Corn Dog Casserole

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Corn Dog Casserole

Hot Dogs and Beans is one of our favorite dinners. It's comfort food. It's a quick and easy dinner to throw together. It can also be a cheap meal to throw together when combining sales and coupons.

When I worked, we ate hot dogs and beans almost once a week. At that time, we were more concerned with convenience than frugality and didn't bother to wait for a BOGO sale on hot dogs. We just bought them, usually at full price, whenever we wanted a quick dinner.

I was also a sucker for those little recipe magazines at the check-outs of the supermarket. For a while, I was buying several of those little books a month. I guess that was before I realized that a foodie could find a recipe for almost anything on the internet! It was definitely before Pinterest!

The recipe I am sharing today, I first found in one of those little magazines. It's a casserole made of hot dogs and beans, topped with a layer of cornbread. Mmmm!

I make it a little different each time I prepare it, depending on the beans I have in the freezer or pantry. Here's how I made it this week:

Corn Dog Casserole

Ingredients:

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

In a large sauce pan over medium heat, stir together the beans, dry onion, brown sugar, ketchup and mustard.

Mix until well combined.

Add hot dogs.

Cook over medium heat until thick and bubbly.

Transfer to an un-greased 9x9 casserole dish.

Spread the prepared corn muffin batter evenly over the top of the bean mixture.

Pop the dish into the oven and bake for 20-25 minutes or until topping is golden brown.

Notes:

You can easily use your favorite homemade baked beans in place of the canned beans in this recipe. I usually use 6 cups of Our Favorite Baked Beans, but was out of them when I prepared this meal this week.

Raw onion also works well in this recipe. I was in a hurry tonight and didn't feel like dealing with chopping a raw onion, so I used the minced onion from the spice rack in our pantry.

I don't always have the mini hot dogs on hand. I find that regular hot dogs go on sale more often, so that's what I usually use. Today, I used the mini hot dogs that were in the freezer, but when I don't have them, I simply slice regular hot dogs into bite sized pieces and add them to the bean mixture.

This recipe just fits into my 9x9 baking dish. To avoid a mess in the bottom of the oven if it bubbles over, I placed my baking dish on top of a cookie sheet before popping it into the oven. My oven is messy enough, I don't want burnt baked beans added to it! :)

Mmmm! (I think I already said that!)

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