You'll score cheers of
approval with these winning Italian sausage sandwiches topped
with beer-infused chunky cranberry sauce.
Touchdown
Sausages with Chunky Cranberry-Beer Topping
- 2 cups raspberry beer*
1 cup Ocean Spray® Cran•Raspberry® Raspberry Cranberry
Juice Drink
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup ketchup
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 cup Ocean Spray® Craisins® Original Dried Cranberries
4 hot Italian sausages
4 hot dog buns
- Combine beer, juice drink,
brown sugar, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, black pepper and
garlic powder in skillet. Simmer for 10 minutes or until sauce
starts to reduce. Add dried cranberries; cook, stirring constantly,
for 3 minutes or until cranberries are plumped. Simmer for 5
minutes longer or until sauce is reduced by half.
- Preheat grill to medium
heat.
- Grill sausages for 10
minutes or until cooked through and no longer pink inside.
- Place grilled sausages
in buns. Top each evenly with cranberry mixture.
Makes 10 servings.
*Or use your favorite beer.
Ocean Spray 2010 Tailgating
Recipe Contest Finalist, Danielle D’Ambrosio of Brighton,
MA.
Recipe and photograph provided
courtesy of Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.
