Beer Braised Sausage and Onions, Sous Vide

Beer Braised Sausage and Onions, Sous Vide

Beer, sausage, and mustard – they just seem to belong together, right?  Especially served with some sweet onions cooked up just right? With spring here, we’re starting to think more about cookouts and potluck gatherings and less about comfort food.  One of my favorite things about a cookout or potluck is the variety of foods. I like to bring a little something unexpected- and sausages are always a hit- so this Beer Braised Sausage and Onions dish made sous vide is likely going to be my go-to dish to bring along when we are invited someplace. Our friends at Oliso sent us their SmartHub to try and that’s what inspired this recipe- sous vide cooking kind of fascinates me lately.

If you haven’t heard of sous vide cooking, it’s food cooked in a sealed bag that’s placed into a water bath at a consistent temperature. I wanted to see how the circulation of even temperature water makes food worthy of top notch restaurants. I wasn’t disappointed! Combining the sous vide cooking and finishing up with a bit of browning gave the sausage a deeper, more complex flavor! The family and I all agree that this definitely tasted more like a restaurant made the sausages and maybe less like mom threw them in a pan again…

You can do a lot of things with a Sous Vide system like make yogurt, beer, stocks, use it as a cooktop with most pans, and more. It’s a very versatile small kitchen appliance. Oliso is a company that specializes in creating smart kitchen technology. Their SmartHub is essentially like a “high-end crock pot” – you can “set it and forget it”.I look at products like this and think “this is

Ingredients:

2 to 4 large sausages- kielbasa, bratwurst or Italian

1 can of beer

1 tsp. Dry ground mustard

½ tsp. Ground black pepper

1/2 tsp. diced garlic

Pinch of sea salt

½ onion, rough chopped

Directions:

Place sausages in a gallon zippered bag.

Add mustard, garlic, pepper, and sea salt.

Pour ½ to ¾ of the beer can or bottle over sausages, reseal bag. You can use your favorite beer, but this is a great opportunity to incorporate some seasonal or local offerings- so many flavors to blend with your sausage and onions! Feel free to sip on the rest of the beer as you cook…

Fill the inner pot of SmartHub to fill line with water. 

Turn temperature to 150 f, and timer to 45 minutes.
Using the upright rack slide your bag of sausages into one of the dividers.

 

Place lid on top and cook for 45 minutes.

Remove precision smart top from the burner and place a nonstick pan on the top on 6 heat. {Isn’t this such a cool smart kitchen appliance? I love that you can do so much with it, and it’s not taking up the entire counter in my kitchen! It’s a versatile kitchen tool (yes, tool, in my opinion) that is precise and energy efficient. }

Add a small amount of oil, chopped onions, and sausage, brown to your desired amount.
Serve and enjoy!

Are you a beer braised sausage person? I don’t drink beer, but I do love the flavors it brings to cooking and grilling!!

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What would you make first in the Oliso  SmartHub? Would you do something sous vide in water? Beer braised sausage and onions maybe?

 

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