This super easy recipe for buffalo style hot dogs is SO super easy that I am stretching things a little by actually calling it a recipe. It’s more of a suggestion that you swap out the usual mustard and ketchup for a few different ingredients that will give your plain old frankfurter a zingy, cheesy flair. You know the blue cheese and hot sauce taste you get from buffalo style chicken wings? Yep, we are going to do the hot dog version of that. Yes we are. Let’s make it!
Jazz up your frankfurters with this easy recipe for buffalo style hot dogs! Click To TweetAnd because there is so little to tell you about this recipe that is almost too easy to be called a recipe, I’m going to supplement this post with pictures of my own hot dog. So if you really don’t want to see a bunch of pictures of one particular rescue dog that is almost certainly illegally sleeping on my bed as you read this, scroll on down to the end. But if you do…
The Southern husband calls her “the girl with the faraway eyes,” which is not what I think Mick Jagger had in mind when he was singing that song, but it seems to fit.
Even when wearing ridiculous but festive holiday collars.
Aside from eating, her other favorite hobby is sleeping. Preferably snuggled up with her people.
Sleeping…
…and eating…
….and sleeping (that can’t actually be comfortable, can it?)…
…and eating (she is my Chief Bowl Licker. She can hear the KitchenAid mixer go on from the other side of the house).
You get my drift….so on to the hot dogs! Pick out your favorite kind…I am partial to Nathan’s hot dogs with the skin on, but whatever you like best will do, even turkey or veggie dogs. I like to cook mine until they are nice and brown on the grill or the stovetop, but again, if you prefer yours boiled that is fine too. Once you have your hot dog nice and hot, nestle it in a bun and top it with a few spoonfuls of coleslaw, a generous dollop or two of blue cheese salad dressing, and a drizzle of hot sauce. If you are feeling extra energetic you can make your own coleslaw, but honestly, I usually pick mine up at the deli counter at the supermarket.
As for the hot sauce, we use Sriracha sauce for ours, and since that is what’s going to add the spicy punch, it’s a good idea to let everyone customize their own amount of sauce.
See? Not really a recipe…but so, SO good! And I think that gives me room to sneak in just one more of these…
Happy hot dogs!
- 4 hot dogs
- 4 hot dog rolls
- 1 cup coleslaw (you can make your own, or pick it up at the deli counter)
- ½ cup prepared blue cheese dressing
- Sriracha or other hot sauce
- Cook hot dogs according to your liking - on the grill, in a skillet or in boiling water - until hot.
- Place hot dogs in rolls.
- Top each with ¼ cup coleslaw, a generous spoonful of blue cheese dressing, and a drizzle of hot sauce.
My kids love hot dogs and they are wishing me to make some regularly. This blue cheese dressing and the coleslaw would be something for me the next time I have to make them. Can’t stand the ketchup anymore… 🙂 The dog is really cute!
Hey, if you put it together, it’s totally a recipe. And your puppy is so cute! I do that with the PB jar sometimes, too… 🙂
i love pictures of pooches as much as pooches love peanut butter! great dogs, both kinds. 🙂
Aww, pretty puppy! These hot dogs sound like the BEST idea! I’m definitely doing this!
Hahaha. AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW <3 Your own, furry hot dawg is just TOO cute for words! Seriously, those eyes! SWOON! I'm such a sucker for dogs, I literally want to reach through my screen and just snuggle all day with your pup! Anyways, I'll try to reign it in so I can discuss food. 😉 LOVE the idea for these hot dogs, Kate! Buffalo style anything, rocks the house, so using those flavors for some dogs is genius! PERFECT for today!!!! Happy Labor Day, dear friend! Cheers!
I love buffalo wings and hot sauce and all that good stuff so this is just a great idea for the hot dogs!!
Ok, your fur baby is just ADORABLE!!!!! What a cutie pie! And that holiday collar? Too cute. How can you not snuggle him all day long 🙂 ????
We try just about anything we can buffalo style Kate, so I’m adding these to my list ASAP! I’m in love with your absolutely adorable dog! That photo with the Christmas collar! OMG!
That is one cute dog! Love his expressions! 🙂 Such a great idea to jazz up hot dogs…..love the twist of buffalo sauce!
Aww, what a sweet puppy. How could you not fall in love with that face?
My brother likes buffalo everything,so I’ll have to try these out!
she has the most Incredibly Beautiful Eyes and these hot dogs look AMAZING! My mouth is seriously watering!
REALLY. Licking your Kitchen aide Bowl. NOT appealing even though I’m sure it gets thoroughly washed.
The peanut butter jar is going in the trash…not being used again for people food, Perfect.