‘Yes, there are pigs in blankets but they are organic chipolatas wrapped in thin slices of pancetta and cooked in the oven.’
‘Instead, thick, succulent breast escalopes had been pan-fried and sent out to do their work on the waistline with black pudding farei and chipolatas.’
‘This means that the average British adult is likely to devour a staggering 4kg of sausages, or the equivalent of over 140 chipolatas this year alone.’
‘Heat the oil in a pan and add the halved chipolata sausages and cook for about 1 minute.’
‘Tonight we had a leg of lamb, with roast potatoes, carrots, peas, chipolatas, with cherry pie (half for me, third for my mum, rest for my dad).’
‘The nightmare of Christmas isn't fretting over burning your chipolatas and drowning the Brussels sprouts - it's making sure you've covered all bases when it comes to buying presents.’
‘Instead of the dulcet sounds of ‘Silent Night’, there are imprecations emanating from the kitchen as the cook discovers a tub of cream in the fridge dripping all over the chipolatas.’
‘The Pieman's new venture is a website offering the kind of non-filling food on offer at meetings and conferences - chipolatas with honey and mustard dip, that kind of thing.’
‘The ‘little taste of Cumbria’ prepared by John Kay included smoked salmon, duck, and chipolatas.’
‘I earned enough from the dole and busking to live on salt and vinegar crisps, Mars bars and beans and chipolatas on toast.’
‘The type of man who would rather die than be seen in the kitchen is only too happy to light a barbecue and check on his chargrilled chipolatas.’
‘I've been busy eating chipolatas, and telling my nine year old nephew to stop drinking my Tanqueray.’
‘I've got a hip flask of whisky packed, along with a Tupperware box of chipolatas.’
‘Kids love them, especially the small variety, chipolatas and cocktail franks.’
‘I could see his white Nike shoes, his sharply creased trousers, the powerful veined forearms and blacksmith's hands, the fingers round and surprisingly short, like chipolatas.’
‘Pancakes, chipolatas or ice cream under the cereal are some of the suggestions for this surprise breakfast, and if they don't get there on time it's ordinary breakfast.’
‘Harry Campbell found a reference in the Glasgow Herald last Christmas to a seasonal offer from the Safeway supermarket chain of outdoor-reared pork chipolatas.’
‘The chipolatas were tiny, they could easily slip down between the grill, falling into the molten hot-bead-netherworld below.’
‘Place the parsnips on the middle shelf of the oven (with the potatoes on the top), and the chipolatas on the lowest shelf or floor of the oven.’
‘Then roast chicken with bread sauce, chipolatas, bacon.’
Origin
Late 19th century from French, from Italian cipollata ‘a dish of onions’, from cipolla ‘onion’.
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