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Chicago Hot Dogs

These “dogs” bring back wonderful memories of wandering around Maxwell Street in Chicago in the 60s and 70s. It was never difficult to find a street vender hawking these Chicago Dogs.

Ingredients

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  • 6 split hot dog buns
  • 3 tablespoons melted unsalted butter
  • 1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon poppy seeds
  • 6 all-beef hot dogs
  • 6 dill pickle spears
  • 12 tomato wedges or 18 slices tomato
  • Yellow mustard
  • Sweet relish
  • 1 small white onion, finely chopped
  • 6 pepperoncini or sport peppers (optional)
  • Celery salt

Instructions

  1. Brush outsides of buns with butter; sprinkle with poppy seeds.
  2. Bake, split sides down, at 350 degrees F until warm, about 5 minutes.
  3. Warm hot dogs in boiling water for 5 minutes; transfer to buns.
  4. Arrange a pickle on one side of each hot dog and 2 tomato wedges or 3 tomato slices (more, if desired) on the other side.
  5. Squirt mustard over each in a zigzag; top with a dollop of relish.
  6. Divide onion among hot dogs.
  7. Top each with a pepperoncino or sport pepper, if desired.
  8. Sprinkle with celery salt.