What to eat in Vilnius
Lithuanian cooking: cepelinai with crackling, pink cold beet soup in summer, kibinai from Trakai, kugelis, smoked cheese, šakotis and gira.

[ ] Eat cepelinai
    Large zeppelin-shaped potato dumplings with a meat filling, served with crackling, bacon and sour cream. The dough mixes raw grated and boiled potato.
[ ] Try šaltibarščiai
    A vivid pink cold soup on kefir with beetroot, cucumber, dill and egg, with hot potatoes on the side. A summer dish and the country's calling card.
[ ] Eat kibinai
    Oblong pastries of chopped lamb and onion in flaky dough, from Karaim Trakai. Eaten hot, often with a bowl of broth.
[ ] Try kugelis
    A bake of grated potato with bacon and onion, cooked until the top darkens, served with sour cream or crackling. Dense and very filling.
[ ] Try vėdarai
    Potato mixture baked inside a pork casing until browned, served with crackling. A village dish, served in traditional restaurants.
[ ] Try balandėliai
    Cabbage rolls with mince and rice braised in a tomato and sour cream sauce. A home dish that appears on every day menu.
[ ] Try skilandis and cured meats
    Air-dried pork in a natural casing, dense and heavily seasoned, with an EU protected name. Sliced very thin and served with rye bread.
[ ] Try smoked cheese
    A firm cheese smoked over alder, often braided or shaped into a ball, salted and springy. Sold at markets and roadside stalls.
[ ] Try herring with curd
    Salted herring with curd cheese, boiled potato and onion, a base combination of the Lithuanian and Latvian table. Plain and very northern.
[ ] Try mushroom dishes
    Ceps and chanterelles in sour cream, mushroom soup, salted and pickled mushrooms. In autumn mushrooms are a main ingredient rather than a plate decoration.
[ ] Try šakotis
    A tall cake baked on a rotating spit in layers, which gives it its spiky branches. Celebration baking, cut into rings.
[ ] Try tinginys and honey cake
    Tinginys is a no-bake dessert of biscuits, cocoa and condensed milk, and there are layered honey cakes. Home sweets sold by the slice.
[ ] Try skruzdėlynas
    An anthill of fried pastry strips bound with honey and scattered with poppy seed. A celebration dessert, pulled apart by hand.
[ ] Drink gira
    The Lithuanian kvass, made on rye bread: sweet-sour and lightly fizzy. Poured from barrels in summer and bottled in winter.
[ ] Try midus and infusions
    Midus is an old Lithuanian honey and herb drink, alongside berry and herb infusions. Drunk in small glasses with food.

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