How to pronounce Skilandis

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ˈskʲɪlɐndʲɪs/. In plain English letters that is SKIH-lahn-dis, 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 Skilandis?

Skilandis is a snack of Lithuania. People usually eat it as a snack. Its main ingredients are pork. It tastes smoky and savory.

Where Skilandis comes from

Skilandis 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.

• 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 Skilandis in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Skilandis:

• Holsteiner Katenschinken · Snack · Holstein (Schleswig-Holstein), Germany

  Holsteiner Katenschinken is a ham from Holstein in Schleswig-Holstein.

• Szeged winter salami szegedi téliszalámi · Snack · Szeged (Southern Great Plain), Hungary

  Téliszalámi, "winter salami", is a smoked salami made from pork and pork fat.

• Speck Alto Adige Südtiroler Speck · Snack · South Tyrol, Italy

  Speck from South Tyrol is a cured and lightly smoked ham.

• Zlatibor pršuta златиборска пршута · Snack · Western Serbia (Zlatibor), Serbia

  Zlatiborska pršuta, also known as Užice pršuta, is one of the national specialities of the Zlatibor area in western Serbia, a dried and smoked meat.