Sucuk Sausage in Tomato Sauce

Sucuk is a Turkish sausage, halal. Available in most of German supermarkets and in all Turkish ones. 

Made with beef and lots of seasoning. There are sold either mild or hot. The biggest problem is to find small packages of sausages. The regular packages sold contain 6 or more pieces. The bigger, the better.

Cooking them with lots of onions, garlic, peppers and tomatoes and a good pinch of cumin is the best way to enjoy them. But putting them on a grill is a good choice too.

I had a bag of ready made filled little dumplings in the fridge. They were an offer at tge supermarket and I wanted to taste them. They were filled with a tomato cheese paste. Just sauteed in butter for 5 min to get some color on the outside. 

Sorry to say, they were dry and the filling was tasteless. I have thrown most of them out.

Recipe:

150 g sucuk sausage peeled

2 onions, 1 spring onion, 3 garlic cloves

200 g cherry tomatoes, 1/2 can of date tomatoes crushed

1 tsp veg stock paste (homemade), Pul Biber, Cumin, smoked Paprika, Saflor

1 tbsp olive oil, salt and pepper, 1 tbsp hot paprika paste

Start heating the oil and brown the sliced sausages. Take them out. In the fat sauté the onions and garlic, add paprika paste, tomatoes and canned ones.

Now in with the seasoning and the veg stock paste and a little water. Cook for 10 minutes or until the tomatoes are mushy.

Prepare the dumplings or eat the sausages with rice or bread.