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Sausage

Sausage is made with meat and salt, sometimes with bread crumbs or grain. Cooks bake, cure, grill, preserve, shallow-fry, or smoke it, and pair it with potatoes.

  • Meat

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

Cooked most in
Asia, Europe, The Americas
Top country
Indonesia
Sausage, cooked

Photo: gcardinal from Norway · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use sausage

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Bake
  • Cure
  • Grill
  • Preserve
  • Shallow fry
  • Smoke

Made from

Preparing it

Loose sausage meat can be shaped into patties or used without a casing.

Cooking with it

Cook sausages sold raw; pan-frying and barbecuing are among the options. Fillers can help sausages retain their shape as they cook. Some sausages can burst as their tight skins shrink during cooking.

Goes well with

Nutrition

What 100 g of sausage holds

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

Protein 53%Fat 31%Carbohydrate 16%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of sausage
Energy158 kcal · 659 kJ
Protein15 g
Fat8.8 g
of which saturated3.4 g
Carbohydrate4.7 g
of which sugars3.2 g
Fibre0.9 g
Sodium928 mg
Cholesterol53 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of sausage: minerals and vitamins
Potassium197 mg
Calcium21 mg
Iron9.6 mg
Magnesium25 mg
Zinc2.1 mg
Vitamin C30 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)43 µg
Folate8 µg
Vitamin B120.43 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 174604), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where sausage is cooked

13 dishes in the catalogue use 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 sausage among their ingredients.

Origins

  1. 1898

    A vegetarian sausage recipe appeared in print in 1898.

On the table

Dishes made with sausage

11 of the 13 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Timlo

    Indonesia

  • Bigos

    Poland

  • Port sausage

    Iran

  • Wereszczaka

  • Makkaraperunat

    Finland

  • Japadog

    Canada

  • Rougail saucisse

    France

  • Stoemp with sausage

    Belgium

  • Octopus-shaped sausages

    Japan

  • Makaroni schotel

    Europe, Indonesia

  • Seblak

    Indonesia

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

Good to know

Diet and allergens: 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
From: meat

Family

Related forms

Kinds
blood sausage, salami

Cooked together

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

What sausage is called

Names in 110 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    salchicha · Salchicha de Frankfurt · Salchicha de Viena

  • French

    saucisse

  • Italian

    insaccato · salume insaccato

  • Portuguese

    salsicha

  • German

    Wurst · Schmierwurst · Verwurster · Handwurst

  • Dutch

    worst · Worstje

  • Greek

    Λουκάνικο

  • Turkish

    Sosis

  • Russian

    колбаса · Колбасы · Собачья радость

  • Polish

    kiełbasa

  • Arabic

    نقانق · السجق · مقانق · سجق

  • Persian

    سوسیس · ساسچ

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  • Afrikaans

    Wors

  • Albanian

    Salçiçja

  • Armenian

    երշիկ

  • Asturian

    salchicha

  • Atikamekw

    Tipotcecic

  • Azerbaijani

    Kolbasa

  • Bashkir

    Колбаса

  • Basque

    saltxitxa

  • Bavarian

    Wuascht · Wurst

  • Belarusian

    каўбаса

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    кілбаса · каўбаса

  • Bosnian

    kobasica

  • Breton

    silzig

  • Bulgarian

    Наденица

  • Burmese

    ဝက်အူချောင်း

  • Cantonese

    腸

  • Catalan

    salsitxa · Butifarra · Salsitxa de Frankfurt · Salsitxa de Viena

  • Chinese

    肉腸 · 香腸 · 煙腸 · 燒腸

  • Chuvash

    Кăлпасси

  • Colognian

    Woosch · Bratwurst · Mettwurst · Wurst

  • Croatian

    Kobasica

  • Czech

    uzenina

  • Danish

    pølse

  • Egyptian Arabic

    سجق 'sogo

  • eml

    Salsìsa

  • Erzya

    сывельсюло

  • Esperanto

    kolbaso · Kolbasoj

  • Estonian

    vorst

  • Finnish

    makkara · Chorizo · Androlla · Butifarra

  • Galician

    salchicha

  • Hausa

    Ƙundun nama

  • Hebrew

    נקניק

  • Hindi

    गुलमा

  • Hungarian

    kolbász

  • hyw

    Երշիկ

  • Ido

    Sociso

  • Igbo

    sausage · Glizzy · Fankfurt sausage · Wiener sausage

  • Inari Sami

    märfi

  • Indonesian

    Sosis

  • Irish

    ispín

  • Japanese

    ソーセージ · ウインナー・ソーセージ · 腸詰 · ヴルスト

  • Javanese

    Sosis

  • Kannada

    ಸಾಸೇಜ್

  • Kashubian

    wòrzta

  • kge

    Sosis

  • Korean

    소시지 · 소세지 · 고기순대 · 칼파스

  • Korean (North Korea)

    꼴바싸

  • Kurdish

    sosîs

  • Kurdish (Arabic)

    سۆسیس

  • Kurdish (Latin)

    sosîs

  • Kyrgyz

    Колбаса

  • Lao

    ໄສ້ກອກ

  • Latgalian

    dasa · kilbasa

  • Latin

    Farcimen · Botulus

  • Latvian

    desa

  • Lingua Franca Nova

    Salsix

  • Lithuanian

    dešra

  • Lombard

    Lüganega

  • Luxembourgish

    Wurscht

  • Macedonian

    Колбас

  • Malagasy

    Saosisy

  • Malay

    sosej

  • Manx

    Pronnag

  • Min Nan Chinese

    ian-chhiân · ian-chhiâng · ian-tshiân · ian-tshiâng

  • Northern Sami

    márfi

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    pølse · kjøttpølse

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    pølse · Pølser · Pylsa · Pylser

  • nrm

    Saûciche · Sauciche · Sâociche · Saociche

  • Occitan

    Saussissa

  • Palatine German

    Wurst

  • Quechua

    Aycha t'iqi · Embutido

  • rki

    ဝက်အူတောင့်

  • Romanian

    cârnat · carnăcior tras la gratar · cârnați · salam

  • Samogitian

    Dešra

  • Scots

    sausage

  • Serbian

    кобасица

  • Serbian (Cyrillic)

    кобасица

  • Serbian (Latin)

    Kobasica

  • Serbian (Latin)

    kobasica

  • Shan

    သႆႈမူယဵတ်ႈ · ၼိူဝ်ႉယဵတ်ႈသႆႈ

  • Sicilian

    Sausizza · sasizza

  • Silesian

    wuszt

  • Simplified Chinese

    香肠 · 烟肠

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    肉肠 · 香肠

  • Simplified Chinese (Singapore)

    香肠

  • Skolt Sami

    määʹrf

  • Slovak

    klobása

  • Slovenian

    klobasa

  • Southern Sami

    goerve

  • Sundanese

    Sosis

  • Swahili

    Soseji

  • Swedish

    korv · vurst

  • Swiss German

    Wurscht

  • Swiss High German

    Wurst

  • Tamil

    சாசேஜ்

  • Telugu

    సాసేజ్

  • Thai

    ไส้กรอก · ซอสเซจ

  • Traditional Chinese

    香腸 · 煙腸

  • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)

    香腸

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    香腸

  • Ukrainian

    ковбаса · ковбаси

  • Uzbek

    Kolbasa

  • Venetian

    Lugànega · Ługanega · Luganiga · Luanega

  • Vietnamese

    xúc xích

  • Waray

    Soriso (pagkaon)

  • Welsh

    selsig

  • West Flemish

    Sosisoung

  • Wu Chinese

    香肠

  • Yakut

    Халбаһы

  • Yiddish

    ווורשט · װורשט · װאורשט · װוּרשט

  • Zulu

    Isoseji

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q131419

Photos

Photo: gcardinal from Norway · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons