Kaszanka

Kaszanka
Traditional kaszanka
Alternative names
  • Kiszka
  • Grützwurst
  • Knipp
  • Krupniok (see list below)
TypeBlood sausage
CourseAppetizer, main
Place of originGermany,
Region or stateCentral Europe, Eastern Europe
Serving temperatureHot, cold
Main ingredients

Kaszanka is a traditional blood sausage in East and Central European cuisine. It is made of a mixture of pig's blood, pork offal (commonly liver), and buckwheat (kasha) or barley stuffed in a pig intestine. It is usually flavored with onion, black pepper, and marjoram.

The dish likely originates in Germany.

Kaszanka may be eaten cold, but traditionally it is either grilled or fried with onions and then served with potato and sauerkraut.

Other names and similar dishes

  • крывянка (Kryvianka, Belarus)
  • verivorst (Estonia)
  • kaszanka (Poland)
  • Kiszka (Yiddish קישקע kishke, some districts of Poland)
  • Grützwurst (Germany and sometimes Silesia)
  • Knipp (Lower Saxony, Germany)
  • Göttwust; Grüttwust (Northern Germany)
  • krupńok; krupniok (more of a slight name difference than variation; Silesia)
  • żymlok (a variation of Krupniok based on cut bread roll instead of buckwheat; Silesia)
  • Pinkel (Northwest Germany)
  • Stippgrütze (Westphalia, Germany)
  • Westfälische Rinderwurst (Westphalia, Germany)
  • krëpnica (Kashubia)
  • Maischel (Carinthia, Austria): Grützwurst without blood and not cased in intestine but worked into balls in caul fat. The name comes from the Slovenian majželj, in turn derived from the Bavarian Maisen ("slices").
  • jelito (Czechia)
  • krvavnička (Slovakia)
  • hurka (Slovakia)
  • véres hurka (Hungarian)
  • кров'янка (krovyanka, Ukraine)
  • krvavica (Serbia; Slovenia)
  • кървавица (Bulgaria)
  • chișcă (Romania)

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