Slow Cooker Beer Brats
"Received this in an email and want to save where I can find it later. Brats and onions slow-cooked 6-8 hours with beer; sauerkraut is stirred into onions at the end to keep it crisp."
- Ready In:
- 6hrs 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Yields:
-
10 brats on buns
- Serves:
- 10
ingredients
- 1 lb onion, sliced into 1/4-inch-thick rings
- 1⁄4 cup soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons packed brown sugar
- 2 1⁄2 lbs bratwursts (10 sausages)
- 3 cups beer (Budweiser or other light Am. lager recommended)
- 1⁄4 cup Dijon mustard, plus extra for serving
- 1⁄2 teaspoon caraway seed
- 1 cup sauerkraut
- 10 hoagie rolls
directions
- Combine onions, soy sauce, and sugar in bowl and microwave until just softened, about 5 minutes, stirring halfway through cooking. Spread onions and their liquid in bottom of slow cooker. Arrange bratwursts in single layer on top of onions.
- Whisk beer, mustard, and caraway seeds together in bowl and add to slow cooker. Cover and cook until bratwursts are tender, 6 to 8 hours on low or 4 hours on high.
- Transfer bratwursts to platter and tent loosely with aluminum foil. Stir sauerkraut into onion mixture in slow cooker and let sit until warmed through, about 5 minutes. Strain onion-sauerkraut mixture through colander, discarding liquid, and transfer to serving bowl. Serve bratwursts on rolls, topped with onion-sauerkraut mixture and mustard.
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