summer essentials: brats, peppers, onions in beer

How To Make summer essentials: brats, peppers, onions in beer

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  PREP/PREPARE
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  Gather your Ingredients (mise en place).
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  BUTTER-BRAISE ONIONS AND PEPPERS
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  Chop the onions and the green pepper.
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  Add the butter to a skillet, over medium heat.
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  When the foaming subsides, add the onions.
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  Cook for 3 – 5 minutes until the onions begin to soften, and then add the chopped green pepper.
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  Cook for an additional 3 – 5 minutes, and then add the remainder of the dry spices (caraway seeds, mustard seeds, white pepper, crushed red-pepper flakes, and salt).
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  Stir for additional 3 – 5 minutes.
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  Remove the onions and peppers, and place in the bowl of a slow cooker.
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  THE BRATS
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  Add the brats to the skillet you cooked the veggies in.
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  Brown on all sides, about 1 – 2 minutes per side.
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  Add to the top of the onions and peppers.
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  Add the beer, and the remaining ingredients to the slow cooker.
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  Cook on low for 3 – 4 hours.
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  PLATE/PRESENT
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  Serve in a simple manner in a bowl, and provide hotdog buns and spicy mustard, or just eat them plain with the onions, and peppers. Enjoy
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  Keep the faith, and keep cooking.
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