Mexican Sonoran Hot Dog Recipe
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Recipe Overview
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 35 minutes
Serves: 6 people
Ingredients Needed
- 6 continental frankfurters (60g/2ozs each)
- 6x 55g/2ozs extra long streaky bacon rashers (28cm/11inches long)
- 6 soft hotdog rolls
- 300g/10.6ozs or 1 extra large white or brown onion, peeled and sliced
- 6 jalapenos, topped and halved, seeds removed
- 1 clove garlic, peeled and diced
- 1 teaspoon oil
- 400g/14oz tin pinto beans, drained
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 tomatoes
- 100g/3.5ozs white or brown onion, diced and soaked in water
- 1/2 avocado, cut into chunks (optional)
- Mayonnaise
- Mustard
- Tomato sauce / ketchup
- Jalapeno salsa
Step-By-Step Cooking Instructions
Wrapping the Sausages
Step 1 - Take one rasher of bacon and wrap it around the frankfurt overlapping so that the bacon rasher is tucked up. Tuck in the end into the bacon and repeat with all of the sausages and bacon. You can do this beforehand and cover and keep in the fridge until you need to fry them.
Cooking Method Option A - Frypan
Step 2a Frypan - Heat a large frying pan on medium heat and add the sausages. You shouldn't need any oil, let them cook and brown and cook each sausage turning minimally (turning too much can dislodge the bacon). I just turn 4 times so all sides get cooked. Cook them for 15-20 minutes. In the same pan if you have space add the onions (you may need to add 1 teaspoon of oil). Fry until browned and starting to caramelise. If there is room add the jalapenos skin side down or add these once the sausages or onion are cooked. Remove and set aside. Then add the garlic to the pan and 1 teaspoon oil and cook for 1 minute. Add the drained pinto beans, cumin and salt and saute on medium heat for 3-4 minutes until soft. Check for seasoning adding if needed with the onions and beans.
Cooking Method Option B - Oven
Step 2b Oven - place bacon wrapped sausages on a parchment lined tray. Preheat oven to 160C/320F fan forced and roast sausages for 20 minutes. I like to brown these off in the pan for a couple of minutes. Use the bacon fat collected to cook the onions and jalapenos in the frypan and then the pinto beans (see above).
Preparing the Toppings
Step 3 - Chop the top off the tomato and squeeze the seeds out and then dice the tomato and season with salt and pepper. Drain the diced onion of the water.
Assembling the Hot Dogs
Step 4 - Cut a split down the centre of each bun and place in the microwave for 15 seconds just to warm them through. Place 1 tablespoon or 2 of pinto beans in the bun then top with bacon wrapped sausage. Add some chopped tomato, raw onion, cooked onion and avocado then squeeze mayonnaise, mustard, tomato sauce, jalapeno sauce on top. Finish with 2 halves of jalapeno per hot dog and serve!
Personal Note
The day that I made these hot dogs was the day after that huge storm in Sydney last week. That night we saw the weather warnings and Mr NQN decided that he had to fortify our house. It's a Federation era house so it does have issues. He is not a hugely handy person but there's a lot you can do with a silicon sealant gun and cable ties and he sealed up all of the gaps finishing 5 minutes before the storm hit. It seemed to do the trick. However that night while I was in the middle of watching Black Doves the internet went down. He spent the rest of the night on the phone to our ISP IInet who said it was the NBN (for those outside Australia, it is the broadband internet system here which is not great honestly) and told us to wait. Also our immediate neighbours to our right all had no internet.
Mr NQN asked Vic, our neighbour to the left if their internet was still working. Vic said yes and offered to share their wifi which we gratefully accepted. While we could get internet on the ground floor of our house, it didn't reach upstairs. Vic and Mr NQN suggested bringing over the booster to widen the coverage so we could use internet upstairs which Vic helped us with.
Some people are givers and some people are takers. Givers are who I like hanging out with because I am a chronic giver and because takers will take until you have no more. And I felt like I had to right the balance with Vic and Nicki because they had shared their internet with us. I told Mr NQN that we had to give them something to say thank you. We usually give them desserts but I didn't have any prepared as I had been making these hot dogs. "I've only got these Mexican hot dogs! Is that weird?" I told Mr NQN. He looked at me seriously, "I am not going to give them hot dogs, it's WEIRD," he said shaking his head. I still maintain that these are so utterly delicious that it would cancel out any potential weirdness!
So tell me Dear Reader, are you a giver or a taker? Do you feel like you need to right the balance? Would you give hot dogs?