Michigan Sauce Recipes

MICHIGAN HOT SAUCE

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients together, except meat.
• Add meat raw and mash with a potato masher while the sauce is cooking. It is important to mash the meat while it is raw, to get the consistency right! Michigan sauce, traditionally, is a very thick sauce that doesn't have meat chunks.
• Simmer 2-3 hours, stirring and mashing with the potato masher occasionally.

MARION'S MICHIGAN SAUCE FOR HOT DOGS

Steps:

• Finely chop onions and saute in a little olive oil until tender.
• Add ground beef and cook until browned. Separate meat so it is broken into very fine pieces of meat.
• Add rest of ingredients, mix, and cook over low heat on the stove 1 hour or more.
• This could be cooked in a crockpot on low for six hours.
• Serve as a topping on hot dogs.

GRANDMA SLATTERY'S MICHIGAN SAUCE

Steps:

• Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Saute the onion in butter until soft. Stir in the vinegar, brown sugar, lemon juice, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, ketchup, tomato sauce, and tomato paste. Stir to blend.
• When the mixture begins to simmer, add the raw ground beef breaking it into pieces with a wooden spoon. Simmer for 20 to 30 minutes. Serve over steamed hot dogs. Of course you can add some raw onions if you want.

MICHIGAN HOT DOG SAUCE

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, cook ground beef until browned.
• Drain off fat.
• Stir in tomato sauce, water, barbecue sauce, dried onion, chili powder, cumin, garlic powder and hot pepper sauce.
• Bring to boiling; reduce heat.
• Simmer, covered, for 30 minutes.
• Uncover; simmer 5 to 10 minutes or to desired consistency.
• Makes about 5 cups sauce, enough for 15 hot dogs.

MICHIGAN HOT DOG

Steps:

• Brown ground beef and 1/3 cup onion in a large skillet over medium heat, until the meat is no longer pink, 5 to 7 minutes. Drain, and return the skillet to the stove.
• Stir tomato sauce and ketchup into the ground beef mixture. Add chili powder, vinegar, garlic powder, hot sauce, salt, and pepper; stir until well combined. Reduce heat to low and simmer uncovered until sauce has thickened, 8 to 10 minutes. If sauce gets too thick, add water to thin it out.
• Meanwhile steam or simmer hot dogs in hot water until hot.
• Assemble hot dogs: Place a hot dog in a bun and spoon 2 to 3 tablespoons sauce on top. Sprinkle with remaining onions and drizzle with yellow mustard.

4-H MICHIGAN SAUCE

Steps:

• Mix together uncooked beef, tomatoes with juice and remaining ingredients (except salt and pepper) in a large stockpot.
• Mash with a potato masher until texture is very smooth.
• Place over med-low heat.
• Simmer for about 2-3 hours, until beef is cooked through. **Mine was done in under two hours. May need to add water if cooking entire time, check and stir every 30 minutes. Adjust seasoning to taste with salt and pepper.
• To serve--steamed hot dog on bun, slathered w/ Michigan sauce.