How to pronounce Kūčiukai

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /kuːˈtʃʲʊkɐɪ̯/. In plain English letters that is koo-CHOO-kai, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Kūčiukai?

Kūčiukai is a dessert of Lithuania. People usually eat it on festive days. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour. It tastes sweet.

Where Kūčiukai comes from

Kūčiukai is one of 13 signature dishes of Lithuania on this map.

• Cepelinai · Main dish · All Lithuania

  Cepelinai are large oval dumplings of grated raw and boiled potato, filled with minced pork or with dry curd cheese, and served with a sauce of sour cream, fried onions and bacon bits.

• Kugelis bulvių plokštainis · Main dish · Lithuania

  Kugelis, also called bulvių plokštainis, "potato pie", is a Lithuanian potato bake.

• Skilandis · Snack · Lithuania

  Skilandis, also called kindziukas, is a Lithuanian matured sausage and one of the country's most popular traditional smoked meats.

• Šakotis · Dessert · Lithuania

  Šakotis, "branched" or tree cake, is a tall, hollow spit cake and a national Lithuanian cake; it is shared with the neighbouring parts of Poland, where it is called sękacz and appears on this map under Poland, and of western Belarus.

• Krupnikas · Drink · Lithuania

  Krupnikas is a sweet honey liqueur made from grain spirit, honey and herbs, popular in Lithuania and in Poland, where it is called krupnik.

• Šaltibarščiai · Soup & stew · Vilnius

  Šaltibarščiai is a cold soup of kefir or sour milk coloured bright pink by grated cooked or pickled beetroot, with cucumber, dill, green onions and chopped hard-boiled egg.

Food of Lithuania

Dishes like Kūčiukai in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Kūčiukai:

• Sękacz · Dessert · Suwałki region (Podlasie), Poland

  Sękacz is a spit cake: a batter of butter, eggs, flour, sugar and cream is poured, layer after layer, onto a wooden roller or long cone that turns on a spit over an open fire, so that the cake grows in rings around it.

• Bankukha банкуха · Dessert · Grodno region (Svislach district), Belarus

  Bankukha is a tall cake of egg-rich dough baked over an open fire, most often for weddings.

• Kutia кутя · Dessert · Ukraine

  Kutia is boiled grains of wheat or barley mixed with honey, the ritual dish of the Slavic winter festive cycle.

• Runeberg torte runebergintorttu · Dessert · Porvoo (Uusimaa), Finland

  Runebergintorttu is a small cylindrical cake of about 100 grams, flavoured with almonds and arrack punsch or rum, topped with raspberry jam inside a ring of white icing.