How to cook porridge in a slow cooker with milk?

One of the most popular breakfasts all over the world is oatmeal.This dish is very nutritious and healthy, helps to maintain a feeling of satiety for a long time and fill the body with useful substances. But cooking oatmeal with milk is not such an easy task. Although the dish does not need long preparation, it is quite capricious. Deciding to cook porridge on milk, you should continuously monitor the process so that the milk does not run away, and the flakes do not stick to the bottom of the pan.

Those who have a multicooker in the kitchen will cope with this task much easier, minimizing the risk of sticking or boiling milk.

For a start, let's see why cooking porridge with milk, what are the useful properties of this dish and whether there are restrictions in use.

The main advantages of this dish are:

• rich composition of vitamins and microelements in it;
• the content of all B vitamins;
• the presence of essential substances such as calcium, potassium;
• fiber content.

Oatmeal in milk is very useful for the digestive tract, it helps to gently remove harmful substances from the body, thanks to its important components, it supports normal cholesterol levels.

This dish contains a very low glycemic index, which is very important for people suffering from diabetes and overweight. Moderate consumption of healthy cereal in milk may be included in the diet of people who want to lose weight. The calorie content of this dish is very low - no more than 150 calories per medium portion.

However, this product is quite nutritious and high carbohydrate, so if the goal is to lose weight, then use this porridge more often than once a day is not recommended. Also, in case of intolerance to dairy products, this dish is contraindicated, as it is prepared in milk.

The rich composition of oatmeal makes this product very useful for the beautiful half of humanity. Drinking oatmeal with milk can improve the condition of the skin, hair, nails, settle the digestive process, which is important in this matter too, since it is hardly possible to achieve a perfectly flat stomach and thin waist with problems in the gastrointestinal tract.

For proper preparation of this dish is very important to maintain the necessary proportions. Only with the right proportions of porridge will be the right consistency, will not burn and will have excellent taste.

The correct portions are 1: 4. This means: for one cup of oatmeal, add four glasses of milk. If you add more milk, the porridge will be thinner. However, there is nothing bad in it, if the goal is precisely to make porridge. In the classic recipe, proportions should be maintained.

In a slow cooker, as well as in a saucepan, you can cook oatmeal porridge from both cereals and cereals. Greater popularity today gained oatmeal. They prepare very quickly, some of them do not require cooking. To cook oatmeal that does not require cooking, you only need to pour boiling water or hot milk on them and let it brew.

With all the convenience of such porridge there are also disadvantages. The most basic is that this dish is much less useful than cooked oatmeal. It is necessary to give preference to cereal or croup, guided by personal preferences.

The recipe for cooking oatmeal with milk is very simple. First you need to understand in what mode the dish will be cooked. Since multicookers are very different, you can use such modes as “milk porridge”, “porridge”, “pilaf”, “cereals”.

After selecting the desired mode should proceed directly to the process of cooking porridge.

1. Multivarki bowl is well washed and dried.
2. At the bottom of the bowl poured a glass of oatmeal. For this you can take flakes "Hercules".
3. Sugar, salt and cinnamon are added to taste (depending on how sweet or spicy the desired dish should be).
4. Pour into a bowl 4 cups of milk. All gently stirred with a silicone spatula and cover with a multicooker lid.
5. Select the desired mode, turn it on and cook the dish until done. Until the end of cooking, as indicated by the multicooker signal, nothing more needs to be done.

When the porridge is cooked, add a small amount of butter. Such porridge will be useful for cooking for the child. To make the dish even more tasty, you can pour it on top with condensed milk or jam.

Porridge with milk is very tasty in and of itself, but if you wish, you can diversify the dish by adding various fruits to it.

For example, a banana can become a very tasty and useful ingredient for this cereal. In order to cook oatmeal porridge on milk with banana, you should start cooking porridge according to the classic recipe. Only sugar in this case should be put a little less, since the banana is already a rather sweet fruit. While the porridge is cooked according to the classic recipe, the banana should be peeled and turned into mashed potatoes. To do this, you can use a blender or a regular fork.

Ingredients Required:

• 1 cup of cereal;
• 4 glasses of milk;
• 1 big banana or 2 small ones.

Cooking oatmeal in milk with pumpkin will be different from cooking this dish with a banana. The main difference is that porridge will be cooked at the same time as pumpkin.

For this:

1. pumpkin must be pre-cut into cubes or grate finely (grated) (optional);
2. Multicookers pour milk into the bowl and let it boil;
3. after the milk boils, add sugar, vanilla, cinnamon (to taste);
4. then pour oatmeal, chopped pumpkin, gently mix and cook under the lid of the multicooker.

Very tasty is the recipe of cooking dishes with apple juice and raisins. Before preparing the raisins, rinse and soak for at least 15 minutes. Then make fresh apple juice. For the dish you need 1 glass of juice.

The cooking process is quite simple:

1. it is necessary to pour milk, apple juice into the bowl of the multicooker, add sugar, cinnamon and bring the liquid to a boil;
2. after that add oatmeal or flakes, raisins;
3. cook the dish under the lid until cooked.

There are several useful tips that will come in handy when preparing this dish.

• Be sure to control the freshness of products, especially milk. The fact is that in the classic recipe for making porridge in a slow cooker, milk is not brought to a boil. This means that you need to be sure of the quality of the milk used. If there are doubts about this, it is best to boil the milk before cooking, and then use it in the dish.
• Not everyone knows that oatmeal does not require washing. It can be used for cooking without prior preparation.
• In order not to damage the bowl of the multicooker, you should mix the ingredients only with a special silicone or wooden spatula. In addition, the bowl should always be perfectly clean, since oatmeal on milk can instantly “catch” the flavor of the previous dish, which was prepared in a bowl, and this will significantly spoil its taste.
• If not only milk is added to the porridge, but also water, then the purity of the water must also be monitored. It should be filtered, mineral, table or just boiled water.
• If a large amount of porridge is cooked and there is a fear that milk may “run away”, a nozzle - a double boiler should be placed on the bowl.

Eating oatmeal with milk every day will greatly benefit the human body. And following simple cooking rules, this dish will become not only useful, but also very tasty for children and adults.

To learn how to cook milk porridge in a slow cooker, see the following video.