Recipes · Lithuanian · Cakes
Skruzdėlynas (Lithuanian Honey and Poppy Seed "Anthill" Cake)
One serving has 306 kcal and 5 g protein, and at least a fifth of a woman's daily need of manganese (26%), selenium (24%) and thiamin (22%). Ready in 220 minutes.
- Preparation: 190 min
- Cooking: 30 min
- Makes: 1 serving (74.6 g)
- Difficulty: Medium
- Diets: Vegetarian
- Contains: dairy, egg, gluten, honey
Ingredients
- 25 g Flour, all-purpose
- 7 g Egg yolks
- 5 g Sour cream (grietinė)
- 1.5 g Sugar
- 0.1 g Salt
- 10 g Rapeseed oil, for deep-frying (what the strips take up)
- 22 g Honey
- 4 g Poppy seeds
Method
- Mix the flour with the sugar and salt, add the egg yolks and the sour cream and knead for 5-8 minutes into a firm, smooth dough. Wrap it and leave it to rest for 30 minutes.
- Roll it out very thinly, 1-2 mm, on a floured board and cut it into strips about 3 cm wide and 10 cm long. Cut a slit in the middle of each and pull one end through it to make a twist: these are žagarėliai, the angel wings the anthill is built from.
- Heat the oil in a deep pan to 175°C and fry the strips a few at a time for 1-2 minutes, turning them once, until pale golden and puffed. Lift them out onto kitchen paper and leave them to cool.
- Warm the honey gently until runny, without letting it boil.
- Pile the strips on a plate into a cone, drizzling each layer with honey and sprinkling it with poppy seeds, then pour the rest of the honey over the top and scatter the rest of the poppy seeds over it: they are the ants.
- Leave it in a cool place for at least 2 hours, until the honey sets and holds the pile together, then break off pieces to serve. Skruzdėlynas is a festive cake, made for weddings and family celebrations.
Nutrition per serving
| Nutrient | Per serving | Share of a day's need |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 306 kcal | 14% |
| Carbohydrates | 40.3 g | |
| Water | 14.3 mL | |
| Fiber | 1.5 g | 5% |
| Protein | 4.6 g | 10% |
| Tryptophan | 0.05 g | |
| Threonine | 0.15 g | |
| Isoleucine | 0.19 g | |
| Leucine | 0.35 g | |
| Lysine | 0.2 g | |
| Methionine | 0.1 g | |
| Cystine | 0.09 g | |
| Phenylalanine | 0.22 g | |
| Tyrosine | 0.16 g | |
| Valine | 0.23 g | |
| Histidine | 0.11 g | |
| Fat | 14.7 g | |
| Monounsaturated | 7.6 g | |
| Polyunsaturated | 4.4 g | |
| Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) | 0.01 g | |
| Eicosapentaenoic Acid (EPA) | 0 g | |
| Omega-6 | 3.4 g | |
| Saturated | 2.1 g | |
| Trans-Fats | 0.08 g | |
| Cholesterol | 78.9 mg | |
| Calcium | 76.7 mg | 8% |
| Copper | 0.12 mg | 13% |
| Iron | 1.8 mg | 10% |
| Magnesium | 20.7 mg | 7% |
| Manganese | 0.46 mg | 26% |
| Phosphorus | 93.8 mg | 13% |
| Potassium | 80.9 mg | 2% |
| Selenium | 13.3 µg | 24% |
| Sodium | 46.1 mg | |
| Zinc | 0.72 mg | 9% |
| Thiamin (vitamin B1) | 0.24 mg | 22% |
| Riboflavin (vitamin B2) | 0.18 mg | 16% |
| Niacin (vitamin B3) | 1.5 mg | 11% |
| Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5) | 0.37 mg | 7% |
| Pyridoxine (vitamin B6) | 0.05 mg | 4% |
| Folate (vitamin B9) | 60 µg | 15% |
| Cobalamin (vitamin B12) | 0.15 µg | 6% |
| Choline | 59.2 mg | 14% |
| Vitamin A | 32.9 µg | 5% |
| Vitamin C | 0.2 mg | 0% |
| Vitamin D (D2 + D3) | 15.3 IU | 3% |
| Vitamin E | 2.1 mg | 14% |
| Vitamin K | 7.3 µg | 8% |
Shares of a day's need are for a woman of 30, 165 cm, 60 kg, lightly active, by the US and Canadian Dietary Reference Intakes. SustainBite works out each person's own needs, by the standard where they live: the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations in Norway, the UK's, EFSA's in the EU.
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