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Christmas Kutia with Rice and Raisins

A juicy, delicious, fragrant, and heartwarming rice kutia — you should make it too! This rice kutia is, let's say, not all that "rice," really. There are just so many other tasty things in it! Hard to believe. Everyone, without exception, should make it!

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Rice

0.5

Almonds

0.5

Walnuts

0.5

Poppy seeds

0.5

Raisins

0.5

Dried apricots

0.5

Honey (to taste, 1–3 tbsp; can be replaced with any sugar syrup or maple syrup)

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 12 % 9 g

Fats 25 % 19 g

Carbohydrates 64 % 49 g

412 kcal

GI: 26 / 50 / 24

Cooking method

Step 1:

Cover the poppy seeds with boiling water and let them soak for 1–2 hours.
Step 2:

Put the dried apricots and raisins together in one bowl, cover with boiling water, and let them soak for 1–2 hours as well.
Step 3:

Drain the soaking water from the apricots and raisins, top it up to 1.5 cups, and pour it into a saucepan.
Step 4:

Add the rinsed rice to the water.
Step 5:

Cover and cook over low heat until tender.
Step 6:

Chop the walnuts (or break them up however you like).
Step 7:

Grind the almonds in a blender (or however is easiest for you).
Step 8:

Chop the dried apricots so they're about the same size as the raisins.
Step 9:

Stir the honey into the cooked rice. There should be a little water left in the rice — just enough to blend in the honey; the extra moisture cooks off as you stir.
Step 10:

Drain off most of the water from the poppy seeds, then blend them with the remaining water (or grind them in a mortar, or run them through a meat grinder).
Step 11:

In one roomy bowl, combine the dried apricots, raisins, and nuts, and add the poppy-seed paste.
Step 12:

Add the warm rice and stir.
Step 13:

Your Christmas rice kutia is ready. Decorate it however you like and serve it at the holiday table.