. LOL
ReplyDeleteYum! I'm not a big hot dog fan, but yours looks delicious! I like mine on a bun that has been buttered and grilled and is still hot. That way you get a little crunchy-soft combination from the bun. This works best with a New England-style bun with flat sides, though, not a New York-style bun, which looks like what you have!
ReplyDeleteThe soft sweet buns were my favorite part of having hot dogs as a kid. But more often we would use a slice of white sandwich bread, it was the "go to" bread for EVERYTHING!
ReplyDeleteI'd eat it! I have had a battered sausage link but they called them corn dogs here.
ReplyDeletei don't think i'm a hot dog fan sadly. but i do love lots of caramelised onion on a snag sanger. weirdly i love going to the hardware stores etc where they have sausage in bread. terrible stuff - white bread with onions and a snag but sooo delicious somehow.
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