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.