Chicago-Style Hot Dogs

Prep 10 min

Ready 25 min.

Servings 2

I love an occasional hot dog. If I’m going to eat them, I only buy Vienna dogs with a natural casing. I do not buy inexpensive hot dogs. Good ones are usually linked together. In Chicago, a good Chicago-style dog is made by the Vienna company. We cannot purchase them locally here so the second best is Koegel’s Vienna Beef or Kowalski’s if you can find them. Growing up in the Detroit area, I have always had a love of Detroit-style Coney dogs. (I will do a post on them in the near future.) However, my favorite are Chicago-style. There is something about the combination of flavors that is just awesome. They are easy to make. To do it right, you need to purchase sport peppers and the fluorescent green pickle relish. I was lucky to find Vienna brand Chicago relish and peppers.

Ingredients

• 1 all-beef hot dog

• 1 poppyseed hot dog bun

• 1 teaspoon yellow mustard

• 1 tablespoon sweet green pickle relish

• 1 tablespoon chopped onion

• 4 Roma tomato wedges

• 2 dill pickle spears, finely sliced

• 2 sport peppers

• 1 dash celery salt

Directions

Pan fry dogs with a little butter over medium heat. (I do not like to boil them.)

In a steamed poppy seed bun (I could not find poppy seed buns locally so I added poppy seeds), add hot dog, 1 pickle spear to each side of the dog, 3-4 tomato wedges, 2 sport peppers, sweet pickle relish, chopped onion and mustard. (I omitted the mustard and onion on mine this time.) Last and most importantly in my opinion, add a dash of celery salt. Enjoy!

With mustard and onions!