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Halal buffalo hot dogs

Hot dogs with Halal-certified beef or chicken sausages in brioche buns, a blue cheese and soured cream sauce with celery, buffalo hot sauce and crispy onions.

American · Main · Easy · 4 hot dogs · 35 min

Each method follows published technique for the dish, and every Halal substitution is checked against the ingredient pages we cite. Photographs come from our ingredient library rather than the finished dish.

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Why Halal checks matter here

A hot dog is only Halal when the sausage is a certified Halal beef or chicken product; ordinary sausages are often pork, or beef in pork casings, and the blue cheese depends on its rennet.

Halal-critical ingredients

• The sausages: Sausages are Halal only when made from Halal-slaughtered meat, in a Halal casing, with no Haram additives. Ordinary sausages are often pork, or beef in pork-derived casings. Use sausages or franks carrying a Halal mark from a certifier you trust. See Hot dogs and Sausage.
• Blue cheese: Cheese is set with rennet, and scholars differ on rennet from animals not slaughtered the Halal way. Choose a blue cheese labelled vegetarian or with microbial or Halal-certified rennet. See Cheese.
• Buns, sauces and onions: Brioche buns, mayonnaise, hot sauce and crispy onions are bought products with their own ingredient lists. Read the labels, or choose products with a Halal mark.

Ingredients

Blue cheese sauce

• 50 g blue cheese with no animal rennet (vegetarian, microbial or Halal-certified)
• 50 g soured cream
• 1 tbsp mayonnaise
• 1 celery stick, finely chopped

Hot dogs

• 4 Halal-certified beef or chicken sausages (instead of pork)
• 4 brioche hot dog buns
• a drizzle buffalo hot sauce
• 2 tbsp crispy fried onions

Method

1. Make the sauce. Blitz the blue cheese, soured cream and mayonnaise in a food processor until smooth. Stir in the celery and season to taste.
2. Cook the sausages. Cook the Halal sausages following the pack instructions until cooked through.
3. Fill the buns. Split the buns and put a sausage in each.
4. Sauce and top. Spoon over some blue cheese sauce, add a drizzle of buffalo hot sauce and top with the crispy fried onions.

Allergens

gluten (buns), milk (blue cheese, soured cream, brioche), egg (mayonnaise, brioche), celery

How this recipe was researched

Method from BBC Good Food's 'Buffalo hot dogs' by Esther Clark (serves 4: 50 g blue cheese, 50 g soured cream and 1 tbsp mayonnaise blitzed smooth with a finely chopped celery stick stirred in; 4 sausages cooked to the pack instructions; served in 4 brioche hot dog buns with the sauce, buffalo hot sauce and 2 tbsp crispy fried onions). We specified Halal-certified beef or chicken sausages and a blue cheese with no animal rennet. Timings follow the published technique rather than a kitchen test.

Photograph from our ingredient library: plain hot dogs with mustard, not the finished dish from this recipe.