Been doing a lot of weird hot dog recipes lately. There’s a couple reasons for it – primarily being: It’s a cheap meal. I like to bring y’all something new and fresh, but also something ain’t gonna break the bank. You’ll have a banner cook coming up soon (SmokeFest anyone?), but they all can’t be something crazy.
I love me a chicken satay skewer with that peanut sauce. A good buddy of mine (where you at CB?) went to Thailand recently and in his honor, we’re going Thai-style hot dog with a peanut sauce. I don’t know if it’ll work.. I think it’ll be pretty good in concept. The magic is in the peanut sauce, so let’s whip that up.
Okay, we’re getting somewhere. There was a little more to the peanut sauce than I thought. Whip up the peanut butter, amino acids (soy), brown sugar, rice vinegar, lime juice, pressed garlic gloves, ginger.. and of course, that Huy Fong “chili garlic sauce”. Get a good mix on that and then add water until it’s to your consistency. I think I ended up doing 3 Tablespoons of water and you can see just how thick/thin it remained.
Like I said, the sauce was going to be the star of the show. For these beef dogs, I split them length-wise and cooked them up on the Blackstone. Because I kept them “structurally together”, used the weight to keep the maximum surface cooking up.
I also had two style of buns going for this cook – cheap ass white and pretzel. There’s a reason to it – stick around and you’ll see why I have pretzel buns coming soon ?. And truthfully, my favorite hot dog style bun is the cheap ass, broke white processed bun. Because my dog to bun ratio was a little off, this was the cook that got the split bun presentation. I did like the pretzel bun though, it was a welcome change.
What you don’t really see in this picture, is that the buns have a layer of that peanut sauce on there as well. Believe me, after that complex sauce was made, I wasn’t going to settle with just a drizzle. I coated up them buns, put some julienned carrots and cilantro on there, and was like – “c’mon, you can’t even see the sauce”. So yeah, I added a little bit more to the top so y’all can see it’s on there.
The sauce separation was real. This summer has been a little warm, and having the mason jar setting out for just a little while caused some divide. Mix it up and apply as liberally as you’d like. This is what it looked like open face style.
Fold it up and make it look like how you’d serve it. Because we do honesty on this site, this was a delicious hot dog when I ate it. I mixed up another couple hot dog recipes after this, and this got lost in the shuffle real quick. That peanut sauce was good, really damn good.. but looking back a little bit later, I don’t think I’d dress it up on a dog again. Wait until you see what we got coming up as far as “bizarre recipe hot dogs”. I wish this was an isolated recipe and I think it’d get the praise it deserves. By all means, give this one a shot if you’re a peanut sauce lover, like I. But don’t be surprised this one gets knocked backwards in the go-to recipe pile.
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Thai-style Hot Dog
Ingredients
The Hot Dog
- 2 Beef hot dogs
- 2 Hot Dog Buns
- 1/4 Cup Cilantro chopped
- 1/2 Carrot Julienned
Peanut Sauce
- 1/2 Cup Natural Peanut Butter
- 2 Tbsp Amino Acids
- 2 Tbsp Brown Sugar
- 1 Tbsp Rice Vinegar
- 2.5 Tsp Chili Garlic Sauce
- 1/2 Lime Juiced
- 3 Garlic Cloves Pressed
- 1 Tbsp Ginger root Grated
- 3 Tbsp Warm water
Instructions
Peanut Sauce
- Mix it all up without the water.
- Gradually add the water until it's to your desired consistency – I ended up doing 3 Tbsp, but you do you 🙂
The Hot Dog
- Cook it up the way you want. Truthfully, I've microwaved far more dogs than I've grilled, smoked, griddled, boiled, etc. That's the beauty of the processed tube meat.
- But, since you're here, I split it down the middle, keeping one end of the casing in tact. Press it on the oiled blackstone with a weight so it lays flat and cook until cooked. It's a hot dog, c'mon now.
- Add them thinly sliced carrots and top it off with some cilantro. I spread that peanut sauce on the bun and then dressed her up. Thai-style dog, do it up!