Chicago-Style Dill Pickle Dip Hot Dogs
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Food:
Beef
Serves:
6 hot dogs
Prep Time:
5 min
Cook Time:
45 min
If you think pickles are only meant to be a hamburger topping, then you’re missing out on putting them on your hot dog. While putting relish on a hot dog sounds familiar, putting a full pickle spear may not. But that’s only because you’ve never had a Chicago-style hot dog before, where they put both relish and a pickle spear on their hot dogs, amongst a bunch of other toppings. There actually usually seven toppings on a Chicago-style hot dog: yellow mustard, chopped white onions, sweet pickle relish, a dill pickle spear, tomato slices/wedges, pickled peppers and celery salt, all on a poppy seed bun. This recipe is a riff on that Chicago-style hot dog, with some Chef Matt Basile upgrades: smoked and seared all-beef hot dogs in a toasted brioche bun, topped with chopped onion, pickle spears, tomato, pickled peppers, an epic dill pickle cheese sauce, poppy seeds and crushed dill pickle chips. Cheese sauce and lots of pickles, what could be bad?
By:Chef Matt Basile
Ingredients
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6 all-beef hot dogs
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6 brioche hot dog buns
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9 pickle spears, divided
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¼ cup chopped fresh dill
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¼ red onion
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4-5 cloves garlic
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1 cup shredded white cheddar
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½ cup cream cheese
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2 tsp pickle juice
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1/3 white onion
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1 roma tomato
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6 Pickled green chilis
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2 tsp poppy seeds
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Dill pickle chips
Instructions
Set smoker to 250F.
Score your hot dogs on a diagonal, then rotate and score on a diagonal the other way. Place them in a cast iron pan and into the smoker for 8 minutes.
Take six of your pickle spears and finely chop. Finely chop the fresh dill, red onion and garlic.
Remove the hot dogs from the smoker and place on the plancha to sear.
Bring the smoker temp up to 300F. Add the chopped pickle, dill, onion and garlic mixture to the cast iron pan the hot dogs were in, and add the shredded cheese and cream cheese. Mix, pour in 1-2 tbsp pickle juice and mix again. Place the dill dip into the smoker for 30 minutes.
Cut the three remaining pickle spears in half. Finely chop the 1/3 white onion. Thinly slice your tomato.
Add the brioche hot dog buns to the plancha and toast on both sides.
To plate, add the toasted buns to a platter and add in the hot dogs. Add two slices of tomato per bun and one pickle spear. Sprinkle with the chopped onions and garnish with pickled green chilies.
Remove the dill dip from the smoker and stir. Pour over the hot dog platter and smooth out with a fork. Sprinkle poppy seeds on top of the dill pickle cheese sauce and garnish with crushed dill pickle chips.