Rice with raisins is not only kutia! Recipes for delicious rice and raisin dishes: meatballs, porridge, casseroles, pilaf and desserts. Rice porridge on water with raisins

Rice with dried apricots - wonderful dish for lunch at work, prepared in the morning and transferred to a food thermos. For some reason, it is believed that dishes with a sweet taste are always dessert. The final dish of the meal, leaving pleasant memories and taste sensations.

However, in many world cuisines there are dishes in which the taste of meat or fish is combined with meat. For example, many dishes Chinese cuisine this is an unimaginable combination of sour and sweet, sweet and spicy, etc. I read somewhere that this range of combinations is due to balancing the properties of products from the point of view of Yin and Yang. This is beyond our understanding. However, even without going into mysticism and philosophy, we often cook at home home option gongbao - sugar.

Melt a piece of butter in a large saucepan. Once the butter is melted, throw it into the frying pan. walnuts

  • Add prepared dried fruits, all at once - raisins, dried apricots and candied fruits. Stirring, fry the fruit for another 4-5 minutes.

    Add prepared dried fruits, all at once - raisins, dried apricots and candied fruits

  • Add 1-2 tsp. brown sugar. In principle, you can do the usual one. But not honey. It is believed that honey should not be exposed heat treatment. Add a pinch of saffron, as well as vanilla and cinnamon to taste. Rice with dried apricots should be fragrant.

    Add 1-2 tsp. brown sugar, a pinch of saffron, and vanilla and cinnamon to taste

  • Add 2 tbsp. l. hot water, after boiling, cover the saucepan with a lid and let it simmer for low heat 10 minutes.
  • Add boiled rice. Mix thoroughly. Further important point: rice with dried apricots should be steamed for 10 minutes.

    Add boiled rice. Mix thoroughly

  • Cover the rice with dried apricots in a saucepan with a lid and leave on low heat. In order for moisture to actively “leave” from the rice, it is better to make several depressions in the layer of rice and the rice with dried apricots will turn out crumbly.

  • Traditionally, at funerals, people are treated to sweet, lean rice porridge with raisins. We have studied the methods of preparing such porridge, and we offer you 3 options to choose from. The first option is provided with step-by-step photographs.

    Date added: 2014-04-07 01:09:05

    Sweet lean porridge with dried fruits (with raisins), served at funerals is called kutia. Kutya can be prepared not only from the usual rice, it is also prepared from wheat grains: they are washed, soaked in water overnight, boiled until tender and mixed with honey or sugar diluted in a small amount of water, raisins, dried fruits, poppy seeds and nuts. . Kutya from rice is prepared in the same way. Boiled fluffy rice, then add diluted honey or sugar and raisins (washed, scalded and dried with a towel) to it. Kutya at the funeral table is obligatory - it’s a tradition. In the first recipe we suggest adding cooked rice sweet mixture with raisins heated in a frying pan. In the next two recipes, if the honey is liquid, we suggest simply pouring the mixture over the cooked rice and kneading. So, kutia recipes:

    Recipe No. 1: Sweet rice for a funeral with raisins - the easiest way to prepare

    Ingredients: rice - 2 cups, water - 4 cups, butter- 70 grams, olive oil (optional) - 0.5 tablespoons, raisins (seedless) - 100 grams, sugar - 2 tablespoons, salt - a pinch.

    Pour 4 glasses of water into a saucepan, add salt to this water (1.5 - 1 teaspoon of salt) and bring to a boil. Sort the raisins, remove stems and stems, wash them and pour boiling water over them. Raisins, of course, should be taken without seeds. Rinse the rice in cold water until the water runs clear.

    When the water boils, throw the washed rice into the boiling water, cover the pan with a lid and place in the oven. Keep the rice in the oven for 20 minutes at 200 degrees.

    Meanwhile, heat the frying pan. Keep the heat to low. Drizzle olive oil on it (0.5 tablespoons) and place the melted butter in the olive oil. Olive oil will protect the butter from burning, and it will also allow the butter to retain its flavor. And drain all the water from the steamed raisins (they should have swollen and softened well by this time). Pour the steamed raisins into the melted butter and stir, hold the raisins in the frying pan in the butter, stirring for 5 minutes.

    Drop water (5 teaspoons) into the pan with raisins and add sugar to this water, stir the sugar thoroughly so that no grains of sand remain. It should melt completely and mix with water and butter to form a sweet syrup.

    Keep the raisin and sweet syrup mixture in the pan for a couple more minutes. The fire should be minimal all this time.

    When the rice is ready, remove it from the oven. Place the contents of the frying pan (along with the liquid) on the rice and mix everything thoroughly.

    You can do without olive oil and without a frying pan at all, without heating. Sugar is just in warm water dissolve (2 tablespoons), mix steamed raisins with sugar and butter and add this mixture to rice.

    Everything is ready, kutya can be served. Kutya can be opened funeral meal. Sometimes it is eaten at the very end of the meal. Usually bowls with kutya are simply placed on the funeral table in different places at a distance (so that everyone who comes can reach it) and people themselves decide at what moment they will taste this sweet dish. Let us mention again that this step-by-step recipe was the simplest possible. The following kutia recipes contain many more ingredients.

    Recipe No. 2: Sweet rice for a funeral with raisins, walnuts and honey

    Ingredients: rice - 2 cups, water - 4 cups, butter - 50 grams, honey - 4 tablespoons, raisins (seedless) - 100 grams, walnuts - 1 (or 2) cups, salt - a pinch.

    Cooking method: Cook the rice as indicated in recipe No. 1. Pour boiling water over the raisins and let them stand for 10 - 20 minutes. Next, everything is very simple: slightly heat the honey, if it is thick, dilute it with water - it should be liquid, it should flow in a stream. Chop the nuts finely with a knife. Combine honey, nuts, melted butter and raisins (drain raisins). Stir this mixture into the rice until it is evenly distributed.

    Recipe No. 3: Sweet rice for a funeral with raisins, dried apricots, honey, almonds and poppy seeds

    Ingredients: 2 cups of rice, 4 cups of water, 70 grams of butter, honey - 3-4 tablespoons, 0.5 cups of poppy seeds, 1-2 cups of almonds, 1 cup of dried apricots, 1 cup of rice.

    This is the most complex recipe, it contains the most ingredients, but at the same time, it is the most delicious and the most unusual. You can cook such rice even without being guided by such sad events as a funeral, but just like that, because it really is very tasty and healthy. Moreover it is very bright dish. Almond shards and bright orange pieces of dried apricots look very attractive and very appetizing.

    Cooking method: Cook the rice as indicated in recipe No. 1. Wash the raisins, sort them and pour boiling water for 15 minutes, let them become soft. Also pour boiling water over the dried apricots - they also need to be softened. Finely chop the almonds into pieces with a knife. Honey should be liquid, you can warm it slightly and dilute it with water. Mix honey, poppy seeds, melted butter, raisins, chopped almonds, chopped dried apricots. Place this mixture on the rice and mix everything thoroughly. Can be served.

    1) How to make rice for kutya crumbly

    - Select the right variety rice Rice for kutya should not stick together into a solid lump. Therefore, you need to take rice that will remain crumbly after cooking. This is, firstly, long-grain rice (it is more likely to remain crumbly than short-grain rice), and secondly, it is not the cheapest rice. Good fluffy rice will not be cheap.

    - Rice for cooking in bags is guaranteed to be perfect and fluffy. If you buy rice for cooking in bags for kutya, it will definitely turn out crumbly. This rice is sold in packages that need to be cooked in a saucepan directly in plastic bags, just cook it according to the instructions on the package.

    - Rinse the rice thoroughly before cooking under cold running water. This also helps make the rice fluffy. The water washing the rice should be clear, it should not be white.

    - Pour a little less water. In all the recipes we have given the ratio of water and rice during cooking: 2:1, that is, for one glass of rice we take 2 glasses of water, twice as much. And you take a little less water than in specified proportion, and in no case more. This will also make the rice more fluffy.

    2) Honey for kutya should be liquid

    Crystallized honey can be slightly heated in a water bath - it will melt and become liquid. Just remember that you cannot boil honey or heat it too much - it then loses its beneficial properties.

    Honey can be replaced with sugar. If there is no honey, you can indeed replace it with sugar, as shown in recipe No. 1.

    Comments (25)

    Irina, Moscow

    Thank you very much for the article!!! I didn’t know that rice needed to be steamed. Everything was laid out in great detail. Tomorrow I’ll cook for my neighbor’s funeral. Thank you very much again. Sincerely, Irina Kazbekova

    Faith

    Prayers are not made with vodka, so Orthodox believers drink compote or jelly at funerals! For the health of the living, you can drink wine! The funeral is an exclusively fast day - no meat! Better than sweets more! This is exactly the menu that the priests bless!

    Olga

    Good night to everyone reading! I want to clarify a little about funeral table. I traveled a lot to holy places, talked in monasteries and churches with priests... and so... they never remember the dead with alcohol, they don’t put a glass of bread and a photo on the table, and also nothing from food should be left at the grave after visiting the cemetery. When you return home, be sure to wash the shoes you wore to the cemetery. But it is better to replace the monument with a cross (can be granite), because the cross means protection and a cross should also hang on the body!!! Thank you for reading. Take care of yourself and your loved ones and believe in GOD with all your heart and everything will be fine!!!

    Valentina village Amderma

    I completely agree with Natasha Klaus. After the cemetery, we also wash our hands before entering the house. The menu is identical. The only difference is a lot of meat and fish because... we live in the North.

    Catherine. Arkhangelsk

    And at our funerals, pancakes and jelly are always served with kutya. Rybnik and berry pie are also a must, and everything else is optional. Thank you for the kutia recipes; this was the first time I had to deal with such things on my own.

    Elena

    Thanks for the kutia recipe. Instead of sugar, I added a glass of melted honey to the first recipe and received a lot of approval from those who remembered. Thank you

    Vladimir Kremenchug

    This is not kutya, kutya has always been made from wheat. (throughout the centuries) Rice was brought from China, how could it become an Orthodox food? Rave! Rice at a funeral - it's called "EVE"

    Novouzensk, Saratov region.

    Your advice was very useful. After such a tragedy, you can’t gather your thoughts together. Tomorrow is already 9 days. We will cook according to your menu. Thank you for being you - . Somehow you feel more confident.

    Diana Cherkessk

    I just love sweet rice, but I cook etl in a completely different way, I make it fried with butter and sugar and it turns out dark and very tasty. The Nogais really love this kind of rice. And for funerals they prepare it boiled with sour cream and ice cream with dried fruits. And it’s also amazing, especially when it’s cold!!

    Valentina

    I LOVE sweet raisin rice, it makes me quiver with anticipation!!! I’ll definitely make it with nuts, poppy seeds and honey, it just sounds delicious! This healthy eating, besides Lenten food, it can also be eaten by vegetarians during Lent.

    Alina, Moscow

    Indian sweet vegetarian rice with raisins, milk, spices, almonds and pistachios

    Ingredients: 200 grams of Basman rice (you can use regular long-grain rice), 400 ml. water, 100 grams of sugar, 25 ml. milk, 80 grams of ghee, a pinch of saffron, a tablespoon of pistachios, 1 tablespoon of almonds, 4 clove leaves, 1 cinnamon stick, a pinch of cardamom seeds (0.5 teaspoon), 1 tablespoon of raisins and a pinch of salt.

    Sweet rice with raisins - cooking method

    Wash the rice in cold water and keep it wet for half an hour until it softens.
    - Put a saucepan with water on the fire, immerse the softened rice in it
    - Add a pinch of salt and a cinnamon pod.
    - Let the rice boil, after boiling it should be cooked on low heat for 10 minutes, covered with a lid.
    - Let's prepare the dressing for the rice: put a deep saucepan on the fire, put the raisins in it and fry them over medium heat. It will soften in a few minutes. Fry it, stirring with a wooden spatula.
    - Add pistachios and almonds to the raisins in a saucepan and keep on medium heat again, stirring.
    - When all these nuts and raisins change color, very slightly to light brown, then they are ready. Place them on a plate.
    - Pour milk and sugar into the saucepan. Stir, add cardamom and saffron, cloves, stir and boil in a saucepan. Pour in melted butter.
    - IN cooked rice add nuts and milk filling with sugar and spices. Mix everything thoroughly.
    - Keep the entire mixture on the lowest heat for another 4 minutes, stirring.
    This sweet rice with raisins and Indian spices looks and smells very tempting. If you decide to put it on the funeral table, believe me, it will be a very memorable and bright moment for everyone who tried it.

    The rice should be very fluffy and very aromatic.


    The funeral can be held at home, or in a cafe. There are cafes that even specialize in funerals and know what the menu should be and how to organize the table in general. They will also help to observe traditions, for example, when people return from the cemetery, before sitting down at the funeral table, they need to wash their hands with soap outside. To do this, take a bucket of water, soap, and a towel right outside. This is also a tradition that, as a rule, is observed, even despite the fact that in the cafe itself or in the house there is a sink where you can wash your hands in the same way. The food for a funeral is served simple, without any frills, if the family is a believer - in compliance with the rules of fasting. The dishes at a wake should not be bright and colorful - it is better to use dishes in calm shades. As for alcoholic beverages, tradition says that it is better not to serve alcohol at a funeral (as I read, this is traditional), but at the same time, there may be guests at the table who will not agree with this tradition. I don’t think drinking alcohol at a wake is completely inappropriate or forbidden. At the wake that I recently attended, they served vodka, wine and cognac, and the cognac had been aged for many years; it had been specially kept all these years just for the wake. For the time when the grandmother or grandfather (and the grandfather died) died, this particular cognac was kept for many years for the funeral table. And it was bought long before the collapse Soviet Union. The wake described is a wake that took place immediately after the funeral, upon returning from the cemetery.

    Menu for the wake

    1. Chicken soup with noodles and dill

    2. Fried potatoes

    3. Beef on the bone (fried)

    4. Sweet baked pies stuffed with jam

    5. Fish fried in batter

    6. Pickles (tomatoes, cabbage, peppers and cucumbers)

    7. Fish fried in batter

    8. Sliced ​​cheese

    9. Sliced ​​sausages

    10. Rice kutia, sweet with raisins

    11. Dried fruit compote

    12. Alcohol - vodka, cognac, wine
    Maybe I missed something... but overall, the table was such that every guest was satisfied. They did not allocate a separate place for the deceased, nor did they place a glass of vodka for the deceased. The guests made toasts and reminisced about good things. After the wake there was a slight feeling, as if they had really said goodbye to the person and everything fell into place. Of course, maybe these commemorations did not comply with strict religious canons, but, in my opinion, in modern traditions and an understanding of what a wake should be like, they were fully satisfied.

    Sweet rice is a delicious dish, most often served as dessert. The combination of rice and nuts, dried fruits, jams or apples will incredibly please those with a sweet tooth. The dish can also be served as a children's breakfast. How to cook sweet rice? What combinations can you use? You will learn about this from our article.

    Ingredients

    Rice 50 grams Honey 1 tsp white chocolate 20 grams Raisin 1 tbsp. Dried apricots 1 tbsp. Canned peaches 2 piece(s) Vegetable oil 1 tbsp.

    • Number of servings: 1
    • Cooking time: 25 minutes

    Sweet rice: recipe

    Rice prepared according to this recipe turns out very tasty. You will need:

    • rice (50 g);
    • honey (spoon);
    • white chocolate (20 g);
    • raisins and dried apricots (one tablespoon);
    • canned peach (2 pcs);
    • vegetable oil (tbsp).

    Preparation:

    1. The cereal must be boiled until tender. This will take approximately 25 minutes.
    2. While the porridge is cooking, dried apricots and raisins must be rinsed well under running water.
    3. Then add dried fruits hot water and leave to swell.
    4. Heat a frying pan with oil poured into it. Add the fruit cut into pieces and fry for three minutes.
    5. Turn off the heat and while the fruits are hot, add honey and chocolate. Stir until the sweets begin to melt. The result should be a creamy mass with pieces of fruit.
    6. Now you need to put the prepared rice and the peach cut into pieces into the frying pan.

    The dish is ready - you can serve it by placing it in a socket.

    Sweet rice in the oven

    In this recipe, the porridge will need to be cooked in the oven. You will need:

    • rice (one and a half glasses);
    • butter (2 tbsp);
    • milk (glass);
    • sour cream (glass);
    • apple (2 – 3 pcs);
    • granulated sugar (4 tbsp);
    • vanillin;
    • lemon zest.

    Technology:

    1. Rinse the rice thoroughly. Pour three glasses of water over the cereal, add oil to it. Turn on low heat under the pan and wait until the water is completely absorbed.
    2. When there is no liquid left, pour in the milk and place the pan in the oven for 40 minutes.
    3. Grate the apples coarse grater. Add sugar and zest to the fruit mixture. Mix well and add to rice.

    Rinse glasses cold water and fill them tightly with the rice mixture. Let them cool. Before serving, run a knife along the sides of the glass and turn them over onto a plate. You will get such a “cake” of rice. Pour sour cream over the dessert and lightly sprinkle with vanilla. If desired, you can decorate with berries.

    Sweet rice is a wonderful dessert. This cereal goes well with prunes, apples, and any berries. In this case, you don’t need to do much magic at the stove: just boil the rice until standard recipe, but adding sugar during cooking, and then mix it with selected berries or dried fruits.

    Delicious sweet pilaf rice with raisins. Step by step recipe cooking aromatic crumbly pilaf from long grain rice varieties.

    Ingredients for sweet pilaf:

    • rice (long grain, hard) – 3 cups,
    • raisins – 3 cups,
    • butter - approx. 400 g,
    • lavash - several pieces,
    • salt.

    How to cook sweet pilaf from rice with raisins

    • To ensure that the rice retains its shape and does not stick together, you need to take long-grain durum varieties rice Also, you need to carefully sort and rinse the raisins in advance.

    Place a pan of water on the fire (for this portion about 4 liters).

    Before the water starts to boil, prepare the rice. Wash the peeled rice with cold water, strain the water, add approx. 2 tbsp. spoons of salt and mix with your hands so that the salt is distributed evenly. Leave the salted rice for approx. 5-7 minutes.

    When the water begins to boil, add salted rice and cook, stirring occasionally so that the rice does not stick together. It is important to observe moderation here. Overcooked rice will not turn out fluffy and will turn into porridge.

    Place the cooked rice in a colander to drain, then sprinkle with cold water.

    Start preparing the raisins. Soak the prepared raisins in warm water, stir several times and strain.

    First melt the butter in a frying pan, add raisins and, stirring occasionally, fry for 5-7 minutes. Add approx. to the toasted raisins. 50 ml boiled water, close the lid and simmer for approx. 10 minutes. This makes the raisins very soft and juicy.

    Take a pan with a wide bottom. Place several pieces of lavash on the bottom of the pan. The lavash will soak up the fat and the pilaf will turn out tasty and moderately fatty. In addition, pita bread protects the rice from burning.

    Place 1/3 of the rice in a layer in the pan, then 1/3 of the fried raisins. Repeat layers 2 times.

    Place the pan on very low heat. After 1-2 minutes, carefully make a depression in the middle of the pilaf with a spoon and add 80-100 ml of boiled water there, close the pan and put on very low heat for approx. 10 minutes. The water in the pilaf will evaporate, and the rice will be saturated with the sweet taste of raisins.

    Your child may not like rice porridge cooked in water or milk in the oven or slow cooker, but if you add a few raisins to it, the situation can change dramatically! According to many housewives, nothing makes rice porridge as tasty as raisins. This porridge will perfectly complement your diet, in particular breakfast. Sweet rice porridge with raisins is an excellent combination of fast and complex carbohydrates that will give you strength and provide energy throughout the day. To answer the question “how to cook rice porridge with raisins?”, we wrote these 6 recipes for you:

    Recipe for rice porridge with raisins and milk

    INGREDIENTS

    • Rice - 1 glass
    • Milk - 2-3 glasses
    • Water - 1.5 cups
    • Raisins - a few handfuls
    • Butter - 2 tbsp.
    • Sugar - 2 tbsp.
    • Salt - to taste

    COOKING

    1. Pour pre-washed rice into the pan in which you will cook the porridge, pour in 1.5 cups of water. Place the pan on the stove for slow fire, cook so that the rice does not burn to the bottom, stirring occasionally.
    2. Once the water has evaporated/absorbed into the rice, add 2-3 cups of milk. If you want to make the porridge thinner, add 3.
    3. Sprinkle rice porridge with sugar and salt, as well as raisins.
    4. Continue cooking the porridge over low heat until the raisins and rice are cooked and soft.
    5. Add a piece of butter to the finished rice porridge with raisins, cooked in milk. Bon appetit!

    Rice porridge with raisins in a slow cooker

    INGREDIENTS

    • Rice - 1 glass
    • Water – 1 glass
    • Milk – 1.5 cups
    • Raisins - 200 g.
    • Honey - 100 g.

    COOKING

    1. Wash the raisins thoroughly and add hot water. After the raisins swell, you need to drain the water.
    2. Pour pre-washed rice into the multicooker. Add water to the rice.
    3. Set the cooking mode to MILK PORridge. Cook until there is practically no water left in the multicooker.
    4. Add 1.5 cups of milk to the multicooker bowl with half-cooked rice. Let's bring to a boil.
    5. Stir. Add honey and raisins to the porridge. Cook until fully cooked until the rice becomes sticky.
    6. If you wish, you can add butter to the prepared rice porridge with raisins.

    Rice porridge with pumpkin and raisins

    INGREDIENTS

    • Round rice – ½ cup
    • Water – 1 glass
    • Milk – 1.5 cups
    • Pumpkin pulp – 200 g.
    • Raisins - a few handfuls
    • Salt, sugar to taste
    • Butter to taste

    COOKING

    1. Pour the raisins onto the table and throw away the unusable raisins. Fill a good one with hot water so that it swells and becomes softer.
    2. The rice needs to be half cooked. To do this, pour the washed rice into a saucepan with 1 cup cold water. Bring to a boil over low heat.
    3. While the rice absorbs water, cut the pumpkin pulp into small cubes.
    4. As soon as the water in the pan runs out, add 1.5 cups of milk and all other ingredients except butter.
    5. Cook the rice porridge with raisins and pumpkin until completely cooked. At the end, add butter to taste.

    Rice porridge with raisins and dried apricots

    INGREDIENTS

    • Rice – 1 cup
    • Raisins - 50 g.
    • Sugar - 2 tbsp.
    • Dried apricots - 50 g.
    • Vanillin - 1 g.
    • Water – 2.5 cups
    • Butter - 70 g.
    • Pinch of salt

    COOKING

    1. Rice groats, dried apricots and raisins are washed in cold water.
    2. To ensure that the ingredients are evenly distributed in the porridge, it is better to cut the dried apricots into small pieces.
    3. In a cauldron with a thick bottom or regular saucepan pour water, pour out rice cereal.
    4. Bring to a boil over low heat. Add vanillin, raisins, dried apricots, sugar and a pinch of salt to the container with rice. Mix everything.
    5. Cook until the water is completely absorbed into the rice.
    6. Add butter, and rice porridge with raisins and dried apricots is ready!

    Rice porridge with apples and raisins

    INGREDIENTS

    • Rice – 1 cup
    • Water – 1 glass
    • Milk 3.2% - 3 cups
    • Apple – 1 pc.
    • Raisins - a handful
    • Sugar to taste
    • Salt to taste
    • Cinnamon to taste
    • Butter

    COOKING

    1. Place the washed rice cereal in a saucepan with 1 cup of cold water. Cook until the water is absorbed.
    2. As soon as the water has evaporated, add milk little by little. Continue cooking the rice over low heat.
    3. Cut the apple into thin slices. If desired, you can pre-peel it.
    4. A couple of minutes before the rice porridge is ready, add all the ingredients except cinnamon and butter.
    5. At the end of cooking, add butter to the plates and sprinkle cinnamon on the rice porridge with apples and raisins.
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