Porridge is becoming less popular in our kitchens. Someone is too lazy to cook these healthy products, someone considers them to be “glamorous” food that spoils the image. And completely in vain. Properly prepared cereals, energize the body, are perfectly absorbed, remove toxins. And at the same time they do not spoil the figure at all. And if you cook cereals with fruits or vegetables, then you can lose weight in a short time.
A special place among these dishes is wheat porridge. It can be cooked in milk or water, be sweet or salty, lean or meat.
Each method of cooking wheat porridge requires knowledge of some subtleties. Having mastered them, any housewife will be able to pamper her family with delicious and healthy dishes from the most inexpensive products.
Let's start with the simplest recipe. Wheat porridge on water is cooked from one glass of crushed wheat and two glasses of water. The cereal is poured into boiling salt water, a spoonful of vegetable or butter is added there. Everything boils for 20 minutes. After that, it is recommended to put the dishes with porridge in a warm oven for "ripening". If this is not possible, porridge can be wrapped in blankets.
I like to add spices to such crumbly porridge: garlic, coriander, zira or fresh herbs. It turns fragrant, great for side dishes.
From childhood I remember how the porridge with cracklings, which my grandmother was cooking, smells like. Sometimes I pamper my family, although in the oven you don’t get such a smell as in a real Russian stove.
I cook it like that. Fry wheat grits in a dry hot frying pan until the color changes. Then I put boil porridge on meat or chicken broth. While the cereal is being cooked (this takes about half an hour), I fry in a pan pieces of salted or smoked bacon or bacon. When fat is melted from it, add onions, ground pepper (red or black), fry until tender. By this time, the cereal should completely absorb the water. In this groats spread greaves along with melted fat, salt, and pepper. You can add your favorite spices. It is very important that there is a lot of fat: it is absorbed, the porridge will not be oily, but soft and aromatic. Mixing carefully cooked cereal with greaves and spices, I send the pan to the oven for several minutes, where the wheat porridge “stubs”. Then I take it out, wrap it up. This is a great independent dish, hearty and healthy.
For those who like cereals with vegetables or fruits, wheat porridge with pumpkin will be an excellent treat. It is light, low-calorie, normalizes digestion.
For such a porridge you need to cook:
· Pumpkin pulp - 1kg
Wheat groats - 150 g
Milk - 700 g
Sugar
Egg
· Sour cream
· Butter
Sliced ​​in small pieces, the pumpkin is boiled in milk until softened. Then add the cereal, and over a low heat cook for half an hour. Meanwhile, the clay pot is heated in the oven, lubricated with oil. Beat in a mixer half a glass of sour cream, egg, sugar, vanilla.
The porridge boiled with pumpkin is transferred to a heated pot, poured with whipped sour cream, put a piece of butter on top and sent to the oven for half an hour. Serve porridge with pumpkin can be directly "with heat, with heat", flavored with oil each portion.
Wheat porridge with meat is the most nutritious variety of this dish. To prepare it, you need to cook a strong broth from any kind of meat. The finished meat is taken out, divided into small pieces, and wheat grits are placed in the broth and cooked until semi-liquid. Spread boiled meat, pepper, spices, fried onions in a pan to the broth and cook until tender, not forgetting to stir regularly.
The longer such porridge will stand on fire, the tastier it will turn out. The finished dish is viscous, viscous, aromatic. Serve it with fried onions. This is a great second course.