Kutya - the traditional symbolic dish, which is served to the table on Christmas Eve (January 6 - Christmas Eve), and Christmas Day itself.
Although traditionally made from wheat kutya, today it can be made from a variety of cereals. Including rice, and barley, and even barley porridge. It will be equally tasty if... to know some tricks. We know we share with you!
Kutia of wheat uzvar and nuts in caramel
Ingredients:Wheat - 200 g, dried - 200 g, poppy - 100 g raisins - 100 g water - 4 tablespoons Honey -. 4 tablespoons salt - pinch, vegetable oil - 1 tbsp.; for decoration nuts - 0.5 v, sugar - 1-2 tablespoons butter - 1 tbsp.
Cooking method
- Iterate, washed wheat (used to be polished wheat). Soak the wheat overnight.
- Fill wheat 2-3 glasses of water, salt, pour vegetable oil and cook until tender.
- Mak pour boiling water, leave for 10 minutes. The water is drained and rub in a blender until the milk.
- Zaparivat raisins with boiling water. Merge water.
- Dried fruit cook uzvar. To this dried wash, fill with cold water, leave for 2-3 hours (to vitamins were in uzvar) and boil over medium heat for 10 minutes. Uzvar usually prepared without sugar. But if you want a sweet compote - add sugar to taste (but remember that kute will be even honey).
Cooking decoration - walnuts in caramel. Nuts, sugar and butter spread in the pan. Stirring constantly, fry until a pleasant nutty flavor and a light "tan" in the nuts. Ready nuts spread on a paper towel to stack the excess fat. Our decor is ready!
Wheat lay out in a bowl, add the honey, poppy seeds and raisins, uzvar. Stir. Kutyu lay out a beautiful spread on top of a plate and nuts in caramel. Very tasty and beautiful!
Kutya traditional wheat
Ingredients: wheat semolina - 1 st, poppy -. 0.5 v, walnuts -. 0.5 v, honey -. taste, raisins - 1 tablespoon salt, -. the taste
Cooking method
- Fill wheat groats in a ratio of 1: 2 (1 part cereal, 2 parts water) and leave for the night, if you do not have time, at least 2 hours.
- Then, a little salt and put to boil on a small fire. Wheat groats usually boil about 40-50 minutes
- Until cooked porridge, pour boiling water over raisins and poppy. Leave for 10 minutes.
- Nuts chop and fry in a dry pan. If you do not want, can not fry, but then the taste of Christmas kuti will not be as sweet as the smell is not so pleasant.
- Drain the water from poppy and raisins. Grind in a blender poppy. Mack must put jelly.
- In the finished porridge add honey, raisins, poppy. All the mix.
kutya rice
Ingredients: Figure - 1 tbsp, poppy -. 200 g, sugar - to taste, almonds - 100 g seedless raisins - 100 g dried apricots - 20 g prunes - 50 g candied fruit - 50 g
Cooking method
- Figure sort out, thoroughly washed, fill with water (in the ratio 1: 3). Put on fire and cook until boiling.
- Fig recline on a sieve, washed under running cold water again pour rice in the pot and boil until cooked in a large amount of water.
- After that rice is thrown back in a sieve and cool.
- Almond scalding, clear of a peel, chop with a knife.
- Mak pour boiling water, leave for 10 minutes. The water is drained and rub in a blender until the milk.
- Raisins pour boiling water, leave for 10-15 minutes. The water is drained and dry with a paper towel.
- Figure pour into a bowl, add the raisins, sugar, rastorty poppy, almonds. Stir.
- Kutyu lay out in a bowl, top decorate with dried apricots, prunes and candied fruit (as pictured).
Kutia of pearl barley
Ingredients: pearl barley - 200 g, poppy - 150 g, candied - 50 g, nuts (walnuts) - 50 g, honey - 12 tablespoons, cream - ½ art.
Cooking method
- Pearl barley wash, fill with water in a ratio of 1 to 3 and boil until ready.
- Filter and cool.
- Mak pour boiling water, leave for 10 minutes. The water is drained and rub in a blender until the milk.
- Zaparivat raisins with boiling water. Poppy mixed with barley, add chopped nuts, raisins, candied fruit, honey. All we mix with cream. Kutyu lay out a beautiful plate.
Kutya rice with jam
Ingredients: rice - 1 tablespoon sugar -. to taste, berries or fruits from jam - 1 tbsp.
Cooking method
- Figure iterate through, wash, fill with water, bring to the boil.
- Recline on a sieve, washed under running cold water, spread again in a pot and boil until cooked in a large amount of water, and then leans back on the sieve and cool.
- Out jam choose a glass of berries and fruit and gently mix with rice. Add some sweet boiled water or almond milk.
- Kutya ready - ready to be served.
Delicious and fun Christmas to you!