Millet groats is one of the most useful cereals. Millet porridge can be prepared in various ways, for every taste. And for men - "dense" porridge with meat or lard, and for women - in water and milk, sweet and with fruit, pumpkin. There are a lot of recipes for millet porridge, the main thing is to learn how to cook cereals correctly.
Pick your recipe
You will need
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- Millet groats
- Water or milk
- Butter
- Honey
- raisins
- sugar
- Clay pot
- Oven
Instruction manual
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Millet can be cooked in water and milk. You can also boil on a liquid consisting of equal amounts of milk and water. The ratio of cereals and liquids depends on what kind of porridge you want to cook: thick, crumbly or viscous. If you need friable porridge, then you need to take one and a half glasses of water to a glass of cereal. For a viscous porridge, liquids take more - 2.5 cups. For liquid cereal ("smear"), 3 to 3.5 cups of liquid are needed per glass of cereal.
2
Then millet groats need to be washed. It is not necessary to sort the grits before washing, they are too small, and the garbage is washed out remarkably under running water. Just do not need to make too strong a pressure of water so that the groats are not washed away with the garbage.
3
The next step can be soaked millet, if not critical cooking time. Best for an hour or two. If there is no time for soaking, then before laying the cereals for cooking, boil it with boiling water - this will steal the cereal and improve its taste.
4
Then you need to boil the cereal a little until half ready in slightly salted water. At the same time, you need to preheat the oven.
5
After this, the clay pot should be greased with a small amount of oil, put in it boiled cereals, honey, raisins or sugar. Then hot milk or water is added to the pot, and the pot with future porridge is put in the oven on a slow fire for an hour.
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An hour later, peas are taken out of the oven. If desired, you can add more butter to the plates. After all, you won’t spoil the porridge with butter!
note
Millet porridge is best prepared in a bowl with a thick bottom.
Useful advice
When pre-boiling cereal is better to stir constantly.