Christmas is one of the main and favorite Christian holidays. Its implementation is associated with many interesting traditions, the origins of which lie in the darkness of centuries. The eve of Christmas is Christmas Eve - an evening of waiting for the star to appear in the sky, which once showed the magi the way to the newborn Baby.
A bit about the rules
The meal on Christmas Eve, he is also a holy evening, special. Among the other dishes on the table must necessarily be juicy, but it is colive - wheat kuta, less often than other cereals, seasoned with sugar, honey, and honey. The process of cooking has long been divided into several stages.
Firstly, Christmas
kutia is made from wheat, which was previously manually pounded with a wooden pestle in the same mortar. Be sure to add warm water to make the husk easier to move away. Then the cereal should be sifted, washed, filled with clean water. And boiled kutya from wheat - friable lean porridge. Secondly, when it cools off, it should be sweetened. Make it a mixture of honey and poppy seeds. Poppy is ground until white juice - milk. Or just grind. Mix with honey or sugar syrup. To make wheat kutia tastier, put raisins, chopped dried apricots or prunes in it. And ground nuts. Boil raisins in advance or even boil to be soft. You can do the same with dried apricots. The approximate consumption of products from which Christmas kutya is made (from wheat): for each glass of cereal, 100 g of poppy and peeled nuts, a handful of raisins, 3 tablespoons of sugar are required. Put some vanilla or vanilla on request.
Milk colo: preparation
A very delicious dish on
Holy evening will turn out if Christmas Kutya is cooked from wheat in milk. Try this recipe, for sure it will take root in your family, and the dish itself will become traditional during the festive feast. Take about 400 g of whole wheat, which you must soak for 6-8 hours to soften. Then crush her no longer needed. Then rinse the cereal, put in a pan with water and let it boil. As soon as this happens, remove the pan from the heat, strain the wheat, rinse, pour over clean water and boil again.
Milk Colo: Completion
As we have already said, according to this recipe, Christmas kutia is prepared from wheat with milk (or cream). So: transfer the boiled porridge a second time to a cast iron, add salt to taste, pour a large amount of whole milk or cream, close the lid and put in the oven preheated to 180 degrees.
When the citrus “comes”, take it out and cool. Rinse, scald and rub 200 g of poppy seeds. Mix with 100-120 g of honey and seasoned juicy. "How to cook wheat kuta so that it does not turn out too thick?" - you ask. If you did not guess right with the amount of liquid, the still warm porridge is diluted with milk or cream. At the end put nuts. And you can decorate the kutia laid out in the dish with whole prunes, stuffed with nuts, slices of candied fruit, dried melon. The goodies have a wonderful taste, right?
Kutia Monastery
In the dwellings of God often the main treat of Christmas Eve is cooked as follows. For each two hundred gram glass of grain, one and a half glasses of water is consumed, 100 g of honey and raisins. Pour the wheat into the cauldron, fill with water, put on a strong fire.
So the porridge should boil for about 3 minutes. Then the fire is removed to medium for 5 minutes, and very small for 3 minutes. After this, kutia from wheat, the recipe of which you are considering, is removed from the stove, wrapped and insisted under the lid for about half an hour. Dilute the honey with a little boiled water. Cook raisins. By the way, honey can be bred by boiling after it. Combine the products, mix, leave to soak. Nuts according to this recipe are put as desired. Mac is not added.
Kutya tender
How to cook wheat kuta so that the grains in the porridge become soft, melting in the mouth? The question is especially relevant in the case when cereals of hard varieties are taken for food. The simplest advice is as follows. When the porridge has cooked and cooled, pass it through a meat grinder.
It will turn out an unusually gentle mass. Brew poppy seeds with boiling water and place on the stove. Boil it too until soft. Take a couple of grains for verification and try to grind with your finger. It turns out - everything, remove from heat, strain from liquid, cool, and also in a meat grinder. Add to the wheat, then put the softened raisins in it. Grind nuts in a meat grinder or in a mixer. By the way, except for walnuts, toasted almonds, peanuts or hazelnuts are very suitable here. Season kuti with honey or sugar syrup, add a little salt. Confectioners emphasize that a small amount of salt in desserts sets off sweetness. Garnish with kutia marmalade. And eat with joy. Yes, the amount of food is about the same as in previous recipes!
Kutia with a pattern
In addition to juiciness, an uzvar, a dried fruit drink with honey or sugar, is always put on the table on Holy Evening. It is boiled from a mixture of apples, pears, cherries, plums. Fragrant, slightly smelling of smoke, sweet, it pleases not only with wonderful taste sensations, but also with the festive mood that it creates.
It is worth noting that many old recipes, describing
how to cook kuta from wheat, recommend that as a basis for a dish, take not ordinary water, but an uzvar. After all, porridge cooked on it acquires a unique fruit flavor, very pleasant. Yes, and honey in such a kutia is less than the usual. And as additional ingredients, i.e. raisins, fruit from compote is quite suitable. Mac is also not required. But the cooled colo laid out on the dish is sprinkled with powdered sugar. Nuts are added at will, and not crushed, but with halves of the nucleoli.
If you have a multicooker: necessary explanations
The perfect fit is obtained in the Russian stove - not a single hostess can argue with this statement. However, kutia from wheat in a slow cooker is no worse. True, in order for the result to be what you need, you must follow some rules.
First of all, the amount of ingredients. Products are
measured with a measuring cup, which should be attached to your device. On average, about 5 measures of water are required for each such glass of wheat grains. Put salt and sugar to taste, the remaining components, too. For example, when cooking, immediately add a teaspoon of sand to the porridge itself, another 2, but already tablespoons, are taken to grind the poppy. Honey is flavored as desired.
Sochi in a slow cooker
In a slow cooker, wheat kutia for Christmas is prepared as follows. Sort the grains, rinse, soak for 3-5 hours, then strain. Fill them with the working bowl of your multicooker, fill with the above amount of water, add salt and sugar, cover and set for 2.5 hours in the "Extinguishing" mode. After the specified time, when the device gives a signal, put the porridge in a colander or sieve so that the glass has excess liquid. Now it's the poppy's turn. It must be steamed for 30 minutes in boiling water, then strain, add 2 tablespoons of sugar and grind with a pestle or blender. Season poppy seeds with kutia, adding raisins soaked in advance and chopped nuts. You can add a little cinnamon - to give the colive a wonderful butter flavor. The dish will only benefit from it. The only thing left is to dilute the honey in warm boiled water, add it to the kuta, decorate the treat on top with pieces of marzipan and halves of nuts.
Kutia berry
Like any popular dish, it has a lot of varieties, except for traditional recipes. After all, any housewife wants her food to be unusual, unique and surprisingly tasty. Therefore, kutia is cooked not only with the addition of raisins, but also other berries, canned in their own juice, fresh or frozen. One of the suggested recipes looks like this. Make loose porridge. Readiness indicator will be for you wheat grains, fully opened, well swollen, with a special creamy taste. Season the cooled kuta with honey or sugar. By the way, if you cook it in syrup, it will turn out to be even nicer. And save on honey. Add the berries you have (throw the canned ones onto a colander first), mix. Sprinkle kuti with powdered sugar, garnish with berries and serve.
The recipe is special
In previous recipes, all the ingredients for the wheat bread were prepared separately. And in this we suggest you go a slightly different way. You need: 400 g of grain, 3 liters of water, 250 g of poppy seeds, 75 g of honey, the same amount of sugar, 200 g of chopped nuts. First, carefully sort and rinse the wheat well. Pour it into a saucepan in which you intend to cook, pour 3 liters of water and leave for about a night or a little less. Then boil the grains in the same water and boil for 20 minutes over high heat. After that, reduce the heat to small and simmer the porridge for 4-5 hours, stirring occasionally so as not to pester the bottom of the pan. Combine poppy and honey, but do not chop beforehand. Make a strong syrup from the amount of sugar indicated in the recipe and a few tablespoons of water. When in the pan almost all the liquid is respected, and the wheat opens well and takes on a cream color, add poppy seeds with honey to the kuti and stir. Drain the syrup and add the nuts. Stir again. After this, remove the pan from the stove, leave to cool. Ready kutia can be decorated with raisins, dried apricots, marmalade, slices of fresh apples or citrus fruits. Serve it should be chilled or at room temperature.
What gourmets say
There is no limit to perfection, especially when it comes to how to cook wheat kuta. You can be convinced of this if you find out that many gourmets propose adding fried sunflower seeds, apricot, pomegranate seeds, and caraway seeds to the juice. And soak raisins or other dried fruits previously not in water, but in sweet red wine. And port, of course, is only a little bit poured into the colive if it turned out to be a little thick. It is also good to pour a little orange juice or sauce, put the zest. So the dish becomes much tastier.