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It’s July, which means it’s the month of brats, buns and BBQs! This glazed brat bite recipe puts a spin on the regular old staple. It’s perfect as a sure-to-impress appetizer, or to sweeten up the usual BBQ menu rotation. With stone ground mustard, brown sugar, authentic Bavarian beer, and a beautifully balanced combination of spices, this might just be your new favorite summer nostalgia dish!
**Note: For this recipe I used a dabbable syringe in the brown sugar beer glaze, with help on final dosage from our dosage calculator, but you can also use cannabis-infused Ghee for the rolls, and sautéing your brats and onions! (:
Step 1: Gather Ingredients and Prep Your Brat Pot
This recipe can move quickly, especially if you are pan frying the brats while making the glaze and baking rolls, so I typically like to get all the ingredients out, measured, and ready for action. Slice onions, measure spices, and get your pots and pans ready.
Step 2: Simmer Brats in Beer, Onions and Spices
Add 2 12oz bottles of beer and thinly sliced onions into a large pot and bring them to a boil.
**Having dual citizenship in Germany and growing up in Wisconsin, it is no secret that beer and sausage take certain precedence! A confession though, I’ve never made beer brats myself before this recipe, so I wanted to make my ancestors and friends and family proud… and oh boy, it did not disappoint. To keep close to the “taste of home”, I used Weihenstephaner Hefe Weissbier, a traditional, light Bavarian beer that brings a perfect flavor to the brats and glaze. Feel free to use any beer of your choosing, from Miller and Coors Lites, to IPA’s, the options really are endless.
Once the beer and onion mixture begin to boil, add your bratwurst and spices -red pepper flakes, garlic powder, salt and black pepper-. Reduce heat and let simmer for 15 minutes.
Once simmered, set brats aside, set aside your now very flavorfully spiced onions to sauté later, and save about ½ of the simmered beer for the glaze.
Step 3: Start the Beer Glaze
Mix ½ cup of brown sugar in the same pot with reserved simmered beer, and cook over medium heat. Bring to boil and then lower the heat, letting it simmer for 10-15 minutes until your mixture is reduced and thickened.
Step 4: Sauté -or Grill- Bratwurst
As your glaze is thickening, sauté or grill your brats. I don’t have a grill, so I oven-bake and pan-fry mostly anything that could be grilled, with similar results. To pan fry, I melted 1T of medicated Ghee in a skillet on medium heat. Cooking brats, turning frequently to brown all sides, about 6-8 minutes until internal temperature reaches 160°F.
Set aside and cut into 1-inch pieces. And then go ahead and sauté your onions.
Step 5: Whisk Rest of Ingredients, Toss to Coat
Once glaze mixture is reduced and thickened, whisk in your ground mustard, and calculated amount of dabbable syringe. Whisk 2 teaspoons of cornstarch in a bowl with 1 Tablespoon of cold water, and pour into beer glaze mixture. Bring to a boil and cook for 1 minute, constantly stirring until thick.
Add sliced brats to pot with glaze/sauce and toss to coat.
(If you want to add some crunchy rolls for this recipe, I lightly butter and bake them at 395°F until golden brown, about 8-10 minutes)
Enjoy!! (:
Cooking with Cannabis-Infused Ingredients
A good starting point for ingesting cannabis edibles is to limit yourself to <5mg THC ; even less if you are new to THC-infused food. They can be stronger and more intense, differing drastically from smoking. For one, the effects can take anywhere from a half hour to 3 hours to fully metabolize, depending on an individual’s unique body and metabolic rate. In addition, because the THC is digested through your liver and can more readily cross the body’s blood-brain barrier, the high can be stronger and last longer. With that said, your edible’s potency depends on many factors: How it was prepared, the potency of your starting product, and considering the strain or concentrate’s cannabinoid and terpene concentrations. To test the potency and effect of your finished product, try a smaller amount (<5mg) and see how that dose affects you after 2-3 hours. Titrate your dose as desired and use this personalized “standard” dose as a baseline for your recipes.
**Check out our dosage calculator for help in calculating your edible’s dosage @:
https://www.plant-family.com/thc-dosage-calculator/ **
Happy Cooking!
