Christmas delicacy kolivo from a bulgur with dried fruits and a quince.

Kolivo that y the translation of Greek pervoditsya as "boiled grain", already long since is a traditional dish on many holidays.
This fragrant porridge give not only to winter torzhestava, and also at weddings, worship deceased, to a christening and on the eve of all religious holidays.
This simple and remarkable dish is a symbol of eternal life and regeneration, belief in immortality of soul and its transformation.
Using this magic dish, the person becomes a part of infinite circulation of life.
Traditionally add poppy with nuts to wheat pilaf - it means fertility, so we program ourselves on wealth, abundance and generosity for all family, gold honey in a sochiva symbolizes pleasure and a dolce vita, but not terrestrial, but eternal which is promised us according to the Bible.
But, all this short historic facts without which in general is difficult to present our life.
Here on Christmas eve, I decided to prepare this purely family, tasty and mystical dish too.
If to argue honestly and sensibly, then rice which is grown up in the conditions of the increased humidity that is on bulk fields, somehow not really matches the Middle East where desert heat governs.
And this is true. Then in ancient times the kolivo was prepared from whole wheat, and already later from pearl barley, oats, barley, buckwheat and already mentioned rice.
Prepared from rice, couscous, Artek, pearl barley... but, something thorough is not here as in those days.
Therefore the Christmas kolivo, I prepared from a bulgur, and is even even more ancient than one of the most bible grain. The earliest archeological find is dated 6 m in the millennium... B.C.
With bulgury often I cook pilaf which always leaves friable, beautiful and incredibly tasty.
I have a package of a bulgur on 500gr., but did not risk to put all package as this grain has such property how properly to boil soft, repeatedly increasing in the volume when and there is a wish to tell: "A pot do not cook D".
Took half-packs and fell asleep in a pan with in advance warmed olive oil and a pinch of salt.
Bulgur always at the very beginning of cooking is fried thoroughly with rast. oil to such nut aroma.
Then we fill in the fried thoroughly grain with hot water that covered future porridge approximately on two fingers.
We cover and cook on slow fire no more than 15-20 minutes.
Meanwhile so far in a saucepan quietly gurgles bulgur, we prepare the most important and delicious part of a kolivo... of course it is about dried fruits, candied fruits and td.
I have a handful of black raisin, a grade the Isabella-150 gr., surely in advance he needs to be killed in warmish water, for about 15 minutes, then to merge on a sieve/colander.
Also amber dried apricots-100gr. just randomly we cut it, I predrochitat straws, so it will not lose the appetizing aroma and will not turn into puree.
Still dried pineapple-100gr.
Hot fresh pepper.
One large quince - on 300-400gr. which needs to be cleaned from poisonous kernels and to cut on cubes.
On a frying pan we pour olive oil, here it nevertheless most of all approaches a kolivo, a shchepotochka of salt and vykladyvy raisin, dried apricots, pineapples, pepper and in general here everything that soul will wish, except prunes which will hammer with the nuclear smell and taste all components. And there is a little rosemary, it will add savors and beautiful shades to a ready kolivo.
Mute pripuskay our dried fruits, candied fruits also we add some butter, it will enrich a ready dish with voskhitelny gentle and creamy taste.
We put in pining bulgur.
Further slightly podtushivay a quince with rast. oil and honey. Too tart fruit with characteristic astringent taste got to me.
Therefore always slightly we sweeten such fruit with habitual sugar or honey.
Also we send a quince to porridge with dried fruits.
In principle the kolivo is ready.
Accurately we mix and we serve this really bewitching food on a table.
To a kolivo it is possible and it is necessary podavt honey, fresh segments of a lemon, confiture.
Right there is no uniform recipe therefore imagination just unlimited.
In a kolivo dry cherries, pears, apples, tomatoes, mango and any nuts well look.
In general ideal option of a nourishing breakfast which will fill an organism with necessary energy for all day.
Enjoy your meal! And merry Christmas and Old New Year!