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Busy Decorating/Shopping? - Serve ethnic hot dogs PART "2" WITH PHOTOS

Too busy to cook!  Shopping, company, gifts, etc.

Link to Part 1:  Greek, Korean, Swedish, German and Mexican dogs:
http://internationalfoodblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/busy-decoratingshopping-serve-ethnic.html#.UNIdbG_AeSo

Part 2
Serve 1 or 2 or 3 of these for a quick and festive dinner:

6.  Polynesian
Toppings are hoisin sauce, pineapple chunks (drained) and chopped scallions.  All these ingredients are easy to find at the store.

 

7.  Spanish

Toppings are pimiento cheese spread, thin slices of serrano ham (subsitute is prosciutto) and manchego cheese (substitute is mozzarella). 

  

 8.  Thai

Toppings are peanut sauce, shredded carrot and chopped fresh cilantro 

  

Link for peanut sauce from Allrecipes.com

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/the-best-thai-peanut-sauce/

and from Chow.com (not using fish sauce which you might not have on hand)

http://www.chow.com/recipes/10658-peanut-sauce

Now I don't have garlic chili paste on hand so I would substitute sriracha (which is an oriental hot sauce and garlic paste or powder)

9.  American: (whatever you want) OR:

Toppings are barbecue sauce, pulled pork and coleslaw

 

10. Japanese

Toppings are wasabi mayonnaise (hot), Asian snack mix and pickled ginger

 plus 

 

Wasabi is hot. Here is link for wasabi mayo from Allrecipes.com. If you don't like hot you might want to cut the amount in half. Fair warning!!

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/wasabi-mayonnaise-sauce/

Asian Snack Mix link from BettyCrocker.com

http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/asian-snack-mix-12-recipe/706570ec-9a82-4647-82b7-45f2ce0a9128

Pickled Ginger Mix link from Allrecipes.com

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/homemade-pickled-ginger-gari/

Substitutes for pickled ginger link from answers.yahoo.com

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080814104926AAqXD7O

Busy Decorating/Shopping? - Serve ethnic hot dogs PART 1 WITH PHOTOS

Busy time right now. Quick meals for your family.  Serve one, two or three ethnic hot dogs as a quick meal!!

This is Part I.

1.  Greek:
Toppings are Tzatziki, chopped cucumber and kalamata olives (if you don't like kalamata use black olives)

 

Link for Tzatziki sauce from Allrecipes.com

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/tzatziki-sauce/

2.  Korean:
Toppings are Asian mustard, kimchi (this stuff is hot!) and chopped red onions.

  

I found a recipe for a quick kimchi that is not so hot unless you like kimchi from EatingRichly.com

http://eatingrichly.com/05/korean-cucumber-kimchi-recipe/ so substitute

3.  Swedish:
Toppings are lingonberry jam (I would subsitute canned whole cranberries, drained of course, if you can't find the preserves), carmelized onions and gravy (a light gravy - 1 pkg. (each) mushroom gravy mix, Lipton dried onion soup would be a good try)

  

4.  German:

Toppings are German mustard, sauerkraut and broken pretzels. OR use link sausages OR Bratwurst

 

5.  Mexican:

Toppings are chipotle mayonnaise, cotija cheese and avocado

 

  

Cotija is a mild Mexican cheese. (If you can't use that use a MILD Parmesan.) I have found cotija at Walmart.  To make an easy chipotle (hot) mayonnaise here is a link from Food.com

http://www.food.com/recipe/chipotle-mayonnaise-simple-418395 

If you don't have chipotle powder or can't find in spice section 

use a tablespoon of the liquid in the canned chipotle peppers.