Kosova Suxhuk

This being a new-to-me variety of sausage acquired from the Turkish flavoured grocer in Falcon Road, not far from the Grant Road exit to Clapham Junction railway station. Sold for nearly £6, shrink wrapped, but looking fairly serious once out of the wrapping. It may even have seen the inside of a real smoke house at some point.

Kelmendi appears to be a Balkan food distributor operating out of modes premises at Steeler Strasse 52, 45127 Essen, a narrow, tree-lined street, perhaps there in one form or another for a very long time, although the buildings around all look post-war. The club next door exists on Facebook and appears to offer cocktails, cakes and hookahs.

So the address in the paperwork is in Essen in Germany. The Kelmendi was or is a well known tribe of Albanians. The flag is the Albanian flag. Perhaps the Kelmendi think that they should own next door Kosovo as well?

While the sausage is a well known variety of sausage, known in a variety of guises across the Middle East. Mainly beef, some chicken, plus flavourings and smoke. With this one having the additional advantage of being Halal. But what to do with it? One website talked of slicing and frying for breakfast.

So we tried that for a start, using about a quarter of the total. Peeled, with the skin coming off in two layers, the outer one translucent and the inner one some kind of paper.

Not bad at all, if a little spicy by our standards. At which point, BH thought of spicy sausage with lentils, once a regular part of her repertoire.

So after an unsuccessful Wellingtonia hunt in Leatherhead, to be reported on in due course, we returned to spicy sausage stew, using up half of what had been left after breakfast. What was left of the stew polished off on bread later.

One minor complaint, BH forgot to skin the sausage before frying it. The idea being to fry it and add to the lentils a few minutes before serving. The sausage meat was ground very fine and we thought that it might disintegrate if one cooked it with the lentils for the duration. In any case not necessary, as it looked as if it had already been cooked once during manufacture.

References

Reference 1: https://balkaninsight.com/2011/03/28/suxhuk/.

Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sujuk.

Reference 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelmendi_(tribe).

Reference 4: https://kelmendi-gmbh.de/.