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Vėdarai

Name: Vėdarai
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Lithuania
Ingredients: 800g Potato; 150g Bacon; 1 Onion; 1 Egg; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; 20g Butter; To taste Sour cream

Main Dish

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Sausages stuffed with grated potato and baked — Lithuania's potato sausage.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Vėdarai are traditional Lithuanian sausages of grated potato mixed with bacon and onion, stuffed into pork casings, and baked. Made at pig-slaughtering time in autumn, they're crisp-skinned outside and chewy inside, served with sour cream and bacon sauce. At home they're sometimes baked in a mold instead of casings.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In the Lithuanian countryside in autumn, thick golden sausages lie on a tray from the oven as the family cuts and eats them.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Potato 800g
Bacon 150g
Onion 1
Egg 1
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Butter 20g
Sour cream To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Finely chop the bacon and onion and fry.
Grate the potatoes, drain lightly, and mix with the fried bacon and onion, egg, salt, and pepper.
Place the mixture on buttered foil and wrap into a log about 4cm across.
Bake at 200°C for 40 minutes, then open the foil and bake 15 more minutes to brown.
Slice and serve with sour cream.

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