Texas Hot Wiener Sauce II

I’ve always wanted to revisit an older video of mine for this recipe, wow was that really 6 years ago. I had a crappy camera and really didn’t know what I was doing. I think this video gives justice to this awesome hot dog sauce. The ingredient list is below:
6 cups water
8 oz ground hotdogs (I prefer all beef)
1/2 cup cornstarch (dissolved in a little cold water)
1 tbls paprika
1 tbls chili powder
1/4 cup white vinegar
1 tsp sea salt
1/2 tsp onion powder
1/4 tsp white pepper
1/2 tsp oregano
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp dried thyme leaves
1 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
a few grinds of fresh black pepper

Bring everything to a boil, except the cornstarch.
Let simmer for 45 minutes, then slowly add the cornstarch mixture, stirring constantly. Bring back to a boil, and keep stirring.
Taste along the way, adjusting the salt or pepper as you like it.
Serve on your favorite hot dog, with brown mustard, diced onion, in a steamed hot dog bun. This sauce will be thin, it is supposed to be, it is not a “chili dog” recipe. The sauce will thicken as it cools. It freezes well. #inkidreferralcode tomstestkitchen

hey YouTubers Tom here from Tom’s Test Kitchen and today I’m going to revisit an older recipe that I I’ve made a long time ago before I knew what I was doing I didn’t even have very good camera I had one of those little flip uh chem quars and uh the video had good good responses and everything a lot of people really enjoyed it but um I’ve always wanted to redo it cuz I didn’t show exactly every all the steps so that’s what I’m going to do today and it’s a Texas hot wiener sauce for a type of hot dog that we used to get up in New York at a place called U Dallas Hot Wieners and it was one of the best I I go there for lunch and I could eat five of them uh without a doubt and it’s it’s it’s different it’s not really a u a chili dog sauce um it does have chili in it but it’s a thinner sauce uh so stick with me and you’ll see uh I’m a big fan of hot dogs uh got my hot dog shirt here there’s at least 12 nationally known uh types of hot dogs and uh different brands of hot dogs you know that people claim to be some of the best um I am very particular to the the type of hot dog that you can find around the Mid Hudson Valley and that’s the Texas hot winter so here’s my Texas hot winter recipe to make this hot winter sauce you’re going to [Music] need six cups of water yeah that seems like a lot but trust me this is what you need and you’re going to need 8 oz of hot dogs now this is going these hot dogs I will grind in my little mini food processor so they will be be ground up like you would like you know ground beef sausages or ground beef uh frankfurters hot dogs and that will be added to the water along with these seasonings now the seasonings the spices we got one tablespoon of paprika 1 tbspoon of chili powder I got a/4 a cup of white vinegar a teaspoon of sea salt a half a teaspoon of onion powder a/4 teaspoon of white pepper a half a teaspoon of or o/ teaspoon of cinnamon 1/4 of a teaspoon of dried thyme leaves and a teaspoon of crushed red pepper flakes and then I’ll need a few grinds of uh fresh black pepper now this isn’t really a spicy sauce you could kick it up throw in some cayenne if you wanted it spicier but it’s not really a spicy sauce so let me get this together and uh I’ll show you how I’m going to put this all together and make a sauce that is really really awesome I’ve got my hot dogs cut up you just want to cut them about like that just so you can grind them up and that was that’s 8 O uh that was actually five of those Nathan’s Hot Dogs so you just want to grind this get some that don’t want to get ground okay there we have our ground hot dogs now I know many of you are thinking that sounds really gross but trust me this is how the real deal is made uh a buddy of mine up in New York York his family uh ran a deli for years and they had a hot wiener sauce and all hot wiener sauces are family secrets and they will not tell you the recipe you’ll you you’ll never find it uh but he did tell me he says one of the secret ingredients is ground up hot dogs and I I trust him because this really makes the sauce okay let’s put this together ground hot dogs are in the pot’s turn on some heat now first we want to add our water this is six cups of water I’ve actually cut this down originally I called for 8 cups but takes a lot longer for it to uh to actually reduce down so I found that 6 cups is just the right amount and I know many of you are looking at this and thinking oh my God that looks gross but stick with me folks trust me uh I posted this recipe on a on a Blog on U uh Road foods.com The Forum about uh hot dogs Regional hot dogs and a lot of real big time hot dog Fanatics and hot dog connoisseurs made this recipe and they told me it was the closest thing they have ever seen to the actual Hot Wieners that you get up in the the Hudson Valley so that’s a lot of Praise coming from those guys okay so now we’re going to add all of our seasonings at once stir that in let’s add our 1/4 cup of vinegar let’s add some grinds of salt salt black pepper and now I’m just going to bring this up to a boil and let it simmer until it’s reduced by quite a bit and then I’m going to thicken it with some cornstarch so stay tuned and uh see how this turns out if you like make make some yourself I mean it’s really good the interesting thing about this sauce I found is that there’s no tomato it’s not a tomato base there’s no tomato sauce no tomato paste nothing um it’s gets its color from the paprika and the chili powder and it it is a thinner sauce uh it’s it’s a condiment that goes on top of hot dogs so you’ll see this put together at the end so I’m just going to bring this up to a boil and let it smmer well that has been 45 minutes and it smells amazing smells just like Dallas Hot Wieners in here so now I’ve got a half a cup of corn starch that I’m just going to dissolve with enough water to make a slurry you want to make sure you use cold water or cool water you know it doesn’t have to be refrigerator cold just don’t use hot so that was probably yeah about 1/4 cup of water I’m going to say a half2 cup of corn starch and 1/4 cup of water just one of mix that up so you don’t have have glue you want paste there this is going to thicken this sauce up this hot leaner sauce up perfectly okay as you can see it’s reduced down quite a [Applause] bit and it’s still very thin of course you’re not going to serve it on a hot dog that thin that’s why I’m adding the cornstarch so dump this water get rid of the spoon because I need to need both hands for this okay so I’m just going to start by pouring this in and stirring constantly just want to eyeball it I might not need all of this add a little bit more okay that’s starting to thicken up nicely now I’m going to bring this back up let this come back up to a boil and then check it again because that corn starts will really it really won’t start get it really won’t come up to its real thickening Point till it comes up to a boil but that’s looking about right okay I’ll be back in just a few minutes okay looks like I need to add a little bit more of the cornstarch mixture not much there we go I’m just going to let this simmer a little bit and then show you how to prepare a Texas hot wiener like they do at Dallas Hot Wieners can’t wait my wife’s going to love this in order to have the true Dallas hot wiers experience you need some steamed hot dog buns and some steamed hot dogs so I love this little black and deck Decker steamer it’s great for doing a lot of different things steam vegetables and hot dogs and hot dog [Music] buns let’s get our dogs tucked in there now you just want to add some spicy Brown mil mustard might well add some Nath and then some finely minced white onion this really completes the whole Dallas Hot Wieners experience now let’s go put some some sauce on these dogs okay just spoon it on like I said it’s just it’s like another condiment you would add like mustard or ketchup there you have it Dallas Hot Wieners let’s see what they taste like Yum Yum Yum Yum Yum yeah they are a little messy it’s okay these are awesome really reminds me reminds me of Kingston New York Dallas hot wiers all those flavors go together so well there you go folks give it a try you won’t won’t be sorry