January 13, Ukrainians celebrate Malanka and gather at the family dinner at Christmas Eve. What should be on the table 13 January to old Ukrainian traditions.
In a series of Christmas winter holidays It occupies a special place January 13 and 14 - Holidays Malanka and Basil. Vasil, 14 January - The Old New Year, which has a long tradition and celebration ceremonies and dates back even to pre-Christian times. On the eve of the Old New Year, folk traditions celebrate Christmas Eve or the feast Malanka.
Name Christmas Eve speaks for itself - on the table in this day should be a generous food, has long been the mistress prepared a special dinner with an abundance of food. It is believed the more generous and richer will table this evening, the richer will be the year for home owners. Due to the fact that the post these days has not adhered to, the dishes were hearty, meat, variety. Find out what dishes traditionally should be on the table at Christmas Eve.
1. generous kutya
As well as in Svyatvecher, a Christmas Eve kutyu prepared from wheat, with the addition of dried fruit, honey, raisins, nuts. How to cook properly kutyu you learn here.
2. pies
Cakes with various fillings have been central to the holiday table. In the description of folk traditions stating that the owner prepared as pies, my father hid them from the children at the table - this was a mountain of cakes on the holiday table. Pies can be cooked with various fillings - meat, cabbage, apples, eggs and greens, etc... - to your taste. Traditionally, many families under the Old New Year cake baked with happiness - put a coin into the cake, who will get it, to expect a happy year. This tradition came to us from the Greeks, who at St. Basil bake a cake with a coin vasilopita.
How to cook a cake covered royally with mushrooms, chicken and rice, you learn here.
How to cook a traditional cake "with happiness" vasilopita, learn here.
3. Meat dishes
Baked ham, homemade sausage, ham, roast suckling pig, and so on. D. Of course, it is hardly modern housewife make homemade sausage or baked suckling pig. But you can prepare delicious grilled meats - boiled pork or make Ukrainian kruchenyky - small sausages, stewed in sauce - very simple and delicious.
How to cook Ukrainian kruchenyky with mushrooms and cheese find here
Step by step recipe for a holiday ham, you will learn here
4. Uzvar
Ceremonial drink from dried fruits as well as Christmas, has long served on Christmas Eve. Uzvara to fit various dried fruits: apples, pears, raisins, prunes, cherries, dried apricots - the more variety of dried fruit, the richer and more interesting to get a taste of the drink.
5. Jelly
Another traditional dish of Ukrainian cuisine, which is prepared by the hostess necessarily to the Old New Year. How to prepare the filler in the eggshell find here
6. Vareniki
What holiday without Ukrainian dumplings: with potatoes, mushrooms, cabbage, cottage cheese. How to cook delicious dumplings in Poltava, learn here.
7. Borsch with donuts
Traditional Ukrainian borsch with donuts - not only daily, but also festive dish that was indispensable and Christmas Eve. How to cook Ukrainian borsch with donuts you will learn here.
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