Pizza Hot Dogs with Quick-Pickled Cucumbers and Crispy Fried Onions - Great Lakes Ace Hardware Store Header

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6 PIZZA HOTS DOGS

PREP TIME

4 HOURS 30 MINUTES

COOK TIME

1.5 MINUTES



Ingredients

For the pizza dogs:

  • 25 ounces (720 grams) Classic Pizza Dough
  • Fine sea salt, to taste
  • 6 natural beef hot dogs or Frankfurter sausages (2.5 to 3 ounces or 75 to 90 grams each)
  • Flour, for dusting
  • 3 ounces (90 grams) crispy fried onions (any store brand will do)
  • 9 ounces (260 grams) cheddar, grated
  • 6 ounces (180 grams) ketchup (preferably in a squeeze bottle)

For the quick-pickled cucumbers:

  • ¾ cups water
  • 2 teaspoons fine sea salt
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • ¼ cup white wine vinegar
  • 4 dill stems, plus more for garnish (optional)
  • 2 small cucumbers (about 14 ounces or 400 grams total)

For the hot honey mustard:

  • 2.5 ounces (70 grams) mayonnaise
  • 2 ounces (60 grams) Dijon mustard
  • 1.8 ounces (50 grams) Hot Honey, or regular honey)
  • 0.2 ounces (5 grams) lemon juice

Instructions

For the quick-pickled cucumbers:

  1. In a saucepan over medium heat, bring the water with salt and sugar to a boil and stir until both are completely dissolved. Take the saucepan off the heat; add white wine vinegar, stir, and let the mixture cool slightly. Set aside. 

  2. Wash and chop the dill, keeping the leaves in a small bowl. Set aside. Wash the cucumbers and cut into 0.2-inch (0.5-centimeter) thick slices.

  3. Place your dill and cucumbers into a glass jar; add the brine water.

For the hot honey mustard:

  1. In a medium bowl, whisk together the mayonnaise, mustard, hot honey and lemon juice. Fill your squeeze bottle with the hot honey mustard mixture.

For the pizza dogs:

  1. Fire up your Ooni oven. Aim for 750 °F to 850 °F (400 °C to 450 °C) on the baking stone inside. Use the infrared thermometer to quickly and accurately check the temperature of the middle of the stone.

  2. In a medium saucepan, bring enough salted water to cover the hot dogs to a boil. Reduce the heat so that the water is hot, but not boiling, then add the hot dogs; cook for around 10 minutes.

  3. Place a pizza dough ball on a lightly floured work surface and press air lengthwise from the center of the dough into the crust, creating an indentation the length and width of your hot dog.

  4. Transfer the stretched dough to a lightly dusted peel; add 1.5 ounces of the cheddar to the middle of the dough to prevent it from rising during the bake.

  5. Launch the dough into the oven. Cook for 1 minute, turning once halfway to ensure an even bake.

  6. Remove from the oven; add the hot dog. Reduce the flames to a minimum, then launch the bun and hot dog and bake for another 20 to 30 seconds.

  7. Remove from the oven, top with ketchup, mustard, pickles, crispy onions and garnish with chopped dill (optional).

  8. Repeat the steps for the remaining pizza dogs, serve and enjoy!