Popular Christmas Dishes And Traditions

In this article, learn more about Popular Christmas Dishes And Traditions. At Christmas, they celebrate the birth of Christ and commemorate their ancesto.

 

At Christmas, they celebrate the birth of Christ and commemorate their ancestors.

On Christmas Eve - the evening before Christmas - they cooked kutya from boiled wheat or barley with honey and poppy seeds, baked pancakes, cooked oatmeal jelly (uzvar). People went to the vigil, after which they served the liturgy and the feast of the Nativity came. On Christmas Eve they fasted until the first star, in memory of the Star of Bethlehem, then the meal began with kutya (sochi).

The main dishes for Christmas are goose or duck with apples, meat and offal, spun pies, stuffed pies. Fragrant roe gingerbread in the form of animals and muffins also flaunt on the table.

It is customary to celebrate Christmas with the family, to exchange gifts with meaning, to guess. During Christmas time (two weeks after Christmas), fortune-telling is considered prophetic and truthful.

Sharing Christmas recipes and divination!

Sochivo

 

Ingredients:

150 g wheat (or rice) 50 g dried apricots 50 g raisins 50 g shelled walnuts 1 tbsp. l. poppy honey spoon

Rinse the wheat, crush it in a mortar and boil until tender, if necessary, add hot water during the cooking process. Wheat grains are best soaked in water beforehand. If you are making juicy rice, simply boil until tender according to the instructions on the package. Pour boiling water over dried apricots and raisins for 15-20 minutes, then drain in a colander. Cut the dried apricots into pieces. Chop nuts. Mash the poppy in a mortar. Mix wheat or rice with dried fruits, nuts, poppy seeds and honey in a bowl.

Duck with apples

 

Soft and juicy duck with apples, garlic, honey and crispy crust. We will bake in the sleeve.

You will need:

gutted duck 1 kg apples 6-7 garlic cloves 1 tbsp. l. honey salt to taste (a couple of pinches) herbs for poultry (a couple of pinches) 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil black and allspice (a couple of pinches)

In a bowl, mix salt, pepper, spices, honey, vegetable oil and garlic passed through a press. Lubricate the duck with the marinade and send it to the baking sleeve for 30 minutes. We leave some of the apples whole, cut some into large pieces and stuff the duck with them. We fasten the cut with toothpicks. We spread whole apples around the duck and tie the sleeve.

 

We send the baking sheet with the duck in the sleeve to the oven, heat it to 180 degrees, and bake the duck for 2 hours. Half an hour before readiness, the sleeve can be cut so that the duck is browned.

Pryazhina

Served with pancakes dipped in sauce.

Ingredients:

700 g pork ribs (meaty) 200 g semi-smoked sausage 2 tbsp. l. lard or 100 g lard onion 2 bay leaves 2 garlic cloves 3-4 black peppercorns 1 1/2 cups hot water 1 tbsp. l. wheat flour salt to taste

 

Peel the sausage and cut into thick rings, cut the ribs in portions. In a heavy-bottomed pan, melt the lard or lard and fry the ribs in the fat until golden brown on all sides. Remove the ribs to a plate and brown the sausage mugs. Also select the sausage, and fry the diced onion in fat until transparent. Pour flour into the onion, fry for 20 seconds, stirring, then pour in hot water, add parsley and pepper. Put the ribs and sausage into the boiling sauce, after boiling, lower the heat to a minimum, cover the pan with a lid and simmer for an hour. 5-10 minutes before the end of cooking, add chopped garlic.

Serve directly in the pan with pancakes. Enjoy!

Jellied pie with filling

 

Prepare the dough for this pie in no time. Choose the filling to your taste - minced meat fried with onions, boiled fish, stewed vegetables.

Ingredients:

1 glass of kefir 2 eggs 1 tsp. soda 1 cup flour 300 g minced meat (or white cabbage with grated carrots) onion salt, spices for meat to taste

Pour kefir into a bowl and add soda, stir and leave for 10-15 minutes until bubbles appear. Then add flour, salt, eggs. Stir the dough with a whisk until smooth.

Fry minced meat (cabbage with carrots) in a spoonful of oil in a hot pan with onion cubes until the color changes. Salt, add spices.

Pour half the dough into a greased form, spread the filling on top, pour the remaining half of the dough on top, sprinkle the top of the pie with sesame seeds if desired. Bake the cake in a hot oven at 180 degrees for 40 minutes.

lemon cake

 

For the cake you will need:

4 eggs 8 tbsp. l. sugar 160 g butter 2 cups flour 1 large lemon 2 tsp. vanilla sugar 1 tsp. baking powder a pinch of salt 4 tbsp. l. powdered sugar candied fruits or cranberries in the dough as desired (a couple of spoons)

Separate the yolks from the whites. Mix the yolks in a tall bowl with sugar, vanilla sugar, lemon zest, juice of half a lemon, softened butter, sugar, flour, baking powder. Knead a homogeneous dough, you can use a blender. Beat the whites with a pinch of salt into a lush foam and knead into the dough, gently working with a spatula. Optionally, add dried fruits, cranberries or candied fruits to the dough.

Pour the dough into an oiled mold. Bake at 180 degrees until dry, about 30 minutes.

From the juice of half a lemon and powdered sugar, stir the icing, pour the cooled cupcake with icing. Decorate with candied fruits or berries.

Divination for the betrothed

Lower the ring, ribbon and flower tied by a thread into the jug (several are possible). Unmarried girls are pulled out in turn. The ring is for marriage, the flower is for engagement, and if you pull out the ribbon, you will be alone for another year.

Fortune telling on tangerines

 

Formulate a question to which the answer is "Yes" or "No". Let each participant in the divination choose a tangerine and ask a question. If the number of mandarin slices is even, then the answer is "Yes", odd - "No".

Divination on burnt paper

Prepare a metal baking sheet and as many sheets of paper as there are fortunetellers. Let each participant in fortune-telling crumple up his sheet of paper, put it on a baking sheet and set it on fire. Opposite the wall, put a lamp or a candle, and let the fortuneteller stand between the wall and the candle. The reflection on the wall will predict the future, turn the tray in your hands and look at the bizarre pictures of the future on the wall.