So Sonic Drive Through just came out with the new Chili Cheese Frito Coneys, which I tried, and instantly fell in love with, but at $2 a pop, they were eating my wallet faster than I could eat them! So, as simple as they are, I decided to make my own, and now you can too!

Ingredients:
100% Beef Hotdogs (or your preferred hotdog)
Hotdog Buns
Your favorite No-bean chili (I use Wolf brand)
Shredded cheese (cheddar, jack, or colby jack preferred)
Diced White Onion (unless you just hate onions)
Chili Cheese Fritos
Mustard (optional)
**Instant Potato Flakes (you'll see)

Instructions:
Prep your ingredients. Dice your onions (the easiest way I've found to do it is to cut a criss-cross pattern into the onion, then slice it. they come out diced, and I'm not going bananas trying to do it), shred your cheese (or buy shredded cheese, whichever), heat your chili, cook your hotdogs (I just toss them in the microwave, but however you do it is fine). Also, for cheese lovers like me, I suggest adding some of the shredded cheese to the chili while you're heating it. <3

Now, before you actually start putting things together, here's where that odd bit comes into play. Some chili (probably most chili in a can) is really, really thin, especially when you get it hot. To keep it on your hotdog, and not dripping everywhere (this isn't Carl's Junior, people), add a little bit of instant potato flakes. I heated up a whole can of chili so I could make plenty of hotdogs with it, so I used probably two or three tablespoons of potato flakes to thicken it up. It was a little too much (it didn't affect it badly, I just could have gotten away with less), so you could probably just use one, maybe 2 tablespoons, depending on how thin your chili is. This step is completely optional and up to you, but I think it helps a lot.

So, for the fun part. Sprinkle a little bit of shredded cheese into the bottom of the hotdog buns. Just a little. Put your (hot) hotdogs in the bun, then layer on some of your thickened chili. Sprinkle some more cheese on top, cover it with the chili cheese fritos, then sprinkle on however much onion you want, and top it with a drizzle of mustard, if you so choose. Mine are mustard-less, as I found it drowned out too much of the chili taste, but it's all up to you.

And that's it! Enjoy your cheaper and more easily available chili cheese frito dogs!



For a cost rundown, in case you really want it, here's what I paid:
$6 for 2 packs of 8 jumbo beef hotdogs each.
$2 for 2 packs of hotdog buns
$2 for a can of chili
$1.65 for a bag of chili cheese fritos (buy one get one sale)
$0.80 for a white onion
$4 for a 1 lb block of colby jack cheese
$2 for a small box of potato flakes

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Total: $18.45 to make 16 of these hotdogs, with some leftover ingredients for future hotdogs :3

That's compared to $32 for 16 of them at Sonic, so penny pinchers rejoice X3