Hot Dog Sauce

Name: Hot Dog Sauce
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 16 serving(s)
Ingredients: 2 lbs ground chuck; 2 lbs onions, chopped fine; 2 teaspoons salt; 2 tablespoons chili powder; 2 cloves garlic; 1/4 cup brown sugar; 4 cups tomato puree; 2 cans tomato paste; 1 tablespoon paprika; 1 teaspoon hot pepper flakes; 4 cups water, more if needed

Submitted by Teresa M

"This is a Very good hot dog sauce. It makes a lot, so it's handy to freeze in family-size portions and always have sauce for hot dogs. We always have it at cook-outs."

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Ready In:: 1hr 5mins
Ingredients:: 11
Serves:: 16

ingredients

2 lbs ground chuck
2 lbs onions, chopped fine
2 teaspoons salt
2 tablespoons chili powder
2 cloves garlic
¹⁄₄ cup brown sugar
4 cups tomato puree
2 cans tomato paste
1 tablespoon paprika
1 teaspoon hot pepper flakes
4 cups water, more if needed

directions

Brown ground chuck, onions and garlic together& drain fat.
Add remaining ingredients.
Simmer together 1 hour or until desired consistency (should be like a thick chili).
Serve over hot dogs on buns, smother with finely-diced onions, if desired, and enjoy.

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Reviews

This truly was a yummy sauce, I divided it in half, only my hubby and me, but it was still perfect!!! He loved it....

Diana Shrome
Very easy to make although the prep was longer than 5 minutes more like 20min. I had to simmer it longer also. But the finished product was excellent. I have been trying to clone a sauce from an area hot dog shop for years and this is better so it is a KEEPER. Thanks for sharing! CandleLady9ah

candlelady9ah
Until I saw your recipe I had never thought of having a sauce ready to use for hot dogs...this was really great. I'm just getting around to posting some reviews so I wanted to be sure and tell you that this made the family happy when we decided to have hot dogs for dinner. Thanks for posting!

Rise3834
This recipe definately improved your average hot dog. I cut the recipe in half and there is still alot leftover. May find another use for it being that we are not big fans of hot dogs and don't eat them often. I did make one change by adding in a litle cumin. Thank you for posting this recipe. It will be prepared in the future...but for a crowd.

nisea916
Excellent recipe. this is very close to our dairy queen chili dog sauce. although i had to simmer for closer to 2 hours, definitely worth it. I froze the leftovers in 3 individual bags for later use. thanks.

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I had a recipe for Hot Dog Sauce that I have used for 20 yearsyep you guessed it I lost itdid not know it until I started the sauce last nightI am really bad on remembering the right amounts to usebut it turned out OKI was looking at recipes today to see if I could find something close to the one I lostI can tell you now that you have a very good recipe even without trying itI used Cheyenne Pepper instead of the Pepper flakes and tomato sauce instead of paste but I didnt need the waterhowever I do use beer to brown the beef in a covered potThanks for posting your recipe you have saved my next cookout

Wantabchef

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Teresa M

Zanesville, Ohio

Thanks for checking out my about me page. Jeff is my husband of 8 years. We have 1 dog that someone dropped off at the side of the road and I brought home, and she rules the house. I love dogs, and hate to see a dog tied up and forgotten. I love to grow different kinds of tomatoes from seed to can, and give the "extras" away (when I'm working and don't have time to can).

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