Autumn is the time to cook healthy and delicious pumpkin dishes. Let's open the season of this vitamin beauty by making pumpkin milk porridge with millet from it. Step-by-step recipe with a photo.
Content:
- About pumpkin
- How to cook pumpkin porridge
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
The benefits of pumpkin in millet porridge
In dietary nutrition, pumpkin occupies one of the leading places among vegetables. It is nutritious, healthy and contains many vitamins and minerals that are necessary for human life. It is so versatile that you can make many delicious recipes from it, where pumpkin porridge takes the first place.
How to cook pumpkin porridge: cooking secrets
Many housewives know how to cook pumpkin porridge, but not many do it right. After all, it is important to cook the porridge in such a way as to preserve the valuable and nutritious properties of the pumpkin, while getting a delicious culinary product. There are some simple tips for this:
- Use only well-ripened pumpkin. Its pulp is sweeter in taste and boils down much faster. You can distinguish such a vegetable by a very dry stalk. Have a pumpkin cut into pieces, you can try its seed. The ripe fruit has full, sweet and crunchy seeds. The dried seed suggests that the pumpkin was cut for a long time and has lost a lot of moisture and useful properties.
- The pumpkin skins should be peeled just before cooking so that the porridge comes out soft and smooth.
- Cook porridge over low heat, and after cooking, you need to wrap it up with a warm handkerchief and insist for a while.
- To make the porridge sweeter and tastier, sugar or vanilla sugar is added to the milk during cooking.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 115, 1 kcal.
- Servings - 4
- Cooking time - 50 minutes
Ingredients:
- Pumpkin - 300 g
- Millet - 150 g
- Milk - 300 ml
- Sugar to taste
- Salt - a pinch
Cooking pumpkin porridge with millet
1. Peel the pumpkin, wash it, cut into medium-sized pieces, put them in a saucepan, cover with water so that it only covers the vegetable and place on the stove to cook until tender. You can check the readiness of the fruit with a knife, if the knife easily enters the pulp, then the pumpkin is ready.
2. When the pumpkin is ready, drain the rest of the water and crush it with a crush, it is necessary for the pumpkin to acquire the consistency of puree.
3. Simultaneously with the pumpkin, boil the millet. Rinse the cereal well in 5 waters until transparent, put it in a saucepan and fill it with water in a 1: 2 ratio, add a pinch of salt and cook until cooked for about 20 minutes. For additional satiety of the dish, millet can be boiled in milk. This is already a matter of choice and taste of each housewife.
4. When the millet is ready, it will double in volume and absorb all the water.
5. Add crushed pumpkin and sugar to the pan to the millet.
6. Pour in milk and stir everything. Send the pan to the stove, bring the milk to a boil, boil all the products together for about 5 minutes and you can serve the porridge to the table.
See also the video recipe for making pumpkin porridge with millet using a different method:
