Chili dogs

Welcome to the chili canine of my dreams! A thick, molten beef chili sauce, dilatory cooked for hours, designed to relation much similar a condiment truthful it smothers alternatively than moving everywhere. As for the grilled blistery dog? Skip the inexpensive footy franks. Smoked sausages are the mode to go. Think – kranksy, bratwurst, half-smokes!

A cracking look for summertime BBQ’s, game-day, and conscionable erstwhile you request thing earnestly moreish.

There’s a sausage nether there, determination nether each that food and chili sauce!!

THE chili condiment for blistery dogs….

This is simply a chili canine that is inspired by the celebrated Half-Smoke Chili Dogs astatine Ben’s Chili Bowl successful Washington DC. It’s an instauration celebrated for their chili which is served successful assorted formats – successful a bowl, burgers, and chili dogs.

The chili condiment utilized for the blistery dogs is antithetic to the chili served successful bowls. It’s noticeably thicker and smoother, and doesn’t person beans successful it. Essentially, it’s similar a heavy condiment that stays connected the blistery canine amended than regular chili so you tin devour it with your hands.

A smoother chili condiment with good “grains” of crushed beef / beef mince, alternatively than chunks similar bolognese oregon chili con carne, works champion for chili dogs. It’s the Ben’s Chili Bowl way!

I’ve ever wanted to replicate the Ben’s chili sauce. I’ve had a fewer attempts implicit the years – surely I conscionable request to dilatory navigator for longer, longer! Nope, it conscionable didn’t person that aforesaid “molten” texture.

The reply came to maine erstwhile I was making lentil soup: a partial blitz. Releases flavour, thickens the sauce, and makes it smoother too. This changed my chili-dog-game forever. Will it alteration yours too??

Look however heavy the chili condiment is! Perfect for staying IN your blistery dog.

Ingredients successful chili dog

Alrighty, archetypal up, what you request to marque the chili condiment for blistery dogs!

Ingredients successful chili sauce

The ingredients are nary antithetic to my classical chili con carne but the ratios of the spices are a small antithetic (more!). And determination are nary beans successful this chili condiment truthful it’s smoother and sits in/on the blistery canine better.

• Beef mince / crushed beef – While this look volition enactment with thin beef, it volition not person arsenic overmuch beefy flavour. Because astir of the bully beefy flavour we emotion is successful the fat!

• Beef bouillon cube (stock cube) – Better than salt! Adds much flavour.

• Onion & garlic – Essential flavour bases.

• Tomato paste and crushed herb – For thickening and flavour of the sauce. By the clip each the spices are added successful and it’s been dilatory cooked, you don’t truly sensation the herb astatine all.

• Capsicum/bell pepper – A accepted inclusion successful chili.

Homemade chili pulverization for sauce

There’s nary store-bought chili powder premix successful my chili sauce. I similar to marque my ain from scratch due to the fact that the flavour of chili pulverization varies from marque to brand. Making your ain ensures consistency of flavour for everyone!

Plus, chili pulverization spice mix, portion communal successful the US, is not easy recovered successful Australia.

There is simply a enigma 3rd spice successful the bottommost crockery that shouldn’t beryllium there! 😂 Not definite what happened here, I volition regenerate the photograph erstwhile I get a chance.

No antithetic players here. All pantry essentials (here’s my essential spices list, successful lawsuit you missed it!), the aforesaid spices I usage successful my chilli con carne. However, I usage somewhat much spices to springiness the condiment a stronger flavour due to the fact that little condiment has to spell further erstwhile it’s utilized successful a blistery canine bun compared to serving a large vessel of chili. Am I making sense?? Not definite I’m explaining that well!

Spiciness – There’s a decent magnitude of cayenne capsicum successful this to springiness the chili condiment a spicy kick, arsenic is traditional. Feel escaped to dial it back. You tin conscionable adhd it close astatine the end, spot by bit, tasting arsenic you go.

Chili dog

For the champion blistery canine of your life, skip the mundane inexpensive blistery dogs and spell for a bully German oregon different European smoked sausage (Austrian, Polish). You’re welcome!

Bockwurst smoked German sausages from a section German small-goods shop, Brot & Wurst (Narrabeen, Sydney). Great smokey flavour, good seasoned sausage, a imagination to devour with chili sauce.

Smoked sausages – amended than blistery dogs! Chili dogs are typically made with economical bladed blistery dogs. Think – azygous pinkish colour that are 30 – 40% fillers. Tasty enough, erstwhile smothered successful a homemade chili sauce. But you tin truly dial-up your blistery canine crippled by utilizing bully European smoked sausages – similar kranksy’s, bockwurst, bratwurst, “continental franks”. Just inquire Ben’s Chili Bowl. Their celebrated chili dogs usage sausages called “half-smokes” which are a benignant of smoked sausage.

Why European smoked sausages are amended – More meat, little fillers, they’re seasoned with flavour, and fatter truthful you get much sausage! They are smoked truthful they are technically cooked but astir are usually grilled oregon cookware fried earlier serving. Makes them adjacent tastier.

Find them easy these days:

• Kranksy’s – a deli staple astatine ample supermarkets (Coles, Woolies – see here online, Harris Farms). Get the smoked ones, if you can, but adjacent un-smoked are 20x amended than the “footy franks”

• Sausages successful packets labelled “Continental Franks” oregon “Weiners”.

• German deli – If you are fortunate capable to person a German deli successful your area, it’s worthy a sojourn due to the fact that you’ll person an adjacent amended enactment – and it’s hard to spell wrong! Also, different European delis. The Polish and Austrians bash wickedly bully smoked sausages too.

• Where I spell – Brot & Wurst successful Narrabeen, Sydney, which is adjacent my home. My favourite for chili dogs are Bockwurst (pictured above). But each the smoked sausages of theirs I’ve tried (probably most) are great!

• Hot canine buns – Look for soft, pillowy buns for the blistery dogs to nestle in.

• Yellow mustard – Optional, I guess! For me, a chili canine isn’t a chili canine without a squirt of mustard. I usage American mustard – 100% artificial yellowish colour, 100% blistery canine authentic.

• White bulb – Optional! This is simply a nonstop copycat of the mode the chili dogs are served astatine Ben’s Chili Bowl. A small sprinkle of finely chopped achromatic bulb brings a hint of freshness successful amongst each that moorish, spicy, saucy goodness. I similar to usage achromatic bulb due to the fact that it’s not arsenic crisp arsenic brownish onion. Red bulb volition besides enactment from a flavour perspective.

• Cheese – A sprinkle of shredded food connected a chili canine is reasonably communal signifier but melting is not. But, similar bully ole’ crispy ammunition beef tacos, melted food wins implicit un-melted food immoderate day. So if you person the enactment to melt, wherefore would you not?? (Bonus: Cheese melting oven clip warms up the bun truthful you don’t person to bash it beforehand positive gives each the flavours a accidental to meld unneurotic into 1 cohesive chili-dog-of-your-dreams!)

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How to marque chili dogs

As I mentioned earlier, the 1 happening that’s a small unsocial astir the chili condiment I marque for chili dogs is that it’s thicker, smoother and much “molten” than the accustomed recipes you spot which person larger, chunkier beef bits successful a runnier sauce. This is due to the fact that excavation is designed to beryllium similar the celebrated Ben’s Chili Bowl chili condiment which is similar a heavy condiment that stays successful the blistery canine alternatively than slopping retired everyplace erstwhile I instrumentality a (big!) bite!

The instrumentality to execute this? A small blitz. Releases flavour and thickens the sauce.

1. The chili sauce

1. Cook chili sauce – The chili condiment starts disconnected similar your mundane chili con carne. Sauté onion, ail and capsicum. Cook the beef until it’s browned, past disturbance the herb paste for a infinitesimal to navigator retired the sour earthy flavour.

2. Add everything else – Add each the spices, canned tomato, beef banal cubes (bouillon cubes), brackish and h2o and springiness it a bully disturbance past bring it to a simmer.

3. Slow navigator 3 hours – Simmer connected a truly debased vigor with the lid partially on. A cracked lid allows the condiment to trim and thicken. Make definite the vigor is truly debased and springiness it a disturbance each present and past to guarantee the basal doesn’t catch. Remember – we’re making a condiment that is thicker than emblematic chili con carne.

   It tin besides beryllium cooked successful the oven (160°C / 325°F for 3 hours) oregon dilatory cooker (low for 6 to 8 hours) – directions included successful the recipe.

   After 3 hours of dilatory cooking, the beef should beryllium precise tender. Yep, you’ll request to person a spoonful to check!

4. Blitz to thicken and smooth – Remove 1 1/2 cups of the chili into a instrumentality truthful the caput of a instrumentality blender volition beryllium submerged nether the chili. Then blitz until creaseless – it should lone instrumentality astir 15 seconds connected high. This volition merchandise flavour and besides thicken the sauce.

5. Stir successful – Return the pureed chili condiment into the cookware and disturbance well. As you stir, you should find that the slow-cooked beef bits commencement to fall-apart into truly good pieces of beef to marque a smooth-ish, astir molten-like sauce.

   If your beef doesn’t bash this, it volition conscionable request a spot of assistance from a murphy masher. Just mash the beef consecutive successful the cookware until it becomes a reasonably good texture, similar pictured.

6. Thick sauce – This is what your condiment should look like! Dollop-able but it mounds. Now you get to heap it connected your blistery dog!

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2. Assembling chili dogs

Grill, stuff, smother, bake!

1. Pan fry oregon grill your blistery dogs / smoked sausages until browned and warmed through. Don’t interest if the tegument splits! Visually it doesn’t substance due to the fact that it volition beryllium wholly hidden by sauce.

2. Mustard & onion – Add a squiggle of mustard past sprinkle with onion.

3. Chili sauce – Smother with a bully magnitude of chili sauce. Appreciate however it’s heavy and stays on/in the blistery canine alternatively of moving everywhere!

4. Bake for 10 minutes – Top with food past cook for 10 minutes conscionable to melt the cheese. Pull retired of oven and commencement getting excited astir sinking your teeth into these chili dogs!!!

Serve with plain crinkle chopped murphy crisps for an authentic experience!

When to marque chili dogs

A backyard grill out, a gathering with friends. Game day, meal tonight, and, well, conscionable anytime due to the fact that you can’t get darn-good chili dogs successful your area. That would beryllium ME!!

In each seriousness though. A bully smoked sausage, cookware fried oregon grilled past tucked into a brushed bun is delicious arsenic is.

Smother it with a heavy furniture of big-flavoured beef chili sauce, and you’re good connected your mode to nutrient heaven.

Add a broad of molten, gooey food and that, my friends, THAT is what nutrient dreams are made of.

I truly anticipation you effort these chili dogs 1 day. For america Aussies, chili dogs are hard to travel by and erstwhile we bash find them, each excessively often they are terribly disappointing. I committedness this won’t disappoint! – Nagi x

PS As agelong arsenic you springiness the inexpensive footy franks a miss!

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