Festival food
Made for a festival or a public holiday.
Blood sausageMeat
🇫🇷 France and 5 moreA sausage made with animal blood, fillers and spices, cooked or dried until firm
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
BratwurstMeat
🇩🇪 Germany and 3 moreGerman sausage made from pork, veal, or beef, often grilled and served in a bread roll
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Corned beefMeat
🇮🇪 Ireland and 5 moreSalt-cured beef, often pink, eaten fresh or canned in many countries
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
WeisswurstMeatWeißwurst
🇩🇪 Germany and 1 moreMild veal and pork sausages gently cooked and served warm, a Bavarian morning tradition
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
KielbasaMeat
🇵🇱 Poland and 5 moreA family of seasoned sausages from Poland and Eastern Europe
Sausage or cured food, Lunch, Dinner
OscypekVegetarian
🇵🇱 PolandSmoked sheep’s milk cheese from Poland’s Tatra Mountains
Cheese or dairy food
Pickled herringFish or seafood
🇳🇱 Netherlands and 5 moreHerring preserved in salt and vinegar, eaten across Northern and Eastern Europe
Sausage or cured food, Snacks, Lunch
BotifarraMeat
🇪🇸 Spain and 6 moreA family of pork sausages central to Catalan and Latin American cooking
Sausage or cured food, Lunch, Dinner
SobrassadaMeatsobrasada
🇪🇸 Spain and 2 moreSoft, cured sausage from the Balearic Islands made with pork and paprika
Sausage or cured food
ChistorraMeat
🇪🇸 SpainThin, bright-red sausage from Navarre, often fried and served as a tapa
Sausage or cured food, Snacks, Lunch
UsbanMeatعصبان
🇹🇳 Tunisia and 2 moreNorth African sausage stuffed with rice, lamb, liver, herbs and spices
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Boudin
🇫🇷 France and 5 moreA family of French-style sausages, often made with pork, rice, or blood
Sausage or cured food, Lunch, Dinner
Longaniza
🇪🇸 Spain and 5 moreA seasoned sausage with many regional styles across Spain, Latin America, and the Philippines
Sausage or cured food, Breakfast, Lunch
Nanjing salted duckMeat盐水鸭
🇨🇳 ChinaDuck cured, salted and cooked in the style of Nanjing, China
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Pigs in blanketsMeat
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 1 moreSmall sausages wrapped in bacon, served as a side at Christmas dinners
Sausage or cured food, Dinner
Sai krok IsanMeatไส้กรอกอีสาน
🇹🇭 Thailand and 1 moreFermented pork and rice sausage from northeastern Thailand
Sausage or cured food, Snacks
PrinskorvMeat
🇸🇪 SwedenSmall Swedish sausages of pork and veal, fried and served at festive meals
Sausage or cured food, Lunch, Dinner
KourdassMeat
🇲🇦 Morocco and 1 moreLamb offal sausage, salted, spiced, sun-dried and boiled for festivals and weddings
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
BratwurstMeat
🇩🇪 Germany and 3 moreGerman sausage made from pork, veal, or beef, often grilled and served in a bread roll
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Corned beefMeat
🇮🇪 Ireland and 5 moreSalt-cured beef, often pink, eaten fresh or canned in many countries
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
WeisswurstMeatWeißwurst
🇩🇪 Germany and 1 moreMild veal and pork sausages gently cooked and served warm, a Bavarian morning tradition
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
KielbasaMeat
🇵🇱 Poland and 5 moreA family of seasoned sausages from Poland and Eastern Europe
Sausage or cured food, Lunch, Dinner
OscypekVegetarian
🇵🇱 PolandSmoked sheep’s milk cheese from Poland’s Tatra Mountains
Cheese or dairy food
Pickled herringFish or seafood
🇳🇱 Netherlands and 5 moreHerring preserved in salt and vinegar, eaten across Northern and Eastern Europe
Sausage or cured food, Snacks, Lunch
BotifarraMeat
🇪🇸 Spain and 6 moreA family of pork sausages central to Catalan and Latin American cooking
Sausage or cured food, Lunch, Dinner
SobrassadaMeatsobrasada
🇪🇸 Spain and 2 moreSoft, cured sausage from the Balearic Islands made with pork and paprika
Sausage or cured food
ChistorraMeat
🇪🇸 SpainThin, bright-red sausage from Navarre, often fried and served as a tapa
Sausage or cured food, Snacks, Lunch
UsbanMeatعصبان
🇹🇳 Tunisia and 2 moreNorth African sausage stuffed with rice, lamb, liver, herbs and spices
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Boudin
🇫🇷 France and 5 moreA family of French-style sausages, often made with pork, rice, or blood
Sausage or cured food, Lunch, Dinner
Longaniza
🇪🇸 Spain and 5 moreA seasoned sausage with many regional styles across Spain, Latin America, and the Philippines
Sausage or cured food, Breakfast, Lunch
Nanjing salted duckMeat盐水鸭
🇨🇳 ChinaDuck cured, salted and cooked in the style of Nanjing, China
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Pigs in blanketsMeat
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 1 moreSmall sausages wrapped in bacon, served as a side at Christmas dinners
Sausage or cured food, Dinner
Sai krok IsanMeatไส้กรอกอีสาน
🇹🇭 Thailand and 1 moreFermented pork and rice sausage from northeastern Thailand
Sausage or cured food, Snacks
PrinskorvMeat
🇸🇪 SwedenSmall Swedish sausages of pork and veal, fried and served at festive meals
Sausage or cured food, Lunch, Dinner
KourdassMeat
🇲🇦 Morocco and 1 moreLamb offal sausage, salted, spiced, sun-dried and boiled for festivals and weddings
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Kielbasa: Mariuszjbie, CC BY 3.0, source
- Weisswurst: Burkhard Mücke, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Corned beef: BrokenSphere, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Usban: Touzrimounir, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Bratwurst: Pressestelle BFK Urfahr-Umgebung, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Kourdass: مصطفى ملو, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Oscypek: Pawel Swiegoda ( Paberu ), CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Sobrassada: Slastic, Public domain, source
- Chistorra: Tamorlan, CC BY 3.0, source
- Pickled herring: MOs810, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Botifarra: Javier Lastras, CC BY 2.0, source
- Prinskorv: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Boudin: Guillaume Richer, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Longaniza: Koffermejia, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Nanjing salted duck: NNU10.24100114, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pigs in blankets: brianfagan, CC BY 2.0, source
- Sai krok Isan: Takeaway, CC BY-SA 3.0, source