We love Brats but we get in the rut of making it the same way over and over and I was looking for a change.  We got a large package of them at Costco so needless to say we had plenty to experiment with had my recipe not turned out but it did turn out so I have another recipe to add to my book.

One of the things I found when looking on-line is that all the recipes were the same.  you had your grilled, your boiled in beer, or your baked with sauerkraut.  I don’t like any of those so I thought for a while until I came up with this.

Put all the following in a large plastic bag to marinate.

5-6 large brats ~ 1/2 cup of apple juice ~ 1/2 cup honey mustard salad dressing ~ 1 large onion cut thin~ 1 tsp of liquid smoke

marinate all morning and then put the whole thing in your crock pot about 1pm  it only takes 4-5 hours on low to cook depending on your crock pot.

I then served the brats and put the onion/sauce mixture over a baked potato.

It was a very good easy to do meal.

(note if you want the brats to have a golden brown color you can sear them before putting in the crock pot but we are not much on look just how it tastes in our home)