In the old days, millet porridge was a popular dish. It was eaten by babies and old people, receiving from this "solar" grain not only warmth, but also strength. Only after many centuries did smart professors discover that porridge has healing properties. She is able to remove bad radionuclides, while healing the whole body.
How it was
Before, porridges were always cooked in the oven, then they were “steamed” in the big pot-bellied cauldron with thick walls. With the advent of widespread use of pots, the love of millet porridge subsided a bit. She didn’t get what the old grandmother did in her childhood, no matter how the hostess tried. And now progress has come to the point that it has offered a multicooker to modern housewives. Now we begin to recall the dishes from childhood and prepare them for our entire family. Today it's time to cook millet porridge in a slow cooker. Such a kitchen assistant will save all the useful vitamins found in the grains of millet. It is millet that gives us this unique cereal - millet.
Where to cook
Millet porridge will be cooked in the Redmond multicooker. If you have a device from another manufacturer, that's okay. Simply, if necessary, vary the recipe for your kitchen appliances.
With milk
Millet porridge in a multicooker with milk is the most popular variation of the product. Therefore, we will not break a useful tradition. Everyone knows that milk porridge is the most delicious.
A set of products that are useful during the process:
- 700 ml of milk.
- Dry wheat groats - 100 grams.
- Butter aromatic oil - 30 grams.
- Sugar, in the amount of 4 tsp.
- Salt is half a teaspoon.
Preparation for the process
Having collected the required ingredients, it's time to start cooking this tender porridge:
- The first step is to rinse the cereals clean. To do this, fill it in a bowl and fill it with water. Small specks under the influence of water will rise above the cereal mass. Now the water needs to be drained and refilled again. Perfectly washed millet will stop making the water cloudy.
- It's time to fill the multicooker bowl with staple foods. Fill the cereal first.
- Then pour salt and sugar and pour milk.
- Now you can put in a future porridge and a slice of butter.
Secrets and Wisdom
You are required to set 40 minutes in the "Milk porridge" mode. In the process of swelling and cooking products, do not forget to occasionally stir millet porridge in a slow cooker. If for some reason it seems to you that the porridge wants to "run away", leaving the whole family without dinner, you can not close the lid of the multicooker itself. Grease the sides with butter. When the slow cooker signals that the dish is ready, close the lid. Having disconnected the device from food, allow porridge to steam out well about 10 minutes. Treating your family with this wonderful dish, at serving decorate the dish with washed raisins or walnuts, you can add honey.
Diet option
There are people who, for certain reasons, are unacceptable to use products containing dairy components. Therefore, millet porridge in a slow cooker on the water will be a useful dish for them. It will be a complementary touch to dishes in which there is meat and fish.
Food set for cooking:
- The most important product is wheat groats - 20 grams.
- Pure water in an amount of 600 ml.
- Salt is according to your preference.
- Vegetable oil - 4 tbsp.
We cook millet porridge in a slow cooker step by step:
- Thoroughly rinsing cereals to remove from it not only garbage and small stones, but also to get rid of a bitter unpleasant aftertaste. Such a taste often has a badly washed millet before cooking.
- Pour oil into the multicooker.
- Now we are laying pure millet.
- Add salt to taste. If it’s still hard to figure out the amount of salt, add half a teaspoon.
- Close the lid of the device, press the button "Milk porridge" or "Grains" - which is in your model. The cooking time is 35 minutes.
After the beeping sound, the porridge should be immediately laid out on plates, preventing it from steaming.
Golden pumpkin
We bring to your attention a recipe for millet porridge with pumpkin in a slow cooker. Prepare the products:
- Millet groats - 1 tbsp.
- Pumpkin mashed or diced. The average quantity for this dish is 100 grams.
- Milk - 3 cups.
- Sugar - 1 tbsp with a good slide, so it was sweeter!
- Salt - to taste or half a teaspoon for this amount of milk.
- Butter is optional. If you want more tasty, do not spoil the porridge with butter. If you follow a diet, then the approximate amount of this ingredient will be 30-40 grams.
- A set of dried fruits is optional.
Cooking:
- Sort out cereals, rinse, changing water as needed. You can soak millet in water for an hour, then porridge will become tastier and healthier.
- The pulp of a pre-prepared ripe pumpkin grate. Cells can be any, depending on your preference.
- Prepare a set of dried fruits. To do this, rinse them with water, pour boiling water and let them be in this state for at least an hour. After this, the dried fruit must again be washed with cold running water to remove all the specks.
- Pour the water from the dishes with cereal. Put the millet in the bowl of your slow cooker.
- For cereals go: sugar, salt, pumpkin, part of butter.
- The next step is to add milk to our products and gently mix the resulting mixture.
- Set the mode "Milk porridge" for half an hour. After the signal from the kitchen appliance, making it clear that the millet porridge in the multicooker is completely ready, open the lid and add the rest of the butter to the bowl. Stir the porridge, spread the dried fruits on top of it and close again. Try to work quickly so that steam does not have time to leave the bowels of the multicooker.
- While you convene your loved ones for a delicious porridge, it languishes in a slow cooker, acquiring aroma and taste worthy of the gods.
Mushroom recipe
Many people like mushrooms, and they can be successfully added to millet porridge.
This simple recipe is intended for those who want to learn how to cook millet porridge in a slow cooker with the addition of mushrooms.
Prepare the products:
- We wash out 300 grams of cereals.
- Mushrooms - about 250 grams.
- 2 onions.
- Vegetable and butter 50 grams each.
- 0.5 l of water.
- Salt - 1 tsp
Again, we start cooking delicious porridge:
- Process the cereal, as in all previous options.
- Cut the mushrooms into larger pieces. You can take fresh or frozen champignons, oyster mushrooms, as well as any edible mushrooms that you collected in nature. Only in the latter case, it may be necessary to clean the hats of a thin integument.
- Chop the onion finely, but according to your aesthetic and taste preferences.
- Pour the vegetable oil into the multicooker bowl and, warming it, cook the mushrooms and onions for about 10 minutes in the "Frying" mode.
- After acquiring a golden hue onion, you can spread millet to it.
- Turn off all modes, mix foods and fill them with warm water. The fact is that from a sharp temperature drop the bowl of your favorite multicooker can lose its non-stick property. Therefore, take care of the device.
- Now you can press the "Porridge" button and wait until after 40 minutes your kitchen assistant informs you that the product is ready. After a long-awaited pleasant sound, you can add melted creamy butter and mix porridge in a slow cooker. If there is a desire and opportunity, sprinkle the dish with seasoning for mushrooms.
Such porridge should be put on the table in the company of boiled eggs, sour cream and meat products.