NYC Style Hot Dogs With Street Cart Onions

What's in it

10 parts read from its 13 ingredient lines, its title and its method.

Sausage

• Frank or wiener, type not stated “4 Jumbo Frankfurters”

Bun or wrap

• Plain soft bun “4 Hot Dog Buns, split”

Cooking

• Griddled or pan-fried from the method
• Boiled or simmered from the method

Toppings

• Raw onion “2 Onions, halved and sliced”
• Sauerkraut “4 tbsp Sauerkraut, to serve”

Sauces and condiments

• Mustard, kind not stated “2tsp American Style Mustard, plus extra to serve”
• Ketchup “2tsp Ketchup, plus extra to serve”
• Tomato sauce or paste “2tsp Tomato Purée”
• Onions in red sauce (New York) named in the title

Against the usual New York

It has 4 of the 6 parts of the usual New York street cart hot dog: boiled or simmered, plain soft bun, sauerkraut and onions in red sauce (New York). Not on it: all-beef frank and spicy brown or grainy mustard.

An all-beef frank, often kept in a street cart's hot water bath, on a plain bun with spicy brown mustard and either sauerkraut, onions cooked down in a tomato-based sauce, or both.