Cepelinai selection at the Bernelių užeiga restaurant: Baked cepelinai with meat, bacon bits, and sour cream; classical cepelinai with meat; cepelinai with cottage cheese; cepelinai with soy meat and fried vegetable bits.

And so they are named after the inventor of the dirigible, Zeppelin,” smiles the ethnologist. She says the dish probably came to Lithuania from Lower Saxony and Prussia. In Lithuania, the first recipes for cepelinai appeared between the wars, in the 1930s, and only became popular after the war.

Cepelinai Meat Filled Potato Dumpling (1 serving) contains 115g total carbs, 100g net carbs, 4g fat, 32g protein, and 559 calories.

Add a little bit of salt. When the water starts boiling, put frozen dumplings and leave it to boil. When the water starts boiling again, use a spatula or a spoon to carefully lift the dumplings from the bottom pf the pot. When the dumplings rice to the surface, cook for another 25-35 minutes.