''Rullepølse'' (, ''rolled sausage'') is a traditional Danish

cold cut Lunch meats—also known as cold cuts, luncheon meats, cooked meats, sliced meats, cold meats, sandwich meats, delicatessens, and deli meats—are precooked or cured meats that are sliced and served cold or hot. They are typically served in ...

. A piece of

pork belly Pork belly or belly pork is a boneless, fatty Primal cut, cut of pork from the Abdomen, belly of a pig. Pork belly is particularly popular in American cuisine, American, British cuisine, British, Swedish cuisine, Swedish, Danish cuisine, Danish, ...

– variants use beef flank or lamb – is flattened out and is spread with

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and seasoning (salt, pepper, allspice), chopped onions, and in some variants,

parsley Parsley, or garden parsley (''Petroselinum crispum''), is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae that is native to Greece, Morocco and the former Yugoslavia. It has been introduced and naturalisation (biology), naturalized in Eur ...

. It is then rolled up and placed in a

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for a number of days, before being boiled, placed in a special press, cooled, and sliced thinly. It is often used on ''

rugbrød (, ) is a very common form of rye bread from Denmark. usually resembles a long brown extruded rectangle, no more than high, and long, depending on the bread pan in which it is baked. The basic ingredient is rye flour which will produce a p ...

'' to make the traditional Danish

open-faced sandwich An open sandwich, also known as an open-face/open-faced sandwich, bread baser, bread platter or tartine, consists of a single slice of bread or Toast (food), toast with one or more food items on top. It has half the number of slices of bread com ...

, ''

smørrebrød (; originally , "butter and bread"), smørbrød "butter bread" (Norwegian language, Norwegian), or smörgås " butter goose" (Swedish language, Swedish), is a traditional Open sandwich, open-faced sandwich in the cuisine of Denmark, cuisines of ...

'', usually garnished with a thick slice of ''

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'' and rings of raw onion. Similar items also exist in a Swedish version, '' rullsylta'', and a Norwegian version, ''

ribberull Ribberull is a Norwegian seasoned meat roll. It consists of pork ribs boned, flattened, sewn to form a long rectangle, rolled, pressed, and steamed. A seasoned filling is spread over it before it is rolled, often containing a variety of peppers an ...

'', which is made of a lamb shoulder – boned, flattened, sewn to form a long rectangle, rolled, pressed, and steamed.

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