Hot dogs are good. Hot dogs wrapped in bacon? BETTER. Add some sautéed onions and peppers on top, all the fixins, and a crispy grilled bun, and you lot are well on your style to summer perfection.

Bacon Wrapped Hot Dogs (Grilled) from The Food Charlatan

The other mean solar day I sent this text to my sisters: "Oh, you idea you were in a good mood? Take four minutes to do this and you volition be in a WAY Better ONE."

After several minutes of zero response I looked at it again and realized that it totally looks like some weird spam message. I have no idea when I got so gimmicky.

Bacon Wrapped Hot Dogs (Grilled) from The Food Charlatan

Simply guys. Seriously. Accept yous heard of The Fettle Marshall?? He is Awesome. Totally my new favorite at-home workout, or 3-minute bad-mood-killer. Think Zumba, but it'due south hip hop, and with a dude who has way more than moves than most girls dream of.

I'm obsessed with learning his dance to JT's Tin can't Stop the Feeling. (<<Normally he has girl back up dancers. But in this ane he has two guys who are kind of not that great and information technology'due south hilarious. I like to pretend that I look like The Fitness Marshall when I'one thousand dancing, but I'm pretty certain I look more like that guy on the left.)

I need to practice this song to burn calories every time I eat ane of these:

Bacon Wrapped Hot Dogs (Grilled) from The Food Charlatan

Last year Eric and I went to a U2 concert. Let me try that again. Concluding year, Eric and I went to the same U2 concert, two days in a row. I don't retrieve I'll ever look back on this experience without rolling my eyes, but in the kind of way that you might roll your optics (but smile indulgently) when your kid says he wants a bed made out of Legos for Christmas.

Bacon Wrapped Hot Dogs (Grilled) from The Food Charlatan

We had a lot of fun at the concerts but the function that is lodged in MY long-term retentiveness has nix to do with Bono and everything to do with bacon-wrapped hot dogs. Both nights the bear witness got out around midnight, and thousands of people have to go to their cars and navigate out of the massive parking lot. Of course it takes forever.

Just. Instead of being deplorable that you are stuck in a parking lot, yous can be happy, because you are surrounded by tiny grill-carts selling the most amazing bacon-wrapped hot dogs with all the fixins. Then GOOD. I vowed immediately that I would recreate them at home, and here you have it. They definitely lived up to my memories. The jalapeno gives it a little kick and it is just perfect.

Bacon Wrapped Hot Dogs (Grilled) from The Food Charlatan

Bacon Wrapped Hot Dogs (Grilled) from The Food Charlatan

Discussion to the wise earlier yous make this (or anything  grilled really…): make clean your grill. My hot dogs kept lighting on fire because the grill was in a fleck of a land. End of summer, y'all know? We grill a lot. Good news? Burnt hot dogs are Succulent. Win.

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Bacon Wrapped Hot Dogs

Hot dogs are skillful. Hot dogs wrapped in bacon? Amend. Add some sautéed onions and peppers on top, all the fixins, and a crispy grilled bun, and you lot are well on your mode to summertime perfection.

  • 6 hot dogs, *
  • 6 slices salary
  • toothpicks
  • 6 buns
  • butter or mayonnaise, for grilling the buns
  • all the fixins, ketchup mustard, mayo, etc.

For the onion topping:

  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • one half onion, sliced
  • 1 green pepper
  • ane jalapeno
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • Estrus your grill to low heat.

  • Wrap ane slice of bacon around each hot dog. Use 2 toothpicks per hot dog to secure them on the ends. (Push button the toothpicks in as far as you can so they don't burn.)

  • Grill the hot dogs on low heat for several minutes, turning every couple minutes to cook all the bacon. This should take about 8-10 minutes, depending on how crispy you like your bacon.

  • When they are almost done, spread your buns with either mayonnaise or butter. Grill cut-side-down for near 1-3 minutes, until they take some nice grill marks on them.

  • Meanwhile, make the topping. Slice the onions. Slice the light-green peppers into bite-size strips. Slice the jalapeno thinly, discarding the membrane.

  • In a large skillet, rut the butter over medium oestrus until it is hot and melted. Add the vegetables and saute for about 6-8 minutes, until they are as done every bit you like them.

  • Top each hot canis familiaris with onion mixture, ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, etc.

*The hot dogs in the photos are Costco hot dogs, and then they are huge. one slice of bacon wraps around a regular hot dog perfectly.

Serving: i hot dog , Calories: 367 kcal , Carbohydrates: 44 g , Protein: fifteen g , Fatty: 15 g , Saturated Fat: five g , Polyunsaturated Fatty: 2 g , Monounsaturated Fat: 5 thousand , Trans Fat: one g , Cholesterol: 39 mg , Sodium: 938 mg , Potassium: 189 mg , Fiber: 2 g , Carbohydrate: half dozen g , Vitamin A: 157 IU , Vitamin C: 20 mg , Calcium: 25 mg , Iron: 12 mg

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Homemade Pretzel Dogs << if y'all haven't tried these you are totally missing out!

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Bacon and Goat Cheese Aioli Burger with Crispy Onions:

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Other hot domestic dog recipes from friends:

BBQ Bacon and Crispy Onion Hot Dogs from Will Cook for Smiles
Bacon-Wrapped Sonoran Hot Dog from Damn Delicious
Grilled Bacon Wrapped Hot Dogs from Foodie with Family unit