is a Swedish
sausage
A sausage is a type of meat product usually made from ground meat—often pork, beef, or poultry—along with salt, spices and other flavourings. Other ingredients, such as grains or breadcrumbs, may be included as fillers or extenders.
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made largely or entirely from pork.
[Travel Stockholm, Sweden: An Illustrated Guide, Phrasebook, and Maps. Published. MobileReference, 2007.] Traditionally it is sold raw (though now it is not uncommon to find precooked varieties), and often served during the
Christmas
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smörgåsbord (
Julbord).
A typical accompaniment is rotmos, a dish made from mashed
carrots,
potatoes and
rutabaga
Rutabaga (; North American English) or swede (British English and some Commonwealth English) is a root vegetable, a form of ''Brassica napus'' (which also includes rapeseed). Other names include Swedish turnip, neep (Scots language, Scots), an ...
s (swedes).
See also
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List of sausages
References
Swedish sausages
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