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Christmas dish Kutya

Ingredients:

1 cup of wheat berries (or barley)

1/2 cup of walnuts, chopped

1/2 cup of dried fruits (apricots, raisins, etc.), chopped

2-3 tablespoons of honey

1-2 apples, grated (optional)

Poppy seeds (optional, often used in some recipes)

Varenyky 

Dough:

Flour — 550–600 g

Water — 200 ml

Vegetable oil — 1 tbsp

Salt — a pinch

         Filling:

Potatoes — 5–6 pieces

Onion — to taste

Vegetable oil

Christmas cabbage rolls

Cabbage – 1 head

Ground beef – 1.5 lbs

Egg – 1

Onion – 2 big (sweet)

Ketchup – 2 cups

Salt – 2 tsp

Pepper – 1/2 tsp

Vegetable oil – 2 tbsp

Sour cream – optional for serving. Boil cabbage, take the center out and divide into leaves. Leave 3 cups cabbage liquid.

Mix meat with salt, pepper, egg, finely chopped onion (1), and ketchup (1 cup)

Add the mixture into the center of a cabbage leaf, roll the cabbage leaf, repeat until you are out of meat, put the rolls in a pan, add 3 cups of cabbage liquid (left over from cabbage boiling), and boil for 1 hr. If you have any cabbage left, you may add it on top of cabbage rolls. Meanwhile, fry 1 finely chopped onion without oil on high for 5 min, add 1 cup of ketchup and sauté with ketchup until soft (~ 15 min). After cabbage rolls have been boiling for an hour, add onions with ketchup to cabbage rolls and boil another 30 min. Serve with sour cream (optional)