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Žemaičių Blynai

Name: Žemaičių Blynai
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Lithuania
Ingredients: 800g Potato; 250g Ground Pork; 1 Onion; 1 Egg; 4 tbsp All-purpose flour; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; 3 tbsp Vegetable Oil; To taste Sour cream

Main Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Mashed potato dough wrapped around ground meat and fried — a filled cake from Samogitia in western Lithuania.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Žemaičių blynai are a specialty of Samogitia in western Lithuania: boiled, mashed potato dough is wrapped around ground meat, flattened, and fried golden. 'Blynai' means pancakes, and they're crisp outside and fluffy inside, served with sour cream or mushroom sauce.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In an old Samogitian farmhouse, potato cakes turn golden in the frying pan and a bowl of sour cream is set alongside.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Potato 800g
Ground Pork 250g
Onion 1
Egg 1
All-purpose flour 4 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Vegetable Oil 3 tbsp
Sour cream To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Boil and mash the potatoes, cool, and mix in the egg, flour, and salt.
Mix the ground meat with chopped onion, salt, and pepper and cook through in a frying pan.
Divide the dough into 8, spread on your palm, wrap around the meat, and flatten into rounds.
Dust lightly with flour and fry in hot oil until golden on both sides.
Serve with sour cream.

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