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Dishes made with blood

6 dishes from around the world that list blood as a main ingredient.

Blood sausageMeat 🇫🇷 France and 5 moreA sausage made with animal blood, fillers and spices, cooked or dried until firm Main dish, Lunch, Dinner

Black puddingMeatmarag dhubh 🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 1 moreA sausage made from animal blood, fat and cereal, cooked in a casing Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch

BotifarraMeat 🇪🇸 Spain and 6 moreA family of pork sausages central to Catalan and Latin American cooking Sausage or cured food, Lunch, Dinner

Kishka 🇵🇱 Poland and 5 moreStuffed sausage with meat, grain or potato, found across Eastern Europe and Jewish cooking Main dish, Breakfast, Dinner

Boudin 🇫🇷 France and 5 moreA family of French-style sausages, often made with pork, rice, or blood Sausage or cured food, Lunch, Dinner

Nam tokMeatນ້ຳຕົກ 🇱🇦 Laos and 1 moreA Lao and Thai dish that can be a spicy blood-enriched soup or a grilled meat salad Soup, Lunch, Dinner

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The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Nam tok: Xufanc, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Black pudding: Alexbrn, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Botifarra: Javier Lastras, CC BY 2.0, source
Kishka: stu_spivack, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
Boudin: Guillaume Richer, CC BY-SA 2.0, source

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