Bratwurst Pasta Recipe (in a Buttery Beer Sauce)

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This Bratwurst pasta recipe is so flavorful and easy to make. The pasta is loaded with savory German sausage and perfectly cooked in a buttery beer sauce. It’s garlicky, and taste like alfredo but without the heavy cream!

Easy Bratwurst Pasta Recipe

In this recipe, I’ll show you how to make a good Bratwurst pasta recipe with just beer and other basic ingredients. This family-pleasing beer pasta recipe can be ready in less than 20 minutes.  Beer and pasta? Sounds like a good match to me! If you don’t believe it, I ask that you try this just once, I think you’ll be hooked on the taste!

Bratwurst is a type of German sausage. This fresh link sausage is usually made from veal, beef, or most commonly pork and flavored with different spices and seasonings, such as nutmeg, ginger, caraway, marjoram, black pepper, nutmeg, mace, ginger, coriander, pimento, etc. These combinations of spices make bratwurst sausage the perfect ingredient to elevate the taste of simple pasta. The beer flavoring compliments it so well.

Bratwurst Pasta Ingredients

To make this bratwurst pasta, you will need uncooked bratwurst, spaghetti or fettucine, fresh garlic, wheat beer, oil, butter, and cheese.

I purchased the uncooked bratwurst from my local Trader’s Joe.

Cheese:

In this recipe, I used parmesan cheese to give a bold flavor to the pasta. Parmesan has sharp, fruity, nutty, and savory flavors with a gritty to somewhat creamy texture, which makes it perfect to pair with beer. The parmesan cheese makes this pasta taste creamy, like a lighter version of alfredo but without the cream.  

Parmesan cheese is a good source of protein and fat. It’s rich in vitamins and minerals like calcium, vitamin A, vitamins B6 and B12, phosphorus, zinc, and copper.

Cheddar is also another great cheese option for this pasta and works really well with beer. Use cheddar if you want a creamier and cheesier pasta.

Beer:

You can use wheat beer, Pale Ale, or a light IPA. I personally used Germany wheat beer, Franziskaner Weissbier because to be completely honest that’s what we had in the fridge, and the result is amazing!

Seasoning:

The seasoning is pretty basic. It consists of garlic, onion, salt, and pepper.

Bratwurst sausages are well-seasoned with spices, therefore, adding extra herbs as we often do for pasta recipes is not necessary this time and completely optional. I really think that simplicity will make the main ingredients of bratwurst and beer shine even more.

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How to Make Bratwurst Pasta:

This bratwurst pasta recipe doesn’t require a lot of time in the kitchen. It’s so simple to prepare and cook.

Preparation:

There is nothing complicated in this phase. You just need to peel and mince the garlic, remove the casing from sausages, and cook the spaghetti in salted boiling water. I usually add about 1 tablespoon of sea salt per 4 quarts of water.

Cooking:

The cooking process is pretty simple too. Here are some steps to follow:

• Brown the sausage. While you are cooking the pasta, cook the sausage in a hot pan over medium heat for about 4 minutes.
• Cook the onion and garlic. Add onion, and continue cooking for about 4 minutes then add garlic, stir for 1 minute over moderately low heat.
• Add beer and simmer. You need about ½ cup of beer. Add it to the sausage, onion, and garlic mixture then simmer for about 3 minutes until it has evaporated.
• Add butter and pasta. Melt the butter, reduce the heat to low then toss in the cooked pasta.
• Add parmesan cheese. Lastly, add some parmesan cheese to the pasta, then toss until the cheese is just melted then quickly turn off the heat.

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Storing Leftover Pasta:

Store the leftover pasta in an airtight container, properly stored, it can last 3-5 days in the fridge.

5 from 5 votes

Bratwurst Pasta

Rika Livingston

This Bratwurst pasta recipe is so flavorful and easy to make. The pasta is loaded with savory German sausage and perfectly cooked in a buttery beer sauce. It’s garlicky, and taste like alfredo but without the heavy cream!

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Prep Time 10 mins

Cook Time 15 mins

Course Dinner, pasta

Cuisine American, German

Servings 6

Calories 554 kcal

Equipment

• a Large deep saute pan

Ingredients

 

US CustomaryMetric

• 1 pound Bratwurst (chasing removed)
• 12 oz spaghetti or fettucine
• ½ cup wheat beer or pale ale
• 1 cup chopped yellow onion
• 1 tbsp minced garlic
• 1 tbsp oil
• 2 tbsp unsalted butter
• ¼ cup freshly grated parmesan cheese (add more according to your liking)
• black pepper (to taste)

Optional:

• a pinch of red pepper flakes
• chopped parsley

Instructions

 

• Bring a large pot of salted water ( about 4 qt + 1 tbsp of salt) to a boil. Follow the instructions on the product packaging and cook pasta until al dente.
• In a large deep saute pan, heat the oil over moderate heat. Cook the sausage (chasing removed), breaking up the meat for about 4 minutes.
• Reduce the heat to moderately low. Add onion, and cook for about 4 minutes or until it translucent. Be sure to keep scraping up the browned bits from the bottom to prevent burning.

  Add garlic, and keep stirring for about 1 minute.
• Add beer to the pan. Be sure to scrape up the browned bits from the bottom, simmer until reduced by half, for about 3 minutes.
• Melt the butter and add black pepper. Stir and reduce the heat to low. Add the cooked pasta, and parmesan. Toss just until combined then turn off the heat immediately.
• Transfer the pasta to a serving plate. Serve with additional parmesan cheese if needed! Enjoy!

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Nutrition

Calories: 554kcalCarbohydrates: 48gProtein: 20gFat: 30gSaturated Fat: 11gCholesterol: 69mgSodium: 712mgPotassium: 428mgFiber: 2gSugar: 3gVitamin A: 151IUVitamin C: 2mgCalcium: 91mgIron: 1mg

Keyword Beer Bratwurst Pasta, Bratwurst Pasta

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