Verivorst Blood Sausage appears as a signature dish in 1 Estonia cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Verivorst · Tallinn
Estonian blood sausage made from pig's blood, pearl barley, onion and marjoram in an intestine casing. Traditionally eaten at Christmas with lingonberry jam, sour cream and hapukapsas sauerkraut.
Verivorst grew from peasant winter cookery in the Estonian countryside, where families slaughtered a pig before the Christmas darkness. The pig's blood was mixed with pearl barley, onion, marjoram and stuffed into the intestine casing. The Christmas market on Tallinn's Town Hall Square (Raekoja plats) sells it through December, paired with lingonberry jam and gluhwine. Many Old Town restaurants like Olde Hansa and Rataskaevu 16 also serve it as a year-round homage to the season.
Where to eat in Tallinn:
- Olde Hansa
- Rataskaevu 16
- III Draakon