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What is Haggis ?
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This article is about the Scottish dish. For the card game, see Haggis (card game). For the tour operator, see HAGGiS Adventures.
Haggis
Scotland Haggis.jpg
Haggis displayed for sale
Type
Pudding
Associated national cuisine
Scotland
Main ingredients
Sheep's heart, liver and lungs, and stomach (or sausage casing); onion, oatmeal, suet, spices
Cookbook:Haggis Haggis
Haggis on a platter at a Burns supper
A serving of haggis, neeps, and tatties
Haggis is a savoury pudding containing sheep's pluck (heart, liver and lungs); minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, traditionally encased in the animal's stomach[1] and nowadays often in an artificial casing. According to the 2001 English edition of the Larousse Gastronomique: "Although its description is not immediately appealing, haggis has an excellent nutty texture and delicious savoury flavour".[2]
It is believed that food similar to haggis (though not so named), perishable offal quickly cooked inside an animal's stomach, all conveniently available after a hunt, was eaten from ancient times.[3][4][5]
Although the name "hagws" or "hagese" was first used in England c1430, the dish came to be considered traditionally Scottish, even the national dish,[6] as a result of Scots poet Robert Burns' poem
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