Currywurst Sausage with Sweet Curry Ketchup Sauce
Currywurst is a very popular dish in Germany that combines German sausage with curry ketchup sauce. It’s absolutely delicious street food that you can easily make at home. This recipe walks you through the process of make the curry ketchup sauce and 2 methods of cooking the sausage and serving. For this recipe we like to use either bratwursts or knockwursts, however other sausages should work great. We made a test version with kielbasa that was excellent. While testing this we used both precooked and fresh sausages and our favorite was fresh bratwursts poached in beer and then pan fried.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 40 minutes
- Category: Side Dish
- Method: stove top
- Cuisine: German
Ingredients
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For the curry ketchup sauce:
- 1 cup ketchup
- 1/2 onion diced
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 2 Tablespoons Sweet Curry Powder
- 1 Tablespoon cooking oil
- 1/4 cup water or beer
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 Tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 2 teaspoons worcestershire sauce
- salt and pepper to taste (approximately 1 teaspoon)
For Sausage
- 1 lb of either fresh or precooked sausage
Instructions
For the curry ketchup sauce:
- Heat a saucepan on medium with some cooking oil, add onion. Sauté until translucent
- Add garlic and curry powder, cooking until fragrant
- Add the water or beer and deglaze pan making sure to scrape all the brown bits into the liquid
- Add ketchup, cook for an additional 2-3 minutes
- Add sugar, stir to combine
- Add vinegar, Worcestersire sauce, salt and pepper and simmer for 15-30 minutes, stirring occasionally
- Transfer the sauce to a blender or food processor and blend until smooth, return sauce to the pan or a separate bowl for storage
For the fresh sausages:
- Simmer sausages in beer or water until cooked, about 5-10 minutes
- Remove the sausages from the liquid and brown in a frying pan over medium high heat
- Slice into 1/2 to 1-inch slices
- Serve the curry ketchup sauce over the sausage slices and garnish with additional curry powder
For precooked sausages:
- Brown sausages in a frying pan over medium high heat
- Slice into 1/2 to 1-inch slices
- Serve the curry ketchup sauce over the sausage slices and garnish with additional curry powder