How to pronounce Kutia

Kutia is written кутя where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /kuˈtʲa/. In plain English letters that is koo-TYAH, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Kutia?

Kutia is a dessert of Ukraine. People usually eat it on festive days. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour and nuts & seeds. It tastes sweet.

Where Kutia comes from

Kutia is one of 18 signature dishes of Ukraine on this map.

• Borscht борщ · Soup & stew · Ukraine

  Borscht is a sour soup, and in Ukraine it is usually red with beetroot, cooked with cabbage, potatoes, carrots, beans and often meat, soured with vinegar or fermented beet juice, and served with sour cream and garlic bread rolls called pampushky.

• Varenyky вареники · Main dish · Ukraine

  Varenyky are boiled dumplings, the name coming from varyty, "to boil".

• Halushky галушки · Main dish · Ukraine

  Halushky are dumplings of boiled dough, cut into squares or rolled into small balls; unlike varenyky they have no filling.

• Pampushky пампушки · Bread & pastry · Ukraine

  Pampushky are small, round, fluffy buns of yeast dough typical of Ukrainian cooking, made from rye, wheat, buckwheat or mixed flour.

• Salo сало · Snack · Ukraine

  Salo is salt-cured slabs of pork back fat, with or without the skin and sometimes with thin layers of meat.

• Uzvar узвар · Drink · Ukraine

  Uzvar is a traditional Ukrainian drink made from dried fruit and berries, either simmered in water or left to steep in hot water.

Food of Ukraine

Dishes like Kutia in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Kutia:

• Mucenici · Dessert · Moldavia and Muntenia, Romania

  Mucenici are ritual pastries baked on 9 March, the Christian feast of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, which in Romania and Moldova coincides with the old start of the farming year.

• Moczka · Dessert · Silesia, Poland

  Moczka, also called bryja, is a Silesian dish made only for Christmas.

• Gundel pancake Gundel-palacsinta · Dessert · Budapest, Hungary

  The Gundel pancake is a thin Hungarian crêpe filled with ground walnuts, rum and raisins and served under a dark chocolate sauce made with egg yolk, cream and cocoa.

• Tikvenik тиквеник · Dessert · All Bulgaria, Bulgaria

  Tikvenik is a sweet Bulgarian banitsa filled with grated pumpkin and sugar.