Construct Your Personal Scorching Canine Bar

Construct your personal sizzling canine bar this summer season with 4 superior combos – Chicago-Fashion, Hawaiian, Inexperienced Chile Queso, and BBQ Sundaes!

I first shared these recipes in the summertime of 2020 and these combos stay our favourite sizzling canine toppings.

Are you as excited for summer season as we’re proper now? Spring felt prefer it lasted 6 months this yr. We could have needed to cancel our summer-long highway journey, however I’ve been brainstorming methods to make staying native extra enjoyable.

One of many issues we’ve performed this yr is to completely embrace the awesomeness that’s summer season in Ohio. We’ve spent a lot time outdoor already and let me inform you, in comparison with life in Phoenix in June-July-August? It looks like a completely completely different world.

All 5 of us are massive followers of the recent canine. More often than not, I’m fairly pleased with a traditional canine topped with simply ketchup, mustard, and relish. However different occasions? It may be a complete lot of enjoyable to combine issues up.

Scorching Canine Bar Concepts

Step One: Grill the recent canine and toast the buns.

Step Two: Set the toppings out whereas the recent canine are on the grill.

Step Three: Let every individual assemble their sizzling canine with as a lot or as little of every topping as they like finest.

I hope that you simply love these sizzling canine toppings as a lot as we do!

Nonetheless you’re assembling your sizzling canine, you’ll wish to try these summer side dishes to complete off a terrific meal or barbecue with buddies.

In case you’re grilling and having fun with the climate outdoors, these salads with out mayonnaise are at all times successful. From Creamy Pasta Salad to Cucumber Tomato Salad, Tangy Italian Pasta Salad to this Balsamic and Basil Berry Salad, the chances are good that you simply’re going to seek out no less than certainly one of these salads in my fridge for the following few months.

Spicy Scorching Canines

As a lot as my household loves green chile, this sizzling canine topping was a assured win. There are a few other ways you may make this one.

Stir collectively a batch of Queso Dip whereas the recent canine are on the grill. Prime the recent canine within the buns with a beneficiant drizzle of heat Queso. Then add as a lot or as little inexperienced chile as you want.

Within the case of my oldest son, I can just about assure that the tacky sizzling canine shall be totally hidden by as a lot inexperienced chile as attainable.

Don’t really feel like making queso? Simply high the recent canine with a slice of your favourite cheese (we like Pepper Jack) as they end grilling.

Chicago Fashion Scorching Canine Toppings

My sister Jenny and her husband Jason launched us to Chicago canine (made their method) about ten years in the past on certainly one of our annual family camping trips.

A traditional Chicago canine sometimes contains recent tomatoes, a dill pickle spear, candy pickle relish, onion, possibly pepperoncini, and a squeeze of yellow mustard. You simply pile every little thing over the recent canine within the bun and dive in.

Jenny and Jason prefer to swap out the dill pickle spear with recent cucumber slices, chopped small. I LOVE the recent vegetable style of the cucumber with the tomato. However, I additionally love a traditional Chicago canine with a dill pickle.

I like to recommend making an attempt each variations and seeing which one you want finest. They’re each scrumptious.

For an actual Chicago canine expertise, you’ll wish to brush the surface of the buns with heat melted butter and sprinkle them with poppy seeds.

Hawaiian Scorching Canine

I dearly love recent pineapple, so a candy and spicy sizzling canine mixture wanted to occur after I was dreaming up concepts for a sizzling canine bar.

Sure, you may make Hawaiian sizzling canine with canned or frozen (and thawed) pineapple, however the flavors received’t be as robust. There’s simply one thing implausible about recent pineapple and nothing else actually compares.

To make the topping for these sizzling canine, you’ll wish to chop the recent pineapple small after which add a scoop on high of the hotdogs. (When you’ve got an additional minute or two, this Pineapple Jalapeno Salsa is wonderful on these too!)

Add pink onions, cilantro, and a drizzle of your favourite barbecue sauce. Need to make it further particular? Attempt a homemade bbq sauce. You simply would possibly by no means purchase it from the shop once more.

BBQ Scorching Canines

I’m prepared to guess that you simply aren’t shocked to see this mix right here. It’s a reasonably well-established proven fact that I like an excellent BBQ Sundae, proper?

To make these, you’ll wish to throw collectively a batch of everybody’s favorite coleslaw. Then, both begin some baked beans within the crock-pot or decide up some baked beans on the deli counter. Retailer-bought will work simply superb right here for each the coleslaw and the beans if you wish to simplify issues.

Prime every sizzling canine with a drizzle of your favourite barbecue sauce, a scoop of baked beans, and a beneficiant portion of coleslaw.

{initially printed 7/8/20 – recipe notes and photographs up to date 6/17/24}