This recipe for hot dogs with buttery cider onions uses this week’s star ingredient – Hogan’s Medium Cider. The cider adds a delicious sticky sweetness to the onions, which perfectly accompany your favourite sausages in these tasty hot dogs. Scale up the recipe and prepare a large batch for feeding a crowd at BBQs, they go down a treat on burgers too!  

Serves:4

Make in: 40 minutes

Ingredients:

30g butter

1 tbsp olive oil

2 finely sliced onions

100ml Hogan’s Medium Cider

1 tbsp light brown soft sugar

1 tbsp cider vinegar

4 sausages

4 Becketts’ Bakery finger rolls

Method:

Slowly melt the butter and oil in a pan. Reduce the temperature of your hob to low and add the onions with a generous pinch of salt. Allow the onions to cook for 25-30 minutes, stirring occasionally until caramelised.

Add the cider and simmer over a medium heat until the liquid is reduced, and the onion mixture thickens/becomes sticky.

Stir in the light brown sugar and cider vinegar.

Cook your sausages in your preferred way, according to the packet instructions.

Serve your hot dogs in Becketts’ Bakery finger rolls with your favourite sauce and a generous spoonful of the buttery cider onions.

Star Ingredient of the Week

Hogan’s Cider

We’ve been stocking Hogan’s Cider on our shelves for as long as we can remember. This well established, small-business producer is based just down the road in Alcester. Producing classic blends and new and exciting ciders, the team at Hogan’s are committed to proper cider-making. From harvesting through to bottling, it’s all done on-site at their local cider mill. Use it in our latest recipe for Hot Dogs with Buttery Cider Onions, but don’t forget to pick up an extra bottle to drink!