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Everything a good Coney sauce should be--beefy, tangy, and with a good kick from chili powder and tabasco. Don't forget the extra chopped onions to top off your dogs.
3 pounds ground beef
6 tablespoons chili powder
2 tablespoons salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
4 medium onions, minced
1 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
OR
3 teaspoons garlic powder
7 drops Tabasco sauce
1 can (46 ounce size) tomato juice
Brown beef; add chili powder, salt, pepper, onion, garlic salt, Tabasco and tomato juice. Cook slowly for 2 hours.
Serve on hot dogs with mustard and chopped onions on the side.
gennyblake
Love the spinach dip at restaurants like TGIFriday's and the Olive Garden? Make it at home with these easy-to-follow copycat recipes.
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reviews & comments
July 15, 2024
Just made this recipe and wish I would have cut the salt in half. 1 Tbs should be plenty.
February 17, 2020
It is excellent,I used the tomato juice. I used ground beef and strained the grease off of it. Very good.i love it.
July 21, 2019
I have been searching for a coney sauce that we would really like and this is the best that I have tried....I have not tried the ground beef heart but will when I get one!!!!
iam also from Bay City, and had the original coney dogs from caris red lion, the sauce is made from ground beef heart, but i don't know the rest of ingreatents, can someone tell me the rest? they were so good back in the day, not a tomatoe base
June 9, 2016
I have tried this recipe and it is very good. I'm also from Bay City MI, where Caris' Red Lion was located. Try making this with ground beef heart and you will have a dead ringer for the sauce thousands loved.
This is a tasty recipe, but this is not the recipe from Caris Red Lion...it is nothing like it at all. That original sauce was not tomato based. There was a very distinct flavor, more loose meat, but not Flint style.
What is the OR part of it - I see no SAUCE base in this - just the ingredients - What is the sauce base?
OR refers to the garlic flavor in the recipe. You can use either garlic salt OR garlic powder. I don't understand your question about the "sauce base"? It's a recipe for hot dog sauce so the ingredients are combined as directed to create a sauce.
July 1, 2009
I used less tomato juice because I didn't have it... and used a little water and more pepper. It turned out great!!!!!!!!!!!!!