Food in LIthuania

akiai nursery - kindergarten Berzelis2017 JanuaryFood in Lithuania

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.

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.

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

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.

Typical evening mealPorridgePancakesNoodlesBaked PotaotesDumplingsCurd dishesStew

Lainiai (Lainiaiare slabs of pork underskin fat with skin, often eaten as an appetizer with bread and / or onions. Lithuanianlainiaiare a smoked product)

Cepelinai-national dishZeppelinsare madefrom potatoesand meat, some times from potatoes and curd. Their sauce is sour cream or greaves.

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.

Festival food - VdaraiVdarairefers 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.

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.

Cooking methodsBakingCookingStewingFryingGrilling....

Lithuanian traditional desserts

The tradition of eating well is inherited from the ancestors who would say,

he who eats well, works well