Kutia of rice with raisins, a memorial, recipe.

Kutia is a dish that is prepared for a wake. In terms of composition, it is a sweet porridge with the addition of raisins, dried fruits, nuts, honey, etc. This article describes several recipes for funeral kutia from rice with raisins.

A classic recipe for a funeral rice kuti with raisins.

The classic recipe is customary to cook and serve on the 9th and 40th day of the wake.

What is needed for cooking?

• rice 2 cups;
• water 1 l;
• butter 70 grams;
• raisins preferably white 100 g;
• sugar 2 tbsp;
• a pinch of salt.

How to cook rice kuta?

Below are step-by-step instructions.

1. Pour the water in the amount indicated in the recipe into a pan, add salt and boil.
2. While the water begins to boil, let’s do some raisins. It needs to be sorted out, cleaned from stems and washed well. Pour boiling water and let it stand for a while.
3. Next we do rice. It should be washed with cold water until the water is no longer cloudy.
4. Pour the washed rice into the boiling water, cover with a lid and direct it to the oven. The temperature in the oven is 200C. Cook for 20 minutes.
5. While the rice is in the oven, start cooking raisins. Pour a little olive oil into the pan (optional), and then put the butter to melt.
6. Drain the water from the raisins and put in a pan. About five minutes let it warm up, stirring constantly.
7. Next, add 5 tablespoons of water and sugar (the amount is indicated in the recipe). We warm up until the sugar is completely dissolved and a homogeneous syrup is obtained.
8. After that, keep on low heat for a couple more minutes.
9. We take out the finished rice from the oven and pour in it the entire contents of the pan with raisins. Mix.

Kutia is ready! When serving this dish, the owners decide for themselves. This is usually done at the end.Some people prefer to spread the kuta on the bowls and arrange them at different ends of the table so that everyone who comes can easily taste the dish.

Rice kutia with the addition of dried fruits.

Kutia can be diluted with dried fruits. They will decorate the funeral kuti outwardly and give it an original taste.

What products will be needed?

• rice 1 cup;
• dried fruits (dates, figs, dried apricots, prunes, raisins) 200 grams;
• honey 3 tablespoons;
• sugar 3 tablespoons;
• water 1-1.5 l;
• salt to taste.

Recipe:

1. Rinse the rice until clear water.
2. Boil water in a saucepan and add a little salt.
3. Put rice in boiling water and cook in the usual way until the cereal is ready.
4. We wash the finished rice with cold water. After draining the water, get the rice and put in any container.
5. Now let's deal with dried fruits. Pour them with boiling water and leave for 5 minutes to rest.
6. After draining the water, and cut dried fruit into equal parts.
7. Pour the finished dried fruit into a container with prepared rice.
8. Let's take syrup. To do this, mix honey and sugar in a glass and add water to half the capacity. Stir thoroughly until smooth.
9. Mix syrup, dried fruits and rice.

Kutia with dried fruit is ready. Bon Appetit!

Kutya funeral with raisins in a slow cooker.

Those who have a slow cooker can save time and prepare kuta with raisins right in it, avoiding a big waste of energy.

Required Products:

• a glass of rice;
• 2.5 cups of water;
• ½ tsp salts;
• 3 tbsp white raisins;
• 1 ½ cup sugar;
• A bag of vanilla sugar.

How to cook?

1. First of all, we rinse the rice well.
2. Then we fill the slow cooker: pour rice, pour water, set the “Porridge” mode for 20 minutes.
3. In the meantime, cook raisins. Pour boiling water for 5 minutes.
4. Then add sugar and vanilla sugar to the raisins.
5. After the rice is cooked, add raisin-sugar mixture there and mix thoroughly.
6. After that, add some more water (some prefer to pour milk is a matter of taste), and put on the “Heating” mode for 15 minutes.

Well steamed flavorful kutia with raisins is ready.

Recipe for cooking with prunes.

To give a spicy taste to rice couture, some decide to add prunes to it instead of raisins. Or, prunes are also added to raisins.

So which products should I take?

• a glass of rice;
• 1.5 liters of water;
• 100-200 grams of prunes (depends on how you like this dried fruit);
• honey 100 gr.

Recipe:

1. We put the washed rice in a saucepan and fill it with water. Close the lid and cook for 3 minutes over high heat. Then tighten the fire and cook for another 6 minutes. After we set the fire to a minimum and boil another 3 minutes.
2. After turning off the rice, do not open the lid, but let it brew for another 15 minutes.
3. Let's do prunes. It should be doused with boiling water, closed with a lid and allowed to swell.
4. Then squeeze the water and cut the prunes into slices.
5. Dilute honey with water.
6. Open steamed rice, add prunes and honey syrup.
7. Mix thoroughly and serve.

Kutia funeral with raisins and nuts.

This recipe is the most popular among all. Nuts with raisins go well together.

Ingredients:

• rice 1 cup;
• water 2 cups;
• nuts 0.5 cups;
• raisins 1 glass;
• honey 150 g

How to cook?

1. We cook rice porridge in the usual way for us.
2. While it is cooking, pour nuts and raisins with boiling water and leave for half an hour.
3. After we drain water from them, squeeze and grind. You can use a blender, or you can manually use a knife.
4. Pour the resulting raisin-nut mixture into the finished rice.
5. Add honey and mix thoroughly until smooth.

Secrets of cooking.

• Rice must be of the right variety. It is very important that the kutya rice is crumbly. Therefore, buy long grain rice. Some have discovered rice in bags. It turns out as it should.
• The water for cooking rice needs to be taken a little less than in the recipe. Then he just does not stick together.
• Honey. Take liquid honey. If it is frozen, heat it in a water bath.But just do not boil otherwise it will lose all its useful properties.
• Having an allergy to honey, you can replace it with sugar. This also applies to the case when the hostess at the moment did not find honey, and kuta urgently needs to be prepared.