3 dishes people actually cook in Lithuania: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.
What can you cook from Lithuania? 3 traditional Lithuania dishes, from Cepelinai (120 min, the quickest) to Saltibarsciai (170 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.
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Lithuanian zeppelin-shaped dumplings whose dough is squeezed raw grated potato bound with boiled potato, wrapped around a meat filling.
A Lithuanian grated potato bake set with scalded milk and smoked bacon fat, baked until the crust is dark and the inside stays moist.
A cold Lithuanian soup of kefir turned bright pink by grated beetroot, eaten with a bowl of hot boiled potatoes on the side.
Copper documents three dishes from Lithuania: Cepelinai, Kugelis and Saltibarsciai. Onion and potatoes each appear in more than one recipe. All three are boiled. One of the three needs an oven. Between them they use 18 different ingredients.
The three recipes need 18 ingredients between them, of which 4 are shared by more than one dish. Smoked bacon and sour cream the hardest to find: of the 586 dishes in Copper's atlas, 10 use smoked bacon and 23 use sour cream. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.
Cepelinai is the quickest at 120 minutes. Saltibarsciai is the longest at 170 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 130 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.
Saltibarsciai is rated easy — start there. The full method is on its recipe page, step by step, free to read.
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