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Cooking pumpkin porridge with millet in milk. Pumpkin porridge is our food

20.05.2015

Pumpkin porridge with millet- a dish that tastes like childhood memories. Pumpkin (recipes for cooking baked pumpkin can be read) is very rich in nutrients, and the calorie content of pumpkin porridge is much lower than the rest. Many other sweet cereals, recipes for which fill the Internet, unfortunately, lead to the deposition of excess fat. But millet pumpkin porridge can rightfully be considered a dietary one if it is cooked in water and without sugar, and the butternut nut pumpkin itself will give the dish the sweetness. Pshonka, a porridge made of millet and pumpkin (as we called it in childhood), is very satisfying, tasty and healthy. Pumpkin porridge, the recipe of which was told by my beloved mother, turns out to be equally tasty in milk or in water, so at home I usually cook diet millet porridge with pumpkin. So ... Cooking pumpkin porridge.

Ingredients

  • - nut, butternut - 200 gr
  • - 100 gr
  • - or milk - 250 ml
  • - or creamy - 3 tbsp
  • - or sugar

Cooking method

Pumpkin porridge, the benefits of which are undeniable, is made from sweet butternut butternut pumpkin. You can start cooking in two ways: bake the pumpkin in advance or boil it while cooking the porridge itself. I prefer the first method: I cook baked pumpkin with honey for dinner, and cook porridge from ready-made sweetened pumpkin sutra. But, of course, I will also tell you how to cook pumpkin porridge without baked pumpkin. My fruit is very good. Cut off the right amount product, remove the pumpkin seeds with a tablespoon or hand and remove the film under them. Now for a surprise: Butternut butternut squash does not need to be peeled - it will soften during cooking and become usable. Cut the peeled butternut squash into cubes, and then into small pieces about 2 x 2 cm in size.
We put water or milk to boil in a saucepan over the highest heat, you can add a little salt to the liquid, but I usually don't (I avoid excess salt in my food). Also, if you are using sugar instead of honey, now is the time to put 2 tablespoons of sand in the water. Pumpkin porridge with millet in milk turns out to be more tender and creamy, such a pumpkin porridge for a child, for example, will be very much even to their liking. However, pumpkin porridge with milk, the recipe for which I am describing, gives the dish a high calorie content, and may not work for people watching the figure, so I suggest replacing milk with water. While the liquid is boiling, rinse the millet well. As soon as the liquid starts to boil, put in the pumpkin and again wait until it boils. If the pumpkin is raw, then cook after boiling over low heat for 10 minutes, then put 2 tablespoons of vegetable or butter, and then pour the washed millet into it. If it is already baked, then put the butter and pour in the cereal immediately, again wait until it boils, then reduce the heat to a minimum, cover with a lid and cook for 10-15 minutes.
At this moment, turn on the oven to the lowest temperature and wait until it heats up. After the right time, put the remaining oil in the porridge, mix well and bring it to a viscosity state - there should be no liquid left. Remove the pumpkin porridge from the heat and put it in the heat for 20 minutes. For this we need a preheated oven or a warm blanket. I never play with blankets, it seems a little strange to me, so I use warmth oven... Turn off the oven and put the porridge inside: the remaining heat of the oven is enough to maintain the desired temperature, in which the pumpkin porridge with millet will steam well. After a while, we take out the pumpkin dish from the heat and mix well. Now you know how to cook pumpkin porridge according to the most delicious recipe.

Pumpkin porridge. A short recipe for cooking

  1. Boil water or milk in a saucepan, add salt and sugar if necessary.
  2. While the liquid is boiling, wash the pumpkin, cut off the required amount, remove the pumpkin seeds and cut into 2 cm by 2 cm pieces.
  3. Put pieces of pumpkin in boiling liquid, cook after boiling for 10 minutes.
  4. During this time, rinse the millet under running water.
  5. Put 2 tablespoons of butter or vegetable oil in water or milk with pumpkin, mix, add millet, cover, bring to a boil, reduce heat to a minimum and cook for 10-15 minutes.
  6. Preheat oven to lowest temperature.
  7. Put the remaining oil in the pumpkin porridge, mix well and bring to a viscosity state.
  8. Turn off the preheated oven, put a pot of porridge in it and leave to steam for 20 minutes.
  9. Arrange on plates. When serving, if sugar has not been used before, pour honey on the millet porridge with pumpkin.

Pumpkin porridge with millet is already ready, put it on plates, pour it with honey to taste and serve. Enjoy your meal!

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Pumpkin porridge with cereal is a popular dish that is often fed to children. People who follow the rules healthy eating, this dish is also often prepared in different variations. Even after heat treatment all the ingredients of the porridge retain their beneficial properties. The dish is often cooked in cold weather and eaten for breakfast or dinner.

Benefit and harm

The dish should be included in the diet for those who feel constant ailments and weakness. The beneficial properties of porridge will help people who do hard physical or intellectual work every day. The dish is given to children in order to ensure normal development and growth. You could meet millet porridge with pumpkin in child care.


Nutritionists advise to eat the dish on a regular basis for those who want to reduce body weight. Millet porridge prevents the formation of adipose tissue. The ingredients contain many trace elements, minerals and vitamins. Moreover, regular consumption of porridge improves the condition of hair and nails, helps to fight dandruff and acne due to vitamin B2 in the composition. Beneficial features:

  • vitamin B5 normalizes blood pressure;
  • components of porridge improve the condition of blood vessels and cleanse the blood;
  • improves the elasticity and firmness of the skin;
  • magnesium and potassium contribute to the normalization of the heart.

This is not to say that pumpkin porridge with cereals is absolutely healthy. As such, there are no contraindications, but do not forget that an excess of food in the diet leads to an overload of the body and disruption of the gastrointestinal tract. You should not use porridge with millet for stomach diseases during an exacerbation and for periodic or chronic constipation.


Calorie content

Millet groats are lower in calories than similar cereals. 100 grams of the product contains only 3.5 grams of fat, 11.3 grams of protein and a lot of carbohydrates. The calorie content of pumpkin porridge with such cereal directly depends on the method of preparation and additional ingredients... Viscous millet porridge on water contains about 90 kcal, pumpkin - about 25 kcal.

Adding butter, milk, sugar, sauce to the porridge can significantly increase the calorie content of the dish.


Cooking methods

The option for preparing porridge depends not only on how much time you spend, but also on how much nutrients will remain after heat treatment. You can cook the dish in water or milk, with salt or sugar, respectively. Fruits, spices, cheeses, and meat are used as additives. Such a healthy porridge in a pot looks especially presentable. It will be easier for inexperienced housewives to cook the dish on the stove in an ordinary saucepan.

Happy owners of multicooker can use them. Such light breakfast get ready while you go about your business. The dish prepared in this way is quite aromatic and tasty.

Traditionally, porridge is cooked on the stove, but you can use the oven. This method retains a large amount of nutrients in the ingredients of the dish. You can cook in pots or molds. If you add aromatic spices (cinnamon or vanilla), then the dish will be completely saturated with smell. You can correct the thickness of the porridge with milk, if it is sweet, or water, if salty.


Popular recipes

It is important to select quality ingredients before cooking. The flesh of the pumpkin should have a bright orange color, then you can be sure that it contains a lot of beta-carotene. Do not take a vegetable that is too large, perhaps it was treated with pesticides. For a brighter taste, color and aroma, you can cook porridge with pumpkin juice.

If desired, you can use frozen pumpkin.


Classic porridge

It is better to eat this dish for breakfast, so you will recharge with energy and vitamins for the whole day. Suitable for feeding babies. Ingredients:

  • millet - 1 glass;
  • pumpkin - 0.5 kg;
  • water - 400 ml;
  • milk - 1 glass;
  • sugar - 2 tbsp. l .;
  • salt - 1 pinch;
  • butter to taste.

For cooking healthy porridge with pumpkin and millet, it will take less than 1 hour. If you grind the pumpkin after boiling, then the pieces of the vegetable will not come across. The cooking method is pretty simple.

  1. Peel the pumpkin, cut into square pieces. If you wish, you can grate the vegetable on a coarse grater.
  2. Pour water into a cooking container, lay out the pumpkin and put on fire. Cook for 15-20 minutes until tender. You can puree the pumpkin pulp using a grinder or blender.
  3. Sort the millet, rinse with boiling water. So you get rid of the bitter taste and various debris.
  4. Add the grits to the pot with the vegetable.
  5. Add salt to the dish, cover and cook over medium heat for 15 minutes. Check and stir the contents of the pot regularly to avoid burning to the bottom.
  6. When done, add sugar and butter. If desired, you can increase the amount of granulated sugar.
  7. Leave the dish to sit for 15 minutes.




In a multicooker

It takes a minimum of effort to prepare the dish if you use a multicooker. Most of the process takes place without your intervention. You will need the following ingredients:

  • millet groats - 1 glass;
  • water - 500 ml;
  • grated pumpkin pulp - 2 cups;
  • salt - 0.5 tsp;
  • sugar - 1 tbsp. l .;
  • butter - 60 g.

This cooking method is considered the easiest and fastest. The preparation process takes only 3 minutes:

  1. put all the ingredients in a multicooker pan;
  2. set the mode "Milk porridge", wait 1 hour 10 minutes;
  3. let the dish steep for 10-15 minutes and serve.




With raisins

The dish is ideal for a morning meal. You will get enough energy and additional body protection for the whole day. Ingredients:

  • millet - 2 glasses;
  • pumpkin - 1 kg;
  • water - 5 glasses;
  • milk - 2 glasses;
  • sugar - 6 tbsp. l .;
  • salt - 2 pinches;
  • butter - 80 g;
  • raisins, cinnamon - to taste.

Cooking porridge according to such a simple recipe will take less than 2 hours, taking into account the preparation of the ingredients.

  1. Cut the pumpkin pulp into large cubes.
  2. Pour the vegetable with water, cook for 15 minutes after boiling. After that, the soft pumpkin can be crushed with a potato crusher so that the pieces do not come across in the porridge.
  3. Go through and rinse the millet. Pour boiling water over the cereal and drain after 10-15 minutes. Add to the pot with boiled pumpkin.
  4. Season with salt and simmer, covered, for about 15 minutes. Remember to stir.
  5. Add butter and sugar. If desired, you can increase the amount of these components. If the pumpkin is sweet, then you should not add a lot of sugar, the porridge will become sugary.
  6. Boil milk and add to porridge. The amount of this ingredient directly affects the consistency of the porridge, so it can be increased.
  7. Boil the porridge for another 2-3 minutes.
  8. Add raisins and cinnamon. Remove from heat, let it brew for 10 minutes.




With apples

Cooking porridge with fresh fruit significantly increases its usefulness. Apples have a good effect on digestion and the general condition of the body. The taste can vary depending on the selected variety. Ingredients:

  • millet groats - 300 g;
  • pumpkin pulp - 300 g;
  • apple - 2 pcs.;
  • water - 1 l;
  • salt to taste.

There is no sugar in the recipe for a lean dish, so choose sweet pumpkin... It only takes you 20 minutes to feed healthy dish the whole family. The following is step by step method cooking.

  1. Wash the groats, pour into a cooking container, add water and cook over low heat.
  2. Peel the pumpkin, cut into small cubes and send to the cereal container.
  3. Peel the apples and cut into convenient slices. Add some salt. Cook for about 20 minutes until the cereal is cooked.
  4. Remove the dish from the stove, add butter, let it brew for 7 minutes.




With meat

Many are accustomed to cooking sweet pumpkin porridge with millet. The version with meat turns out to be no less healthy and satisfying. The dish is good for lunch or dinner. Ingredients:

  • millet - 200 g;
  • pumpkin - 0.5 kg;
  • plain pepper, salt - to taste;
  • water - 400 ml;
  • bay leaf - 3 pcs.;
  • onions - 2 pcs.;
  • vegetable oil - for frying;
  • chicken breast - 2 pcs.

Millet porridge with pumpkin and meat can be served with herbs or vegetable salad. Let's consider a cooking method.

  1. Peel the pumpkin, remove the seeds. Cut the pulp into small cubes. Place in a saucepan, cover with water and boil for 10 minutes until the pulp loses its firmness.
  2. Rinse the chicken, peel off the film and skin, cut in large pieces... Fry the breast on vegetable oil on both sides for 5 minutes.
  3. Peel the onion, cut into thin half rings and fry with the chicken for 3 minutes.
  4. Chop the boiled pumpkin in homogeneous mass and combine with millet. Wait for the water to boil and cook until the cereal is done, usually no more than 15 minutes. Remember to keep the fire as low as possible.
  5. Transfer the chicken and onion to a container with cereals, mix. Cook for another 5 minutes.
  6. Add bay leaf to all ingredients and remove from heat.
  1. Most The best way cooking - in the oven. Previously, such porridge was cooked exclusively in the oven, in clay dishes. So it retains a large amount of useful trace elements. Oven and pots can be used today. Be sure to simmer the porridge only over low heat. The high temperature will destroy more vitamins.
  2. Millet porridge can be quite bitter, but proper handling can help prevent it. Rinse the cereals, pour over boiling water and rinse again. In some cases, it is recommended to boil the millet in a separate container until half cooked, and only then transfer it to a saucepan with pumpkin.
  3. For more delicate taste and a bright aroma of pumpkin porridge, it is recommended to put a little butter in the middle.
  4. Remember that the dish cannot be overcooked. Long-term cooking can destroy all the beneficial trace elements. Stick to the recipe exactly to the minute.


Millet porridge with pumpkin - independent dish, but can also be served as a side dish. In the latter case, combine the dish with baked fish. It goes well with pink salmon pumpkin porridge, it is low-calorie and healthy.

If simple recipes seem simple and incomplete to you, then use various additives. You can put any dried fruits and fruits in sweet porridge. Instead of simple sugar, add honey to the porridge, so it will become more useful. Delicious porridge will become more unusual if you add hazelnuts or walnuts to it.

The dish is definitely worth eating for those who decide to adhere to the rules of a healthy diet. It is millet groats that are considered the most useful. Pumpkin pulp facilitates the absorption and digestion of all components. Various supplements can increase the benefits to the body. Sweet porridge it is better to eat for breakfast or dinner, and salty for lunch.

You will learn more about how to cook millet porridge with pumpkin in the following video.

Our ancestors were held in high esteem. Indeed, adding pumpkin to millet porridge makes it even more nutritious in terms of its nutritional value. Millet porridge with pumpkin in milk among our ancestors was a frequent guest at dining table from late summer to spring. They cooked such porridge in cauldrons and pots in the oven. Today, modern housewives cook pumpkin porridge not only on the stove, but also in a slow cooker and in an oven.

Despite the simplicity of this dish, there are a lot of recipes for millet porridge with pumpkin in milk. All of them differ in both the taste of the finished porridge and the duration of its preparation, technology, composition, and, of course, appearance.

Millet porridge with pumpkin in milk, step by step recipe with photo which I want to offer you, it turns out not only delicious, has a beautiful bright appearance, but also cooks very quickly. Thanks to these qualities, this is one of my favorite recipes for pumpkin porridge with millet. Why one of the? The fact is that I have several proven and tasty recipes for millet porridge and so that it does not become boring, I try to alternate them.

You can ennoble the taste of ready-made millet porridge with pumpkin in milk using various additives... Using certain dried fruits or nuts, as well as combining them in certain combinations with each other, you can each time get a dish that is different to taste. Millet porridge with pumpkin in milk will turn out delicious with the addition of walnuts, prunes, dates, dried apricots, raisins, peanuts or hazelnuts. The list of additional ingredients for millet porridge is exactly the same as for Christmas kuti.

If almost everyone knows about the benefits of millet porridge with pumpkin, at the same time, its calorie content remains a mystery to many.

Since the calorie content of millet porridge with pumpkin in milk is no more than 70 kcal. per 100 gr. product, which is considered a low indicator, as a result of this, it is referred to as a dietary recipe.

Nutritionists recommend using millet porridge with pumpkin in milk both during a diet and during the treatment of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. In such cases, in order to achieve the maximum benefit from porridge, sugar and butter are either not added to it, or they are put, but in a completely small amount. Sugar is often replaced with a little honey.

Ingredients:

  • Pumpkin -200 gr.,
  • Milk - 800 ml.,
  • Millet - 1 glass,
  • Sugar - 4 tbsp. spoons,
  • Salt on the tip of a teaspoon
  • Butter - 20 gr.

Millet porridge with pumpkin in milk - recipe

Before boiling millet porridge with pumpkin in milk, you should prepare the pumpkin itself.

Cut a small piece from the pumpkin. Peel the hard skin off it. This can be done either with a vegetable peeler or with a sharp knife. Then grate the pumpkin on a medium or fine grater. Thanks to finely chopped pumpkin, pumpkin porridge will cook much faster.

Pour the required amount of milk into the saucepan in which you will cook the porridge. By the way, about milk. Milk for the preparation of pumpkin porridge can be used both store and purchased with a fat content of 1.5 to 3.5%. Whole homemade cow's milk much fatter than the store, then during its use for cooking porridge, it is allowed to be diluted with water. On average, 30% of water is added from the amount of milk taken.

Put the millet groats in a deep bowl and rinse in two waters.

As soon as the milk boils, add millet groats to it. Salt the porridge.

Stir with a spoon (spatula) and cook the porridge over low heat for 10 minutes, during which time the millet will become softer, but not quite cooked yet. It's time to add the grated pumpkin.

Mix millet porridge with pumpkin. Let it cook for another 10 minutes. After this time, the porridge will become thicker, the pumpkin will boil and color it in a beautiful yellow-orange color.

It's time to sweeten the porridge with sugar and season butter.

Millet porridge with pumpkin in milk. Photo

Description

Pumpkin porridge with millet will be the best recipe for delicious lung breakfast or lunch. Millet and pumpkin in themselves are literally a storehouse of useful elements and vitamins, and by combining them together in one dish, you will get the healthiest and healthiest food you can think of.

For a long time people began to notice that millet porridge provides the body with strength and strengthens it. In addition, it has been proven more than once that millet porridge promotes the removal of fats from the body, which rightfully makes it the number one product for those who follow the figure.

People who know a lot about folk medicine, it is advised to introduce millet into their diet for those people who have problems with the pancreas, as well as those with atherosclerosis and diabetes mellitus.

As for vitamins, this product contains vitamins such as A, E, PP and some B vitamins. In addition, millet contains useful elements such as iron, manganese, zinc, iodine and many others.

But, although millet has useful properties, you also need to take it carefully. It is especially not recommended to eat dishes with the addition of millet for pregnant women and people suffering from low acidity of the stomach.

Pumpkin is not inferior to millet in terms of the content of all kinds useful components and vitamins. Just like millet, pumpkin is recommended for consumption by many nutritionists, because it is completely calorie-free, but at the same time it is able to saturate the body well. The pumpkin pulp contains substances useful for the body - pectins. They improve bowel function and help remove waste and toxins from the body.

If we talk about the vitamins contained in this vegetable, then, in addition to the standard set, pumpkin contains such rare vitamins as K and T, which are responsible for blood clotting and strengthen the gums.

But this product also has contraindications. Pumpkin is not recommended for those who have diabetes or ulcers.

Delicious homemade porridge from pumpkin is one of the most useful and quite popular dishes... The recipe for its preparation is very simple, you can see for yourself, and step by step photos help you better understand the recipe recommendations.

Ingredients


  • (3 tbsp.)

  • (1 tbsp.)

  • (1 tbsp.)

  • (500 g in purified form)

  • (100 g)

  • (1 tbsp. L.)


Calorie content: Not specified
Cooking time: Not indicated

During the fast, millet porridge with pumpkin on water, the recipe with a photo of which I described in detail, for you, will become a real lifesaver, a recipe for all occasions. Millet is cooked relatively quickly, so delicious nutritious millet with pumpkin can be served not only for lunch or dinner, but also for breakfast. To shorten the cooking time, you can soak the millet in cold water overnight or before stewing the pumpkin. If your millet is bright yellow, then, most likely, grits are polished, such millet is cooked very quickly and without soaking. And the pale yellow one takes longer to cook - it is better to soak such cereal at least for a short time. I offer you another selection.
During cooking or after turning off the heat, add dried fruits to the porridge: raisins, dried apricots, prunes, dates, figs. And when serving, you can season millet porridge with pumpkin with honey or pour with jam, add a couple of tablespoons of pumpkin jam.

Ingredients:

- fresh pumpkin without peel and seeds - 300-350 gr .;
- millet - 1 glass;
- water for porridge - 1.5-2 glasses;
- water for boiling pumpkin - 0.5 cups;
- sugar - 2-3 tablespoons;
- salt - 1/3 tsp;
- raisins or other dried fruits - 1-2 handfuls.

Recipe with photo step by step:




Cut off the peel and loose pulp with seeds from the pumpkin. If the center is not very fibrous, just select the seeds, leave the pulp. Wash the pumpkin and cut into small pieces. Transfer to a cauldron.





Put on low heat, pour in half a glass of water. Cover tightly and simmer for about ten minutes, until the pumpkin is soft. When pressed, the pieces should be easy to knead almost into a puree.





Rinse millet groats in a sieve colander or sieve before cooking. Pour in two glasses if necessary cold water and leave for a while so that the grains swell.





Mash a soft pumpkin with a crush, a few pieces can be left intact and added to ready-made porridge... Transfer to pumpkin puree millet, add salt and sugar.







Mix. Pour in two glasses of water. If the cereal has been soaked, then less water will be needed, about one and a half glasses. Cover the cauldron and put on high heat.





As soon as intense boiling begins, reduce the heat to low. Cook until almost all the water is absorbed. Stir two to three times.





Put the cauldron on the flame divider, cook for 20-25 minutes until the cereals are soft and the water is completely absorbed. Do not stir the millet during cooking if you want the porridge to be crumbly. Or stir for viscous millet. I think the information will be useful to you.





Serve the millet porridge hot, adding steamed raisins and slices stewed pumpkin... Or add dried fruits at the very end of cooking, about five minutes until fully cooked. During this time, dried apricots or prunes will have time to steam and give their taste to millet with pumpkin. If porridge is not cooked like lean dish, then you can serve it with butter and a glass of warm milk. Bon Appetit!