Kutia is a Christmas Eve dish, which is most often prepared on the basis of wheat, although some people prepare it without wheat, e.g. on the basis of millet. Kutia is worth recommending not only as a traditional Polish dish, but also because it contains an extremely beneficial composition of vitamins and minerals. Check the nutritional values ​​of kutia and how many calories it has.

Kutiais a word of Ukrainian origin. It has two meanings: firstly, it is a Christmas Eve supper, and secondly - a dish specially prepared for this celebration, made of wheat, poppy seeds and honey. In the past, this dish was obligatory in eastern Poland, in the areas of today's Belarus, Ukraine and Lithuania. It was eaten from Christmas Eve to New Year's Eve.

Christmas Kutia

Each housewife had her own secret of making kutia. But the basis was always cereal grains (Ukrainian kókkos - grain): wheat, pearl barley (still the most popular in Belarus), even rice. Other ingredients depended on the we alth of the house.

In noble manors, overseas delicacies were added to kutia - almonds, raisins, dates. In the poorer version, poppy seeds and honey or m alt, i.e. fermented germinating barley or rye grains, were enough.

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Kutia - recipe

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Kutia - calories, nutritional values ​​

Kutia ingredients contain a lot of substances valuable for he alth. Cereal grains are primarily a rich source of protein, zinc, iron, iodine, lithium, manganese, selenium and B vitamins.

Poppy seeds have a lot of fat (but the good one, which binds cholesterol and helps remove it from the body), a lot of protein, calcium and magnesium, and alkaloids that have a calming and analgesic effect.

You can write a book about the he alth benefits of honey - incl. strengthens the heart, cleanses the liver, kills bacteria.

CHECK RECIPE: How to make kutia? Traditional Christmas Eve kutia recipe

Important

The only oneKutia's drawback is its calorific value: 100 g provides a minimum of 250 kcal.

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