How to Make Lithuanian Kugelis - potato kugel

[@pattyyuraitis5071]

I stumbled upon this and realized that I love this stuff ❤️, when My Grandmother made this it was so good..... I'm determined to make this!... Ty 🌹

[@rudyalan2440]

I discovered you can freeze Kugelis. I cut serving size pieces, wrapped it in plastic wrap. When thawed, fried in pan with a little butter and it came out great.

[@GrandmaAnns]

Great tip!

[@davidrobinson4012]

@@GrandmaAnns My friend is from Lietuva, I followed your recipe, thank you! Lots of work but fun. Most recipes have evaporated milk I tried it once and it was just too sweet. Don't think they use it over there (??)

[@GrandmaAnns]

@@davidrobinson4012 I actually use heavy cream :) 50% fat - the more fat the better tasting.

[@davidrobinson4012]

Labas! Ok great! Thanks for the tip.

[@kt47793]

I NEED THAT GRATER !!!😮

[@Tzipporah36]

OH MY GOODNESS!!! I am salivating while I watch this, and I thought "kugel" was a Jewish concept, THIS BLEW MY MIND RIGHT OFF!.. delicious and amazing!,.. thanks.. we are not so different, after all!!!! xoxoxoxo

[@joyceprice4811]

All the people of that region were heavily blessed with potatoes. No one really owns the title if this dish

[@gregdingo]

My Lithuanian Grandmother used to use Speck instead of bacon and she used to add the chopped onion to the frying chopped speck until slightly brown.

[@romasandmo]

On the spot, man!

[@vilkas-maria5666]

Minus the butter in my opinion

[@romasandmo]

@@vilkas-maria5666 Well, it's always great to try something new :)

[@juokuciai2]

Everyone loves kugelis. Thanks for good recipe. We do without butter.

[@maryhayden1819]

I'm going to try this. My grandma was Lithuanian. Thanks for this recipe.

[@GrandmaAnns]

Thank you. One thing I have found is use heavy cream (more fat) plus any Amish rolled butter or Kerry Gold butter. If you can find Idaho potatoes - Burbanks are the best (highest starch content) if you can find them and Norkotahs are most common.

[@maryhayden1819]

@@GrandmaAnns Thanks! :)

[@alandenniston8209]

This is the Lithuanian potato dish ~ Kugelis. There are many tweeks to any recipe and the old Jewish recipes didn’t use bacon however most old recipes called for pork fletch = bacon. This is a great recipe.

[@maryjanecooper5666]

My Lithuanian family always used sautéed cubed bacon and onion in Kugelis. We are Catholic, not Jewish, so bacon was in it. Fewer eggs, also. Most families have some minor differences in amounts used!

[@AstuleAstule]

It is a curious kugelis version. And I love the bacon cutting technique. Aciu!

[@GrandmaAnns]

Cool, thanks! Our grandmothers recipe that beat every contestant at the World Lithuanian Center in Lemont, IL 2 years in a row - just like lasagna there are many ways to make it. Some just taste better

[@AstuleAstule]

@@GrandmaAnns i guess every family has their own one. I will try yours soon. My mom used to used to do it very "vegan" but over time gave in and started putting hot milk and some bacon:)

[@GrandmaAnns]

@Birute00 We usually make it for Thanksgiving and Christmas as tradition. Kugelis the next day is sooo good for breakfast on a cold winter morning.

[@jimschmelzer19]

Awesome. where can i buy that Grinder. Merry X-Mas

[@caseyzilionis85]

Excellent video! Like the suggestions to use a sieve and use the butter wrapping to grease the baking dish. (I use cheesecloth in a large colander to drain the potatoes and gather starch....but the sieve looks easier)...BTW, some of my friends don't drain the mash at all and get delicious results. I haven't tried that, but I'm guessing they reduced the amount of another liquid (ie the cream) and use evaporated Carnation milk instead. Finally the biggest difference between my recipe and this gentleman's is that I fry my bacon with additional chopped onion (this mix is called "spirgučiai")....this adds a bit of mild richness and sweetness to the Kugelis. Totally agree that frying up day-old or frozen kugelis is the best way to enjoy this dish. In fact, after watching this video I have a huge hankering for kugelis so off to the freezer I go!

[@GrandmaAnns]

Thanks @caseyzillionis85 happy to share our recipe which is a 2 time champion winning recipe. - beating out everyone in the Chicago land area in the Kugelis & Krupnikis contest in Lemont IL - the second capital of Lithuania :) Just like lasagna , everyone is a little bit different but all remind us of the love of our grandmas

[@joyceprice4811]

My Lithuanian mom always used salt pork

[@festersuncle6298]

We do the crust last. Butter on top and broil last. After toothpick comes out clean and fully cooked of course. Kugelis is better in the USA. I've tried both.

[@cjpavilon1339]

Kugelis ... Great job ... Just no Bacon on Christmas Eve ----- Breakfast of Champions ..... MMMMM good!!!!!!

[@hemsedalbest1585]

Puikus receptas!

[@MJLpoo]

My Nana was Lithuanian and made this all the time for us, it was so yummy. I wanna make a vegan version but I don't know what to use instead of eggs.

[@samuelrs5138]

Hah, my grandma too. We use 30lbs of potatoes for holiday batches and I've been helping to make it since I was a little kid. You could really skip the eggs as my family's recipe didn't have them, (and like the guy mentioned in the video....) the difference was that we'd bake it, leave it in the fridge to cool overnight, then use a skillet and a little bit of oil to brown both sides.... if you leave it cool it will be solid enough to cut up into slices to fry/eat without it falling apart and you won't notice the eggs missing. Just use a little tiny bit of flour and drain a little of the liquid off the grated potatoes. Cut it into like 1 inch wide and 4 inch long slices and fry it... it's awesome.

[@lacamaronconcola8103]

use chia seeds and flax seeds powder

[@ruciokas]

You don't have to use eggs if you can't eat them, but for texture to be a bit denser you can put just tiny bit , a spoon or twoo of flour or 1 spoon of cornstarch and mix it well. It happened to housewives in life when they ran put off eggs, so this solution was good enough... You dont have tp use lard too, you can use vegetable oil instead butter too...

[@laura_l7827]

You can make them without eggs. Just use hot oat milk, oil, salt and pepper, onions, fried mushrooms and bake in the oven. For the toping can use fried onions with mushroom and oat cream.

[@Talula-Darling]

Where do I find a grater like that?

[@benmillar1366]

I was born and raised by my Lithuanian parents in Marquette park in Chicago . This is my comfort food . What no fried onion's in it?

[@johnflowers4717]

66th and Rockwell LOL

[@missmonika7932]

Ben Millar 69th and Campbell

[@rudyalan2440]

61st and Talman, many years ago.

[@cynthiaphillips8227]

I got a recipe from a friend in Lugan Plaza ... Bacon and onion always

[@cynthiaphillips8227]

67th Western

[@rudyalan2440]

A few tips. I found using RED potatoes do not oxidize as fast. When grating put a piece of the onion in each batch. I use a food processor. Prepare eggs, butter, bacon first, grate potato last. Prep peel and cut potatoes and place in cold water.

[@aprils6359]

Rudy Alan I was thinking to use red - do you strongly suggest a red one?

[@rudyalan2440]

@@aprils6359 Idaho and Red both work but peel and keep in cold water before grating.

[@vilkas-maria5666]

Also Yukon Gold potatoes work very well. And I would do the same, put some onion in there while grading. Or pre-chop onions and put in the bowl and stir while the potatoes are coming through the grater. I never used butter, still taste great.

[@WORKERBEEFORCNY]

Regarding the meat and this being a "holiday" dish. It is a special dish due to the meat! Meat was not a commodity for peasants, so when a holiday came around, with any luck a little meat, usually a pork bone,,, would be had and added to the potato's for that special holiday flavor!

[@WORKERBEEFORCNY]

Topped with sour cream, sour cream on everything.

[@mencken8]

If that pound of bacon is half-frozen, a knife will make WAY shorter work of dicing it. The variation we inherited from my Lithuanian grandmother used milk instead of eggs, and something like tapioca and no potato starch. Drying the grated potatoes was emphasized, accomplished by squeezing out the moisture in a twisted bath towel. Of course, there are undoubtedly many versions of what my father called “Lithuanian Wedding Cake.”

[@bitchpp4650]

5:40 I would already wait for it to cook

[@dalyte62]

Delicious! Man seiles varva :)

[@brin3m]

what size pan is it baked in?

[@Chiamex]

I would call this "Heart Attack Pie." I am descended from Lithuanian parents, and my mom used to make this for dinner when I was young. Unfortunately, she died when I was 15, and I never knew how to make this dish. I don't remember her making this with meat, but she probably used leftover bacon drippings. And we did eat it with sour cream. Honestly, it wasn't one of my favorite dishes, and I believe we were mostly fed this because it was filling. Because I care about my family's health, I will never serve this to them. However, I understand and respect the heritage and culture from which it arose.

[@patcoulter9804]

What make mixer is that.

[@GrandmaAnns]

Grandma Ann's Electric Grater. grandma-anns.com

[@darianroscoe1017]

I would have put some of the mash mix into the starch to thin it. Looks yummy.

[@alandenniston8209]

Bacon, pork fletch is added in most Lithuanian recipe. Jewish versions of this recipe omit the bacon.

[@feldenkrais8404]

It's good you used heavy cream. I thought there more wouldn't be eniuigh fat in the sweet cream butter and bacon grease.

[@ruciokas]

Amazing recipe, just worried about so much butter :D But brilliant.

[@urbanesasquatch]

What about the bacon AND the grease? This is so good.

[@John-kd4ef]

Absolutely! A heart attack and/or stroke waiting to happen. Way too rich for my fragile arteries.

[@ruciokas]

@@urbanesasquatch :D

[@sigitasbruzys]

I WILL DO ANYTHING FOR IT

[@antasm4869]

Wery dilicious for me

[@maryholton162]

My mother used condensed milk in hers.

[@suzannecooke2055]

I'd be interested in this guy's cholesterol count! But never the less...NOM NOM NOM

[@rudyalan2440]

Not something we ate everyday, only on holidays, maybe twice a year. Not many desk jobs years ago so they probably burned it off pretty quickly in the old country.

[@ruciokas]

The thing is , that we Lithuanians are used to potatoes and lard, and lots of it and we are adapted to this kind of food and digesting it perfectly well :D

[@rubystaging237]

I always knew this was a eastern European dish. food to survive those harsh winter. you Go! white boy

[@vilkas-maria5666]

Yup. Northern Europeans use those root vegetables and cold weather crops, I’m one of those Northern European white girls.

[@Violetrn76]

Apparently I’ve been saying Kugelis all wrong

[@carolynw.3035]

For the price of that machine, I would hope there would be NO chunks of potato in the mixture, if that is the case, i can do the same in my blender!

[@dimitrijuszigunovas3782]

what the frank? why egs? no egs. noo

[@GrandmaAnns]

To each is own! Our recipe beat every contestant at the World Lithuanian Center in Lemont each year.

[@kierramom0718]

@@GrandmaAnns I am Lithuanian and have eaten lots of versions of Kugelis...Tried your recipe and It is the best one I have ever tasted!!! Loved it!

[@GrandmaAnns]

@@kierramom0718 Thank you Rita! Have a great holiday!

[@Koxinas]

Zjbs.

[@victoke]

bacon??? not kosher ♫

[@joyceprice4811]

No one said it was

[@TheSable24]

Not a lithuanian version of kugelis.

[@rudyalan2440]

My Grandmother made it almost exactly the same and she was born in Lithuania, came though Ellis Island as a young girl.

[@ruciokas]

Actually it is Lithuanian version, and there are quite a few versions from different regions of Lithuania...

[@vilkas-maria5666]

Rudy Alan same here.

[@vilkas-maria5666]

Rudy Alan My parents and all friends and family that we grew up with were Lithuanian and this is how we made it except maybe not the butter, sometimes some cream maybe I think

[@henrietab2659]

OMG, this recipe is SO wrong. It's forbiden to put bacon in it, when you think about it, you can't put pork in it, beef, turkey or any kind of meat. you can only put chicken in it, or else it won't be kugelis

[@MistyAzrael]

Only if your making it kosher. Please do research. You would find out the there was a big Jewish population in Lithuania. So recipes get modified to one's liking.Please don't be that guy that opens your mouth before you think.

[@henrietab2659]

Misty Azrael First of all, i'm a girl, second, i live in Lithuania and i have never in my life seen anyone make it this way.

[@wec3313]

Henrieta B I grew up in Lithuania and this (with bacon) is exactly how my Mom and Grandma made it.

[@juanrulfo4344]

My grandfather was from Lithuania, born in like 1897, and this is how my grandmother made it for us after they moved to the States after WWII.

[@murrayaronson3753]

This is potato KUGELIS, not potato KUGEL. This recipe is NOT SO wrong.