6th virtual meeting
„Food in historical
tradition and
heritage“
Instituto „Ugo Mursia“ Carini
23/02/2021- 26/02/2021
Šaltibarščiai/ cold
beetroot soup
• You will experience the real taste of
Lithuanian cuisine if you taste this easy-to-
cook soup, especially popular in Lithuania –
„šaltibarčiai“ (cold beetroot oup, pink soup)!
• The soup has a shocking bright pink colour
due to the natural beetroot juice and an
incredibly fresh taste due to the most
important ingredient in the cold soup – kephir,
recognized by nutritionists as one of the
healthiest products in the world.
• Šaltibarščiai is also knows as Lithuanian
Gazpacho
It‘s so famous that we even put it on
clothes
Ingredients
• boiled & cooled beetroot
• Cucumber
• Spring onions or green onion leaves
• Fresh dill
• Hard-boiled eggs
• Kefir (thick natural yoghurt and buttermilk)
Lithuanian šaltibarščiai is traditional served
with a side of warm, boiled potatoes.
Dumplings
• filled dumplings made by
wrapping unleavened dough
around a savoury or sweet filling
and cooking in boiling water.
They are often then pan-fried
before serving.
Ingredients
• Flour
• Warm water
• Oil
• Forest mushrooms
• Onion
Tinginys
• Tinginys is a popular dessert
in Lithuania. The dish is
typically prepared with biscuits
or crackers, cocoa, butter,
sugar and solidified milk.
Tinginys in Lithuanian also means a sloth
Cepelinai/ • Cepelinai are dumplings made from grated and
riced potatoes and stuffed with ground meat, dry
zeppelins curd cheese or mushrooms. It has been
described as a national dish of Lithuania.
• Black rye bread made without yeast in a real
Black bread oven.
• Our rye bread has been recognised as part of
our national heritage.
• Lithuanian šakotis or raguolis is a Polish, Lithuanian
and Belarusian traditional cake. It‘s a cake made of
Šakotis butter, egg whites and yolks, flour, sugar, and cream,
cooked on a rotating spit in an oven or over an open
fire.
Thank you for your attention!