Bacon Blue Cheese Cowboy Hot Dog
This Bacon Blue Cheese Cowboy Hot Dog will start your grilling season off on the right track! And don’t forget the onion rings and BBQ sauce!
Dish Count :: 1 Skillet, 1 Grill
I have waited ALL YEAR For this!! It’s Hot Dog Week 2015, people – let’s get pumped! I’m so excited I hashtagged this event. Again. If you’re surprised by that, you’re obviously new here. WELCOME!
And if you are new to this year event, it started three years ago, over my love of summer, probably baseball, warm weather and some other BS that I can’t think of right now. Truthfully, I just love hot dogs. They’re the most versatile of tubular meats and they should be celebrated. Top them with whatever you want, they’re always a hit. And this week I have a few more up my sleeve to re-inspire you from the traditional ketchup and mustard faire. Join me!
A couple of weeks ago Ben and I finally got out of town to head east to the other side of the mountains, away from Seattle, and we hit up the local burger joint, right off the interstate that no one stops at any more passing it for next largest town, filled with chotskis and sorely in need of an update, but with a menu as long as a RiteAid receipt. On it was their Cowboy Burger, and I scored one of them for myself and something more basic for Ben. We took them down by the river and ate up with Huck right next to us, trying to scam a fry or slurp of milkshake.
And that’s when it hit me – the Cowboy burger needed the reinvention into the Cowboy Dog. And this was it. Can I get an amen!?! I hope that you love today’s kick of HotDogWeek2015 and come back Wednesday for the next round. Get yo’ fat pants on friends, it’s gettin’ real.
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Bacon Blue Cheese Cowboy Hot Dog
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 4 servings 1x
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Grilled
- Cuisine: American
Description
This Bacon Blue Cheese Cowboy Hot Dog will start your grilling season off on the right track! And don’t forget the onion rings and BBQ sauce!
Ingredients
- 4 Hot Dog Buns
- 4 All Beef Hot Dogs
- 1 package frozen Onion Rings, prepared
- 1 Onion, thinly sliced
- 3 Tbsp Butter
- 5 Slices Bacon, prepared and chopped
- 1/2 cup BBQ Sauce, like Head Country Hickory Smoke BBQ Sauce
- 1/2 cup Blue Cheese Crumbles
Instructions
- Prepare onion rings according to package directions.
- Prepare bacon is skillet, frying until crispy and drain on paper towels. Chop when cool enough to handle.
- In the skillet, melt butter until simmering. Add in sliced onions and caramelize until golden brown.
- Preheat the grill over medium heat. Grill hot dogs until heated through and lightly charred on the outside.
- To assemble the hot dogs, Place hot dogs in the buns, top with caramelized onions, chopped bacon, blue cheese crumbles, onion rings, and drizzle in BBQ Sauce. Serve immediately.
Keywords: hot dog toppings, hot dog ideas, hot dog recipe
*This post is sponsored by Head Country BBQ Sauce. All opinions are my own*
Tubular meat, fat pants and Huck slurping milkshakes. I have so many great visuals in my head right now. Ha! You crack me up girl! Hooray for Hot Dog Week. These babies are LOADED!
I’ll pass you my milkshake for one of these dawgs!!!!
Oh WOW, these are insane!!! Bacon, onion rings, hot dogs… I am totally in love with these hot dogs!
Girl – you are speaking my blue cheese loving love language!!!
Now THAT is how Memorial Day should be. I live in the UK where frozen onion rings are few and far between but this alone would make the search worth it! Cheers!
If you can’t find frozen onion rings – I have a friend that has made truly scrumptious panko coated onion rings that would be perfect here!! Try her site for her Guinness Onion Rings, I’ve made them and they are delicious! http://www.climbinggriermountain.com/2014/03/oven-fried-guinness-onion-rings-with-stout-gravy.html
OMG! My husband would do anything to try this hot dogs. I think I will try to make something like this for him 🙂
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