Russian Holy Supper Foods

Russian Holy Supper Foods

Russians celebrate Christmas eve meal at the evening service the Holy supper. Cook and serve the dinner includes a special culinary requirements strict adherence to. There is no meat, milk, cheese, or eggs are served, as this meal comes the 40-day Nativity fast, to the conclusion that a vegetarian is in nature. Just as it should be for the meal of Christmas day in honor of the twelve apostles, twelve kinds of food on the table.

bread and grains

• One of the most important Christmas eve foods is kutya, a sweetened porridge made of the 4. Century A. D. you can do this from wheat berries cooked with honey, walnuts, dried berries and poppy seeds, it can berries with raisins and almonds, and with barley or rice instead of wheat. A common folk believe that eating kutya on Christmas eve to help the celebrant remember his ancestors that night. Serve with pita bread, served with honey and chopped garlic and small biscuits called bobalki to the main dishes to accompany. In the Ukraine, braided bread, decorated kolach, or pagach is a frequent addition to the table, and is often served with candles.
  fish dishes
  • For the fish dishes, cod, shrimp, and pickled herring with onions, the dinner, all those present at the traditional Holy table. In Russia, the most common type of fish is carp served, either baked or as a cold dish preserved in aspic. You may also want to serve fried sole or bluefish, herring with beets and onions, or smelt.
    vegetables and legumes
    • Use a variety of fruits, vegetables and legumes belong in the courts, in the Holy sacrament. Boil the peas, lima beans, and kidney beans with garlic, salt and pepper. You can serve pierogi, small Russian pastries filled with vegetables or potatoes.
      to the dinner, either as a cold potato salad or cooked with chopped parsley and butter. Potato pancakes or boiled potatoes with dill also served. Prepare sauteed mushrooms as a side dish or, more commonly, as a mushroom soup, or the Russian classic cabbage soup, borscht. Serve fried cabbage or stuffed with other vegetables, such as tomatoes and sauerkraut. You can serve, green peppers, filled with rice.
      fruits and sweets
      • Serve fruits of all kinds, plain or cooked in special dishes. You can also use figs, dates and oranges as well as all the local fruits of the season. You might want to have a special soup, called uzvar, which is made from dried apples, pears and plums. Another traditional dessert that you can serve, kisel, a soft pudding, berry-like dessert made from red currants. You can, however, pudding poppy-seed cake, fruit vareniki (dumplings), fruit-strudel-nut.