Orange dishes can cheer you up even in the most inclement weather. Tasty and healthy millet porridge with pumpkin is a vivid confirmation of this. A day with her will instantly be filled with sun and positive!
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A little about the benefits
Porridge is in every way a truly unique product. In the morning, they will fill you with vivacity and energy for the next day. What is most interesting, the effect of a healthy breakfast is long-playing. That is, having tasted the porridge early in the morning, you will still feel pleasant satiety for a long time. This happens due to the complex carbohydrates that make up its composition. They do not manifest their nutritional properties immediately, but after some time. If you want to treat your family and friends with a delicious treat, try cooking porridge with pumpkin.
Why pumpkin? But because a bright orange vegetable is just a storehouse of vitamins. It is rich in vitamin C, pectins, carotene. It contains almost the entire periodic table. It removes bad cholesterol, has a beneficial effect on the condition of the skin and various body systems, and accelerates metabolism. Natural pharmacy in your kitchen. Porridge with pumpkin will be especially good during the period of autumn colds, when the body needs help. The only thing, if you decide to cook pumpkin porridge in the oven, keep in mind - it will take a lot of time to cook it. Therefore, it is better to conjure over healthy dishes on a day off, or in the evening.
Classic recipe
In order to implement the classic recipe, you will need the following set of products:
- 300 grams of pumpkin;
- 2 cups of millet;
- 0.5 liters of milk;
- 50 grams of oil.
1. In this recipe, a whole pumpkin is not needed, just a small piece of it. To start, wash the vegetable thoroughly. Peel it and cut it into small cubes. Or grate on a coarse grater. Put in a baking dish, or in a ceramic pot. And leave to wait for your "finest hour". In the meantime, switch to millet yourself.
2. Rinse the cereal several times from the heart, pour boiling water over it and let it simmer for 2 minutes. This is done so that in the future porridge does not bitter.
3. After the manipulations, pour scalded millet into the bowl with pumpkin. Then add milk inside and put sugar. Although the porridge will turn out pretty sweet anyway. When adding milk, it is important to leave a few centimeters from the edges of the mold so that the contents do not tear out during baking.
5. You can proceed to the final part. In case you are cooking an orange breakfast in a pot, just cover it with a lid. And if you have a regular tub, pull the foil on top.
6. Heat the oven to 200 degrees and send the future treat there. After an hour, a delicious treat will be ready. Take it out, mix and add the butter. Do not spare oil. Remember the golden rule? Just about … Porridge will turn out friable soft supple and incredibly tasty. Invite the household and serve it to the table. Eat with great pleasure.
With honey, nuts and cream
If millet porridge with pumpkin is to your taste and soul, you can try other options for its execution. To make breakfast as useful as possible, add even more valuable products to it. Then at the exit you get a "vitamin bomb." To make it you will need:
- 0.5 liters of water;
- 400 grams of pumpkin;
- 300 grams of millet;
- 300 grams of cream;
- 100 grams of walnuts;
- 100 grams of butter;
- three tablespoons of honey;
- half a teaspoon of salt.
1. First, mindful of Cinderella, thoroughly sort out the millet. Put it in a shallow pan, fill it with water and give it an hour, "get to the mind."
2. While the cereal is infused, put a pot of water on the fire. Put salt and sugar into a boil. When the millet is thoroughly swollen, pour it into boiling water and then simmer on fire for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, cut the pumpkin into neat slices.
3. Put butter, honey and pumpkin slices on a hot pan. And fry until the vegetable sides are golden brown.
4. Put the millet ready for baking into pots, top them with slices of pumpkin and slices of butter. And send to the oven preheated to 150 degrees for half an hour.
5. In the meantime, the dish will be baked, cream. Heat them in a water bath or microwave them for a couple of minutes. After half an hour, remove the pots with porridge, put hot cream in them and send back to the oven for another 10 minutes.
6. The finish line. Hold well chopped walnuts in a frying pan without oil. It is best to do this over a fast fire so that they do not have time to fry, but only slightly dried.
7. When the most delicious of all existing cereals arrives in time, take it out of the oven. Decorate with nuts, mint sprigs and invite the whole family to a tasting. The dish will turn out delicious rosy and incredibly healthy. You can cook it at least every day. In the cold season, it will confidently stand guard over your health.
Millet porridge in a pumpkin
There is another recipe that amazes with its originality. It is suitable for courageous cooks seeking to surprise their guests. If a family has a dinner party, be sure to take this successful method into service. The dish will be above all praise. It will smell from him in the summer, the sun … To produce a culinary masterpiece in the light, you will need the following ingredients:
- medium sized pumpkin;
- 300 grams of millet;
- 30 grams of oil;
- 30 grams of sugar;
- 1 tablespoon of honey;
- a pinch of cinnamon;
- salt - on the tip of a knife;
- a teaspoon of orange zest;
- A handful of pine nuts for decoration.
1. First, prepare a pumpkin. Gently cut off the top and set it aside. Scrape the seeds and the core with a knife, leaving only 3-5 cm at the edges. From the pulp you can make delicious homemade puree or add any side dish with it.
2. When the sunny vegetable passes the preparatory stage with distinction, proceed to millet. Sort it thoroughly, rinse several times and pour into a pre-prepared pumpkin pot.
3. Add the remaining ingredients: cinnamon, orange zest, salt and sugar. Mix everything thoroughly and flavor the porridge with pieces of butter.
4. Then pour the milk. Make sure that it covers all the products inside.
5. Next, cover the pumpkin with an improvised lid and send to the oven. First, pour a little water on the baking sheet so that the treat does not stick to the bottom.
6. Bake at a temperature of 160 degrees for one and a half hours. When the vegetable pot is ready, remove it, pour honey, sprinkle with pine nuts on top and send to the festive table. Porridge will turn out very fragrant and mouth-watering.
