Veg Hot Dog

Veg Hot Dog – a unique tasty fusion recipe made with spiced potato stuffing in a hot dog bread roll with tomato, onion, spicy peanut, cheese, special chutney, and cheese.

These are a delicious twist on the classic sausage hot dog. These are easy to make and are a crowd-pleaser recipe that is loved by kids and adults. They are cheesy, buttery, and flavorful a.k.a delicious.

Make it for your next party and see the tray getting polished off clean!! It’s a great vegetarian option on game day too! Let’s learn to make a desi-style masala hot dog with step by step process and video.

Jump to:

• What is Hot Dog?
• What is Vegetarian Hot Dog made of?
• What makes this hot dog special?
• Why do I love this Veg Hot Dog recipe?
• Ingredients required
• Step by step process
• Variation
• Storage
• Notes, Pro-tips, and quick FAQs
• More Bread based recipes
• Veg Masala Hot Dog
• Video

My family love Bread-based recipes, be it vada pav, pav bhaji, dabeli, or missal pav.

Similarly, one such bread-based recipe is the hot dog recipe, generally made with a combination of meat.

I feel like vegetarians get left out of the hot dog game too often, so here I am to save the day! These veg hot dogs do not skimp on the flavor and taste incredibly good.

This fusion recipe is a good mix of Indian street food flavors with the western hot dog idea!

What is Hot Dog?

The hot dog is an extremely popular street food in the USA and is easily recognizable with its typical long bun meat sausage and sauces on top.

Its name came from a German species of dog called dachshund which is small and long in shape that resemble so much like a sausage when people from Germany migrated to the USA they also got their dachshund dogs with them.

This may have led to the popular name of Hot Dog simply by the visual reference of a hot sausage+a sausage-looking dog means Hot Dog.

What is Vegetarian Hot Dog made of?

You must have had a lot of hot dog versions. The classic version is the sausage version which is an actual hot dog.

But there are a lot of vegetarian hot dog versions made using hot dog buns and a lot of different veg fillings are filled in it.

Today I am cooking a Desi chatpata Rajkot (A city in Gujarat, India) street-style hot dog.

In this desi veg hot dog, I will be cooking a tangy potato filling, and special Rajkot green chutney (which is known as Gordhan chutney).

Then assemble a hot dog in toasted buns with potato filling, chutney, tomato ketchup, crunchy onion, tomatoes, masala peanuts, and cheese.

These veg dogs are tangy, sweet, spicy, and taste amazing with different textures.

These are perfect for summer BBQs. You can assemble them ahead of time and just pan cook them on a griller when you are ready to serve your crowd!

What makes this hot dog special?

I would say Chutney.

The unique taste of this recipe comes from the green chutney, known as Rajkots Gordhan Bhai Ni chutney.

This special chutney is made with peanuts and green chilies along with lemon juice. This chutney is very famous in Rajkot, the city of Gujarat, India.

If you are a good food lover and have not tried this Rajkot’s famous Green Chutney and Potato Chips combination, I highly recommend you try it. 

This chutney is a lot on the spicier, tangier side, with the nutty flavor added by peanuts. 

The chutney has a long shelf life when stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator, as the citric acid/lemon juice helps enhance the shelf-life.

This is a very versatile chutney that can be eaten with any snack, chaats, sandwiches, etc.

This spicy and tangy chutney compliments the flavors of potato stuffing and enhances the taste further.

I love using it as-is, but if you want to make it creamier, you can add a couple of tablespoons of greek yogurt or mayonnaise to ½ cup of chutney and spread it on the hot dog buns.

Why do I love this Veg Hot Dog recipe?

• These are delicious to eat and can be perfect evening snacks for your kids.
• It’s a favorite with all age groups.
• Packed with textures and flavors
• Perfect for potluck or bbq.
• Surprisingly easy to make!
• A crowd pleaser and can be assembled ahead of time.

Ingredients required

For the filling

• Potato – Russet potato and red potatoes work best to make the filling. Make sure to mash them completely after boiling and peeling them.
• Ginger and garlic paste – Make sure to use freshly made ginger garlic paste for better taste.
• Spices – We will need very basic spices like red chili powder, turmeric powder, salt, and garam masala.
• Oil – to cook the filling. You can use any oil.

For chutney

• Peanuts – use raw peanuts, not roasted ones.
• Green chilies – I have used green jalapenos. Use whatever chilies you have except thai chili. Make sure to use spicy verity.
• Lemon juice – Some people use citric acid (Limbu na Phool) to make this chutney. But I prefer lemon juice. Lemon juice not just gives the tangy taste but also helps in preventing chutney to go bad.
• Spices – Salt and turmeric powder. Turmeric powder is used to give bright colors.

Other toppings

You will also require finely chopped tomato, finely chopped onion, masala peanut, tomato ketchup, cheese, and butter. For cheese, you can use any cheese of your choice but Amul cheese tastes the best.

Step by step process

Chutney.

• Take all the chutney ingredients in a mixture grinder and grind it into slightly coarse chutney. Keep this chutney aside. (image 1 to 6)
  • Tip – This chutney stays good for up to a week in the fridge and up to 3 months in the freezer.

Filling

• Heat oil in a pan. Add ginger-garlic paste and sauté for a few seconds. (image 7 and 8)
• Now add spices (salt, chili powder, garam masala, and turmeric powder) and saute for 10 seconds. Add ½ cup of water and give it a quick stir. (image 9 and 10)
• Then add mashed potatoes and mix everything well. Cook on a medium flame for about 3 to 4 minutes, stirring occasionally. (image 11 and 12)

• Switch off the flame and let the mixture cool down.

Assemble

• Take a hot dog bun, and make a slit in the middle of the bun.
• Now heat a tawa/griddle on medium heat. Add butter.
• Once butter is melted, toast the hot dog bun well from all the sides.
• Take the toasted bun onto a working surface. On one side of the bun, apply chutney, tomato ketchup, a big spoon full of potato stuffing, some finely chopped onion, finely chopped tomatoes, some masala peanuts, and cheese. Cover it with another half-bun.

• Veg Hot Dog is ready. Enjoy!
• If you love street food, then you will love this Desi hot dog recipe.

Variation

You can also

• Add Vegetables like cabbage, bell pepper, carrots, etc.
• Apply sauce like schezwan sauce, sweet chutney, or garlic chutney.
• Add Paneer to make it wholesome.
• Stuff it with Hakka noodles or dry Manchurian.

Storage

You can store the leftover hot dogs in the refrigerator for up to 4 days.

I have never tried freezing the prepared hot dog.

But to make life easy, you can make the stuffing and chutney ahead of time and freeze it for up to 3 months. Take it out from the freezer the night before and assemble it with other ingredients and toast it on a griddle or in a Panini maker.

Notes, Pro-tips, and quick FAQs

• You can skip peanuts and cheese by just assembling the chutney and potato stuffing. It will taste good too. But I personally love it with peanuts and cheese as I have always eaten the hot dog with peanuts and cheese in Rajkot.
• Here I want to mention that, some of you might think this is Dabeli made in hot dog buns. But it’s not. The potato filling tastes way different than the dabeli filling. Plus I have not used sweet chutney, garlic chutney, sev, coconut, or pomegranate like we use in making Dabeli. J
• The hot dog buns have to be fresh and avoid using stale buns. This is because it may crumble to pieces when it is vertically slit and while stuffing them.
• Adjust spices according to your liking.
• If you are short of time, you can use green chaat chutney instead of this Rajkot special chutney. But I highly recommend you to try this special chutney and not substitute it with regular chaat chutney. It makes a huge difference.

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Warm Regards,

Dhwani.