Ways to make crumbly cereal

Wheat porridge is a rather popular side dish for meat dishes or salads. This porridge is eaten and sweet, adding sugar, honey and other sweeteners to it. You can also make a dairy version.

Unfortunately, wheat porridge has become quite a rare guest at the dining tables of our compatriots, although it is a dish of national cuisine. Nevertheless, it is quite simple to prepare, and in its composition it contains many useful components: vitamins and trace elements. One of the remarkable substances is choline, which promotes the regulation of fat metabolism, which is important for maintaining normal weight.

It is believed that this dish has a positive effect on the gastrointestinal tract and cardiovascular system, reduces cholesterol levels. Systematic use of the product also contributes to the normalization of metabolism in the human body. Wheat porridge has a low glycemic index, it gives a long feeling of fullness.

Dish can be eaten for breakfast, lunch or dinner. There are a number of proven cooking methods and interesting recipe solutions.

To properly prepare crumbly dish, you need to take:

• 140 g of uncooked wheat cereal;
• 0.5 l of purified water;
• 40 g butter;
• Salt - to taste.

It should be remembered that before cooking the wheat grits should not be washed. First of all we send it to a dry heated pan. Stir the cereal, heat it up, waiting for the nutty flavor.

Pour water into a separate saucepan, set it on fire and wait for it to boil. Then add salt there. Cook until the cereal absorbs all the water. While the porridge is cooked, it must be periodically mixed so that it does not stick to the dishes and does not burn. After that add butter and let it brew for 5–10 minutes.

To cook delicious porridge for this recipe, you need to take:

• 140 g of uncooked wheat cereal;
• 200 ml of purified water;
• 300 ml of milk;
• sugar and salt - to taste.

First, repeat the same steps that are described in the first recipe: fry wheat cereal in a dry heated pan. Then we put the grits in the water that previously boiled in the saucepan, pour in salt and sugar. At that moment, when all the water is completely boiled away from the pan, you need to add milk to it. From this point you need to cook another 15-20 minutes.

The device will greatly simplify the task. To cook porridge in the microwave, you will need:

• 140 g of wheat cereal;
• 500 ml of water;
• 30 g butter;
• salt.

Groats need to be washed and cleaned of unnecessary impurities. Then put it in a deep container. It can be any pan or bowl, suitable for use in the microwave.

We pour the grits in half a liter of boiling water, add salt and butter. Put the container in the microwave for 15-30 minutes (depending on the power of the device). In that case, if all the water has boiled away, but the dish is not ready yet, you need to add water to it and continue the cooking process.

With this method of cooking do not have to cook grits. You will need:

• 1 cup of cereal;
• 3 glasses of purified water;
• salt.

Preparation of wheat porridge for weight loss takes time. Krupa need to pour boiling water in the evening. The container with cereal and boiling water should be wrapped in a blanket or jacket and placed in a warm place until the morning.

In boiled wheat porridge, stir and add sliced ​​tomatoes, sweet green onions, basil and salt, as well as any other vegetables and spices to taste (for example, avocado is perfect). In addition, wheat porridge can be prepared by analogy with pilaf, adding onions and carrots. The dish can also be supplemented with mushrooms.

Another option is sweet porridge for breakfast. It can be supplemented with jam, jam, fresh or dried fruit.

The main rule of preparation is strict adherence to the instructions described in the flow chart.

There are several secrets of cooking.

To avoid undesirable viscosity of the finished wheat porridge and make the dish crumbly, you should fry more raw cereal in a griddle.

To cook sweet porridge, sugar should not be added to the finished dish, but to the water during cooking.

It is possible to store an open package of cereals no more than 10 months. From polyethylene or paper packaging it is better to pour it into a glass or ceramic container.

Cook porridge is best in a container made of stainless steel and having a thick bottom.

If you want to cook porridge for a small child (up to 1 year old), you should first grind the cereal in a blender or coffee grinder to a state of powder. Then, purified water should be added to the powder (in proportions 1: 5). Cooking should be done over low heat.

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