Kutia

Ingredients

• 2 cups high grade wheat
• 3 quarts water
• 1 cup poppy seed
• 2/3 cups sugar
• 1/3 cup honey, dissolved in 1/2 cup hot water
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans

Directions

1. Dry wheat in slow over 250 degrees F. for one hour, stirring occasionally.
2. Wash and soak overnight.
3. Bring wheat to boiling point and simmer for 3 or 4 hours until the kernels burst open and white appears.
4. Scald poppy seed and simmer 3 to 5 minutes.
5. Drain well in cheese cloth and grind twice using finest blade of food chopper. Set aside.
6. Prepare honey and sugar dissolved in hot water. Set aside.
7. Before a meal, add sweetened mixture, ground poppy seed, and nuts to cooled wheat, walnuts, almonds, hazel nuts or peanuts could be substituted of pecans.
8. Serve.

Gloria Cardey