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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Crock-Pot Cheese, Beer & Bratwurst Soup Recipe
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.
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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.
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
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