Kugelis

Kugelis is a baked potato dish from Lithuania, also known as bulvių plokštainis, a name that translates as potato pie. The base is potatoes combined with bacon, milk, onions and eggs, seasoned with salt and pepper and often flavoured with bay leaves, marjoram or both, then baked in the oven until set. It is usually eaten with sour cream, or with pork rind and diced onions. The cited article places it beside related dishes, naming the Jewish kugel and the Belarusian and Polish potato babka as similar, and lists it under Lithuanian cuisine. This entry describes the Lithuanian potato dish only, not the wider family of baked kugel puddings.