Is Black Pudding Halal?

Black pudding is a blood sausage from Britain and Ireland: pork (or occasionally beef) blood mixed with pork fat or beef suet, oatmeal or barley, onion and spices, cooked in a casing and then sliced and fried. It is a fixture of the full breakfast. It is Haram, and for two separate reasons.^[2][1]

Why it is Haram

1. The blood. The verse that prohibits pork also prohibits blood that has flowed from an animal. Black pudding is made from exactly that, so it would be Haram even if the blood came from a Halal-slaughtered cow or sheep.
2. The pork. The blood is usually pig's blood, and the fat is usually pork fat. Some recipes use beef or sheep's blood, or beef suet, but that only removes one of the two problems.

This is why the page gives no "if verified" route: no version made with blood can be Halal.

The same thing under other names

Blood sausages are eaten across Europe, and every one of them has the same answer:

• Morcilla in Spain and Latin America,
• Boudin noir in France,
• Blutwurst in Germany,
• Kaszanka in Poland,
• Drisheen in Ireland.

Vegetarian black pudding

Some producers make a vegetarian or vegan black pudding, using beans, oats and spices, with no blood. It is a different product that shares a name. Check that the pack says vegetarian and read the rest of the ingredient list as usual; if it is genuinely blood-free and meat-free, the blood ruling does not apply to it.

At breakfast

In a café, black pudding is fried on the same grill as the eggs, mushrooms and tomatoes. Ask for your food to be cooked separately if that matters to you. The rest of the plate has its own page: see the full English breakfast. Its paler cousin, white pudding, has no blood but is usually made with pork.