Ukrainian Kutia (Kutya) Recipe
If you're in the mood for a delicious dessert, try this traditional Kutia recipe, featuring berries, nuts, honey, cream, and its signature ingredient, poppy seeds.
Ingredients
- Wheat berries or hulled barley or spelt berries (whichever is available) – 250g
- Poppy seeds or can substitute which chia seeds – 250g
- Milk or water – 4 ½ cup
- Honey – ½ cup
- Almonds/hazelnuts/walnuts – 100g
- Raisins/dates/chopped apricots – 70g
- Cranberries/dried currants/dried cherries/raisins – 30g
- Candied orange peel or lemon. (optional) – 2 tbsp
- Crème fraiche/buttermilk/heavy cream – ½ cup
Instructions
- Put wheat berries, chia seeds or hulled barley in cold water, rinse it and then transfer the wheat berries in another bowl with hot water and soak it overnight.
- The following day, strain it. Pour milk or water in the wheat berries and cook it until its tender. It will take up 80 or 90 minutes on the stove.
- Now take 250g poppy seeds, rinse them and then put them in the saucepan and add 3 cups of water.
- Then preheat the oven and spread 100g of almonds/hazelnuts/walnuts and toast them for 4 5 minutes.
- Now when the wheat berries are tender, drain the milk in the measuring cup or jug. Keep ½ cup of cooked milk and discard the rest.
- Mix ½ cup honey with ½ cup milk and also orange juice or lemon juice.
- After this, put the wheat berries in a bowl and mix in the rest of the ingredients of raisins/dates/chopped apricots, poppy seeds, almonds/hazelnuts/walnuts, cranberries/dried currants/dried cherries/raisins and some crème fraiche.
- When mixed, bake it in the oven for about 20 minutes.
- After 20 minutes, take the Kutia out from the oven and refrigerate for a few hours before you serve. The longer it is in the refrigerator, the tastier it will be.
Nutrition
Calories: 718kcalCarbohydrates: 144gProtein: 15gFat: 15gSaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 25mgSodium: 177mgFiber: 13gSugar: 98g
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