Michigan Sauce Recipes

MICHIGAN HOT DOGS

Steps:

• Combine seasonings with tomato sauce. Mix with ground beef as if you are making meatballs. Put the mixture into the crock pot and cook on low for 2-4 hours. When cooked, the meat will need to be broken up. The sauce is traditionally has no chunks of meat, the meat is broken up to a very fine consistency.
• You may also simmer this on low for 2-3 hours on the stovetop, but I find the crock pot easier.
• Leftovers freeze well.

MARION'S MICHIGAN SAUCE FOR HOT DOGS

Steps:

• Finely chop onions and saute in a little olive oil until tender.
• Add ground beef and cook until browned. Separate meat so it is broken into very fine pieces of meat.
• Add rest of ingredients, mix, and cook over low heat on the stove 1 hour or more.
• This could be cooked in a crockpot on low for six hours.
• Serve as a topping on hot dogs.

MICHIGAN HOT SAUCE

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients together, except meat.
• Add meat raw and mash with a potato masher while the sauce is cooking. It is important to mash the meat while it is raw, to get the consistency right! Michigan sauce, traditionally, is a very thick sauce that doesn't have meat chunks.
• Simmer 2-3 hours, stirring and mashing with the potato masher occasionally.

GRANDMA SLATTERY'S MICHIGAN SAUCE

Steps:

• Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Saute the onion in butter until soft. Stir in the vinegar, brown sugar, lemon juice, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, ketchup, tomato sauce, and tomato paste. Stir to blend.
• When the mixture begins to simmer, add the raw ground beef breaking it into pieces with a wooden spoon. Simmer for 20 to 30 minutes. Serve over steamed hot dogs. Of course you can add some raw onions if you want.

MICHIGAN HOT DOG

Steps:

• Brown ground beef and 1/3 cup onion in a large skillet over medium heat, until the meat is no longer pink, 5 to 7 minutes. Drain, and return the skillet to the stove.
• Stir tomato sauce and ketchup into the ground beef mixture. Add chili powder, vinegar, garlic powder, hot sauce, salt, and pepper; stir until well combined. Reduce heat to low and simmer uncovered until sauce has thickened, 8 to 10 minutes. If sauce gets too thick, add water to thin it out.
• Meanwhile steam or simmer hot dogs in hot water until hot.
• Assemble hot dogs: Place a hot dog in a bun and spoon 2 to 3 tablespoons sauce on top. Sprinkle with remaining onions and drizzle with yellow mustard.

MICHIGAN SAUCE

Steps:

• Mix tomato sauce, hot sauce and seasonings in a large saucepan.
• Add raw ground beef and mash with potato masher while cooking.
• Cook on medium heat for 30 minutes until beef is browned, then simmer on low for 2-3 hours.
• (Sauce will be very thick) Serve Michican Sauce over steamed hot dogs in a steamed bun and top with chopped raw onions.

WORLD'S BEST MICHIGAN HOTDOG SAUCE

Steps:

• 1. Fry hamburg in skillet breaking into pieces as you would for a meat sauce or for sloppy joes.Drain off excess fat after hamburg has cooked.
• 2. Mix all the ingredients together (except hotdogs and buns) in a saucepan.Heat on low until just below the boiling point.
• 3. Cover and simmer for 30 to 45 minutes.Serve over hotdogs on hotdog rolls.