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Mexican Hot Dogs with Charred Serranos

🇲🇽 Mexico · Sonora

Servings: 4 Prep: 15 minutes Cook: 10 minutes Total: 25 minutes

Ingredients

  • ½ cup white onion, chopped
  • 2 roma tomatoes, chopped
  • 2 tablespoons jalapeños, chopped
  • 2 tablespoons jalapeño juice
  • ½ teaspoon kosher salt
  • 4 serrano peppers, sliced down the center
  • 4 hot dogs
  • 4 hot dog buns, toasted or steamed
  • Mayonnaise, for serving
  • Ketchup, for serving
  • Mustard, for serving
  • Chopped cilantro, for serving

Steps

  1. Make the salsa: combine chopped onion, tomatoes, and jalapeños in a bowl. Drizzle with jalapeño juice, add kosher salt, stir, and taste, adjusting salt as needed.
  2. If desired, slash, scale, crosshatch, or spiral cut the hot dogs (optional).
  3. Heat a grill pan or skillet over medium-high heat and lightly grease it.
  4. Place the sliced serrano peppers on one side of the pan.
  5. Add the hot dogs to the other side of the pan in a single layer.
  6. Cook everything for 3-5 minutes, flipping every 45-60 seconds, until the hot dogs are browned and the serranos are charred.
  7. Remove the serranos to a plate as they finish charring.
  8. Spread mayonnaise on the toasted or steamed buns.
  9. Nestle a hot dog into each bun.
  10. Top with the prepared salsa, and drizzle with ketchup and mustard as desired.
  11. Add the charred sliced serranos and sprinkle with chopped cilantro.
  12. Serve warm.

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