Category: Lithuanian Recipes
The potato reached Lithuania late and then took the kitchen over completely. Grated raw, squeezed dry and bound with its own starch, it becomes cepelinai, dumplings the size and shape of a zeppelin, which is where the name comes from. The same grated potato, thinner, becomes bulviniai blynai.
The Lithuanian recipes here mostly come with a lighter counterpart.
Soups. Saltibarsciai, the cold beet and kefir soup that turns an improbable pink and is eaten all summer, with hot potatoes on the side rather than in the bowl.
Dumplings. Cepelinai, and koldunai, the smaller half-moon dumplings closer to their Slavic neighbours.
Main dishes. Kibinai, the mutton pastries the Karaim community brought to Trakai in the fourteenth century and still bake there; and balandeliai, cabbage rolls whose name means little doves.
This is the newest and smallest of the four kitchens here, and it is still filling out. If you have cooked a Lithuanian dish that belongs on this list, the contact page is open.
Related elsewhere on the site: stuffed cabbage across the region, and four potato pancakes compared.
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~25 minutes | Total time: ~1 hour (includes cooling) | Serves: 6 | Difficulty: Easy Quick Overview Simmer cranberries in water until they burst and release…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~40 minutes | Total time: ~3 hours (includes dough rising) | Serves: 8 | Difficulty: Easy Quick Overview Proof yeast in warm water, then mix a…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: about 20 minutes | Marinating time: 6–8 hours or overnight | Serves: 4 | Difficulty: Easy Quick Overview Peel the skin off the herring fillets if…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Prep: 20 minutes (plus 1–4 hours soaking) | Cook: about 50 minutes | Total: about 1 hour 10 minutes, plus soaking | Serves: 5 | Difficulty: Easy Quick…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~45 minutes | Total time: ~2 hours 30 minutes (with rising) | Serves: 6 (12 kibinai) per recipe | Difficulty: Medium Quick Overview Make the traditional…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~45 minutes | Total time: ~2 hours 30 minutes (with rising) | Serves: 6 (12 kibinai) | Difficulty: Medium Quick Overview Make a soft yeast dough…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~1 hour 15 minutes | Total time: ~2 hours 15 minutes | Serves: 6 (14–16 rolls) | Difficulty: Medium Quick Overview Simmer a whole cabbage and…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~30 minutes | Total time: ~45 minutes | Serves: 4 (about 14–16 pancakes) | Difficulty: Easy Quick Overview Grate floury potatoes and an onion finely Drain…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: about 1 hour 15 minutes | Total time: about 1 hour 45 minutes | Serves: 8 (about 80–90 small dumplings) | Difficulty: Medium Quick Overview Knead…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: about 1 hour 15 minutes | Total time: about 1 hour 45 minutes | Serves: 8 (about 80–90 small dumplings) | Difficulty: Medium Quick Overview Knead…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: about 1 hour 30 minutes | Total time: about 2 hours 10 minutes, plus cooling the boiled potatoes | Serves: 4 (8 dumplings) | Difficulty: Advanced…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: about 25 minutes | Total time: about 2 hours 15 minutes, including cooling and chilling | Serves: 4 | Difficulty: Easy Quick Overview Cook the beets,…
