Here is my very own kosher version of the NYC Shake Shack’s Chicago Hot Dog.
Top your dogs with chopped tomatoes, red onions, cukes, dill pickles, sweet relish, yellow mustard, celery salt and poppy seeds, yes I said poppy seeds. (I know poppy seeds aren’t the best “date” or “company” kind of food by hey, we are all family here – just make sure you tell me if I have some stuck between my teeth!)
Chicago-Style Hot Dogs
Servings
4 Servings
Ingredients
- 8 beef hot dogs
- 8 hot dog buns
- 1 on-the-vine tomato coarsely chopped
- 1/2 medium red onion coarsely chopped
- 1/2 English cucumber quartered lengthwise, then sliced
- 1 kosher dill pickle finely chopped
- 1/2 tablespoon poppy seeds
- 1/2 tablespoon celery salt
- Sweet relish
- Yellow mustard
Instructions
- Cook hot dogs according to package instructions.
- In a medium bowl, mix tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, pickles, poppy seeds, and celery salt.
- Place the buns on a serving platter. Place a hot dog on each bun with 2 tablespoons of the tomato mixture, and relish and mustard to taste.
- Serve with Shoestring French Fries.
- Recipe Courtesy of Quick & Kosher: Meals in Minutes by Jamie Geller (Feldheim 2010)
I I have to agree with my other Chicago Native friends.
Please could we have some airfryer recipes.
Something to work on – anything specific you want to see?
A classic Chicago-style hot dog is built on a poppy seed bun and topped with a specific, seven-ingredient combination: yellow mustard, bright neon-green sweet relish, chopped white onions, tomato wedges, a dill pickle spear, pickled sport peppers, and celery salt.
Sorry Jamie, not quite Chicago style hot dogs. Its pickle spears, hot sport peppers, yellow or white onions, not red. The condiments are not mixed but layered to stand on their own. The sweet pickle relish is bright green. Tomatoes are cut into half moon shape and go on just before a sprinkling of celery salt. No poppy seeds and certainly NO ketchup, perhaps a bit for the fries which are not shoe strings but thicker and greasy.
Absolutely spot on.