Chicago-style Hot Dogs

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 4 natural casing beef frankfurters (i like boar's head brand)
• 4 hot dog buns (with poppyseeds if you can find them)
• 1 small onion, diced fine
• 3 -4 teaspoons sweet pickle relish (bright green type if you can find it!)
• 1 cold-pack kosher dill pickle, quartered lengthwise
• 1 small tomato, sliced into julienne strips
• 4 -8 pickled sport bell peppers or 4 -8 tiny hot peppers (kroger sells these)
• dusseldorf-style brown mustard, with horseradish,to taste (may use yellow mustard)
• celery seed
• poppy seed (omit if using seeded buns)
• beer, for simmering (standard golden lager preferred; not authentic) (optional)

Recipe

• 1 simmer frankfurters in beer or water for approximately 10 minutes.
• 2 warm buns in microwave, until slightly warm and soft.
• 3 to assemble hot dogs, place frank in each bun.
• 4 add mustard to taste; top with dill spear, relish, onion, tomato, and 1-2 sport peppers (jalapenos"might" be a reasonable substitute if you are desperate to find the sport peppers, but the taste won't be quite the same).
• 5 sprinkle with celery and poppy seeds.
• 6 serve.