Crock-Pot Cheese, Beer & Bratwurst Soup
My husband and I were discussing our Super Bowl of Soup Challenge and I was disappointed that I could not enter a recipe in the challenge, but we both agreed that would not be fair to enter in our own contest. But IF I was going to enter a soup recipe what would that soup be? What sort of soup just speaks “Super Bowl” to me?
I had no clue because, sorry, I don’t watch football. So we started knocking about some ideas and we both agreed…cheese soup – Super Bowl is in February and cheese soup is warm and hearty. But what with the cheese? And we thought beer (Super Bowl and beer just go hand in hand right) and then we though brats. And I was like um yeah BRILLIANT. And so we have this recipe that is really quite easy to make. Cheese, Beer & Bratwurst Soup…warm, manly (I like manly foods) and oh-so-good.
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Crock-Pot Cheese, Beer & Bratwurst Soup |
Prepare this delicious and easy soup in your Crock-Pot. Perfect for a chilly winter day or to eat on the big Super Bowl game day!
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| Prep Time | 20minutes |
| Cook Time | 420minutes |
- 1 whole yellow onion finely diced
- 4 whole carrots finely diced
- 32 ounce chicken stock 1 large can or carton or homemade
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 1 tablespoon country dijon mustard such as Grey Poupon brand
- 12 ounces beer
- 38 ounces bratwurst sausages pre-cooked, sliced into 1/2 inch slices
- 2 pounds American processed cheese such as Velveeta, cut into cubes
- 1 pound sharp cheddar cheese shredded
- green onion diced, for garnish
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- In a 6-quart crock-pot add the chopped onion, carrots, sliced bratwurst, beer, mustard, garlic and chicken broth.
- Cover and cook on low 4-6 hours or on high 2-3 hours until onions and carrots are cooked but not mushy.
- Add cubed Velveeta cheese, cover and cook an additional hour until all the Velveeta cheese is melted, stir in shredded cheddar cheese.
- Dish into bowls and garnish with diced green onion if desired.
Serve with crusty bread and a nice green salad, washing it down with an ice cold beer if you must. I must!
Linked up at $5 Dinner Challenge and Tuesday’s Tasty Tidbits
oh this does sound good with cheese and brats have to be good come see what I shared at http://shopannies.blogspot.com/2012/01/savory-chicken-and-veggie-soup.html
Thanks for stopping by Angie! You should enter your soup recipe in our Super Bowl of Soup Challenge. Today is the last day! 🙂 – Lady Tara
This sounds really good; I am coming over from $5 dinners and I was wondering how you manage to get the ingredients for this under $5. We LOVE brats, but our current limit is $3 a day for 3 meals plus snacks for our family of 8. I would love to get brats in our menus!
Hi Brandy, great question. The Brats were on sale at my local store for $3.00 and they were running a (rare) double coupon event so my $1.00/1 coupon was doubled making them $1.00 a package. You can also make this with just one package of Brats too instead of two. I did the Velveeta (had a coupon that doubled). I am a big coupon user!
What a great idea! Love it!
How many grams or ounces of bratwurst? Recipe doesn’t indicate the WEIGHT OR SIZE OF THE PACKAGE OF BRATWURST.
Thanks.
Hi MJ,
I am sorry that I left out the package size in this recipe. It has been a while since I made this so I am going off of best guesses. But I think the packages were 16 oz. each.
I don’t like Velveeta, is there anything (real cheese products) that I could use instead? I don’t mind the recipe taking longer to make if I could skip the Velveeta!
regular cheddar shredded cheese should work..and then some milk. but watch them both in the crock-pot.