Bagel dogs are hot dogs wrapped in bagel dough and baked. They are a casual food and often eaten without utensils. Homemade versions can use nitrite-free hot dogs and boiled before baking.
A bagel dog is a hot dog wrapped securely in the type of dough used to make bagels. Bagels are disc-shaped buns that have a hole in the center and are boiled before baking. The dough in a bagel dog, however, is rolled out and wrapped around the dog before baking. Occasionally a sausage link can substitute for the hot dog if the cook so desires.
Commercially available bagel dogs are sometimes completely encased in dough, while homemade versions leave the dog ends free. The dough is baked to a golden brown, and extras that can withstand the heat of the oven, such as poppy seeds, often end up in the dough as well. Recipes for homemade bagel dogs sometimes use ready-made biscuits or bread dough as a shortcut.
Bagel dogs are casual, casual food and would not be served in a fancy restaurant or dinner party. In keeping with its reputation as a “fun” food, a bagel dog is a hand food, eaten without utensils. Because the bagel dough wrapper acts as a handle of sorts, condiments like ketchup and seasoning can’t go on the outside of the bagel dog without drooling on the eater’s hand. An alternative option for those who want toppings is to dip the bagel dog in ketchup and mustard and use them as a kind of glue to hold chopped onions or relish that the eater places the dog for each bite.
Premade bagel dogs, like other store-bought pre-cooked foods, can have preservatives and other ingredients that consumers may not want. There are many recipes for homemade bagel dogs, allowing cooks to make the dough from scratch and choose nitrite-free hot dogs if they prefer. The casing of whatever meat a cook uses must be edible. While hot dog wrappers are generally edible, sausage wrappers, should the cook have to substitute it, sometimes aren’t.
Homemade bagel dogs using bagel dough are boiled before going into the oven. The cooking time is relatively quick at about 35 minutes or so. If using sausage, cooks should use pre-cooked sausage or meat that they know will cook properly within that amount of time.
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