Cachorro quente

What's in it

12 parts read from its 19 ingredient lines, its title and its method.

Sausage

• Frank or wiener, type not stated “8 salsichas”

Bun or wrap

• Plain soft bun “8 pães de cachorro quente ou francês”

Cooking

• Boiled or simmered from the method

Toppings

• Grilled or sautéed onion from the method
• Potato chips or potato sticks “batata palha a gosto”
• Sweet corn “4 colheres (sopa) de milho verde”
• Peas “4 colheres (sopa) de ervilha”

Cheese

• Mozzarella or other melting cheese “8 fatias de queijo mussarela”

Sauces and condiments

• Mustard, kind not stated “mostarda a gosto”
• Ketchup “ketchup a gosto”
• Mayonnaise “maionese a gosto”
• Tomato sauce or paste “1 lata de massa de tomate”

Against the usual Cachorro-quente

It has 7 of the 8 parts of the usual Brazilian cachorro-quente: tomato sauce or paste, sweet corn, peas, potato chips or potato sticks, ketchup, any mustard and mayonnaise. Not on it: mashed potato.

Less usual for the style: mozzarella or other melting cheese (in 13% of Cachorro-quente recipes).

Sausages simmered in a tomato sauce with onion and peppers, in a soft roll, piled with some mix of mashed potato, sweet corn, peas, straw potatoes (batata palha), grated cheese, ketchup, mustard and mayonnaise.