Travelling through Lithuania in the summer you’ll find this dish in every local cuisine cafe or restaurant, and every grandma will share her own recipe on how to make the soup. The preparation is simple and hardly ever varies, but everyone has a specific way they like to eat their soup and are very vocal about it! They even fight about the real shortened version of “Šaltibarščiai”, whether to say “Šaltekai” or “Šaltibai”, so you can see that this pink cold soup holds quite a special place in our hearts! You must try it – it’s simply amazing!
It’s the perfect new accessory for a pink cold soup fan or a gift for a Lithuanian living abroad, to carry this piece of remembrance about their home country wherever they may be in the world.