Making A Real Bratwurst In Colorado


by Marsha Silva


In three days your neighborhood is going to experience the most fantastic back yard party it has ever seen. Friends of yours are flying in from all over the country, and you are even going to be able to meet your little brother's new wife for the first time. She is German, and you thought it would be fun to try your hand at making your own bratwurst Colorado style.

Of course, you have no idea how to create these wonderful sausages. Obviously you are going to need some kind of meat, a bunch of spices, and some kind of tube to hold it all together, but that's about as far as you can go without looking things up on the Internet. If you want to make these delicious sausages yourself, here is what you are going to need to do.

First of all, buy some sausage casings. Unless you really want to go through the whole process of grinding and stuffing and twisting, see if you can find individual casings. That way you can just grab handfuls of the seasoned meat and gently stuff it into the thin wrappers one at a time.

Sausages tend to have sets of primary ingredients. These sausages for example are made of finely ground meat, usually veal, pork, or beef. Different styles have different ratios of these fillings, but the contents are often discovered to be a mixture of veal and pork. With more than forty regional variations, there is a lot of room for experimentation.

In general, European cuisine of all sorts involves the same set of traditionally European herbs and spices. These often include marjoram and nutmeg, and both these flavors tend to be represented in these sausages. A bit of garlic, cloves, or mustard can also be a very good way to round out the flavor profile.

There is a misconception that the German name for this sausage translates with reference to the verb Braten, which means to pan fry or roast something. In fact, the etymology of the word derives from the German words for chopped or minced meat. Depending on how you cook the sausage, you can end up with rather different things, though.

When your brother and his new wife show up, you hope that she will be impressed by your attempt at making a bratwurst Colorado style. From what you have heard, she is a lovely woman and will probably be amazed that you even tried to do something this thoughtful for her. Read more about: bratwurst colorado




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