Not sure whether this is better asked here or in the Language forum......but it is about food

Is sucuk used to describe any garlic sausage or is it just a specific type of garlic sausage???

SUCUK... is a type of sausage eaten in many countries. IT's common in Turkish and also in Iraqi and Bulgarian cuisine.

It consists of ground meat, with various spices including cumin, garlic,salt, and red pepper, fed into a sausage casing and allowed to dry for several weeks. It can be more or less spicy; it is fairly salty and has a high fat content.

It must be eaten cooked (when raw, it is very hard and stiff-unless you have strong stomach and sharp set of serrated teeth ). It is often cut into slices and cooked without additional oil, its own fat being sufficient to fry it. At breakfasts, it is used in a way similar to bacon or spam. They are fried in a pan, often with eggs, accompanied by a hot cup of sweet black tea. It's also commonly used as a topping on savoury pastries... like pide?

Sujuk are also great drizzled with pomegranate molasses.Sliced thin as a meze, or quickly grilled (don't overdo it, it will just get very hard). It's also sliced and lightly fried and eaten with breakfast...

Given I have it in my fridge every time, maybe I can help you, Bod. It's part of cuisin in Serbia and Bosnia too, but always prepared following original Turkish recipe. It's ALWAYS made of beef, and there are two varieties: raw or half-smoked, which is to be cooked or fried, and smoked sucuk (rather expansive), which is never cooked, but is served in very thin slices as snack or a part of dinner. If it's of a high quality, you don't need strong teeth. I think I'll visit my fridge after this!

So the garlic sausage that I have in my 'fridge is not "sucuk"?

It is described like this:
"Sliced cured pork sausage cooked with garlic and mustard seeds"

hi Bod!

I found an interesting site for your sucuk...

http://www.byegm.gov.tr/yayinlarimiz/NEWSPOT/23/N27.htm

I will try the recipe when I have time to go to the fresh market...

~Afiyet olsun~

sucuk is mostly eaten for breakfast or a snack at dinner mabye!it isnt pork as turks don't eat pork!sucuk goes with lots of things we have it on jacket potato!umm!

I had sucuk and eggs for brekkie this morning YUUUUMMY

IZMIR! NOOO!! You make me hungry! and there's no food here!!

Hehehehehehe !!!



Aww sorry Chantal... but I had to share that information with everyone because it was soo soooo sooooooooo delicious ...

Actually... a turish family have just opened a shop close to me, and 90% of the stock is food imported from Turkey... so I have genuine Sucuk... It's just like Christmas going into this shop... and brings back so many memories of my meals in Turkey