Sukalki is a typical dish of
Basque cuisine. It is typically a beef or beef
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.
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stew or casserole with potatoes and other vegetables.
It is a complete meal that can be served with no side dishes but only bread.
The dish is the focus of multiple cooking competitions.
Ingredients
Sukalki consists of meat, onion, carrot, choricero peppers, peas, potato, broth, oil, and garlic, with salt and sauce to taste.
Importance
According to
''El Espagnol'', sukalki is the most popular potato and meat stew in Basque cuisine.
In Basque cultural celebrations, it is customary to hold cooking competitions, wherein sukalki is often used as the standard meal to be made.
The
Mungia competition, the namesake of the
Sukalki Eguna gastronomic festival, has been held since 1964 and is one of the largest; in 2022 it had nearly 200 entries.
See also
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Marmitako
Tuna pot, marmitako in Basque Country and marmita, marmite or sorropotún in Cantabria is a fish stew that was eaten on tuna fishing boats in the Cantabrian Sea. Today it is a simple dish with tuna, potatoes, onions, peppers, and tomatoes.
Th ...
, another Basque dish which is often competed over
References
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Meat dishes
Basque cuisine