One-Pan Boiled Brats Amongst Sweetness Onions & Difficult Apple Tree Cider

An piece of cake recipe for savory, juicy bratwurst browned & boiled all inwards 1 pan on the stovetop with sweetness onions too difficult apple tree cider. This is a tried-and-true technique for cooking brats all-year long without a grill. {gluten-free & grain-free} 

Today I'm sharing 1 of my favorite comfort nutrient meals from my early on college days: boiled bratwurst. If you're from the Midwest (proud Kansan here) you know what I'm talking about. Even if you've never eaten them, you've likely hung out with folks spell they're grilling brats. It's a dearest warm-weather pastime. For everybody else, the thought of boiling fresh sausage mightiness audio odd, but it is THE BEST agency to create brats. Pinky promise.

Whether you boil the brats on the stove too then complete them on the grill, start them on the grill & complete them on the stove, boil them too then sear the exterior inwards a split pan, OR (like I did here) brownish them starting fourth dimension too then boil 'em all inwards the same skillet...all these techniques get got 1 matter inwards common--boiling!

Why Boil Brats Instead of Only Pan-Frying or Grilling Them?  

Boiling ensures bratwurst (and other fresh sausages inwards casings) stays moist too flavorful on the inside. The average brat is a 1/4-1/3 pound each, thence it typically takes 20+ minutes to accomplish the ideal temperature with no pinkish left on the inside. Cooking them start to complete without liquid increases the likelihood that you'll displace the exterior of the brat past times the fourth dimension the within cooks properly. I've made that error earlier too won't create it again.

What's The Best Liquid For Boiling Bratwurst? 

The most pop & well-known is definitely beer. Especially if a grill is involved.

(Sidenote: I love my novel crock-pot bbq ribs.)

For folks who are avoiding gluten or aren't large fans of beer, hard apple tree cider (today's constituent of choice) is an first-class & tasty option.

If alcohol is a no-go, plain water (I typically flavour mine with onion, garlic & hot sauce) or chicken, beef, or veggie broth works great, equally well. I bet you could fifty-fifty endeavour fresh apple tree cider (non-alcoholic) from a local cider mill.

If you endeavour that, delight allow me know how it turns out. And salve whatever leftover fresh apple tree cider to brand my apple cider sangria (I fifty-fifty include a mocktail version inwards the post). 

What Type of Hard Apple Cider Should I Use For Brats? 

Whichever 1 tastes the best to you. Why purchase something you wouldn't drink? Same goes for beer. There aren't a ton of options for difficult cider, but with what's available, you're actually choosing sweetness bird & intensity of the apple tree flavor. 

They gain from really sweetness (Angry Orchard) to super dry out (Argus Cidery's Ciderkin - pictured). I've also seen large vino bottle-sized difficult apple tree ciders (I recall they're French?) at Trader Joe's if your local shop sells alcohol. 

For drinking, I typically larn for difficult ciders that are medium-dry, naturally fermented, too don't get got whatever added sugar. Two of my favorites are Crispin too Austin Eastciders Original Dry Cider. If this is your starting fourth dimension larn with difficult cider, I'd say larn for Crispin if you tin uncovering it. 

The 1 I used today from Argus Cidery was really drinkable to me but the dryness meant at that spot wasn't a ton of apple tree flavor inwards the onions. Next fourth dimension I desire to endeavour their Apple Bomb, which is supposed to get got agency to a greater extent than apple tree flavor + a fighting to a greater extent than sweetness.

How Long Should I Cook The Onions? 

How much fourth dimension create you have? Do you similar your onions sweeter & to a greater extent than caramelized? This fourth dimension around, I cooked the onions until almost all of the difficult cider had evaporated, too then stopped. I was feeling a fighting impatient & figured you mightiness appreciate a shorter create fourth dimension on a busy weeknight. 

At this bird they're mildly sweetness with flavors from the cider; however, if you get got an extra xv minutes or so, hold cooking them until all the liquid is gone (watch to brand certain they don't displace at the med-high heat) too they start to plough darker brownish with a concentrated sweetness.  

Acceptable Toppings For Boiled Brats

Mustard, sauerkraut, onions, too to a greater extent than mustard. I peculiarly similar spicy brownish or Dusseldorf. 

Perhaps pickle savor too cheese, too.

I volition fifty-fifty get got barbecue sauce for the mustard haters out at that spot but if you set ketchup on your brats too you're over the historic menstruation of 12...we can't live friends. You mightiness equally good surrender too consume a hot dog. Clearly, I get got rigid feelings most this. ;)

What To Serve With Brats

This volition depend on the fourth dimension of twelvemonth you're fixing the brats, but hither are a few ideas to larn you started! (Psssst...don't forget the sauerkraut or fifty-fifty kimchi for something fermented, crunchy & tangy to larn with the brats.)

• Coleslaw (like Apple Cider Vinegar Slaw or Classic Mayo Based Slaw)
• Baked Beans
• Potato Salad (like Mayo Potato Salad, Hot German linguistic communication Potato Salad) 
• Roasted Chopped Potatoes (Toss them with Chimichurri Sauce - yum)
• Mashed Potatoes (like Colcannon) 
• Mashed Cauliflower "Potatoes"
• Scalloped Potatoes
• Mashed Sweet Potatoes
• Sauteed Asparagus
• Roasted Veggies (like Green Beans, Broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, Cauliflower, Beets, Cabbage)
• Waldorf Salad
• Carrot Salad
• Leafy Salad with Homemade Dressing (like Blue Cheese or Apple Cider Vinaigrette)
• Caprese Salad
• Watermelon Salad

Looking for to a greater extent than recipe ideas? Check out my pork recipes index too cast-iron skillet recipes index. 

(Note: I starting fourth dimension published this recipe on dorsum inwards Oct 2012 too am resharing it today inwards a novel post with updated pics. See photographic evidence here on my blog's primary Pinterest board. My photograph skills get got definitely improved since then.) 

boiled brats

German linguistic communication & American

Yield: 4-8 servingsAuthor: Elaina Newton -

One-Pan Boiled Brats with Sweet Onions & Hard Apple Cider

prep time: v minscook time: twoscore minstotal time: 45 mins

An piece of cake recipe for savory, juicy bratwurst browned & boiled all inwards 1 pan on the stovetop with sweetness onions too difficult apple tree cider. This is a tried-and-true technique for cooking brats all-year long without a grill. {gluten-free & grain-free}

ingredients:

• 2-3 tablespoons of cooking stone oil (like butter, ghee, avocado oil or olive oil) 
• 2 medium sweetness onions, peeled & thinly sliced
• 1 teaspoon of sea salt
• 1 teaspoon of cracked dark pepper
• 8 pork bratwursts (fresh, non pre-cooked)
• 1 (12 oz) tin or bottle of difficult apple tree cider (sub chicken broth, fresh apple tree cider or H2O for a non-alcoholic version)

For Serving (optional):

• cooked sweetness onions
• Mustard (spicy brown, stone ground, or yellow)
• Sauerkraut
• buns (hot domestic dog or hoagie - await inwards the freezer department for gluten-free options) 

instructions:

1. Melt 1-2 tablespoons of butter over medium rut inwards a large (12-inch) skillet.  Stir inwards the sliced onions, body of body of water salt, too pepper.  Cook the onions for v minutes, stirring occasionally.  Use a wooden spoon to withdraw the onions from the skillet & laid aside inwards a bowl. 
2. Increase the rut to medium-high, add together some other tablespoon of butter, followed past times the brats.  Cook the brats 1-2 minutes per side (or until they've formed a dainty brownish sear - this should hap quickly). 
3. Add the onions dorsum to the skillet, spreading them inwards betwixt all the brats, too tardily pour inwards the difficult apple tree cider.  Bring the cider to a simmer, encompass with a lid, cut rut to medium-low, too create for 15-20 minutes, or until the brats are no longer pinkish (you tin banking concern jibe their internal temp to live certain - 160 degrees or more). 
4. Remove the cooked brats from the skillet too laid aside to rest. Keep the skillet uncovered, crank the rut to medium-high, too create the onions, stirring occasionally, until most or all of the liquid has reduced (about 10 minutes).  If you get got an extra 10-15 minutes, hold to create the onions until they are dark & caramelized. 
5. Place the brats dorsum into the skillet (with the rut off) to hold warm until you're ready for the meal.  Serve the brats inwards a bun OR bunless with the warm onions too your favorite condiments & toppings (I recommend lots of mustard & sauerkraut). 

NOTES:

If your pan doesn't come upwards with a lid (my big cast-iron skillet doesn't), encompass it with a metallic canvass or cookie tray instead. Or usage a 12-inch Dutch oven lid. Pretty swell kitchen hack, eh?   For repast prep, boil the brats a few days before, gently reheat on the stove or inwards the oven (covered at 350-375 degrees), too then brownish the exterior earlier serving for quick weeknight meals.

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