Slovak smoked sausage, slow-smoked over beech with garlic and paprika, served grilled at the Christmas market and Stara Trznica weekend market with rye bread and mustard.

Klobasa is the Slovak smoked sausage tradition, codified across the Carpathian Slovak villages with regional variations in fat ratio, garlic and paprika. Bratislava klobasa is sold at every Slovak butcher and grilled fresh at the Hlavne namestie Christmas market. Slovak butchery tradition holds that klobasa is best smoked over beech wood for at least 12 hours, with garlic, paprika and caraway as the codified spice trio.

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