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Beef frankfurters

Smooth beef sausages for slicing into a pan sauce. Choose a fully cooked product for this recipe.

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Beef frankfurters are finely textured beef sausages, also sold as beef hot dogs. They are different from coarse, spiced sucuk and fresh raw sausages.

Long beef frankfurters with one cut end on a blue-rimmed dish in a bright courtyard.

Types & forms

Fully cooked beef frankfurters

Check that the label specifies beef and a fully cooked product; long and cocktail sizes can both be sliced.

What to look for when buying

  • In the US, look for fully cooked beef franks or beef hot dogs. Packages and individual link sizes vary; use the recipe amount rather than assuming one pack is one batch.
  • In Türkiye, look for dana sosis and check the preparation instructions. Long, cocktail and hot-dog packs have different net weights. Check ingredients and allergens on the actual packet.

Prepare & cook

  • Follow the package preparation instructions. Slice evenly for pan dishes. Use a recipe intended for raw sausage if your product requires cooking from raw.

Store it well

  • Keep refrigerated as directed on the package and follow its use-by and after-opening instructions.

Substitutions depend on the dish

Fully cooked beef frankfurters

Beef frankfurters are finely textured beef sausages, also sold as beef hot dogs. They are different from coarse, spiced sucuk and fresh raw sausages.

Nutrition

Nutrition varies by product; check your package.

Cook with Beef frankfurters

Sliced beef frankfurters in smooth tomato sauce on a blue patterned shallow dish in a sunlit garden.

Sausages in Tomato Sauce

Sliced beef sausages, lightly browned in a pan and finished in a simple tomato-paste sauce. A quick, warm dish for breakfast.

A toasted Yengen roll filled with meat strips, melted kaşar, tomato and pickles on a blue patterned plate on a terrace.

Toasted Deli-Meat Sandwich

A generous Turkish street-food sandwich with pan-cooked sucuk, beef bologna and frankfurters, melted kaşar, tomato and cornichons in a lightly toasted roll.

A round toasted roll with sucuk, frankfurters, melted cheese, a cooked egg with broken yolk, pickle slices and ketchup on a blue-and-white plate on a stone terrace table.
Antalya style

Yumurtalı Yengen

A hot büfe sandwich with a ring-cooked egg, melted cheese and pickles. Inspired by our editor’s childhood memories of eating yengen at Antalya Spor Büfesi, this version features a round bun, grilled sucuk and sosis, melted kaşar, and an egg cooked in a metal ring.