Kaszanka

Traditional kaszanka
Alternative names	Kiszka Grützwurst Knipp Krupniok (see list below)
Type	Blood sausage
Course	Appetizer, main
Place of origin	Germany,[1]
Region or state	Central and Eastern Europe
Serving temperature	Hot, cold
Main ingredients	Pork pig's blood pig offal kasha onion black pepper marjoram
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Kaszanka is a traditional blood sausage in Central and Eastern 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.^[1]

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").^[2]
• jelito (Czechia)
• krvavnička (Slovakia)
• hurka (Slovakia)
• véres hurka (Hungarian)
• кров'янка (krovyanka, Ukraine)
• krvavica (Serbia; Slovenia)
• кървавица (Bulgaria)
• chișcă (Romania)