Brats in a Blanket

Upgrade your classical pigs successful a broad with this look for brats successful a blanket. Perfect for a enactment oregon crippled time snack, these bratwursts wrapped successful flaky pastry are definite to beryllium a hit!

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Brats successful a Blanket are a amusive and breathtaking mode to observe Bratsgiving- National Bratwurst Day connected August 16th. They are similar a grown-up, super-sized mentation of Pigs successful a Blanket. But don’t worry. The kids volition emotion them. They are truthful juicy and tasty.

I utilized Johnsonville Firecracker Brats, my caller favourite Bratwurst flavor. They person conscionable the close magnitude of vigor and are truthful flavorful and delicious.

Ingredients Notes

• Brats– I usage Johnsonville Brats. They person antithetic flavors of brats. Use immoderate spirit you like.
• Puff Pastry– Crescent dough tin beryllium utilized alternatively but you can’t bushed the buttery flakiness of puff pastry.
• Swiss Cheese– you tin usage cheddar cheese, provolone cheese, oregon mozzarella food instead.
• Dijon Mustard– spicy oregon Creole mustard tin beryllium utilized instead.
• Sauerkraut– beryllium definite to drain it good truthful it doesn’t get the puff pastry soggy.
• Egg– brushing the puff pastry with ovum lavation helps get it other aureate and crispy.
• Caraway Seeds– poppy seeds oregon everything bagel seasoning tin beryllium substituted for caraway seeds.

First I grilled them to springiness them that awesome grill-flavor. I fto them chill and wrapped them successful puff pastry with swiss cheese, mustard, and sauerkraut.

You could besides usage crescent rotation dough, but I emotion however buttery and crispy the puff pastry gets.

Note: 5 Brats travel successful a bundle of Johnsonville Brats, but I couldn’t deliberation of a bully mode to chopped a expanse of puff pastry into 5 pieces that would afloat wrapper astir the brats. So you volition person 1 brat leftover. If idiosyncratic doesn’t devour it up close away, prevention it successful the refrigerator. You tin chop it up and adhd it to mac and food oregon to a grilled food sandwich. Talk astir delicious!!

Storage and Freezing

Brats successful a Blanket are champion eaten soon aft being made but you tin support them successful an airtight instrumentality successful the fridge for 3 days and reheat successful a 350 grade oven oregon aerial fryer.

Assembled Brats tin beryllium frozen for up to a month. To navigator brats from frozen they volition request a small other time. If they are getting excessively brown, screen loosley with foil.

 More Recipes Using Brats

• Crock Pot Reuben Brats
• Grilled Brats with Southern Toppings
• Jalapeno Beer Brats
• Slow Cooker Beer Brats
• Bratwurst Mac and Cheese

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Brats successful a Blanket

Grilled Brats wrapped up successful puff pastry with swiss food and sauerkraut and baked until golden. 

Course Lunch

Cuisine American

Keyword sausage

Prep Time 20 minutes minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes minutes

Total Time 40 minutes minutes

Servings 4 servings

Author Christin Mahrlig

Equipment

• Rimmed Baking Sheet
• Parchment Paper

Ingredients

• 1 package Johnsonville Brats
• 1 sheet frozen puff pastry, defrosted according to bundle directions
• 6 slices swiss cheese
• 4 teaspoons Dijon mustard
• 1 cup sauerkraut, drained well
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon caraway seeds, optional

Instructions

• Grill brats according to bundle directions. Let cool.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees and enactment a baking expanse with parchment paper.
• Place puff pastry connected a lightly floured aboveground and rotation retired slightly. When chopped successful quarters, each portion should beryllium astir arsenic agelong arsenic a bratwurst.
• Cut puff pastry into 4 adjacent quarters. Place connected prepared baking sheet.
• Place 1 1/2 slices Swiss food to screen each portion of puff pastry.
• Spread 1 spoon of Dijon mustard connected apical of food for each portion of puff pastry.
• Arrange 1/4 cupful sauerkraut down the halfway of each portion and spot the bratwursts connected top.
• Roll puff pastry astir bratwurst and spot seam broadside down.
• Whisk ovum with 1 tablespoonful h2o and brushwood ovum substance crossed the apical of the puff pastry.
• Sprinkle with caraway seeds.
• Place successful oven and cook for 20 to 24 minutes, oregon until aureate brown.
• Serve with mustard.

Notes

To marque spicy, adhd a fewer pinches of crushed reddish peppers to the sauerkraut.

Originally posted August 10, 2016.

The station Brats successful a Blanket appeared archetypal connected Spicy Southern Kitchen.