Make your own Coney Island Hot Dog with Chili Sauce right at home! 🌭🔥 This easy homemade recipe shows you step-by-step how to create the rich, flavorful chili sauce that makes these hot dogs famous. Perfect for cookouts, family dinners, or game day — this recipe is sure to be a crowd favorite.
👨🍳 Recipe: Classic Coney Island Hot Dog Chili Sauce 🥘 Ingredients: - 1 medium onion, finely chopped - 1 clove garlic, minced (or 2 if you like extra) - ½ tsp olive oil - 1 lb ground beef - 1 tbsp tomato paste - ¼ tsp cumin - ½ tsp onion powder - ¼ tsp thyme - ½ tsp Mrs. Dash blend (or all-purpose seasoning) - ¼ tsp ground mustard - ⅛ tsp allspice - ½ tbsp dark chili powder - ½ tbsp smoked paprika - Pinch of kosher salt - ½ cup water - ½ cup low sodium beef broth - 1 tbsp chili base (optional, for extra flavor) - Hot dog buns (poppy seed if you like) - All-beef hot dogs - Mustard (yellow, classic) - Extra chopped onions (for topping) - Optional: smoked sausage with cheese & jalapeño + shredded triple cheese (for the “Smokey Coney Dog”)
📖 Instructions (with Timestamps): 0:16 – Chop onion & garlic. 0:40 – Heat ½ tsp olive oil in a pan. Add onions and cook until soft, then add garlic. 1:11 – Add 1 lb ground beef, cook and break it down with onions. 1:36 – Stir in 1 tbsp tomato paste. 1:44 – Add seasonings: cumin, onion powder, thyme, Mrs. Dash, ground mustard, allspice, chili powder, smoked paprika. Mix well. 2:23 – Add a pinch or two of kosher salt. 2:34 – Pour in ½ cup water + ½ cup beef broth (1 cup total liquid). Stir. 3:20 – Simmer until beef is fully cooked and sauce thickens. 4:40 – Let chili cook down for 30 minutes until rich and flavorful.
🌭 Building the Coney Dog: 5:04 – Place an all-beef hot dog on a bun. 5:19 – Spoon chili sauce over the hot dog. 5:34 – Top with finely chopped onions. 6:05 – Add a drizzle of mustard.
🔥 Optional Smokey Coney Dog: 6:15 – Use a smoked sausage with cheese & jalapeño. 6:36 – Spread mustard on the bun first. 6:43 – Add chili sauce, onions, and shredded triple cheese. 7:14 – Microwave 20 seconds to melt cheese.
✨ Enjoy your homemade Coney Island Chili Dog or Smokey Dog!
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Be sure to cook.
Welcome back to another episode of Be Sure to Cook.
Today, we're gonna be making a coney's dog,
coney's style, my way.
So stay tuned and let's do this.
Okay, the first thing we're gonna do
is we're gonna chop up, well, onion and garlic.
So I'm gonna go ahead, I've got some garlic here,
and I'm gonna just slice up some garlic.
I got a half teaspoon of olive oil.
Got my pan hot.
I'm gonna start putting my onions in there.
I want them to start cooking immediately.
I'm gonna add the garlic in there,
about a clove of garlic.
I know I had two cloves, but one's fine.
And I want my onions and my garlic to mix up.
And let's start cooking that.
Got a pound of ground beef that's going down
in here with these onions.
Pork, I'm gonna start smashing
and mixing all my meat together
with the onions and everything.
I want all that in there, mm, mm, mm, okay.
I've got a tablespoon of tomato paste
that I'm gonna mix in here
because I only got like a pound of hamburger.
Okay, I'm adding 1 1⁄4 teaspoon of cumin,
that's 1⁄2 teaspoon of onion powder,
1⁄4 teaspoon of thyme,
1 1⁄2 teaspoon of Mrs. Dash blend,
1⁄4 teaspoon of ground mustard,
1⁄8 teaspoon of allspice,
1 1⁄2 tablespoon of dark chili powder,
and 1⁄2 tablespoon of smoked paprika.
Okay, all those seasons are going down.
All those seasons are getting mixed in there.
Okay, I've got some kosher salt.
We're gonna add a little kosher salt in here,
maybe a pinch or two.
Okay, in a coney, people always use beef broth,
but I use water and beef broth
so I am gonna mix this very well.
I've got a beef broth here
that I'm using a low-sodium beef broth
because I've already put just about 1⁄4 teaspoon
of salt in there,
but a lot of people think things need salt
so it might not bother you
to use whatever beef broth you want.
So I got 1⁄2 cup of wonderful water
and I'm gonna do the other 1⁄2 cup
of this low-sodium beef broth.
Okay, so all together, this is one cup.
Okay, now I'm gonna pull this beef broth and water
into my chili mix that I made.
And remember guys, this is still raw.
So this is gonna cook.
Okay, so as it's, I'm turning this all the way up again
and this is gonna be my coney chili sauce.
I've already made a different type of chili.
I've made a hot dog chili earlier in a different show.
You could always go to that show
and look at that one compared to the one that I'm making.
But I also wanna introduce everybody with another.
I wanna make a coney smoky dog.
So I'm gonna make a regular coney dog
and then I'm gonna show you my coney smoky dog.
So it's gonna be in this show.
So I'm making two different.
I'm gonna be using this.
Okay, I got a whole tablespoon of chili base to go in here
to enhance this even more better.
And I'm gonna whip this up and it's cooking.
Okay, so it's been cooking.
I did take the top off for a long time.
I'm just now putting the top back on it.
And this is my chili sauce.
It's been cooking for about 30 minutes,
just cooking all that water and liquid away.
And there it is.
Okay, I've got my chili, still nice.
And look at it, it's still hot
and I'm trying to pour the cool down.
I've got my all beef hot dog
that I'm gonna lay on this wonderful bun that I got.
I like it because it's pretty.
It looks nice and I love it.
And I'm gonna lay this down.
And this is my coney chili that we made.
I'm gonna get a scoop
and I'm gonna lay my coney chili down on my hot dog here.
Make sure it's nice and covered.
Let's make sure it's nice and covered.
And I'm gonna add these.
You remember those onions that I fixed earlier?
And I took half of them and I cut half.
This is the extra half, but I chopped these so thin.
So good and so thin.
And here we go.
We're gonna lay those down on there.
I like onions, so I like extra.
That's extra onions because I love.
My two favorite when I'm eating a chili dog
or I'm eating a ham sandwich or something
is I have to have mustard and onions.
I got my mustard going down on this hot dog.
Okay, I'm gonna be using the same soft bun
and here is my smoked sausage
that has cheese inside and jalapeno peppers.
This is my smoky dog.
I'm gonna put this on the same bun.
You can do any bun you want.
You just don't have to use my bun.
Okay, on this, I'm gonna add the mustard
at the bottom of this
because it just does right with the bottom,
especially on this one
because this is a actual smoky dog.
I'm gonna use the same Coney chili
as I use on my Coney all beef hot dog.
There you go.
Then what I'm gonna do,
I'm gonna add onions right on here
just like I did the Coney dog.
It's still the same thing and it's so delicious.
But the next thing,
I'm gonna do this a little bit different, guys.
I'm gonna add cheese.
I'm gonna add a triple cheese on top of this
and I'm gonna put this just in the microwave
for about 20 seconds just to melt that cheese
and get this nice and toasty and good.
Hey guys, I hope you like both of these
and I thought I would kick it in
and throw my smoky Coney dog.
So you have two different,
but the Coney dog is a star of the show.
Hey, I hope you enjoyed this episode of Coney dogs.
I hope you like it and I hope you come back
because guess what?
I didn't make this alone.
You and me, we made these together
and we will make plenty more.
Hey, please like, share and subscribe to my YouTube channel
and come back so we can make plenty more.
See you next time.
Bye.
