Homemade Hot Dog Chili Sauce

This recipe was one of my grandmother’s — and for some reason, old-fashioned hot dogs in casing, with chili sauce, just sounded FANTASTIC this week!

Sometimes you just need a little comfort food, ya know? I’m an adult — if I want to eat like a 3 year old for dinner — so be it!

The original recipe (below) makes 1 gallon. Seeing as I live in a 1-bedroom apartment, with a kitchen tinier than my work cubicle — making 1 gallon of this stuff and freezing it was NOT a good idea.

I split the recipe in half — realized it was STILL way too much — and split it again. And I think that’s where the issue arose. The spices just don’t split evenly, I think. A pretty common occurance, though, and I’m relatively unpreterbed about it.

My chili sauce had a VERY strong clove flavor. I hate clove. This was bad. But I think with less clove, and more chili powder (maybe a sprinkle of cumin, to replace the nasty clove) it would be DEEELICIOUS. So those are my recc’s — run with it 🙂

Below is the original (1 gallon), and then my divided-up recipe.

Hot Dog Chili Sauce
Ma’s Recipe!

(Makes 1 gallons)

Sauce freezes easily for use later. Reccommend freezing in single-serving containers

2 lbs. ground beef, cooked, broken up into fine pieces (I use a potato masher and it works wonderfully), and drained of excess fat
1 1/2 cups finely diced onion
1/8 cup salt
1 1/4 oz. chili powder
1/2 -3/4 tbsp ground clove (Use 3/4 if you like clove, 1/2 or less if you don’t)
1 tbsp black pepper
1 1/2 oz. paprika
1 tbsp sugar
1-14 oz. ketchup
6 cups of water
1 cup all-purpose flour + 1 cup water (Mix until flour and water are combined into a paste)

Directions
– Simmer all ingredients above together for 2 hours
– Stir frequently
– Makes about 1 gallon

Smaller Version of Above Recipe
1/2 lb. ground beef, cooked, broken up into fine pieces (I use a potato masher and it works wonderfully), and drained of excess fat
1/2 cup finely diced onion
1 1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. chili powder
1/3 tsp. ground clove (Use 3/4 if you like clove, 1/2 or less if you don’t)
1/8 tsp. black pepper
2 1/4 tsp. paprika
1/4 tbsp. sugar
3/4 cup ketchup
1 1/2 cups of water
1/4 cup all-purpose flour + 1/4 cup water (Mix until flour and water are combined into a paste)

Directions
– Simmer all ingredients above together for 20 minutes
– Stir frequently
– Makes about 4 cups

Reccommendations
– I would leave the clove out entirely, as I hated the flavor of it
– I would increase the chili powder slightly, and replace the clove with cumin, to give it a smokier, chili-er flavor

Blake Makes – Chef Bradley BBQ Sauce

YAY! My BBQ Sauce has arrived!

I entered a contest on Blake Makes several weeks ago, and ended up being one of the lucky winners of a jar of Chef Bradley’s Lean Mean BBQ Sauce!

Now — what to make with this delicious concoction??? Anybody have any ideas for me? I’m totally open to suggestion! Just leave a comment with your ideas 🙂

(As long as you keep in mind that I have no grill, nor a grill pan — I know what you’re thinking, how can I live?! haha)