What is kutia? Many people love this dish for its sweet taste, some do not like it, and such people prefer to eat it when necessary due to tradition. Of course, it was simply not cooked correctly. But you will certainly like our recipes.
What is kutia? This is a dish of Orthodox cuisine, which is a symbol of the faith of living people in the kingdom of heaven and in the afterlife. Traditionally, our grandmothers prepared this dish from cereals - wheat or rice, and also added honey, nuts or raisins to it. So we prepare it now.
Why is kutya cooked for a wake? Each product taken separately from a recipe symbolizes something. For example, grain means resurrected life, honey has long been considered a symbol of prosperity, prosperity and wealth, poppy symbolizes financial well-being and abundance.
What else to know about kutya
Before we learn how to cook kutia, let's figure out what this dish is. Usually, the owner of the house on the eve of the holidays took a plate in which kutya was placed, walked exactly three times around the perimeter of his house and threw several tablespoons of the dish through a window or door. This symbolized a treat for the spirits. Then the family read various prayers and began to start a meal with this particular dish.
Cooking a traditional rice dish
How to cook kutia for Christmas? Now, some continue to do it on this holiday, although more and more it began to be used only at funeral parties. Depending on how much liquid there will be, either friable or semi-liquid kuta is obtained. Prepared from rice, it turns out tender, which is perfect for little kids to regale.
Traditional option
What is needed: steamed rice, two types of raisins - light and dark, poppy, dried apricots, honey, nuts of any kind.
Cooking technology: wash raisins and dried apricots under running water, pour boiling water to swell and leave to infuse for half an hour. Pour nuts on a hot pan and fry them, stirring, for 3 minutes. After the nuts have cooled, chop them finely with a knife. Pour a little water into the poppy and leave for half an hour. Remove dried apricots and raisins from the water, dry and cut into strips. Raisins do not need to be cut. Drain the poppy seeds, now crush in a bowl or mortar until the juice is white, while remember to add water. Boil the rice to the finished state, as indicated in the package.
Now you need to combine everything together - rice, dried fruits, nuts, poppy seeds and honey. Christmas kutia is ready!
How can I make wheat
You have already learned how to cook rice kuta correctly. Let's try a wheat dish now.
You will need such ingredients: a glass of wheat groats, 100 grams of poppy seeds, 100 grams of walnuts, the same amount of raisins, 2 tablespoons of honey (you can less so that kutia is not very sweet).
Cook the wheat porridge until tender (take 2 cups of water in a glass of wheat grits). Boil the poppy for about 10 minutes, strain and crush it in a mortar. Fry nuts in a hot pan, crush. Pour boiling water over raisins and carefully sort. Mix all the ingredients with honey, arrange in beautiful vases and place in the very center of the table.
Rice with poppy seeds recipe. Second way
How to cook rice kutya with poppy seeds? You need to take 1 cup of rice, 100 grams of poppy seeds, 100 grams of various nuts, 3 tablespoons of honey, a little sugar.
Now we cook the dish itself: pour rice 1.5 stack. boiling water. Then cover it with a lid rather tightly and put on a strong fire to cook. Just three minutes is enough. If you are afraid that it will burn, cook for 6 minutes over medium heat. Remove the flame, and let your rice cook in a saucepan with a tightly covered lid for 12 minutes. Add the rest of the ingredients.
Cooking boil
You learned how to cook rice kuta with poppy seeds. Well, what about a festive table without a blast?
You will need 100 g of dried fruits and berries, 100 g of pears, 100 g of apples, 100 g of cherries, 50 g of plums, raisins - 2/3 cups, 1 kilogram of sugar or honey.
Now we prepare: sort out the dried fruits, rinse them well, put them in a saucepan and fill with water. It should be cooked and at the same time take into account the period for which this or that ingredient is prepared. To do this, first put pears and apples in a pan, then plums, cherries should be laid out, at the end raisins. Everything is brought to a boil. Drain the broth, filter it from the pulp. Now you need to dissolve sugar and honey in it, pour the fruit over it, and then bring everything together to a boil. Put the broth in a cold place, let it infuse for six hours.
Blast to kutye. Second recipe
After you learn how to cook kutia, and cook it, make a boil. Here is the second recipe:
You will need rice (1/3 cup), 5 pieces of dried apples and pears, a glass of sugar, a glass of prunes and the same amount of red wine.
Cooking technology : rice needs to be boiled in a large amount of water, after which it is reclined on a sieve and washed with cold and boiled water. Now washed dried fruits are poured with water, 1/2 cup sugar is put in and boiled until ready. The broth is drained, sugar is added, a thick syrup is boiled. We pour rice with these syrup, add half of the taken wine, mix. The mold now needs to be moistened with water, sprinkled with sugar and lay the fruit in layers, then rice and again the fruit. During serving, turn the pan over, place the broth on the dish, pour over the rest of the wine.
Cooking a dish for a wake
Let’s now learn how to cook a kuta for a funeral wake. Necessary ingredients: enough two glasses of water, about a glass of rice, a little raisins (any amount to taste), sugar (can be replaced with honey), salt and marmalade sweets to taste.
Cooking funeral cereal is quite easy if you know how to cook rice. It must be washed in cold water, add sugar, salt and honey. Next, rinse the raisins thoroughly. Pour it with boiling water and leave it in this form for 10 minutes. After the raisins are infused, dry it or dry with a towel, add to the rice. This kutia is laid out on a plate in the form of a slide, decorated with marmalade sweets on top.
Cooking Kutya for a funeral
Now let's find out how to cook kutia for a funeral. The dish is designed for two people, but you can cook more by simply increasing the proportion. You will need wheat groats (two glasses is enough), 2 times less than poppy seeds, 100 grams of honey or sugar, salt to taste.
Carefully sort out the wheat groats, remove the garbage. After that, it is washed in several waters until transparent. Bring the liquid to a boil, and then pour in the wheat groats there. Next, discard the finished porridge on a strainer, so that the glass is excess liquid, pour cold water over it again. Now put the finished cereal in a pan, but it is better, of course, to take a traditional clay pot. Fill with water, let it boil, close the lid more tightly. After that, put in the oven and wait until the porridge reaches readiness.
Next, you need to rinse a glass of poppy with cold water, pour it with boiling water, then cold water. Put in a mortar and push until white until poppy milk stands out. Now you can add sugar or honey as a substitute for it, as well as a little salt. Here is the resulting mass must be mixed with wheat porridge. You didn’t like that kutia is thick? No problem! Pour in the cooled broth after making the wheat, and the porridge will again become semi-liquid.