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Blood sausage

Blood sausage is made with blood and may also contain meat, bread, onion, rice, or other ingredients. Cooks boil, fry, grill, roast, smoke, or stew it, and serve it with potatoes, sauerkraut, or lingonberry jam.

  • May contain meat

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Cooked most in
Europe
Top country
Spain
Blood sausage, cut

Photo: Kolforn · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use blood sausage

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Boil simmer
  • Deep fry
  • Grill
  • Roast
  • Shallow fry
  • Smoke
  • Stew

Made from

Preparing it

Black pudding can be sliced before frying or grilling.

Goes well with

Nutrition

What 100 g of blood sausage holds

Per 100 g. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 29%Fat 68%Carbohydrate 3%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of blood sausage
Energy379 kcal · 1,584 kJ
Protein15 g
Fat35 g
of which saturated13 g
Carbohydrate1.3 g
of which sugars1.3 g
Fibre0 g
Sodium680 mg
Cholesterol120 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of blood sausage: minerals and vitamins
Potassium38 mg
Calcium6 mg
Iron6.4 mg
Magnesium8 mg
Zinc1.3 mg
Folate5 µg
Vitamin B121 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 171618), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where blood sausage is cooked

4 dishes in the catalogue use blood sausage. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list blood sausage among their ingredients.

On the table

Dishes made with blood sausage

2 of the 4 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Arròs al forn

    Spain

  • Jallullo

    Spain

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include blood sausage.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: blood sausage in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Animal origin
Sometimes meat (only when the optional ingredient is used)

Family

Related forms

A kind of
sausage

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What blood sausage is called

Names in 73 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    morcilla · mora · morcillona · moronga

  • French

    boudin noir · boudin au sang · boudin de sang

  • Italian

    sanguinaccio

  • Portuguese

    morcela · chouriço de sangue

  • German

    Blutwurst · Rotwurst · Blunze

  • Dutch

    bloedworst · beuling · pensen

  • Greek

    λουκάνικο αίματος

  • Russian

    кровяная колбаса · кровянка

  • Polish

    kaszanka · łódzka kiszka

  • Arabic

    سجق الدم · نقانق الدم

  • Persian

    سوسیس خون

  • Hebrew

    נקניק דם · פודינג דם

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  • Aragonese

    Morciella

  • Armenian

    արյունային երշիկ

  • Asturian

    morciella

  • Austrian German

    Blunze · Blutwurst

  • Banjar

    sosis darah

  • Basque

    odolki · odoloste

  • Bavarian

    Blunzen · Blunzn · Bluadwuascht

  • Belarusian

    крывянка · крывяная каўбаса

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    крывянка · кішка · шклёндра

  • Bosnian

    krvavica

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    chouriço · morcilha

  • Bulgarian

    кървавица · бахур

  • Cantonese

    血腸

  • Catalan

    botifarró

  • Chinese

    血腸 · 愛沙尼亞黑布丁

  • Colognian

    Blotwoosch

  • Croatian

    krvavice · čurka

  • Czech

    prejt

  • Danish

    blodpølse

  • Egyptian Arabic

    سجق الدم

  • Esperanto

    sangokolbaso

  • Estonian

    verivorst

  • Finnish

    verimakkara

  • Galician

    morcilla · morcela

  • Guarani

    mbusia

  • Gujarati

    બ્લડ સોસેજ · લોહી ફુલામો

  • Hungarian

    hurka

  • Inari Sami

    vorrâmärfi

  • Indonesian

    sosis darah · sosis hitam

  • Irish

    ispín fola

  • Japanese

    ブラッドソーセージ · ブーダン・ノワール

  • Javanese

    sosis getih

  • Korean

    선지 소시지 · 피 소시지

  • Latgalian

    putruomu dasys

  • Latin

    sanguiculus

  • Latvian

    asinsdesa

  • Limburgish

    poetes · bloedwaoërsj · zjwarte trip

  • Low German

    Bloodwost · Rotwost

  • Lule Sami

    mállemárffe · márffe

  • Luxembourgish

    träipen

  • Manchu

    ᠰᡝᠩᡤᡳ ᡩᡠᡥᠠ

  • Manx

    pronnag folley

  • Northern Sami

    varramárfi

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    blodpølse

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    blodpølse

  • Old English

    blōdmearh · sƿeartmearh

  • Palatine German

    Grieweworschd

  • Quechua

    lunqanus

  • Romanian

    cârnat de sânge

  • rsk

    Гурка

  • Samogitian

    krovėnis · krovėnė dešra

  • Serbian

    крвавица

  • Sicilian

    sangunazzu · sangeli

  • Simplified Chinese

    血肠

  • sje

    mállegurrva

  • Skolt Sami

    võrrmääʹrf

  • Slovenian

    krvavica

  • Southern Sami

    maeliegoerve

  • Swedish

    blodkorv

  • Swiss German

    Blutwurst

  • Swiss High German

    Bluètwurscht · Rotwurscht

  • Traditional Chinese

    血腸

  • Ukrainian

    Кров'янка · кров'яна ковбаса · кашанка · кишка

  • Vietnamese

    dồi

  • Walloon

    tripe · bodén

  • West Flemish

    bloewost · bloelienk

  • Wu Chinese

    血肠

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q154482

Photos

Photo: Kolforn · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons