Smoked Zywiec Sausage

Smoked Zywiec Sausage
(Kiełbasa żywiecka)

This is a smoked pork sausage in the old Żywiec style from southern Poland. Firmer than a breakfast link, thinner than a giant deli log, and built to slice.

The pork is seasoned with garlic and spice, stuffed, then hardwood-smoked until fully cooked. The outside takes on a dark smoke. The inside stays porky and clean. It is the sausage you cut for a plate with bread and mustard, or warm in a pan until the skin tightens.

If you already know Krakow sausage, this sits next to it: same idea, different house style. A little more rustic. Made for everyday eating, not for looking pretty in a case.