chipolata

A chipolata ( (British) or (American)) is a type of small sausage, usually containing minced pork, or sometimes minced chicken.

==History== In the Oxford Companion to Food, Alan Davidson gives the derivation of the name as the Italian , meaning a dish containing onion ( being the Italian for onion), but adds that the sausages called chipolatas contain no onions: "the origin of this usage is a mystery". Both Davidson and the Oxford English Dictionary give instances of early French and English uses of the Italian-derived term to mean dishes containing onions and small sausages. (1740) gives a recipe for chicken wings à la chipolata, which includes – small blanched onions and little sausages gently cooked in fat.