How to pronounce Kugelis

Kugelis is written bulvių plokštainis where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ˈkʊɡʲɛlʲɪs/. In plain English letters that is KOO-geh-lis, 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 Kugelis?

Kugelis is a main dish of Lithuania. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are potato, pork and egg. It tastes rich and savory.

Where Kugelis comes from

Kugelis 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.

• 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.

• Kūčiukai · Dessert · Lithuania

  Kūčiukai, also called šližikai or prėskutė and sometimes known in English as Christmas cakes, are small baked bites made for Kūčios, the traditional Lithuanian dinner on Christmas Eve.

• 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 Kugelis in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Kugelis:

• Potato babka бабка · Main dish · Grodno and the west, Belarus

  Potato babka is a baked dish of grated potatoes, eggs and onions mixed with pieces of smoked or fried bacon, and sometimes sausage, cooked in a pot in the oven until crisp on the outside and soft inside.

• Biksemad · Main dish · Denmark

  Biksemad is a hot dish of the traditional Danish kitchen: diced boiled potatoes are mixed with onions and pieces of meat and fried in a hot pan.

• Tiroler Gröstl · Main dish · Tyrol, Austria

  Tiroler Gröstl is a traditional Austrian pan dish from Tyrol: boiled potatoes and pieces of beef or pork, from the shoulder or neck, fried together with chopped onion and bacon in clarified butter.

• Pique macho · Main dish · Cochabamba, Bolivia

  Pique macho is a huge plate of bite-sized beef and sausage pieces cooked with onions, tomato and hot locoto peppers, served over French fries and topped with boiled eggs.