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Kugelis

Name: Kugelis
Total time: 100 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Lithuania
Ingredients: 1.2kg Potato; 150g Bacon; 1 Onion; 3 Egg; 150ml Milk; 2 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; 20g Butter; To taste Sour cream

Main Dish

⏱ 100 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Grated potato and bacon baked firm in the oven — Lithuania's potato pudding.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Kugelis is a Lithuanian home dish of grated potato mixed with onion, bacon, egg, and milk and slowly baked until set. It's crisp outside and chewy inside, eaten with sour cream. On weekends and holidays it's baked in a big tray and cut for the whole family.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Sunday at a Lithuanian farmhouse, a big tray bake from the oven is cut into squares and drenched in sour cream.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Potato 1.2kg
Bacon 150g
Onion 1
Egg 3
Milk 150ml
Salt 2 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Butter 20g
Sour cream To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the bacon into strips and fry with the chopped onion until crisp.
Grate the potatoes and immediately add warm milk to prevent browning.
Mix in the eggs, salt, pepper, and the fried bacon and onion with their fat.
Pour into a buttered ovenproof dish.
Bake at 180°C for 1 hour 15 minutes until golden, then cut and serve with sour cream.

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