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Lithuanian potato dumplings with ground pork

Name: Lithuanian potato dumplings with ground pork
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Eastern European
Ingredients: 12 Potatoes; 1 Egg; 65 g All-purpose flour; 300 g Ground pork; 1 tsp Cornstarch; to taste Salt and pepper

These Lithuanian dumplings combine mashed and grated potatoes with a ground pork filling. Boil and serve with sour cream or bacon. Serves 4.

Eastern European cuisine · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 55 min
Servings: 4 servings
Difficulty: Easy
Cuisine: Eastern European

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These Lithuanian potato dumplings with ground pork have a dough made from mashed potatoes and raw grated potatoes with the excess liquid squeezed out. The starch that settles out of the potato liquid is added to the dough along with flour and an egg. Small rounds of dough are filled with a spoonful of seasoned ground pork and shaped into dumplings. Serve them with sour cream or with melted butter, bacon, and sautéed onions.

Ingredients

4 servings

Potatoes 12
Egg 1
All-purpose flour 65 g
Ground pork 300 g
Cornstarch 1 tsp
Salt and pepper to taste

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Instructions

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Boil half the potatoes and mash them. Grate the remaining potatoes and squeeze out the excess liquid.
Combine the mashed and grated potatoes. Add the starch from the potato liquid, the cornstarch, flour, egg, and pepper, and mix thoroughly.
Shape the dough into small, flat rounds. Place a tablespoon of ground pork in the center of each, fold the dough over the filling, and shape into dumplings.
Bring a pot of water to a boil, add the dumplings, and boil for 15 minutes.

Tip: Catch the liquid from the grated potatoes in a bowl and let it stand for a few minutes. Carefully pour off the water, then stir the white starch left at the bottom into the dough.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per serving, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 623 kcal
Protein: 25 g
Carbohydrates: 92 g
of which sugars: 3.8 g
Fat: 18 g
of which saturates: 6.4 g
Fiber: 9.9 g
Salt: 0.7 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Litovské zemiakové pirohy s mletým mäsom