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Copycat Red Lion Coney Sauce

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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.


serves/makes:
  
ready in:
  2-5 hrs
Rating: 5/5

5 reviews
3 comments

ingredients

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

directions

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.

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nutrition data

199 calories, 15 grams fat, 5 grams carbohydrates, 10 grams protein per serving. This recipe is low in carbs.
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reviews & comments

  1. Doormanswift REVIEW:

    Just made this recipe and wish I would have cut the salt in half. 1 Tbs should be plenty.

  2. Deanna REVIEW:

    It is excellent,I used the tomato juice. I used ground beef and strained the grease off of it. Very good.i love it.

  3. Barbie REVIEW:

    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!!!!

  4. Guest Foodie

    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

  5. Duke the Chef REVIEW:

    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.

  6. Guest Foodie

    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.

  7. Michael

    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.

  8. Kimmy REVIEW:

    I used less tomato juice because I didn't have it... and used a little water and more pepper. It turned out great!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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