(Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese), (European Portuguese) or (Catalan) is a generic term for cured meat products. The

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defines it as "intestine stuffed with minced meat, mainly pork; intestine stuffed with diverse ingredients" Illustrating use of "embutido" for all sorts of sausages, fresh and dried, including frankfurters (the Spanish word comes from the verb "embutir", "to stuff"). The term often applies to any of the many varieties of cured, dry sausages found in the cuisines of

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and the former Spanish and Portuguese colonies. In

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, however, due to the fusion of Spanish and

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in the islands, (or ) refers to a type of

meatloaf Meatloaf is a dish of ground meat that has been combined with other ingredients and formed into the shape of a loaf, then baked or smoked. The final shape is either hand-formed on a baking tray, or pan-formed by cooking it in a loaf pan. It ...

wrapped around slices of egg and sausage.

Varieties

Specific varieties include, among many others (see

list of sausages This is a list of notable sausages. Sausage is a food usually made from ground meat with a skin around it. Typically, a sausage is formed in a casing traditionally made from intestine, but sometimes synthetic. Some sausages are cooked durin ...

for the various countries): *

Chorizo Chorizo (, from Spanish ; similar to but distinct from Portuguese ) is a type of pork cured meat originating from the Iberian Peninsula. In Europe, chorizo is a fermented, cured, smoked meat, which may be sliced and eaten without cooking, or ...

/chouriço *

Sobrassada Sobrassada in Balearic or Sobrasada in Spanish, is a raw, cured sausage from the Balearic Islands (Spain) made with ground pork, paprika and salt and other spices. Sobrassada, along with , are traditional Balearic meat products prepared in t ...

from the Balearic Islands *

Botifarra ''Botifarra'' ( es, butifarra; french: boutifarre) is a type of sausage and one of the most important dishes of the Catalan cuisine. ''Botifarra'' is based on ancient recipes, either the Roman sausage ''botulu'' or the ''lucanica'', made of r ...

from Catalonia * Butifarra Soledeña *

Fuet Fuet (, lit. "whip") is a Catalan thin, dry-cured, sausage of pork meat in a pork gut. The most famous is made in the ''comarca'' (county) of Osona and is also known as ''Vic fuet'' (''fuet de Vic'', after the city of Vic, capital of Osona). O ...

from Catalonia *

Salchichón Salchichón is a Spanish summer sausage that is made by smoking, drying, cooking or some combination.Blood sausage A blood sausage is a sausage filled with blood that is cooked or dried and mixed with a filler until it is thick enough to solidify when cooled. Most commonly, the blood of pigs, sheep, lamb, cow, chicken, or goose is used. In Europe and the A ...

(morcilla, morcela) *

Androlla An androlla () is a Galician embutido made from pork. It is similar to the botillo sausages of León. It is prepared from the "cueras" (the end of a slab of bacon). Cueras are well cleaned, without the skin; rib meat is added with portions of ...

from Galicia *

Linguiça ''Linguiça'' or ''lingüiça'' () calabresa is Calabrian chili-seasoned smoke-cured pork sausage seasoned with garlic and paprika, popular in Portugal, Brazil, Lusophone countries, and the U.S. state of Hawaii, created by Calabrian immigrant ...

longaniza Longaniza (, or ) is a Spanish sausage (embutido) similar to a chorizo and also closely associated with the Portuguese linguiça. Its defining characteristics are interpreted differently from region to region. It is popular in the cuisines of ...

Alheira Alheira () is a type of Portuguese sausage, made with meats (usually pork, veal, duck, chicken, quail or rabbit) and bread. Although ''alheira'' derives from ''alho'' ( garlic) and was once used to describe any sausage seasoned with it, not ...

Farinheira Farinheira () is a Portuguese smoked sausage made mainly from wheat flour, pork fat and seasonings (white wine, paprika, salt and pepper). It has a yellow/brown colour and is served in traditional dishes like ''feijoada'' or ''cozido à portuguesa' ...

Botillo Botillo (), Butiellu () or Botelo (, ; also known as in Portuguese) is a dish of meat-stuffed pork intestine. It is a culinary specialty of El Bierzo, a county in the Spanish province of León and also of the region of Trás-os-Montes, in Port ...

/botelo, also known as ''chouriço de ossos'' *

Paio ''Paio'' is a traditional ''embutido'' sausage of Portugal and Brazil. Paio is made of pork loin, seasoned with garlic, salt, and ''Capsicum'' pepper and smoked. It is a hard sausage, usually made in a large diameter, and can be sliced and eat ...

* Chosco de Tineo from Asturias File:Embutidos jamon BEHER Guijuelo Salamanca.jpg, Exposition of "embutidos" File:Embutidos de Requena.jpg, Embutidos from Spain File:Butifarras soledeñas.jpg,

Butifarras Soledeñas ''Botifarra'' ( es, butifarra; french: boutifarre) is a type of sausage and one of the most important dishes of the Catalan cuisine. ''Botifarra'' is based on ancient recipes, either the Roman times, Roman sausage ''botulu'' or the ''lucanica ...

from

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