This is my family's favorite hot dog sauce recipe. It originates from West Virginia. We like it with a bite, but you can adjust it to your taste. We top our hot dogs with ketchup, mustard, this hot dog sauce, and finally some chopped onions — yum! This recipe makes a good amount, so you can freeze some and use it later.
Ingredients
- 2.5 pounds lean ground beef
- 1 cup water
- 0.5 cups tomato sauce
- 0.33 cups ketchup
- 1 tablespoon white sugar
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
- 1.5 teaspoons salt
- 1.5 teaspoons pepper
- crushed red pepper flakes to taste
Instructions
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Crumble ground beef into a Dutch oven over medium heat. Stir in water, and mash ground beef thoroughly with a potato masher. Stir in tomato sauce, ketchup, sugar, chili powder, salt, and pepper; bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer until the sauce reaches a medium consistency that is not too soupy, 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
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