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Scotch egg

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British dish of a soft-boiled egg wrapped in sausage meat, coated in bread crumbs and baked or deep-fried

Key facts

Type
Picnic food
Place of origin
England
Main ingredients
Boiled egg , sausage , bread crumbs

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Wikidata facts

Subclass of
appetizer
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Material used
egg
Image
Scotch Eggs.jpg
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native label
Scotch egg
Commons category
Scotch egg
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Encyclopedic overview

A Scotch egg is a boiled egg wrapped in sausage meat, coated in breadcrumbs and baked or deep-fried.

Origin

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Scotch egg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.