Scotch egg
Sign in to saveBritish 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
- cuisine
- British cuisine
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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.