Many now do not understand what will be discussed in our article. First you need to find out what this word means. The meaning of the word "sychivo" can be defined as the juice from poppy seeds, hemp seeds, etc., which is used instead of oil, as well as dishes prepared on this basis.

According to another version, the name of this dish comes from the word Christmas Eve. You need to know that on this day, guests are not invited, but the dish (supper) is carried by themselves to their loved ones.

At home, everyone should eat at least a little bit of juice before the main meal. If you believe the legends, it brings prosperity and health to the house for the whole year.

Kutia or sokivo - what to choose?

Kutia or Kutia (in different regions it is called differently) is a porridge with the addition of raisins, poppy seeds, honey. There are many recipes for its preparation from rice, barley, but the classic Christmas kutia is always prepared only from whole wheat grains. In addition, it is customary to cook kutya on the eve of Epiphany and on the Old New Year.

What is the difference between kutia and sochiv

In fact, only because kutia can be cooked according to many recipes that are used for different occasions (funerals, births), and soychovo is just one of the options that is specially designed for Christmas Eve - the evening preceding Christmas. Juice can be made from both wheat and barley, rice, adding nuts and honey to it.

How to cook oozy

This is not difficult to do. But you need to know that the dish is soothing has its own subtleties that must be taken into account. The main secret in a special way of cooking cereals. It is somewhat different from the traditional one: pour a glass of rice (preferably steamed) with a glass of water and boil it for twelve minutes over very low heat. Remove the saucepan from the stove and let the cereal brew for ten minutes. Season the rice juice with steamed raisins and honey water. You can add a handful of almonds, a handful of hazelnuts, a slice of lemon, a small orange, 50 grams of poppy seeds. It is desirable that the nuts are raw and fresh.

Rice juice: recipe number 2

Rinse a glass of rice well with running water, pouring out several times Transfer it to a small ladle or saucepan, cover with water (cold) and bring to a boil. Then drain the water through a sieve and rinse the cereals again. Send the cereal back to the saucepan. Now add more water. As soon as it starts to boil, season with salt to taste. Boil the rice until tender, then discard the cereals on a sieve, but you no longer need to rinse the rice.

While the cereal is cooking, pour boiling water for ten minutes and let it brew in handfuls of raisins (you can put more, according to your taste). On a fine grater, grate 50-75 grams of almonds and hazelnuts. Place 50 grams of poppy seeds in a small container and pour it over so that the water covers one finger. Place the cookware on the stove and cook for twenty minutes, stirring constantly. Cool the poppy. Gradually adding liquid honey, use a wooden pestle to crush the poppy seeds into a homogeneous mass.

Transfer the cooked and cooled rice to a large bowl and mix thoroughly with the honey poppy seeds. Then add the nut crumbs and mix well again. Add steamed raisins. Then squeeze the juice out of the lemon and orange slice and stir again. Place on a dish or a large flat plate, fill it with the resulting mass, carefully remove the form and decorate with candied fruits and nuts on top. The dish is ready!

Sochivo: made from wheat

First you need to buy whole (not crushed!) Wheat grains. The fact is that

they are the basis of the original taste of this ceremonial dish... It is advisable that the grains were previously peeled and steamed. In this case, they will boil faster. Cooking is being prepared, the recipe for which is quite simple, only on water. In no case do we add milk or cream: the dish is lean, and that says it all.

So, pour cold water over the wheat grains and boil them under the lid until soft over low heat. Check if all the water has boiled away, add boiling water if necessary. Before the end of cooking, you should have a semi-liquid mass in the pan. In this case, we do not need crumbly porridge... The pot can be removed from the stove and finely chopped dried apricots, prunes, steamed raisins can be added to the wheat. You can add and raw fruit: apples, pears - it depends on your preference. Cover the saucepan with a lid and steam it well together.

Add nuts

Without nuts, there is no such dish as juicy. The recipe involves the use of a variety of nuts, it depends on your taste. You can use forest, walnuts, cashews, almonds, peanuts, etc. Grind them into not too small crumbs and fry a little in a pan. Do not add oil, and stir the nuts constantly.

How to cook poppy seeds

Now is the time to make the poppy seeds. Pour boiling water over it, and let it stand under a closed lid for thirty minutes. Then drain the water, add honey or sugar and rub it thoroughly so that a white juice appears. Add poppy seeds and nuts to the finished wheat with dried fruits. Mix all the ingredients well, add more honey if necessary. Now put everything nicely on a plate, decorate with nuts.

How to make juicy if wheat is not prepared in advance

Take a glass of wheat grains, grind them in a wooden mortar, adding a little warm water so that the shell comes off the grains. The kernel is separated from the husk by sifting and washing. Then the usual lean crumbly porridge is cooked, to which nuts, honey, poppy seeds are added.

Another recipe

Sort one full glass of wheat grains well, rinse. For two to three hours

soak them in cold water... Then fold it over cheesecloth so that the water is glass, and put the wheat in a ladle. Pour with cold water in a ratio of 1: 3, add a little salt, simmer for about two hours. You can put a container with cereals in an oven preheated to 180 degrees and keep until the grains are soft. While the wheat is boiling, pour boiling water over the poppy seeds and leave it for half an hour. Drain the broth from the wheat, but leave it a little to dilute the honey in it. Pour the wheat with honey water, mash the swollen poppy until white juice appears, chop the nuts. Mix all the ingredients and let the dish steep for a bit.

When to prepare such a dish?

It is customary to prepare the juice, the recipe for which we have offered you, on the eve of Christmas, on the festive Christmas Eve. Orthodox Christians celebrate it on January 6th, Christians who live to celebrate it on December 24th.

Holy evening - that's what they call family dinner on the eve of Christmas. This is the last, final day of fasting, which believers should spend only on the water and in holiday preparations and worries. The festive table is laid in a special way: they put hay under the tablecloth, and the house is decorated with peculiar substitutes for Christmas trees - didukhs. These are spikelets of wheat and straw interconnected. According to legend, they drive away evil spirits and attract well-being and happiness to the house. There must certainly be twelve on the table this evening lean dishes- according to the number of apostles. Dinner can be started after the first star has risen in the sky. She will be the symbol that announced the birth of the Savior. After supper, believers go to church to take part in the festive liturgy, after which they can break their fast - eat meat dishes.

Sochivo is a type of kutya, lean porridge, which is traditionally put on festive table on the eve of the Nativity of Christ. It is made from wheat grains, rice, barley, pearl barley and even peas, and seasoned with honey or honey water, nuts, poppy seeds or raisins.

It is not difficult to make a simple pomace from rice, but there are subtleties. The main one is a special way of cooking cereals. Here is the instruction I came across in one of the monastery's culinary collection: “Pour a glass of rice with a glass of water and simmer for 12 minutes. Remove the saucepan from the stove and let the rice stand for 10 minutes. Fill it with honey water and steamed raisins. "

My method is pretty close to the "monastic culinary rule".

Ingredients

• rice groats - glass
• almonds - a handful
• hazelnuts - a handful
• seedless raisins - a handful
• lemon slice
• small orange
• poppy seeds - 50 g
• liquid honey - 2 tbsp. spoons

Preparation

Rinse the rice well, draining the cloudy water over and over again. Transfer to a small ladle or saucepan, add cold water and let it boil.



At the first stage, you do not need to cook the cereals, but only after boiling, drain through a sieve and rinse again with running water.



Put the cereal back in a saucepan, pour in more water, put it on the stove and, as soon as it starts to boil, season with salt. Cook until tender, drain excess water through a colander or sieve, but do not rinse the cereal.



Pour raisins with boiling water and drain the liquid after 10 minutes.



Pass hazelnut kernels through a grater with fine holes ...



... and almonds.



Pour the poppy into a saucepan, add water. The liquid level should be one finger above the level of the poppy. Cook the poppy seeds, stirring often, for a quarter of an hour - the water should evaporate. If this does not happen, cook longer, until the result. Cool the poppy.



Adding honey in small portions,



Grind the poppy seeds until smooth with a wooden pestle.



Transfer the finished cooled rice to a cup and mix thoroughly with the honey poppy seeds.



Add nut crumbs and mix well again.



Stir in the steamed raisins into the rice mass.



Squeeze the juice from the orange and lemon slice, pour into the juice and stir one last time.



Install a culinary ring on the dish, fill it with the resulting mixture, remove the form, and decorate it with nuts or candied fruits.

A few words about Sochiv

According to one of the versions, the name of the dish comes from the word "Christmas Eve", according to another, the oil made from sunflower seeds, poppy seeds and hazel - kernels of nuts - was called soic. The seeds were ground and squeezed, and it turned out oil, that which oozes. Lean food was filled with juice.

On Christmas Eve, guests are never invited, but in the evening they serve ceremonial porridge to family and friends. At home, each member of the family, before eating, necessarily eats a little syrup. It is believed that it brings health and well-being to the home for the whole year.

About what else kutia can be + kutia recipes. How to cook wheat kutya.

Rice kutia. Sort out 500 g of rice, rinse, add cold water, bring to a boil, discard on a sieve or colander and rinse with cold water. Then pour the rice again big amount cold water and cook until tender, without stirring. Drain the water, cool the rice.

Grind sweet almonds scalded with boiling water, add granulated sugar, stir, dilute with a little water and combine with rice. Mix everything, add raisins washed and scalded with boiling water (200 g), cinnamon and mix thoroughly again. Place on a large plate and sprinkle to taste icing sugar... Serve fruit jelly separately.

Kutya with cranberries (for two servings): 1 glass of brown rice (cooked and chilled); 1 handful of dried cranberries 2 tablespoons of honey; 1 teaspoon poppy. Mix rice with cranberries and season with honey. Sprinkle with poppy seeds before serving.

Kutia Ukrainian. Dry the grain in the oven for 1 hour at 250 degrees, stirring occasionally. Rinse and soak in cold water overnight. Dissolve 3/4 cup honey hot water... Bring the grain to a boil, simmer over low heat for 3-4 hours, until the grains burst. Boil the poppy seeds over low heat, put on a sieve and crush in a mortar. When everything has cooled, combine all the ingredients in a bowl and add the finely chopped apples. You can add raisins, dried apricots and other dried fruits. Serve chilled kutya.

Day (Jordan), which Orthodox Christians celebrate on January 19, completes the cycle of New Year and Christmas holidays.

And before Epiphany, January 18, Epiphany Christmas Eve dictates its traditions. The name - Christmas Eve (or Nomad) is associated with the tradition on this day to cook wheat broth with honey and raisins - sochivo.

By the way, Epiphany Christmas Eve is known on the territory of our country as Babi Evening or Hungry Kutya

According to legend, it is on the night of January 18-19 that the sky opens and the Almighty accepts all prayers and requests.

On January 18, on Epiphany Christmas Eve, as well as on Christmas Eve, many Orthodox people adhere to the pious custom - not to eat until the first star. But as soon as an asterisk appears in the winter sky, then they begin to eat soothingly (kutya).

We will now tell you in detail about how to cook sophovo for Epiphany Christmas Eve.

Sochi recipe for Epiphany Eve

What products are needed for sochiv:

• wheat (garnovka) - 1 glass,
• poppy - 100 g
• walnuts - 100 g,
• honey - 2-3 tablespoons,
• sugar to taste

How to cook sochivo on Epiphany Eve:

Soak the wheat grains in a mortar with a pestle, periodically adding a little warm water so that the wheat shell comes off.

Then separate the kernel from the husk by sieving and washing. In water from clean grains, boil an ordinary crumbly lean liquid porridge, cool and season to taste.

Mash the poppy separately until you get poppy milk, add honey, mix everything and add to the wheat.

If the porridge is thick, then it can be diluted with chilled boiled water. Add the crushed kernels at the end walnuts.

Rice juice

In some regions, it is made from rice, but rice should be prepared separately - pour a glass of rice with one and a half cups of boiling water, tightly cover the pan with a lid, cook the rice for three minutes for high fire, six on medium, three on small.

Do not open the lid for another twelve minutes, letting the rice steep. The ratio of all components for the rice syrup is preserved. Sometimes raisins are added, but this is not necessary.

It can also be prepared without nuts and poppy seeds. The main thing in this dish is wheat and honey.

Epiphany eve, or The Eve of the Epiphany- this is the time when everyone is preparing for the holiday. On January 19, the Epiphany of the Lord is celebrated. On Christmas Eve, water is consecrated in the Temples, which has all the properties of Epiphany water.

Candles

Epiphany Eve, or Eve (Eve) of Epiphany, is also called Epiphany Christmas Eve, Second Christmas Eve. Earlier, another name for the holiday was popular among the people - "Candles"... On this day, women tied up church candles with ribbons (or colored threads) and placed them near the container in which water was consecrated during the evening service. After the service, the women took the candles home with them and put them in front of the images. During important family events, even sad ones, a candle was lit in front of icons, placed near the patient's bed, or given into the hands of a person leaving this world. Candles were also lit during difficult childbirth.

Fast

On the Eve of the Epiphany, a strict fast is observed until the first star that appears in the sky, i.e. before dark (as on Christmas Eve). At this time they eat lean porridge, bread, vegetables, drink water, tea or compote. The first meal after fasting is sochivo (kutia). In Russia, on this day, the following order existed: after the family returned home from the Church, bringing the water consecrated in the Temple, everyone sat down at the table and broke their fast with the traditional sochis (kutya).

Recipe for sochiv (kutya). 1 cup of whole (peeled) wheat grains, a symbol of resurrected life, must be cooked so that you get a thin crumbly porridge. It is cooled, after which about 4 - 5 tablespoons of poppy seeds are added (a symbol of family wealth), which is preliminarily kneaded and mixed with 3 - 4 tablespoons of honey (a symbol of health and well-being). Before that, you can soak the poppy, and then crush it with a wooden pestle. Or grind in a coffee grinder. Instead of wheat, they sometimes take rice (less often barley), and replace poppy with almonds. Too thick porridge is diluted with water. At the very end, 100 g of chopped walnuts and steamed raisins are poured into the porridge. To prepare classic sochiv, you need: 1 glass of wheat, 100 g of poppy seeds, 100 g of peeled walnut, 3 tablespoons of honey.

Epiphany water

On the Eve of the Epiphany (Epiphany Christmas Eve), a liturgy is performed and the blessing of water is carried out. Water is consecrated on this day in the Temple. This is the first consecration of water. The second consecration of water takes place, according to Russian custom, on January 19. “The rite of consecration of water can be performed on the eve of the Epiphany and on the very day of the holiday. Since the rite of consecration of water on both these days is the same, the quality of the water received at the evening and on the holiday itself is absolutely identical ”(V. Ponomarev“ Handbook of an Orthodox person ”). On Christmas Eve and on the feast of Epiphany, water is consecrated in memory of the Lord's descent into the waters of the Jordan River, therefore it is sacred regardless of which of these days it is brought home.

The water is kept in a sealed container next to the icons. Holy water can be added to plain water and it imparts its properties to it. Among the beneficial properties of holy water, its healing properties are especially appreciated. They drink it (at least by a sip) in the morning on an empty stomach with prayer “In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen".

Orthodox Christians sprinkle this water on their homes to protect them from evil spirits. Previously, it was customary for the head of the family to take a few sips of the consecrated water, then take out a willow branch from behind the icons and sprinkle the house.

Folk traditions, fortune-telling

The eve of the Epiphany, or Epiphany evening, was rich not only in fortune-telling, but also in various rituals protecting the family, home, cattle, etc. from all kinds of trouble. The rituals associated with Epiphany snow are interesting. Crosses were applied to them on windows and doors to protect dwellings, barns and other outbuildings from evil spirits. Chalk was sometimes used instead of snow. Epiphany snow was thrown into the well so that it did not dry out, and the water always remained fresh. The snow was collected and allowed to melt. The melted water was stored for a long time and was used for treatment and washing. It was believed to bleach canvas well. For this, snow was collected not somewhere, but from haystacks. Moreover, the collection of Epiphany snow was assigned to old women. The girls also did not miss the opportunity to collect snow from haystacks and wash themselves with melted water. They wanted to have white skin on their face. In some provinces, that evening, amulets were hung in the house - crosses made from joined torches.

There was also such a fortune-telling, in which the owner of the house himself took part. On Epiphany evening, he took out into the courtyard several bowls filled with different grains. I put them so that the chickens would not peck. In the morning I looked at which of the bowls had frost and which did not. Hoarfrost pointed to a grain crop that would be fruitful.

And how many girlish fortune-telling were: both very simple (ask the name of the first comer), and very difficult (on the mirrors). How not to remember these lines:

"Once in Epiphany evening
The girls wondered:
Slipper behind the gate,
Having taken it off their feet, they threw it;
We poured snow; under the window,
Listened; fed
Counted Grain Chicken;
Ardent wax was drowned;
Into a bowl of clean water
They put a gold ring
The earrings are emerald;
Spread out the white board
And they sang in tune over the bowl
The songs are subtle.
V.A. Zhukovsky "Svetlana".

A detailed description of some fortune-telling can be found in the article.

In the good old days, when there were no hours in the huts, there was such a custom: in the evening they put a large bowl of water on the table and watched when the water “rippled” in it. As soon as this happened, everyone immediately ran out into the courtyard to see the "open" skies. They sacredly believed that "what you pray to the open sky, it will come true."

On Epiphany Christmas Eve, an ice-hole, "Jordan", in the shape of a cross was cut in the ice. A cross and ice sculptures were placed above or near it.

By midnight, they approached any ice hole made in the ice of a river or pond to see with their own eyes how a wave would go through the water. It was believed that this wave appears when Jesus Christ plunges into the water. Epiphany or Epiphany begins at midnight on January 19.

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