Ben’s Chili Bowl Half-Smokes with Chili Sauce
Lia Fireheart · inthefirekitchen.com · 2025
Against 529 hot dog recipes
Half-smoke, with 5 of the 5 usual parts.
What's in it
10 parts read from its 19 ingredient lines, its title and its method.
- Sausage
- Smoked sausage, kielbasa or half-smoke “6 mild half-smokes”
- Bun or wrap
- Plain soft bun “6 white hot dog buns”
- Cooking
- Grilled from the method
- Griddled or pan-fried from the method
- Boiled or simmered from the method
- Toppings
- Raw onion “3 tablespoons dehydrated onion”
- Chili or meat sauce made in the recipe
- Sauces and condiments
- Yellow mustard “French’s yellow mustard”
- Tomato sauce or paste “1 tablespoon tomato paste”
- Curry powder or curry sauce “1/2 teaspoon red curry powder”
Against the usual Half-smoke
It has 5 of the 5 parts of the usual Half-smoke: smoked sausage, kielbasa or half-smoke, chili or meat sauce, any mustard, raw onion and grilled.
Less usual for the style: curry powder or curry sauce (in 20% of Half-smoke recipes).
A coarse, smoked sausage, usually half pork and half beef, grilled and topped with chili, mustard and chopped onion.
Ingredients as published (19)
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 3 tablespoons dehydrated onion
- 2 teaspoons beef bouillon powder
- 3 tablespoons chili powder
- 1 tablespoon paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon red curry powder
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 3 tablespoons masa harina
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- 3 cups water, divided
- 1 pound ground beef (80/20)
- sea salt to taste
- 6 mild half-smokes
- 6 white hot dog buns
- French’s yellow mustard
- 1 small onion, chopped
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