Name: Crock-Pot Cheese, Beer & Bratwurst Soup Recipe
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 120 min
Total time: 140 min
Ingredients: 38 Ounces Bratwurst Sausages (Pre-Cooked And Sliced Into 1/2 Inch Slices); 32 Ounces Low-Sodium Chicken Broth; 12 Ounces Beer; 4 Medium Carrots (Sliced); 3 Cloves Garlic (Minced); 1 Medium Yellow Onion (Finely Diced); 1 Tablespoon Prepared Grainy Dijon Mustard (Such As Grey Poupon Brand); 2 Pounds American Processed Cheese (Such As Velveeta Brand, Cubed); 1 Pound Sharp Cheddar Cheese (Shredded); 3 Medium Green Onions (Sliced, For Garnish)

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Warm up to a big hearty bowl of this steamy and filling Crock-Pot Cheese, Beer & Bratwurst Soup. Perfect for any cold winter or fall day!

Slow Cooker 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 should go with the cheese? And we thought beer (Super Bowl and beer just go hand in hand right) so then we thought brats.

I was like um yeah BRILLIANT.

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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Special Diets

Low Sugar

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Crock-Pot Cheese, Beer & Bratwurst Soup Recipe

Heidi Kennedy

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!

3.51 from 97 votes

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Prep Time 20 mins

Cook Time 2 hrs

Total Time 2 hrs 20 mins

Course Soups, Stews and Chili

Cuisine American

Servings Servings

Calories 1016 kcal

Ingredients

38 Ounces Bratwurst Sausages (Pre-Cooked And Sliced Into 1/2 Inch Slices)
32 Ounces Low-Sodium Chicken Broth (Store Bought Or Homemade Chicken Broth)
12 Ounces Beer
4 Medium Carrots (Sliced)
3 Cloves Garlic (Minced)
1 Medium Yellow Onion (Finely Diced)
1 Tablespoon Prepared Grainy Dijon Mustard (Such As Grey Poupon Brand)
2 Pounds American Processed Cheese (Such As Velveeta Brand, Cubed)
1 Pound Sharp Cheddar Cheese (Shredded)
3 Medium Green Onions (Sliced, For Garnish)

Instructions

In a 6 quart or larger slow cooker, add the bratwurst, chicken broth, beer, carrots, garlic, onion and mustard and stir to combine.
Cover and cook on LOW for 4 to 6 hours or on HIGH for 2 to 3 hours or until the onions and carrots are cooked through.
Remove lid and add the American processed cheese, stir and recover the slow cooker and cook for 1 additional hour.
Stir in shredded cheddar cheese.
Ladle hot soup into bowls and garnish with sliced green onions if desired.

Notes

Serve with crusty bread and a nice green salad, washing it down with an ice cold beer if you must. I must!

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Comments

angie says

January 30, 2012 at 7:47 PM

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

- Lady Tara says
  
  January 31, 2012 at 8:03 AM
  
  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
  
Brandy @ The Prudent Homemaker says

January 30, 2012 at 11:42 PM

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!

- Lady Heidi says
  
  January 31, 2012 at 1:13 AM
  
  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!
  
Little Mommy says

January 31, 2012 at 8:18 PM

What a great idea! Love it!

MJ says

October 6, 2013 at 8:21 PM

How many grams or ounces of bratwurst? Recipe doesn’t indicate the WEIGHT OR SIZE OF THE PACKAGE OF BRATWURST.

Thanks.

- Lady Heidi says
  
  October 7, 2013 at 3:48 PM
  
  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.
  
Amanda says

December 10, 2013 at 12:57 PM

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!

- Lady Katie says
  
  December 10, 2013 at 4:04 PM
  
  regular cheddar shredded cheese should work..and then some milk. but watch them both in the crock-pot.
  
- Rachel says
  
  September 17, 2020 at 8:08 PM
  
  I would use cream cheese as suggested for an alternative. It was so so salty and i think maybe a beer brat would be less salty than other brat types
  
Mia says

March 5, 2022 at 4:15 PM

OH I was loving this recipe until I saw the calorie count! OVER 1000 for a serving….
Can someone pare down the calories and the Size … there are just two of us..

Thanks

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