Lithuania recipes
Recipes from Lithuania: home cooking with cultural background, ingredient substitutes and step-by-step instructions.
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Cepelinai: Lithuania's Giant Potato Dumplings with Meat and Sour Cream Sauce
A proper recipe for cepelinai (didžkukuliai), the national dish of Lithuania: airship-shaped giant dumplings of raw and boiled potato wrapped around a meat filling. Covers the dough proportions, recovering the starch, shaping, gentle simmering and the sour cream and bacon sauce.
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Kūčiukai: Lithuanian Christmas Eve Poppy Seed Biscuits
How to make kūčiukai, the little poppy seed pastries eaten on Lithuanian Christmas Eve. Covers proofing temperature, baking color, poppy seed milk, substitutes, storage, and bringing them back to life the next day.