One of the main Christmas dishes - it kutya. Dish, which is traditionally made from wheat, has a number of rules and secrets that attracted to you curious version of the site Kolobok.ua.
What is kutya?
Kutya - a dish traditionally served at the funeral and during the Christmas holidays (Christmas Eve, Old New Year and Epiphany). However, today during the commemoration preparing kutya rice, while Christmas time in many families still preserve the tradition of preparing dishes of wheat. Kutya is of several types:
• rich usually prepared on Christmas Eve. This dish is lean but wheat it includes honey, nuts, poppy seeds and uzvar.
• generous kutya is prepared in the Old New Year's eve. And when cooking it added milk or cream, and butter.
• hungry kutya - Baptism dish, which is prepared from wheat and Uzvara.
How to eat kutyu
Kutya cooked before sunrise, it is worth a whole day "on pokutі", ie the most important place in the house. It was only in the evening when a star rises and the whole family will gather at the festive table, you can begin to eat it. Up to this point, even the hostess does not have to try it to taste.
Kutia served at the table in a large bowl, a plate or a plate decorated with nuts, candied fruits, candies or fruits of Uzvara. As long as kutyu not eat each family member, can not start dinner.
First spoonful kuti gaining head of the family and go into the street, saying, "frost, frost, walk up to us kutі їsti, and if not ydesh, then i do not ydi on corn, wheat i pashnitsyu all sorts." And let the modern inhabitants (especially urban), this ritual looks funny, but it is very interesting for children. Therefore, grandfather or dad still stands with a spoon to get out on the street or on the balcony. Believe me, the fun and excitement in anticipation of a miracle will get everything!
When the head of the family returned to the table, "communicated with Frost", he dials a second spoon kuti. But before you eat it, thanks God for a good year and wish all the family's health and well-being. It was only after the head of the family eats kutyu, you can eat and all the other members of the household.
After kuti family meal starts. BUT! Kutyu not removed from the table. It is left on all night, spread out around the clean spoons. Spoons should be as much as the dead were in the family.
And on Christmas morning with kuti meal begins again: each family member eats a spoonful kuti and proceeds to meat dishes.
Well, if you are a very modern person and do not believe in Frost and do not like to eat kutyu, then know that nutritionists have long explained all the benefits of this dish. It turns out that this is a traditional dish of winter holidays helps prepare the stomach to receive heavy holiday meals and improves digestion. And this is a fact proven by science, which confirms our long-standing tradition - that's what should be remembered and observed! You light and delicious Christmas kuti!
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