Lithuania / Main
Kugelis
A potato bake from raw grated potato with bacon and onion, served with soured cream.
Ingredients
- Potatoes, floury variety2 kg
- Smoked bacon, diced300 g
- Onions3
- Eggs3
- Milk, hot200 ml
- Soured cream, to serve300 ml
- Marjoram1 tsp
- Salt and pepperto taste
Quantities are auto-calculated from the original recipe as a guide. Items without numbers (e.g. “to taste”) are not changed.
Method 7 steps
Render the bacon to crackling, add the chopped onion and fry it golden.
Grate the potatoes finely and squeeze them lightly, collecting the liquid in a bowl.
Let the liquid stand ten minutes, pour off the water and stir the settled starch back in.
Add the hot milk and the hot fat with the onion and crackling, stirring quickly.
Work in the eggs, salt, pepper and marjoram to an even thick mass.
Pour it into a greased dish in a four-centimetre layer and level it.
Bake at 180 °C for an hour and a half, to a deep golden crust, and rest it twenty minutes.
