🇨🇿 Czech Cuisine

Utopenci

Pickled Sausages

Prep Time 30 min + 3 days marinating

Servings 6

Difficulty Easy

Calories 286 kcal

Tangy pickled beef sausages marinated with onions, peppers, and spices in a vinegar brine — the quintessential Czech beer snack.

Ingredients

1 Score sausages diagonally on both sides.
2 Layer sausages with onion rings and pepper slices in a glass jar.
3 Boil vinegar, water, sugar, mustard seeds, allspice, bay leaves, peppercorns, and salt.
4 Pour hot brine over sausages. Ensure fully submerged.
5 Seal and refrigerate at least 3 days, ideally a week.
6 Serve cold with bread and mustard.

Did You Know?

The name utopenci means "drowned men" — referring to the sausages submerged in their vinegar bath.