Secrets of cooking liquid millet porridge with milk
There are various recipes for making liquid millet porridge with milk. Berries, honey, dried fruits, raisins, pumpkin or other products can be added to such a dish. This article will reveal all the culinary secrets of delicious millet porridge.
Peculiarities
Millet is not a separate cereal. This is a product obtained from the processing of millet. Although millet groats are quite cheap, they contain many vitamins necessary for the human body. However, not all people use this product due to the fact that the porridge they cook is tough, and sometimes it even feels bitter. The reason is incorrect preparation.
If you cook millet porridge correctly, you get a healthy and tasty meal.
Secrets of a delicious dish
- When buying a product, be sure to look at the date of manufacture. If the expiration date has expired, then millet may be bitter.
- From light cereals, a more viscous porridge is obtained, and from dark cereals, crumbly.
- Before cooking, millet must be washed several times using a fine colander. This process will get rid of the starch. Thanks to this, the cereal will not stick together. The last time the millet is washed with boiling water, this removes possible bitterness.
- So that the milk does not burn, first millet porridge is cooked in water. After it is half cooked, pour in the milk. Then the millet languishes a little and becomes softer.
- After cooking, the dish should be seasoned with butter.
Subject to the above rules, fragrant and tasty millet porridge is obtained. Below are the most common methods of cooking dishes with milk.
Classic recipe
They take a glass of millet grain, sort it out. Then washed and soaked for five minutes in hot water. This allows you to remove bitterness. After that, the millet is washed again until the grains are absolutely clean.
The cereal is placed in a saucepan with two glasses of water. Cook on low heat for ten minutes. Then add two tablespoons of sugar and a pinch of salt, pour in three glasses of hot milk. Continue to cook, stirring, for fifteen minutes.
When the porridge is cooked, it is seasoned with butter to taste. A closed pan is wrapped up so that it stands for ten minutes. Then the dish can be served at the table.
It is worth considering that milk porridge is much tastier if consumed immediately, and not left for the following days.
fast brew
A glass of millet grain is sorted in advance and washed until the water becomes clear. After that, millet is poured into a saucepan and poured with boiled water. Then you should cover the dishes with a lid and leave for a long period of time (at least two hours). During this period, millet grain will absorb liquid, due to which it will cook faster in the future.
When it comes time to cook porridge, add half a liter of milk, a pinch of salt and one tablespoon of sugar to the dishes. The container is put on low heat and boiled until tender. If the porridge is thick, it is diluted with milk. After cooking, the dish is seasoned with butter. For an original taste, you can add a little vanillin to the porridge.
Recipe for porridge with cream
Preliminary standard procedures are carried out: a glass of grain is sorted out, it is repeatedly washed. Millet is poured into a bowl. Add half a liter of milk, a pinch of salt and one tablespoon of sugar.The mixture is cooked over low heat for twenty minutes. After this time, add a little butter and a glass of 20% cream. Continue to cook until tender on the same fire.
For piquancy, you can add berries or pieces of fruit to the dish.
Cooking in a multicooker
Two handfuls of raisins are poured for a short time with boiled water. The multicooker bowl is lubricated with vegetable oil. A glass of pure millet grain is poured into a container. Add a glass of boiled water, two glasses of milk, soaked raisins, a pinch of salt. Prepared in the "Extinguishing" or "Porridge" mode. Then the millet porridge is seasoned with butter and cooked in the “Simmering” or “Heating” mode. After the cycle is completed, the dish is left for thirty minutes. Millet liquid porridge with raisins is ready.
There are other recipes for cooking millet. The main condition for creating delicious porridge is the observance of proportions and the implementation of the basic rules.
You will learn more about how to cook liquid millet porridge in milk from the following video.