Slow Cooker Beer Brats Recipe

Metal tongs holding a cooked sausage over a pot of slow cooker beer brats in seasoned broth with peppers.

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Slow Cooker Beer Brats Recipe

These Slow Cooker Beer Brats are juicy and flavorful. Just ten minutes prep and into the crockpot they go with peppers and onions. Such an easy weeknight dinner.

Prep Time10

Cook Time6

Total Time6 10

Course: Slow Cooker

Cuisine: American

Keyword: beer bratwurst, crockpot bratwurst, slow cooker bratwurst

Servings: servings

Author: Aimee Shugarman

Ingredients

8 fresh bratwurst sausages, uncooked
2 teaspoons garlic salt divided
2 teaspoons steak seasoning blend divided
1 red pepper seeded and sliced
1 green pepper seeded and sliced
1 yellow pepper seeded and sliced
1 yellow onion sliced
24 ounce beer
1 cup water
8 french rolls

Instructions

Place the bratwurst in a grill pan, or skillet, on medium high heat. Sprinkle 1 teaspoon of garlic salt and 1 teaspoon of steak seasoning over the brats while cooking.
Cook for 5 minutes, then flip and cook on the other side.
Add the vegetables and partially cooked bratwurst to your slow cooker. Top with beer, water, and remaining garlic salt and steak seasoning. Cover and heat on low for 6 hours (or high for 3 hours).
Serve on a french roll and enjoy!

Notes

Don't have brats? Swap out the bratwurst with another style of German sausage such as Frankfurters.

Feel free to mix up the colors of the bell peppers. Red, orange, green and yellow peppers are all delicious!

The sausage doesn't need to be cooked through when you add it to the slow cooker. It should be brown and charred on the outside. The inside will finish cooking in the slow cooker.

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