Because I adore the onion sauce on hot dogs you can buy from a pushcart, I experimented with a variety of components until I found the ideal mixture for my own version. This onion tastes exactly like the sort I used to frequently purchase from my favorite hot dog vendor!
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 40 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons corn oil
- 1 extra large onion, thinly sliced
- 1 ½ teaspoons hot pepper sauce (such as Frank’s RedHot®)
- 1 teaspoon prepared yellow mustard
- 1 teaspoon white sugar
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
- ¼ teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
- ½ cup water
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
Instructions
- Heat oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add sliced onion; cook and stir until onion has softened and turned translucent, about 5 minutes. Stir in hot sauce, yellow mustard, sugar, chili powder, salt, black pepper, and cayenne pepper. Reduce heat to medium-low, and continue to cook for about 5 minutes. Stir in water and tomato paste; simmer until liquid has reduced, about 20 minutes.
Reviews
Delicious! I’m teetering between 4 and 5 stars. Served on both hot dogs and brats. This is a great enhancement to the “lowly hot dog.” I liked the slight heat from the hot sauce. A smidge too tomato paste-y for my taste but overall, really liked. Would do this again – especially come summer grilling season! Thank you Lillan!
Excellent recipe—delicious. I followed the recipe exactly. A little zing from the hot sauce and cayenne pepper. It took me about 10 minutes to soften the onion, but other timing worked for me. Thank you.
Excellent topping for hotdogs and polish sausage. I have been looking for something like this for quite awhile.
literally perfect
I thought this was great. Great flavor, very tomato-y, and a nice understated heat. I think you could get away with adding a touch more cayenne and not be offended. I took the advice of another reviewer and chopped the onions instead of slicing them in order to make it easier to use as a topping for hot dogs. Love it! Will make again.
Absolutely on the $ (less the cayenne!). While experimenting I sweated the onions, added a touch of smoked paprika and Peter Lugers steak sauce. Killer!
Turned a ho-hum lunch into a yum-yum lunch! Delicious!
Blew my husband’s eyeballs out – anything that makes him cry from the spicy heat factor is perfect!
Very tasty!
My wife is not allowed to eat meat because of her kidney disease. However, this recipe looked so good to her, she decided to have it with a hotdog without the dog.
Great recipe! Don’t mess with it.
This is delicious! It was fast and easy to make. It is slightly hot though. If you don’t want as much of a kick I suggest putting less hot sauce cayenne and chili powder then the recipe calls for.
Very good and easy to make.
I made this according to the directions. It was just ok.
Made this over a dozen times,. Tried it with different hot sauces. usually come back to the original which is not to say the others aren’t good. This recipe is very versatile, Bottom line, It ROCKS!
Delicious! Best hot dog onion recipe I’ve made yet. A little spicy, and I like spicy food. Next time I will cut the cayenne pepper in half.
Very good base recipe to follow. I did make some modifications according to what I had available and it came out awesome both times. My husband used to like only raw onion or green onions on his hot dogs. Now he only wants these hot dog onions.
This was delicious! I left out the cayenne pepper because I was afraid it would be too spicy. It was spicy even without it, but tolerable for me (a proclaimed spice wimp). Really tasty though – we didn’t have tomato paste, so we used condensed tomato soup and it seemed to work out just as well! Thanks!
Okay my guess is that this recipe gets 5 stars but did not use Frank’s Hot sauce, I used another and it was too hot. I am posting so that others don’t make the same mistake I did. Frank’s Hot sauce has a SHU (heat) rating of only 450 while Tabasco scores 700. Dave’s Insanity Sauce score 175,000 and the list I found on line goes to 16,000,000! I will be modifying my first batch and will make again. LOVE this type of sauce! Thank you for posting.
I left out the black and cayenne pepper and added a teaspoon of brown sugar. I don’t like food so hot that it feels like your mouth is on fire. These adjustments gave the recipe just the right amount of warmth for my taste. Thanks for this keeper!!!
Excellent recipe! I’ve been looking for a good hot dog onion recipe for a while and this one is great. I just made for the first time today. I didn’t have the Frank’s brand and substituted the Red Tabasco instead. I did 10 shakes. It’s is just right for heat and flavor. Otherwise, I followed the recipe as given.