The kitchen has lots of Lithuania with Polish cuisine, and Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine. Some dishes show the influence of German culinary tradition, and there are also some influences from the Crimean Karaite Jews!
Some soups are popular Lithuanian:
- Barsciai - The Lithuanian version of borsch (beet soup). Cut mushrooms are added frequently, and sometimes the soup may be mixed with butter or cream.
- Bulviniu sriuba kukuliu - A soupminced potato-shaped balls and then boiled in milk.
- Saltibarsciai - A bright pink borscht soup cold, using boiled or pickled beets and chopped vegetables. Often served with chopped hard-boiled eggs, sour cream and hot boiled potatoes.
- Sauerkraut Soup - soup made of sauerkraut. Often flavored with bay leaves, carrots, onions and pork.
- Viewed sultinys - chicken soup
Some appetizers are popular Lithuanian:
- Kiausiniai Idaryti - boiled eggs,cut in half, stuffed and garnished.
- Idaryti pomidorai - tomatoes, cut in half, stuffed and garnished.
- Lardo underskin - Lasiniai. Often, eating sandwiches with bread and onions unbuttered.
- Pirsteliai Prie Alausí - dough rolled up.
Some popular Lithuanian main courses include:
- Balandėliai - cabbage leaves stuffed with meat, then braised.
- Bigos - a stew of meat (various models can be used), sausage and cabbage.
- Cepelinai (alsoknown as "didzkukuliai") - often as the Lithuanian national dish, are cepelinai potato dumplings filled with meat, cheese or mushrooms. They can be with onions, sour cream or spirgai (underskin fat fried pork) garnished.
- Blynai KĖDAINIŲ - potato pancakes stuffed with minced meat.
- Kibinai - noodles with mutton and onions.
- Kotletai - Ground (minced) meatballs with potatoes and sauce.
- Thin pancakes filled with ground (minced) and meat - LietiniaiCheese with cinnamon, or sauteed with minced mushrooms.
- Saltnosiukai - cranberry dumplings.
- Saslykai - cubes of pork, marinated and cooked on a spit over a fire. The Lithuanian version of shish kebab.
- Skilandis (also known as "kindziukas known) - pork belly stuffed with earth (ground) meat and garlic, then smoked and aged.
- Blynai Zemaiciu - potato pancakes.
Some sweets are popular Lithuanian:
- Kuciukai (also known as "slizikai known) -Appetizers traditionally on Christmas Eve (: Kucios Lithuanian) eaten.
- A Lithuanian traditional cake eaten, most often at weddings and birthday parties - Sakotis. It is made of layers of puff paint on a rotating spit in a special oven, and has a distinctive look spikey. It 'easy to use, or decorated with ornaments of flowers and chocolate.
- Spurgos - The Lithuanian version of donuts.
- Zagareliai (sometimes called "chrustai" or "krustai known) -Twisted fried dough covered in powdered sugar.
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