Kutia is a sweet grain pudding, traditionally served in Polish and Ukrainian cultures. Kutia is often the first dish in the traditional 12-dishes Christmas Eve Supper . It is rarely served at other times of the year.

Traditionally it was made of wheat, poppy seeds, honey (or sugar), various nuts and sometimes raisins. In many recipes milk or cream was also used.

Nowadays other ingredients (which were unavailable or just too expensive in earlier centuries) like almonds and pieces of oranges are added.

General recipe

Take 0.5 kg each of wheat and poppy seeds, or slightly more wheat.

Wheat should be cooked in hot water on small fire for 3-4 hours.

Poppy seeds should be cooked in hot water until they can be crushed in the fingers. Then they should be ground three times in meat grinder.

Strain out water from the seeds and from the wheat and allow them to cool.

Mix the cooled poppy seeds and wheat, then add some liquid honey (you may need to add a little hot water to dissolve it) or dissolved sugar (0.1-0.2 kg by our sample measures) and some or all of: nuts, raisins, almonds, pieces of oranges (amount of these extra ingredients vary a lot between recipes, suggested is 0.3-0.5 kg total).