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Wednesday 19 October 2011

Vegetarian Hot dog (with a Kidney Beans Sausage)

Who says vegetarians can’t eat hot dogs?! :-D I was watching an episode of Friends & I saw Joey eat a hot dog. And even though I knew it had some dead-stuff, I couldn’t help admiring the sausage! :-P I also love watching Food-Food channel. I had seen this recipe on Firangi Tadka. I didn’t know the exact ingredients, but I did a decent job of making the hot dogs! :-) Also, this one is full of proteins because of the kidney beans (Rajma) So eat it guilt free! ;-D

Ingredients- (makes 4 hot dogs)
For the veggie sausage:
Kidney Beans – 1 cup (I put 4 palm-fuls)
Potato – 2 medium sized
Tofu – 50-80 grams (optional) [[Use cottage cheese as alternative]]
Paprika – 3 teaspoons
Pepper Powder – 1 teaspoon
Salt – as per taste – 1 teaspoon
Cilantro – chopped – 2 tablespoons (optional)
Others:
Hot Dog Buns
Tomato Ketchup
Mustard Sauce (optional)
Tomato Slices
Onion Slices
Cabbage / Lettuce leaves

Method
STEP 1: Soak the Kidney beans in water overnight. (For around 6 hours)
STEP 2: Boil the Kidney beans (with a little bit of salt) to make them soft & mashable! :-) (In a cooker, microwave etc.)
STEP 3: Completely filter the water from the kidney beans. Use a clean cloth or towel to remove some excess water from the kidney beans.
STEP 4: Boil, peel & mash the potatoes. (& also mash the tofu if you are using it)
STEP 5: In a large mixing bowl, mash the kidney beans with your hands. Don’t use a blender. We just need to mash the beans roughly.
STEP 6: Add the mashed potatoes & mashed tofu to it & mix well.
STEP 7: Add the chopped cilantro, green chilis,
Salt
Paprika
Pepper powder
Bread Crumbs
STEP 8: Mix everything well. Taste and adjust the spices. If the mixture is sticky or doesn’t seem thick enough, add more bread crumbs.
STEP 9: Divide the mixture to large balls.
STEP 10: Take a part of the mixture on a flat surface.
STEP 11: Imagine how a sausage looks like. Slowly, start rolling the dough evenly as if it were a rolling pin. 
STEP 12: Make adjustments & your final veggie sausage should look like this –
STEP 13: Again, coat them with very little bread crumbs.
STEP 14: You can DEEP FRY these sausages. But I didn’t. Heat the oil on a flat pan.
STEP 15: Very gently, place 1 or 2 sausages on the pan. Let it cook on one side on medium heat for about 3-4 minutes or until it is crisp.
STEP 16: Then gently, with the help of a spoon, turn the sausage so that the other side gets cooker. Again, on medium heat for 3-4 minutes. Repeat the same in all for sides. You have to be careful and give support to the sausages while the smaller side is cooking coz they easily disintegrate!
STEP 17: Remove them on a tissue paper. There you go! Your vegetarian sausages are ready! :-)
Making the hot dog
STEP 1: If the bun is not fresh, you may want to warm it a little bit to make it soft.
STEP 2: Cut the bun into 2 halves.
STEP 3: Apply butter (optional) and tomato sauce generously on the lower half.
STEP 4: Place the sausage we prepared above on the lower half.
STEP 5: If you want, add mustard sauce too. But we don’t like it so we skipped. Also, you could arrange slices of tomatoes, onions, lettuce leaves here.
STEP 6: I also added some more paprika on top of the sausage to give it some extra hotness! ;-)
STEP 7: Apply sauce on the other half of the bun.
STEP 8: Close the lower half with the other half of the bun.
That’s it. Enjoy! :-)

20 comments:

  1. omiiiiiiiigaaawwdd!!!!! Super!

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  2. A very nice imitation of the original Hot dog!

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  3. You could add more capsicum, tomato etc

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  4. delicious daa! Ena eppo aathuku koopada pore? :) :D

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  5. Haha! very nice thought of using rajma! Sausages are yummy! ;)

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  6. Great hot dog sausage idea.First time here,u hav a wonderful space,glad to b ur follower now.Hav some time in my space too.

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  7. Shit! this looks so good I wanna jump at the comp screen!

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  8. gr8 idea..sounds healthy nd delicious..

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  9. Woww makes me drool...super delicious and healthy hot dog..

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  10. Wow... This is a great idea!

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  11. this looks superb n healthy ..nicely prepared and perfect!!

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  12. U r one smart cookie....I will make this with raw plantains and beans.. perfect way to eat your beans and not know about them...Thanks for the cool idea...
    Love Ash.

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  13. Looks superb! Your pics are getting better by the day, or should I say, by the post :P :D

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  14. Super recipe, i will try my hands at it...Thanks for sharing!

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  15. I have got to try them out, they look super tempting.

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  16. Your recipe and its presentation is excellent.I'm definitely going to try this.

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Thanks for the feedback! :-)

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