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Utopenec

Name: Utopenec
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Czech Republic
Ingredients: 4 (thick) Sausage; 2 Onion; 200ml Vinegar; 200ml Water; 2 tbsp Sugar; 1 tsp Salt; 2 Bay leaf; 1 tsp (whole) Black Pepper; 1 Red Chili Pepper; To taste Rye bread

Side Dish

⏱ 20 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Sausages pickled with onion — an essential snack in Czech beer halls.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Utopenec means 'drowned man': thick sausages are slit, stuffed with onion, and pickled in vinegar and spices. The name is said to come from how they look sunk in the jar. Jars sit right on the counters of Czech beer halls, and they're enjoyed with dark bread as a snack with beer.

🌆 Where it's eaten: Big glass jars line the counter of a Prague beer hall, and the server fishes out sausages onto a plate.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Sausage 4 (thick)
Onion 2
Vinegar 200ml
Water 200ml
Sugar 2 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Bay leaf 2
Black Pepper 1 tsp (whole)
Red Chili Pepper 1
Rye bread To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Briefly blanch the sausages in boiling water and let cool.
Slit the sausages lengthwise and tuck in sliced onion.
Bring the vinegar, water, sugar, salt, bay leaf, peppercorns, and dried chili to a boil and cool to make the pickling liquid.
Pack the sausages and remaining onion into a clean jar.
Pour in the pickling liquid and pickle in the fridge for at least 3 days.
Serve with rye bread.

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