Useful and tasty food. Millet porridge with pumpkin on milk.

Russian cuisine has long been famous for its soup, kulebyaki, pies, kvass, pancakes and, of course, porridges, unusually tasty and useful. One of these cereals - millet porridge with pumpkin. The taste of this dish is sweetish-sweet, the flavor is pleasant pumpkin, and the composition is simply unique for medical and baby food: a large number of various vitamins, fiber, useful amino acids and a unique set of minerals.

Not food, but tasty and nutritious natural dietary supplements, only much cheaper than those sold in pharmacies. At least 2 times a week this cereal should be eaten by those who have high cholesterol, sclerosis, gall bladder disease, swelling, metabolic disorders, kidney problems, intestinal motility and digestion in general. Indispensable millet porridge with pumpkin and for children and pregnant and lactating women. In addition to the taste and usefulness of this porridge there is another big plus: it is very easy and quickly prepared.

To make the porridge tasty and beautiful, buying products for it, you need to adhere to two simple but important rules:

1. Millet should not be whitish-pale, but yellowish, clean, with homogeneous coarse grains. Be sure to check the expiration date on the package, with prolonged storage of millet bitter.
2. Pumpkin is preferable to choose sweet varieties with a bright yellow, almost orange color. It is more useful, there is more carotene in it. Yes, and the porridge from it is more appetizing in appearance. In order not to have difficulties with buying a pumpkin all year round, it can be bought in the fall for future use, cleaned, cut with pieces and frozen. Frozen pumpkin retains all its taste and useful properties.

So, the simplest, but delicious recipe: millet porridge with pumpkin on milk.

Prepare all the necessary products.

1. Water - 1 liter (for preliminary welding of millet).
2. Milk - 1 liter (you want to reduce the calories of porridge, replace half of milk with water, like liquid porridges, increase the volume of milk to 1.5 liters).
3. Millet - 200-300 g (depending on the desired density of porridge).
4. Pumpkin is fresh or thawed - 300-400 g.
5. Sugar - 1-3 tablespoons (depending on taste preferences)
6. Salt - 1/3 teaspoon.
7. Butter - 5 g (a small piece for refilling the finished porridge).

Products for the porridge on the table, we begin to prepare it.

• Boil the water in the pan, pour it into the well-washed millet and boil for about 3 minutes. After that, drain the water. During cooking from the millet bitterness goes away.
• We put milk on a stove in another pan or a mixture of milk and water.
• Until the milk boils, remove the peel from the pumpkin, take out the core with seeds and rub the pumpkin pulp on a grater or grind it in a blender. So millet porridge with pumpkin will get homogeneous and be cooked faster. But if you like porridge with pieces of pumpkin, you can cut the vegetable cubes.
• Has the milk boiled? So, it's time to put a pumpkin into it. After this, let the milk boil repeatedly, and pour pre-cooked millet.
• Now you can salt and Sweeten the porridge .
• On low heat in 30 minutes, porridge with pumpkin will be ready . During cooking, it is unforgettable to stir it. But about the timing of preparedness is very simple: try millet. If the croup is soft, boldly remove the pan from the plate, put butter, mix and let the porridge take 5 minutes to stand under the lid.
• It remains only to spread out on plates
• If you have a good mood and have a free 15 minutes, which is not a pity to spend on culinary delights, ready Gruel Can be decomposed into clay or ceramic pots and put in a warm oven for 10 minutes.
• And then you will have a languid millet porridge with pumpkin for breakfast. They serve it directly in a pot.

Prepare millet porridge with milk once, and it will be on your table a frequent visitor: nourishing and easily digestible, useful and tasty, with a beautiful bright yellow foam. Over time, you learn to improvise: put in it more pumpkin, then millet, make it thick or light, like a soup.