Construct Your Personal Scorching Canine Bar

Construct your individual scorching 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 scorching canine toppings.

Are you as excited for summer season as we’re proper now? Spring felt prefer it lasted 6 months this yr. We might 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 totally embrace the awesomeness that’s summer season in Ohio. We’ve spent a lot time outside already and let me let you know, in comparison with life in Phoenix in June-July-August? It seems like a wholly completely different world.

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

Scorching Canine Bar Concepts

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

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

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

I hope that you just love these scorching canine toppings as a lot as we do!

Nevertheless you might be assembling your scorching canine, you’ll wish to try these summer side dishes to complete off a terrific meal or barbecue with pals.

If you happen to’re grilling and having fun with the climate outdoors, these salads with out mayonnaise are all the time 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 just’re going to seek out no less than considered 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 scorching canine topping was a assured win. There are a few alternative ways you can also make this one.

Stir collectively a batch of Queso Dip whereas the new canine are on the grill. Prime the new 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 scorching canine will probably be totally hidden by as a lot inexperienced chile as attainable.

Don’t really feel like making queso? Simply high the new 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 means) about ten years in the past on considered one of our annual family camping trips.

A traditional Chicago canine usually consists of recent tomatoes, a dill pickle spear, candy pickle relish, onion, perhaps pepperoncini, and a squeeze of yellow mustard. You simply pile every thing over the new 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 attempting 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 scorching canine mixture wanted to occur after I was dreaming up concepts for a scorching canine bar.

Sure, you can also make Hawaiian scorching canine with canned or frozen (and thawed) pineapple, however the flavors gained’t be as sturdy. There’s simply one thing improbable about recent pineapple and nothing else actually compares.

To make the topping for these scorching canine, you’ll wish to chop the recent pineapple small after which add a scoop on high of the hotdogs. (If in case you have 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. Wish to make it further particular? Attempt a homemade bbq sauce. You simply may by no means purchase it from the shop once more.

BBQ Scorching Canines

I’m keen to wager that you just aren’t shocked to see this mixture right here. It’s a reasonably well-established undeniable fact that I like an amazing 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 advantageous right here for each the coleslaw and the beans if you wish to simplify issues.

Prime every scorching 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}