 A battered sausage, sliced in half after cooking | |
| Type | Sausage |
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| Main ingredients | Sausage |
| Ingredients generally used | Batter |
Battered sausages are a type ofsausage found all across Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
The battered sausage is a standard menu item infish and chip shops across the United Kingdom[1] and Ireland, often described as an "essential" staple of thefish and chip shop menu.[2] They are made up of aporksausage dipped inbatter (usually the same batter used to batter fish), and usually served withchips.[3] A meal of battered sausage and chips is usually known as a 'battered sausage supper' in Scotland andNorthern Ireland.[4]
In Australia, it may be referred to as a "battered sav"[5] (saveloy is a type of sausage). This may also have given rise to the local expression "fair suck of the sav".[6] In New Zealand, they can be found either with or without a stick inserted (similar to acorn dog). In Australia if served with the stick, it is referred to as a "pluto pup" or "dagwood dog" and usually dipped in a generous amount of tomato sauce.[7]
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