Lithuanian cuisine uses ingredients like rye, potatoes, meats, beets, carrots, mushrooms and dairy. Meals are eaten three times a day, with lunch being the largest meal. A typical breakfast includes rye bread, coffee/tea and sandwiches. Soup is a daily part of lunch, often with smoked meats and bread. Common evening meals include porridge, pancakes, noodles and baked potatoes. Cepelinai, a national dish of potato and meat dumplings in sour cream sauce, is popular. Festive foods include white salad of vegetables and eggs and vėdarai, baked sausages stuffed with potato or pork blood and barley. Cooking methods include baking, cooking, stewing

1. Šakiai nursery - kindergarten “Berzelis”
2017 January
Food in Lithuania

2. Lithuanian traditional cuisine is
rather simple, but has a variety
of interesting dishes.
Rye, potatoes, various meats,
beetroots and carrots,
mushrooms, berries, and diary
products are often used when
preparing Lithuanian food.

3. Time of day we eat
Lithuanians usually eat three times per day, and
the most filling meal is lunch: soup, meat,
potatoes etc.
Breakfast and dinner are rather light meals.
Breakfast 7-8 a.m.
Lunch 12 p.m.
Dinner 6 p.m.
One of the oldest and most fundamental staple
food was and is rye bread. It is eaten every day
for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

4. Our typical breakfast:
A cup coffee or tee
And sandwiches with ham,
cheese, jam

5. Lunch
Soup – eaten every day. Rich soups are
served for lunch. Most popular soups are
sauerkraut, beet, potatoes and carrots, with
smoked meat as the base. Meat cooked in
soup is often eaten as a second course. Most
soups are served with bread or potatoes. In
summer, cold beet soup with hot potatoes is
very popular, as are cold sweet soups made
with berries, fruit and tiny dumplings.
The second dish: mostly contains ingredient-
potatoes.
Desserts and starters for lunch are not popular.

6. Typical evening meal
Porridge
Pancakes
Noodles
Baked Potaotes
Dumplings
Curd dishes
Stew
Lašiniai (Lašiniai are slabs of pork underskin fat with
skin, often eaten as an appetizer with bread and / or
onions. Lithuanian lašiniai are a smoked product)

7. Cepelinai-
national dish
Zeppelins are made from potatoes and meat, some
times from potatoes and curd. Their sauce is sour
cream or greaves.

8. Festive food-
White Salad
White salad is made with carrots,
mayonnaise, cucumber, peas, corns,
potatoes, eggs. Lithuanian women likes to
flavour the dishes with some garlic.

9. Festival food - Vėdarai
 Vėdarai refers to baked sausages made from pig
intestines and stuffed with either potatoes or a
filling made of pork blood, barley, and other
ingredients, similar to blood sausages eaten in
Germany or Great Britain.
 Both versions involve stuffing the mix into pork
casings and baking them in the oven. This meal is
usually eaten as a second course.

10. Way of eating
Lithuanians eat home-grown
vegetables, berries collected in forests
and meadows and in autumn all the
garden harvest, fruits and mushrooms;
while in winter and spring they have
shelves loaded with of various jams,
home-squeezed juice, marinated
mushrooms and cucumbers.

11. Cooking methods
 Baking
 Cooking
 Stewing
 Frying
 Grilling
 ....

12. Lithuanian traditional desserts

13. The tradition of eating well is
inherited from the ancestors who
would say,
„he who eats well, works
well“