Recipe for making kozinaki at home. How to make kozinaki? How to cook delicious kozinaki yourself
I suggest preparing a delicious Georgian sweet called kozinaki. Not a single child, or even an adult, will refuse such a delicacy. Kozinaki can be prepared with any nuts, sesame. The cooking process is quite simple and does not require much time. Prepare and please your loved ones with delicious homemade kozinaki made from seeds.
For preparation we will use sunflower seeds, sunflower oil and sugar.
In a dry frying pan over low heat, fry the seeds.
Pour sugar into the pan. Place on low heat until the sugar dissolves. Fry the sugar until it becomes caramel and turn off the heat.
Quickly add the seeds and mix with a spatula. Each seed should be soaked in caramel.
First prepare the parchment, which we grease with sunflower oil. Pour out the soaked seeds. Using spatulas, shape it into a rectangle, or whatever you like.
Immediately, while the seeds are warm, cut into portions. Kozinaki is ready.
Kozinaki from seeds, prepared at home, cool and serve with a cup of coffee or tea.
Cook with pleasure and have a good mood!
Kozinaki is a traditional delicacy of Georgian cuisine. Their classic composition includes walnuts completely drenched in honey. The taste of kozinaki has been familiar to each of us since childhood. They have taken root well in Russia and the CIS, and adults and children eat them with pleasure. But usually, in stores they offer us not the classic version of kozinaki, but a more simplified one - seeds covered with caramel.
Let's learn today how to prepare real oriental sweets using various recipes, and you can please your guests with this wonderful delicacy.
Kozinaki from seeds - recipe
Ingredients:
- granulated sugar – 200 g;
- peeled sunflower seeds – 100 g;
- boiled water – 3 tbsp. spoons;
- lemon juice - to taste.
Preparation
How to make kozinaki from seeds? To prepare kozinaki at home, take peeled sunflower seeds, dry them in a dry frying pan for 5 minutes and transfer them to a plate. If time allows, it is best to pour them onto a baking sheet and place them in an oven preheated to 100°C for 10 minutes. This will make them more flavorful. Then pour granulated sugar into the pan, add boiled water, a few drops of lemon juice and cook the caramel, stirring it constantly. It should be a nice golden brown color. Now add the dried seeds to the caramel and mix everything thoroughly. We do this very quickly, without removing the pan from the heat, as the caramel immediately hardens. Next, carefully place the hot mixture on parchment and distribute it in an even layer. After 3 minutes, use a sharp knife to make small cuts so that after hardening it will be convenient for you to break the kozinaki.
That's all, a delicious delicacy called homemade kozinaki is ready!
Kozinaki from rolled oats
Ingredients:
- oatmeal (rolled oatmeal) – 2 tbsp.;
- butter – 125 g;
- granulated sugar - 1 tbsp.;
- roasted peanuts - to taste.
Preparation
To prepare kozinaki from oatmeal, take butter, put it in a preheated frying pan and melt over low heat. Then add sugar, oatmeal and roasted peanuts. Mix everything thoroughly until smooth and cook until the mass darkens. Remove from heat and place the still hot mixture on a board. Next, roll it out into a layer and divide it into squares. Let the oatmeal kozinaki cool completely and serve with hot tea.
Peanut and hazelnut kozinaki
Ingredients:
- hazelnuts – 300 g;
- peanuts – 200 g;
- honey – 500 ml;
- granulated sugar – 1 tbsp. spoon.
Preparation
How to cook peanut kozinaki at home? Place the nuts on a baking sheet and dry for 10 minutes in the oven at 100°. 
This will give them an amazing aroma and the husks will be better cleaned.
Then pour honey into the ladle and put it on low heat. As soon as it gets hot, add the peeled nuts and add a tablespoon of sugar. Stir well until the sugar is completely dissolved and the nuts are coated with the mixture. Transfer the mixture to a previously prepared surface and level it with a rolling pin. As soon as everything sets, cut into portions and serve with aromatic strong tea.
You see, there are no problems in preparing kozinaki at home - everything is very fast, tasty, and most importantly - healthy for children! And the cooking process itself takes very little time, but guests will simply be delighted with such a fabulous delicacy. Enjoy your tea!
Kozinaki- Georgian national sweet. They can be from different types of seeds, nuts or dried fruits. Today we will prepare kozinaki with sunflower seeds, everyone can make them! These kozinaki contain a lot of vitamin E. Let's prepare this goodness at home together!
How to make homemade kozinaki?
Preparing kozinaki will not take you much time, the recipe is very simple and everything is very easy to do. That's all we need to prepare kozinaki:
1 teaspoon vegetable oil;
- 250 grams of peeled sunflower seeds;
- 200 grams of sugar;
- 1 tablespoon of honey;
- 2 tablespoons of water
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice.
Make sure you have baking paper and let's get started!
1. To prevent the kozinaki from sticking to the baking sheet, you need to cover it with baking paper and generously grease it with vegetable oil over the entire surface.
2. Now the seeds need to be fried. Pour our seeds into a dry, heated frying pan and fry them. To prevent them from burning, they should be stirred very, very often.
3. As soon as the seeds are roasted, they should be poured onto a baking sheet and leveled so that they all lie evenly.
4. Let's prepare caramel. For this we need a small saucepan. Pour sugar (200 grams) into it and melt the contents over low heat. But don’t forget to stir so it doesn’t burn.
5. When the sugar has dissolved and boils, we can see that the caramel has become brownish and thick. That's when it's time to add 1 tablespoon of honey. After adding honey, cook for about 5 more minutes and stir constantly with a spoon.
Please note that again our mass has darkened, thickened and boiled. Now you need to add 1 spoon of lemon juice and 2 tablespoons of water. Let's be careful, because after the lemon juice, the caramel will splash.
Mix thoroughly and gently for about 1 minute and remove the finished caramel from the heat.
6 . Now let’s act quickly before the caramel cools down. We pour this whole mass onto a baking sheet on which our aromatic roasted seeds lie. Use a spoon to level them on top for beauty.
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Kozinaki .How to make kozinaki?
There are such wonderful oriental sweets, sweets from Georgian and Armenian cuisine. They are called Kozinaki. Favorite treat since childhood.They can be easily prepared at home.To prepare kozinaki, a very small assortment and quantity of products is required. But, nevertheless, they are tasty in their own way and go great with tea.
Is there a treat that can be given safely even to children? Yes, you can make sweet, healthy, tasty kozinaki from oatmeal. They consist of rolled oats, honey, nuts, dried fruits. Consequently, such kozinaki contain many vitamins and microelements, and they can also replace sweets.
Kozinaki from rolled oats - recipe
from Kashirskaya Anastasia
Ingredients:
Oatmeal (rolled oats) - 450 g;
Butter - 250 g;
Sugar - 100 g;
Honey - 80 g;
Dried apricots - 70 g;
Prunes - 70 g;
Dried cherries - 150 g;
Almonds - 70 g;
Walnuts - 70 g.
Cooking method:
1. First you need to prepare the dried fruits. Rinse them well in running water and place them in separate plates. Pour hot water over each type for half an hour. After this, drain the water and let the dried fruits drain.
2. On a cutting board, cut dried apricots and prunes into small pieces with a knife. Cut a large cherry into two parts; if it is small, you can leave it like that.
3. The next step is to start preparing dried fruits: finely chop walnuts and almonds, or lightly grind them in a blender (for a short time).
4. Place a frying pan on the fire (it is best to use cast iron) and melt the butter in it, add sugar and honey to the hot mixture. Stir with a wooden spatula until smooth, remove from heat.
5. Add prepared dried fruits, nuts, and rolled oats to the pan. Mix the mixture well with a spatula.
6. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Line a baking tray with baking paper.
7. Spoon the finished mixture onto a baking sheet. It is necessary to lay out so that the thickness of each flatbread is at least 1.5 centimeters, otherwise the finished kozinaki will crumble. Bake the kozinaki in the oven for 30 minutes.
8. Then remove the baking sheet from the oven and let the kozinaki cool on it for 10 minutes. After this, remove the cakes and place them on a board. Cut each one with a knife into any shapes. Serve to the table.
Kozinaki made from rolled oats are very tasty, any child will like them, replacing candies and chocolates. When preparing kozinaki, you can add any dried fruits and nuts to them, or leave them out altogether. A good combination with rolled oats would be raisins, peanuts, and hazelnuts.
Ready-made oatmeal kozinaki can be stored at room temperature in a plastic bag.
Kozinaki with peanuts and hazelnuts - a classic recipe
kazinaki from Reznichenko Marina
In order to prepare dessert, you need to take
half a kilo of nuts (there should be a little more hazelnuts than peanuts).
Place them on a baking sheet and dry them in the oven. This will give them an aroma and the peel will peel better.
If you don’t have time to preheat the oven, this procedure can be done over low heat by pouring the nuts into a dry frying pan. Don't forget to stir them as they can burn very quickly.
When the mixture is hot, add the shelled nuts and a tablespoon of sugar. Stir well until the sugar dissolves and the nuts are completely coated in the mixture.
Place the mixture on a prepared surface (baking tray, silicone mat, board or just parchment).
Using a wide knife or rolling pin (in both options, the object must be moistened with water), level the mixture and leave until everything thickens. And when everything is set, cut into pieces and serve with aromatic tea.
You see, no problems - everything is fast, tasty, and most importantly - healthy for children! After all, they will never know what Soviet kozinaki with peanuts are. And the process itself takes a little time, and guests will be delighted with such a treat.
Don't be lazy to cook - the most delicious dishes are usually very simple and inexpensive. And what is important is that you will always have the result of your work, as gratitude for your work, patience and desire to develop.
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Kozinaki with walnuts
We will need:
500 grams of honey,
500 grams of shelled walnuts
and only 100 grams of sugar.
It takes no more than an hour to prepare kozinaki. This quantity of products yields approximately a kilogram of kozinaki.
Combine honey and sugar, place in a small metal saucepan or frying pan and simmer over low heat. Cook the mixture over low heat for about 15 minutes. Add finely chopped nuts to the mixture. Then place the resulting kozinaki in plates previously moistened with cold water. Carefully level on a plate with a knife or spoon. And leave them to cool for 10-15 minutes. In order to remove kozinaki from the plate, slightly warm the plates, for example, by lowering them into a pan of hot water for a few minutes. Just do not lower the entire plate into the water, but so much so that only part of the plate without food disappears. Remove the finished kozinak and cut it into square or rectangular tiles.
This is only one option for making kozinaki. Another option, for example, can be made
TO ozinaki with nuts and raisins.
You can use any nuts. For example, the classic ones are peanuts. You can use hazelnuts, but you need to peel the husks first. Or some other types of nuts. You can also add raisins to kozinaki.
We take about 400 grams of raisins and nuts and 600 grams of granulated sugar.
Prepare the nuts, peel them, chop them finely, lightly fry them in a frying pan over low heat, stirring all the time. Then remove the nuts from the heat. Next, pour a thin layer of sugar into a clean frying pan. When the mass begins to acquire a slightly golden color, we remove it from the heat and pour it onto the already prepared foil. Those. onto regular baking foil, on which raisins and nuts have already been laid in an even layer, pour the mixture that was fried in a frying pan. Let the mixture cool, and then we can simply break the kozinaki into pieces. After this they can be eaten.
You've probably tried the "Grillage in Chocolate" candies? So, you can also cook them yourself.
To do this, make kozinaki according to the above recipe.
Then cut them into small squares or rectangles. Take 2-3 bars of natural chocolate and melt it in a water bath. Then dip the pieces of kozinaki one by one into the melted chocolate and place them on a plate. Place the resulting grilled meat in the refrigerator to harden.
General tips for making kozinaki.
In fact, there are a great many types and varieties of kozinaki. That is, we can use any type of nuts to make kozinaki. We can use the same peanuts, the same pine nuts, hazelnuts, walnuts, and even ordinary peeled seeds.
In addition to raisins and instead of raisins, you can also use dried apricots, the same fruits and berries, cherries, and bananas. Those. There is plenty of room for imagination. In addition, in order to make the kozinaki better and tastier, you can add regular vegetable oil to the syrup in addition to sugar, which will give the kozinaki an additional taste.
From childhood, we all remember the taste of kozinaki, this healthy and simple dessert. You can cook it yourself, adding an original twist to their taste.
To prepare kozinaki you will need:
-Half a glass of quick-cooking oatmeal.
-One glass of peeled sunflower seeds.
-Half a glass of assorted nuts (walnuts, cashews, almonds are used in this recipe).
-150 grams of coconut flakes.
-50 grams of dried apricots without seeds.
-100 grams of dark raisins without seeds and stems.
-50 grams of pitted prunes.
-1/2 cup of honey of any kind.
-200 grams of sunflower oil.
1. Dried apricots, prunes and raisins must first be soaked for one hour in warm water.
2. Meanwhile, grind the nuts, you can do it manually, or you can use a blender.
4. Grind well-washed dried apricots, raisins, and prunes using a blender; it is not advisable to turn them into mush; the pieces should be medium in size.
5. After this, combine them with a mixture of nuts, seeds and cereals, mix.
6. Then add honey, if it is thick and candied, then rub it evenly with a tablespoon, so that when baking our kozinaki stick together well and equally.
7. At the very end, pour in sunflower oil, trying to calculate its quantity so that the mixture is like thick sour cream.
8. Add a little cinnamon if desired.
9. After this, place the mixture on a baking sheet covered with oiled baking parchment.
