Sujuk, often spelled sucuk, is a dry, spicy sausage of Turkish origin which is eaten from the Balkans to the Middle East and Central Asia. Sujuk consists of ground meat (usually beef, but pork is used in non-Muslim countries and horse meat in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, with various spices including cumin, sumac, garlic, salt, and red pepper, fed into a sausage casing and allowed to dry for several weeks. It can be more or less spicy; it is fairly salty and has a high fat content. Sujuk is usually eaten cooked (when raw, it is very hard and stiff), cut into slices, without additional oil, its own fat being sufficient to fry it.