Features cooking rice porridge with pumpkin

Rice porridge with pumpkin - an unusually tasty dish that has great benefits for children and adults.Over the thousand-year history, many recipes have been created, which fully reveal the amazing taste qualities of these products. Favorite rice porridge is cooked in every home, and a skilled hostess will find a way to surprise the home by serving different versions of this dish.

Dietitians claim that rice porridge with pumpkin - an unusually useful dish irreplaceable in a person's diet:

• high digestibility of such food allows not to overload the digestive system;
• high content of vitamins and minerals favorably affects the state of health;
• portions of porridge contains the daily rate of protein;
• helps to reduce cholesterol due to the lack of full fats in the composition;
• low calorie porridge allows you to eat it to people who adhere to a healthy diet or who want to lose weight.

Pumpkin porridge is not only tasty, but also healthy. Cooking rice porridge with a frozen pumpkin is a snap, considering all our recommendations.

Before you cook porridge from rice and pumpkin, you must choose high-quality products. There are some subtleties, but a good housewife should know about them. Often it seems that you can take any rice, but it is not. First you need to determine the grade of cereals, which will be cooked porridge. Krasnodar rice variety is ideal for cooking fragrant porridge with milk. First, you can buy it in almost any store. Secondly, when cooking round grains are well boiled soft, and milk porridge turns out to have a pleasant consistency, and, thirdly, the reasonable price makes this product attractive in the eyes of the buyer.

Variety "Jasmine" is imported from Thailand. Its long-grained kernels and when cooked can stick strongly. From this variety of rice porridge is best cooked in water. Arborio is a round or medium grain rice grown on Italian soil. Well cook this cereal on the water. If desired, other varieties can be used to make porridges, but after cooking, they acquire a slightly different texture than these three types of cereals.

To make the day go in a good mood, you need a good breakfast, rice porridge with pumpkin will come to the rescue. But in order for the porridge to be especially tasty and fragrant, you need to buy the right rice in the store. When choosing rice, be sure to pay attention to the packaging. The manufacturer most often makes the package transparent so that the buyer can see the quality of the rice.

The color of rice can say a lot. If grains of yellow color were noticed, then it signals improper storage. When cooking porridge from such rice tastes will be far from ideal. If there are many split grains in rice, then it is also worth refusing to buy such a product. During cooking, different sized particles will be prepared at different times, it will also not very well affect the taste of the finished dish.

Few words to say about choosing a pumpkin that is used in cooking.

• To choose a fruit is of medium size, then it will be soft and with a pleasant sweetish taste.
• Dense, but not too hard skin of a pumpkin speaks of the freshness of the vegetable. On the surface there is no place for dents, cracks, dark spots. These lesions suggest that the fruit is rotting, which adversely affects the quality of taste.
• A ripe pumpkin has a dry tail of a dark color. If it is not there at all, then this is a signal that the vegetable has been removed from the bed of the unripe.

Cooking rice porridge is not difficult, the main thing is to gain courage and do everything according to the recipe. Of course, it happens that the first time porridge will turn out not the way we would like, but experience comes with time. Moreover, a huge selection of recipes gives free rein for fantasy.Porridge can be cooked in any way that is suitable for you: on the stove, in the oven, in the slow cooker, on an open fire, in the oven. In addition to the basic composition, other ingredients can be added to the dish, which will give the food a new flavor. It can be dried fruits, candied fruits, fresh berries, chocolate chips and more. A new dish may have a rather unusual taste, but your family may even like it.

Before proceeding directly to the cooking, it is necessary to sort out the rump, remove peeled pebbles or spoiled grains. Then put the rice in a bowl and rinse with water 2-3 times. Then you need to clean the pumpkin. In the fall, fresh vegetables can be cooked with the skins, as they are rather tender in young fruits. During storage, the skin becomes “wooden” and it becomes a bit more difficult to peel the vegetable. To do this, wash the vegetable under running water, remove the lid and bottom with a sharp knife. Cut the fruit lengthwise into two halves, remove seeds and fibers with a spoon. Put the pumpkin on a cutting board and cut off the skin.

To cook rice porridge on the stove or open fire, you need to take the appropriate dishes for this. The best option is a thick-walled wide pan or pan, a cauldron.

Rinse and soak in water 50 g of white or black raisins. Bring 2 cups of water to a boil, pour 1 cup of rice and cook until ready. 350 g of pumpkin, sliced, 2/3 need to fill with water and cook for 10 minutes. Drain excess liquid, knead the pumpkin with a fork or with a blender. Mix all ingredients, add 1 tbsp. milk, 2 tsp. sugar, salt to taste, mix and cook over low heat for another 10 minutes. Put butter in a ready dish and leave for 15 minutes in a sealed container.

30 g of butter must be melted in a frying pan. Grate 250 g of pumpkin and 1 apple on a coarse grater. Spread them on the oil and stew with the lid closed for a few minutes. 3-4 Art. washed rice put in a pan and mix with pumpkin and apple. Pour water over 1.5 cm above the rice and cook until ready. If the water evaporates during the cooking process, you can add the required amount of liquid. A few minutes before the readiness add salt, sugar, vanilla to taste. You can add butter.

To diversify the menu, it is possible for breakfast or dinner to prepare a hearty, very pleasant-tasting porridge made from rice and millet. This dish will appeal to both adults and children, because thanks to a mixture of two cereals of different colors, porridge looks very appetizing.

Mix 1/3 Art. millet and 1/3 Art. rice, rinse and pour boiling water for 15 minutes. 200 g pumpkin and 1 tbsp. l sugar put in a pan with melted butter and fry for 5 minutes. on low heat. Pour 1 tbsp. water and simmer 5 min. with the lid closed. Throw the cereal on a sieve and let drain, then put in a stewed pumpkin. Add 1 tbsp. hot milk, salt to taste. Cook the whole mass over low heat for 20 minutes. After 10 minutes after cooking, arrange in plates, decorate with dried apricots and add a spoonful of honey.

Homemade food is very tasty and healthy, but a modern woman often does not have enough time for a long fuss in the kitchen. Thanks to the slow cooker, you can cook a hearty lunch very quickly and easily.

Pour a little vegetable oil into the pan of the slow cooker and add 160 g of minced meat. Grate on a coarse grater and put in a saucepan 1 medium carrot and 100 g of pumpkin. Onions cut into cubes and add to the slow cooker. Turn on the mode "Frying" and fry vegetables and meat. To fry add 1 tbsp. washed rice and about 2 tbsp. water, salt to taste.

Traditionally in Russia, food was cooked in an oven in clay pots. Cooked in a similar way the food was especially tasty and fragrant. If you want to try something unusual, you can cook a delicious dish in clay pots.

Put the clay pots in cold water for 20 minutes. They are saturated with moisture, so the heating will be more uniform. 1/2 Art. rice wash thoroughly and add 200 g of pumpkin, cut into small pieces. Put the mass in the pot. Take 500 grams of milk and pour rice. Add 2 tsp. Sahara. Put in preheated oven and cook for 1 h. 30 min. Put porridge on plates, put a piece of butter on top, pour over honey and sprinkle with any nuts.

You will learn more about how to make rice pumpkin porridge with the following video.