Kokoreç

Turkey · Middle East and North Africa

Short description: This grilled offal street food is chopped, heavily seasoned, and often served as a sandwich.
Ingredients: Lamb intestines, optional sweetbreads or other offal, bread, tomato, oregano, cumin, chili flakes, salt, black pepper, and thyme.
Cultural note: It is associated with late-night street stalls, grill counters, and quick meals built around spice and smoke.
Common misconception: It is not simply sausage; the distinctive texture comes from cleaned intestines wrapped and grilled on a spit.

image credit

creator:: William Neuheisel
source:: Wikimedia Commons
license:: CC BY 2.0
modified:: Copied from Wikimedia Commons, tightly cropped/resized, and re-encoded as a local JPEG for Gochizu review; no dish content edits.