Are you observing Christmas traditions, but do not know how to cook delicious and generous kutya? I offer a recipe for barley kutia with dried fruits, poppy seeds and honey.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Christmas kutia is a great Christian tradition. For its basis, wheat, pearl barley and rice are most often used. And before it was made from barley and even rye. Poppy seeds, raisins, nuts, candied fruits, honey, dried fruits, jam are used for dressing. Of all the ingredients listed, boiled wheat, poppy seeds, and honey are the must-haves. And some even cook it with chocolate. Each component in kutya has its own symbolic meaning. Thus, grains are rebirth, and honey is sweet divine food.
Kutya is served on the table with the rise of the first star in the sky, and it is with it that the dinner should begin. Kutia is nutritious and healthy, because has a large amount of trace elements and vitamins. It can even be used as a stand-alone food for your daily diet. And it is worth noting that it is quite tasty! Rich, tasty and nourishing kutia on the tables of ancestors guaranteed a good harvest and prosperity for the coming year! Therefore, the hostesses tried to cook it rich and varied, and each keeps its own signature recipe.
In this review, you will learn how to cook kutya from pearl barley, poppy seeds, prunes, dried apricots, raisins and honey. Such a set of products allows you to get an amazingly tasty dish. Although, depending on your preferences, you can remove or add any other components.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 343 kcal.
- Servings - 2
- Cooking time - 45 minutes, plus the time for boiling barley
Ingredients:
- Pearl barley - 100 g
- Raisins - 30 g
- Dried apricots - 30 g
- Prunes - 30 g
- Poppy - 30 g
- Honey - 2 tablespoons
Step-by-step preparation of barley kutia with dried fruits, poppy seeds and honey, recipe with photo:
1. Put all dried fruits in a container.
2. Pour boiling water over them, cover and leave for 10 minutes to swell and soften.
3. After this time, remove them from the boiling water, dry with a paper towel and cut into medium pieces.
4. Boil poppy seeds with boiling water, stir and leave for 15 minutes.
5. Drain the water through a fine sieve and repeat the same procedure 2 more times. After that, grind the poppy seeds in a mortar or grind with a blender.
6. Sort out the pearl barley and rinse to wash off all the dust.
7. Fill it with drinking water and leave to stand for 2 hours.
8. Discard the barley in a sieve and rinse. Return it to the pot.
9. Fill with water in a ratio of 1: 3 and place on the stove to cook.
10. Boil, reduce heat and continue cooking for 1-1.5 hours until tender.
11. When the cereal has completely absorbed the water and becomes soft, add the crushed poppy seeds to it.
12. Next, pour in the honey.
13. Place the chopped dried fruit.
14. Stir the food well to distribute it evenly.
15. Serve chilled kutya to the table. But if you are used to eating warm porridge, you can reheat it in the microwave.
See also a video recipe on how to cook real kutya. The program “Everything will be fine”.
