Hot Dog Sauce (Coney Dogs)

This hot dog sauce is made with ground meat, tomato paste, onions, garlic and spices to make the famous Coney Island sauce for hot dogs that everybody loves. 

Tonight were having Coney Island Hot Dogs for dinner. I just love this recipe and my family does to so that's always good. I found this recipe a couple months back on a food blog. I have been trying to find a good recipe so I gave it a try. I made them while my mother in law was visiting and she couldn't stop talking about this sauce.

If you don't know what a Coney Island Dog is you don't know what you're missing. A “Coney Island Hot Dog” is a hot dog topped with a Coney Island Hot Dog Sauce then you add diced onions and mustard on top of that. I like to throw on a little shredded Cheddar cheese as well.

This beefy sauce is not a chili sauce like some may think and it doesn't pack any heat at all. It is just a flavorful hamburger sauce for hot dogs. Some of the recipes I have seen including this one call for ground up hot dogs in the sauce. My family thought that was just strange so I left them out.

Feel free to add them if you want the true sauce experience. I thought the sauce tasted fine without them.This meal is easy to please everyone in my house. Since Carson doesn't like the coney sauce he can just have a plain hot dog with ketchup. My daughter likes ketchup and cheese and everyone else loves the coney sauce. So you see no extra meals to be made. This recipe has become a favorite at our dinner table.

Yield: 8

Author: Tina Butler | Mommy's Kitchen

Coney Island Hot Dog Sauce

This hot dog sauce is made with ground meat, tomato paste, onions, garlic and spices to make the famous Coney Island sauce for hot dogs that everybody loves.

Prep time: 30 MinCook time: 2 HourTotal time: 2 H & 30 M

Ingredients

• 1 - tablespoon butter or margarine
• 1 1/2 - lbs ground beef
• 1 - small onion, minced
• 1 - clove garlic, minced
• 2 - 3 tablespoons chili powder
• 1 - tablespoon prepared mustard
• 1 - 6 oz can tomato paste
• 1 1/2 - cups water
• 2 1/2 - tablespoons brown sugar
• dash Worcestershire sauce
• salt & pepper to taste
• 8 - hot dogs
• 8 - hot dog buns

Instructions

1. Brown the hamburger meat first in 1 1/2 cups of water in a pan or pot. This also helps to remove the fat from the hamburger. Make sure to break up the meat as fine as possible (a potato masher works great).
2. Mince up the onion and add it along with the hamburger as it cooks. When the meat is cooked, drain and return to the pot.
3. Add the garlic and cook for a couple minutes. Add the remaining ingredients except the hot dogs and add the mixture to your crock pot.
4. Turn the crock pot on low and cook for 2 hours. I always start my crock pot on high and then once it gets going I turn to low.
5. I tweaked the sauce up a bit and added brown sugar and Worcestershire sauce. Serve the Coney sauce on top of cooked hot dogs with diced onions and mustard.

Notes:

Stove Top Method:

To cook the sauce on the stove, prepare the mixture the same way and just simmer on low for about 45 minutes to 1 hour.

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