''Jagdwurst'' (literally ''hunting sausage'') is a German cooked sausage made with finely ground pork sausage meat and coarse chunks of lean pork or pork belly. Some recipes also include beef. The meat is usually seasoned with salt and flavoured with spices such as

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, pistachio pieces are a common ingredient. ''Jagdwurst'' can be eaten cold, for example in sandwiches, or hot, sometimes cut into soup and other hot dishes. In eastern Germany, fried, sliced ''Jagdwurst'', often coated in breadcrumbs, is termed . The dish is essentially a lower-budget schnitzel conceived in harder times and popular in the German Democratic Republic, using sausage instead of lean meat due to its lower price and higher availability. The more traditional, common preparation of jägerschnitzel comprises an escalope of lean pork or veal served with a mushroom sauce, also known as ('huntsman-style schnitzel').

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