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Kepta Duona

Name: Kepta Duona
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Lithuania
Ingredients: 4 (thick-cut) Rye bread; 3 cloves Garlic; To taste Oil for frying; A pinch Salt; 60g Melting Cheese; 2 tbsp Mayonnaise; 2 tbsp Milk

Snack

⏱ 20 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Fried dark bread rubbed with garlic — Lithuania's go-to snack with beer.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Kepta duona is the classic Lithuanian snack of dark rye bread cut into sticks, fried, and rubbed with garlic and salted while hot. At bars and pubs it's ordered almost without fail with beer, often with a melted cheese sauce for dipping.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a pub in Vilnius Old Town, a heap of garlicky fried dark bread arrives with mugs of beer.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Rye bread 4 (thick-cut)
Garlic 3 cloves
Oil for frying To taste
Salt A pinch
Melting Cheese 60g
Mayonnaise 2 tbsp
Milk 2 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the rye bread into sticks 1.5cm wide.
Fry in 170°C oil for 1–2 minutes until crisp outside.
While hot, rub with a halved garlic clove and sprinkle with salt.
Melt the milk and cheese in a small pan and mix in mayonnaise to make a dip.
Serve the fried bread with the dip.

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