| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 35 min |
| Prep: | 10 min |
| Cook: | 25 min |
| Yield: | 4 servings |
Ingredients
- 3 medium Granny Smith apples, peeled and thinly sliced
- 1 yellow onion, thinly sliced
- 2 cans lager beer, such as Pabst Blue Ribbon
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 8 fresh bratwursts
- 8 fresh hot dog buns, toasted
- Beer Cheese Sauce, recipe follows
- 2 cups sauerkraut, drained
- Dijon mustard, for topping
- 1 to 2 tablespoons pickled jalapenos, chopped
- 12 ounces pasteurized cheese product, cubed, such as Velveeta
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 1/2 cup reserved beer braising liquid, plus more as needed
Instructions
- Preheat a grill or grill pan to medium-high heat.
- Add the apples, onions, beer salt and pepper in a medium pot or Dutch oven. Simmer until the apples and onions soften, a few minutes. Add in the brats and simmer until cooked through, about 10 minutes, turning once. Remove the brats from the liquid and reserve the beer braising liquid.
- Brown the brats on the grill, covering with a metal bowl if using a grill pan, until you get nice grill marks on all sides, 5 to 6 minutes.
- Place the brats on the buns and drizzle with some of the Beer Cheese Sauce. Top with the sauerkraut, some mustard and the jalapenos.
- Add the cheese and mustard to a medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir until melted and smooth. Add the beer braising liquid and stir to combine. Add more braising liquid if the sauce is too thick; the sauce should be velvety.
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 4 servings |
| Calories | 1256 |
| Total Fat | 72 g |
| Saturated Fat | 30 g |
| Carbohydrates | 87 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 9 g |
| Sugar | 27 g |
| Protein | 49 g |
| Cholesterol | 194 mg |
| Sodium | 3786 mg |
Reviews
This was so fast and delicious! What a fun Friday night dinner. Made per recipe exactly but added a bit of hot sauce to the beer cheese sauce. Served with some oven waffle fries and extra beer cheese sauce on the side to dip the fries in. Yum!!!
These came together in a great way! I didn’t peel my apples since you don’t use those but I pulled out a bunch of the onions as a topping. The beer cheese sauce completely made it ( used braising liquid) I even saved the left over cheese sauce for dipping pretzels
I agree with the people who saw no taste value in that braising liquid. It wasn’t worth the time it took to peel, core and slice the apples. As for the cheese sauce, we don’t like that type of pepper so we left it out. Without that component the cheese sauce was boring. Actually the whole thing was boring tastewise. It wasn’t terrible, just wasn’t worth all that effort.
I feel the same about this as I do Jeff’s Reuben Brat recipe. All the components on their own are great, but they drown each other out when put together. Do not bother with the beer, apple, onion braise. It’s close to $10 in ingredients for not much flavor.
Great multi use sauce
Not worth the trouble to make it! Braising the brats in the apple/onion/beer mixture didn’t add any flavor. It actually ruined the taste of the good butcher shop brats we buy. It might add something to supermarket brats but it ruins good ones. The cheese sauce is OK but it didn’t add much to the brats even when my wife doubled the amount of sauce on her brat. And, don’t believe the time estimates! It took me almost twice as long as indicated.
AAH-MAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This recipe was wonderful! I cooked down the sauerkraut in a crock pot with a little beer and butter…my husband didn’t realize it was cabbage! I am also cooking yellow split peas in the onion & apple broth with some chicken stock. It was too good not to do something with! We loved it!
Excellent – hubby was very pleased with the result. I used a hot/spicy cajun style brat so it was too hot for me but he loved it.
Very good. The only reason I didn’t rate 5 stars is I’m not a big velveeta fan. I’ll have to figure out a replacement. I used fresh (not smoked kielbasa instead of brats but I think you can use just about anything with the basic recipe. The apples with the onions was a nice touch.