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Traditional Hot Dog Sauce

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Equipment

  • Large saucepan

Ingredients
  

  • 4 cups water
  • 1 1/2 lbs ground beef
  • 1 medium onion, chopped
  • 1, 28 oz can tomato sauce
  • 1 cup ketchup
  • 2 tbsp brown sugar
  • 1 1/2 tbsp chili powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp black pepper
  • hot pepper seeds, optional

Instructions
 

  • In a large saucepan, bring water to a boil.
  • Carefully crumble beef into water, breaking upbeef with a fork to create smaller pieces of meatfor sauce.
  • Add onion.
  • Boil until meat is no longer pink; drain.
  • Add the tomato sauce, brown sugar, ketchup,chili powder, salt, and pepper.
  • Simmer, uncovered, for 15 minutes or untilheated through.
  • Serve over hot dogs in buns.