Christmas is celebrated on January 7 according to the Julian calendar.. January 6, on the eve of the holiday, celebrate Christmas Eve. By tradition, it is on Christmas Eve that 12 Lenten dishes are served on the table for guests.. Among them, the main ones are kutya, uzvar, dumplings..
Kutya from wheat.
Ingredients:.
500 g wheat.
1 liter of water.
0.5 teaspoon salt.
honey - to taste.
2 glasses of poppy.
2 cups nuts and raisins.
Cooking:.
Soak whole grain durum wheat overnight in water to soften. Wheat should be infused in water for 8-10 hours. In the morning, it can be boiled in slightly salted water in the proportion: for 1 cup of wheat - 2 cups of water. Cook for 1.5-2 hours over very low heat so that it does not boil.
poppy steam. When it is ready, drain the excess water and grind with a blender or in a mortar.
Rinse raisins under water, finely chop.
chop nuts.
Mix wheat, poppy seeds, raisins, nuts, add honey, mix well again.
Uzvar.
Ingredients:.
Water - 2 l.
Orange -2 pcs.
Dried fruits (prunes, dried apricots, raisins) - 150-200 g.
Dried apples - 100 g.
Honey - to taste.
Cooking:.
Wash dried fruits and soak in warm water for 30 minutes..
Add chopped oranges with peel to dried fruits, pour them with two liters of water and leave overnight.
In the morning, remove dried fruits from the water, leave the orange.
Put the mixture on the fire, bring to a boil and immediately remove from the stove.. Add dried fruits to compote, squeeze oranges from juice and pull out. Add honey to taste.
Cover the pan with a lid and wrap in a warm towel, let it brew for 5-6 hours.
Serve chilled.
Baked Mackerel.
Ingredients:.
Mackerel - 2 pcs.
Bulb - 1 pc..
Lemon - 0.5 pcs.
Salt, seasoning for fish - to taste.
Cooking:.
Defrost the fish, remove the head, entrails, rinse.
Grate on top and inside with fish seasoning or salt and pepper and leave for 30 minutes.
Peel the onion, cut into rings.
Preheat oven to 200 degrees.
Put lemon and onion rings inside the fish.
Wrap the fish in foil and cook in the oven for 25-30 minutes.
Lazy dumplings with potatoes.
Ingredients:.
350 g mashed potatoes.
90 g flour.
dill, spices.
1 bulb.
30 ml oil.
Cooking:.
Add flour, dill and a little salt to mashed potatoes. kneading the dough. Make a long sausage, cut it into small pieces a little smaller than classic dumplings.
Put the pieces in boiling water, cook for 3-4 minutes. We take out with a slotted spoon.
Fry the onion in vegetable oil, add to the dumplings, mix.
The finished dish can be served on the table.
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Salad with beets and prunes.
Ingredients:.
Small beets - 3 pcs.
Prunes - 50 g.
Nuts - 30 g.
Olive oil - 2 tbsp.
Red wine vinegar - 1 tbsp.
Cooking:.
Wash the beets, cook until tender (about 50 minutes).
Cool, peel, grate.
Wash prunes, finely chop.
chop nuts.
Mix beets, prunes and nuts, add olive oil, wine vinegar.
Refrigerate before serving.
Vegetable stew with mushrooms.
Ingredients:.
Broccoli - 250 g.
Champignons - 200 g.
Carrot - 1 pc..
Onion - 1 pc..
Vegetable oil - 3 tbsp.
Garlic - 2 tooth.
Salt, pepper, sesame seeds - to taste.
Cooking:.
Peel the onion, finely chop.
Peel carrots, cut into slices.
Mushrooms and garlic cut into slices.
Disassemble the broccoli into florets, boil in boiling salted water for 5 minutes, drain in a colander.
Heat oil in a pan, saute onion and garlic until soft. Add mushrooms and carrots, salt, fry until fully cooked. Add broccoli, heat for 5 more minutes.
Serve the dish in portions.
Vinaigrette with beans.
Ingredients:.
Beets - 1 pc..
Potato - 250 g.
Sauerkraut - 300 g.
Pickled cucumber - 3 pcs.
Canned beans - 1 can.
Vegetable oil - 50 g.
Carrots - 3 pcs.
Salt, herbs - to taste.
Cooking:.
Boil potatoes, carrots and beets until tender.
Cut boiled vegetables and pickles into small cubes.
Peel the onion, cut into cubes.
Add sauerkraut.
Open a jar of beans, drain the water. Add beans to salad, mix.
Season the dish with herbs, add salt to taste.
Marinated mushrooms.
Ingredients:.
Champignons - 1 kg.
Onion - 1 pc..
Vinegar - 70 ml.
Sugar - 2 tbsp.
Salt - 1 tbsp.
Bay leaf - 3 pcs.
Sweet pea pepper - to taste.
Cooking:.
Wash and clean mushrooms.
Pour 1 liter of water into the pan, add a few peas of allspice and bay leaves, salt, sugar.
Bring to a boil and add mushrooms, cook for 15 minutes. Add vinegar and cook for another 5 minutes.
At the bottom of the jar of a sterilized jar, put the onion in half rings, then the mushrooms. Pour marinade.
Leave the mushrooms overnight and serve.
Braised cabbage.
Ingredients:.
Onion - 1 pc..
white cabbage - half.
Tomato paste - 3 tbsp.
Vegetable oil - 2 tbsp.
Salt, pepper - to taste.
Cooking:.
Shredded cabbage.
Peel the onion, finely chop.
Fry the onion in a frying pan until cooked, put on a plate.
Fry the cabbage in a frying pan under the lid until tender.
Add tomato paste diluted with a little water.
When the water evaporates, add the fried onion to the cabbage and heat in the pan for another 2 minutes. Add salt, pepper.
Put the cabbage on a plate and serve.
jellied fish.
Ingredients:.
Fish fillet - 1 kg.
Fish broth - 1. 5 l.
Gelatin - 45 g.
Carrot - 1 pc..
Lemon - 1 pc..
Parsley - 2 sprigs.
Salt, ground pepper - to taste.
Cooking:.
Cut the fish, sprinkle with lemon juice, salt and pepper.
Put the fish in a baking dish, cover with cling film and leave for 10 minutes. Cover the form with foil and place in a preheated oven at 100 degrees for 1 hour. Then take it out and let it cool completely..
Gelatin pour a glass of fish broth and leave for 20 minutes.
Bring the rest of the broth to a boil and immediately remove from heat.. Introduce swollen gelatin, stir and strain through cheesecloth.
Let cool to room temperature.
Pour a little broth with gelatin into the molds for pouring and refrigerate.
Pour boiling water over carrots, bring to a boil and cook for 10 minutes. Cool, peel, cut into slices.
Cut the lemon into rings, chop the parsley.
Put the pieces of fish in a dish of frozen jelly and carefully pour the broth with gelatin so that it covers the fish.
Leave in refrigerator for 15 minutes. Then spread the carrots, parsley, lemon and pour the remaining broth with gelatin.
Leave in the refrigerator for 4 hours.
Greeks.
Ingredients:.
buckwheat - 1 tbsp.
potatoes - 2 pcs.
onion - 1 pc..
carrots - 1 pc..
breadcrumbs.
salt, pepper - to taste.
vegetable oil.
Cooking:.
Boil one glass of buckwheat in two glasses of water until tender..
Boil potatoes in their skins. Cool and clean.
Finely chop the onion, grate the carrots and fry in vegetable oil.
Ready chilled buckwheat pass through a meat grinder. Add fried onions and carrots.
Grate potatoes, add to buckwheat mass, season with spices.
Form small cutlets, roll in breadcrumbs on both sides, fry in a small amount of vegetable oil for 3-4 minutes on each side.
Baked apples.
Ingredients:.
apples - 500 g.
cinnamon - 1 hour.
nuts, raisins - to taste.
vanillin, sugar - to taste.
Cooking:.
Wash the apples, remove the core without cutting the apples.
Sprinkle apples with cinnamon, you can put nuts and raisins inside, sprinkle with sugar.
Apples are placed in an oven preheated to 180-200 degrees. Bake 20-30 minutes.
Dessert can be served hot or cold.