Here's a handy recipe that makes a delicious sandwich and side dish all in one slow cooker. It needs 15 minutes of prep time and just a few hours to cook.
Slow-Cooker Beer-Glazed Brats and Beans
- Prep Time 15 min
- Total 3 hr 15 min
- Servings 8
- Ingredients 10
Ingredients
- 2 cans (28 oz each) vegetarian beans in sauce or baked beans
- 1/4 teaspoon chili powder
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 large sweet onion, thinly sliced
- 8 vegetarian bratwurst
- 1 tablespoon packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground mustard
- 1/4 cup barbecue sauce
- 1/4 cup regular or nonalcoholic beer
- 8 hot dog buns, toasted
Instructions
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Step1Spray 6-quart slow cooker with cooking spray. In slow cooker, mix beans and chili powder.
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Step2In 10-inch skillet, melt butter over medium heat. Cook onion in butter 6 to 8 minutes, stirring frequently, until very tender. Using tongs or slotted spoon, remove onion from skillet and place over beans in slow cooker; do not stir onion into beans.
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Step3Arrange bratwurst over onion. In small bowl, mix brown sugar, mustard, barbecue sauce and beer. Pour over bratwurst; do not stir.
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Step4Cover; cook on Low heat setting 3 to 4 hours.
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Step5To serve, place bratwurst in each bun. Lift onion with tongs; arrange over bratwurst in buns. Serve beans as a side dish.
Nutrition
540
Calories
16g
Total Fat
28g
Protein
72g
Total Carbohydrate
25g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 540
- Calories from Fat
- 140
- Total Fat
- 16g
- 24%
- Saturated Fat
- 5g
- 26%
- Trans Fat
- 1/2g
- Cholesterol
- 55mg
- 19%
- Sodium
- 1530mg
- 64%
- Potassium
- 680mg
- 19%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 72g
- 24%
- Dietary Fiber
- 9g
- 38%
- Sugars
- 25g
- Protein
- 28g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 10%
- 10%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 15%
- 15%
- Iron
- 25%
- 25%
Exchanges:
4 1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 1/2 Vegetable; 2 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 2 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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