My favourite Christmas dishes are uzvar, vareniky with cherries and stollen. I really love these dishes because they are very delicious and interesting I guess.

   For you to feel all the taste of one of these dishes I want to share with you the recipe of the pie called stollen. The first thing you need to do is to dunk raisins and candieds in rum for 6-12 hours. For the dough first mix 150g of sugar, some vanillin, lemon zest and a pinch of salt. In another bowl mix 100ml of milk with 2 eggs. Then make a sponge: mix 100ml of warm milk with 1 tea spoon of dry yeast, 2 tablespoons of flour and 1 tablespoon of sugar. Let it get up for 20 minutes. After that make a dough: mix the mix of milk and eggs, sugar with spices, 150g of heated to the room temperature butter and sponge - with 500g of flour. Knead the dough for 10 minutes and after that put it to the warm place for 2 hours. After that mix the dough with raisins and candies, divide it into 2 identical parts. Roll out each part into the oval and make each of them like this: fold it in half and then fold in half the half of the upper layer. Put them on the greased with the oil parchment and let them "have a rest" for 30-40 minutes. Bake your stollens for about 1 hour with the temperature of 160°. When it will be baked you can grease it with melted butter until it is hot. I hope you will enjoy this recipe as I do!

 

  In my family we don’t cook 12 dishes. Only 4 or 5. It is usually kutya, baked chicken and various salads. 

My family always enjoy having holiday dinner together. 

   My favourite dish is kutya. It consists of poppy, cereal, honey, nuts and raisins. First you need to cook cereal. When cereal is cooked we mix it with poppy , honey and  nuts. It's very tasty.