Diet and healthy eating 16.11.2017
Dear readers, today on the blog I would like to talk about pumpkin porridge. Due to seasonality, it is often forgotten by us and falls out of our diet. Meanwhile, it is healthy, tasty, easy to cook. For many, pumpkin persists until winter. And if you don’t have your own pumpkin, you can always buy it at the market or in the store. Today we’ll talk about the benefits of pumpkin porridge for our health and how it can be tasty and varied to cook at home. I'd like you to include it more often in your diet.
Many housewives love pumpkin. What just do not make of it: pies, cheesecakes, juices, soups, pancakes. But after all, porridge is wonderful and delicious. They can be prepared simply from pumpkin, or you can add dried fruits, milk and cereals. It is no coincidence that the pumpkin is called the real queen of autumn.
Do you know why the pumpkin is so sunny bright? The reason for this is carotene. Once in the body, this substance turns into vitamin A, which protects our eyesight, retains youth, prevents the aging of cells, helps their growth and development. Carotene is very beneficial for children. In addition, pumpkin contains a lot of potassium and, vitamins of group B, fiber.
Pumpkin cereals are famous for their cleansing properties. They have a beneficial effect on intestinal function. Adding various cereals to the pumpkin, you can give the porridge additional useful properties. Oatmeal enhances the cleansing effect, and rice - antitoxic. Millet enriches porridge with B vitamins that it contains. And they, in turn, are useful for blood, help the entire body to function.
Cook it in water or milk, it's up to you. There is a lot of debate about milk. Porridge on the water, but if you add dried fruits, nuts, it turns into a healing treat. There are a lot of essential fats in nuts, and dried fruits are rich not only in vitamins, but also in fiber. Raisins, for example, are good for the heart.
To make the porridge especially tasty, you need to know how to properly cook the pumpkin. There are recipes where the pulp is cooked together with cereals, and there are options when it is cooked separately and mixed with cereal at the final stage of preparation.
You need to properly clean the fetus. The seed part must be removed completely. Cut it and leave only the pulp. Do not throw away seeds. They can be dried and also added to porridge.
Pumpkin is boiled until soft. It’s not worth digesting, because it will lose in taste and benefit. The optimal cooking time is 15-20 minutes.
There are a lot of cooking options for pumpkin, for example, you can bake it for porridge in the oven. And what is Armenian hapama worth - rice porridge with dried fruits and pumpkin pulp, baked right in the pumpkin!
When I cook pumpkin porridge, I often improvise with additives. Try it and you! From seasonings, you can add cinnamon, ginger, and star anise to any of the following dishes. And from dried fruits - dried apricots, raisins, prunes. And the more dried fruits, the tastier the finished treat will be. You can also safely add candied fruits or zest, walnuts, hazelnuts, sunflower or pumpkin seeds to porridge.
Well, now we know how interesting a pumpkin is for its beneficial properties and how varied the dishes with it can be. Let's look at the kitchen and cook something delicious for the whole family. How to cook a delicious pumpkin porridge? These are the recipes I want to offer you.
In this pumpkin porridge recipe there is nothing complicated, a minimum of ingredients and a lot of benefits. Pumpkin cooked in this way is more like mashed potatoes and is suitable for babies. Due to the fact that such porridge often turns out to be quite liquid, some housewives add different cereals to it. We will talk about such recipes a little lower, and now we will try to cook this tender delicacy.
Ingredients:
Peel the pumpkin and cut into small pieces to make it convenient to cook.
Heat the milk on the stove, dip the pumpkin into it. Simmer for about 20 minutes. You need to ensure that milk does not run away, so try not to leave the kitchen for a long time. At this point, salt and sugar can be added.
After the pumpkin becomes soft, remove it from the heat and grind it with a blender.
Our classic pumpkin porridge turned out to be tender and pleasant to taste.
This is a simple diet recipe. Of course, many people like pumpkin porridge with millet in milk, and you can cook it by simply adding milk to our ingredients. But we will consider recipes not only for delicious and satisfying cereals, but also dishes for those who follow their figure. As you know, porridge in milk is more caloric than in water.
Ingredients:
Cut the prepared pumpkin into small pieces, rinse the millet to clear water. Pour the ingredients with water and cook over low heat under a lid until there is no water left in the porridge. It takes about 15-20 minutes.
Salt and sugar can be put immediately, before cooking, or after everything is ready. Those who follow a diet can put honey or stevia instead of sugar.
By the way, you can cook pumpkin porridge with millet in a slow cooker and thus save time.
I think you will agree that rice is the most delicious of milk porridges. So why not combine all the most delicious and healthy in pumpkin and rice porridge? To everything else, you can add nuts and raisins to it. Here is a recipe for pumpkin porridge with rice and raisins in milk.
Ingredients:
Combine the washed raisins, chopped pumpkin pulp and milk in a saucepan. Cook under a slightly open lid over low heat for 15 minutes.
Rinse the rice well, cook it separately from the other ingredients until almost complete. You can pour a lot of water into it, and then drain it. Rice after cooking should be washed with clean hot water so that it remains soft and crumbly.
Combine the ingredients together, mix well and leave on low heat under the lid for another 3-5 minutes. After turning off the stove, do not open the lid, but leave the pan for 15-20 minutes to make the porridge “fit”.
There is another option for making pumpkin porridge of this kind. In this case, raisins should be cooked not with pumpkin, but with rice. In this case, pumpkin with milk will need to be mashed and only then combined with cereal. It turns out a very beautiful bright porridge.
Do not forget to chop walnuts and sprinkle them on the dish when serving.
You can find another unusual recipe for rice porridge with pumpkin and cinnamon in this video.
A slow cooker is good not only because it is easy to use, but also because food is not overcooked in it, but rather steamed. If you do not overdo the dishes, then they retain a lot of useful substances.
Among the ingredients of this dish is honey. And, as we all know, so that it does not lose its healing properties, it cannot be heated above 60 ° C. Therefore, we do not put honey in the slow cooker, but add it to the porridge when we serve it like butter.
Ingredients:
Here's a recipe for making pumpkin and corn porridge in a slow cooker.
Rinse the raisins and corn grits well, peel the pumpkin and cut into small pieces.
Put all this in a multicooker bowl.
Pour food with water and milk.
You need to cook porridge in the appropriate mode. If you don’t have “milk porridge” mode, then any similar one will do.
This pumpkin porridge in milk is more like a dessert. Children will be delighted with her, and adults will really like it. To add a particularly bright flavor to the porridge, you can add vanilla.
Ingredients:
Prepare the pumpkin, boil the milk, dip the bright pieces into it and cook until tender.
After the pumpkin is boiled in milk, it needs to be mashed with a blender, and then put on the fire again and stir frequently.
When the mashed potatoes begin to boil, pour in a thin stream of semolina into it without ceasing to interfere. After 5-7 minutes, a delicious porridge will be ready.
In this article, we propose to familiarize yourself with several cereals.
Required Products:
Cut the peeled pumpkin into small slices. Pour cream (milk) into the pan, put the pumpkin pulp, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Put the saucepan on a slow fire and cook for 20 minutes. Then turn off the gas, wrap a bowl of porridge with a towel and let it steam for half an hour.
Cook porridge with millet. This will require:
A slow cooker is a universal thing. In it you can steam, fry, cook. The cereals in this device are especially tasty. We offer to make pumpkin. For this, chopped pumpkin pulp should be put in a bowl and pour water. Set the function “Baking” for 40 minutes. After half the specified period has passed, pour the washed millet into the bowl, close the lid and cook for another 10 minutes. Then pour in the milk and simmer the porridge until a beep sounds. Put salt, sugar, raisins, pieces of dried apricots, sprinkle with cinnamon and mix. Put the device into the "Stew" or "Milk porridge" mode and cook for another 30 minutes. Serve the dish with butter.
Cinnamon is a spice that gives dishes a special flavor. If you cook porridge with it, then it will turn out to be especially aromatic. Here's what you need for this:
Pour a glass of milk into an aluminum saucepan and bring to a boil over minimal heat. Then put the diced pumpkin. Pour sugar, salt into the boiling mixture to taste, and add a little cinnamon. Mix the mixture until smooth, cook over low heat. Porridge is considered ready when the pumpkin cubes are completely boiled. Put it in plates, serve with butter. For taste and additional sweetness, you can pour pumpkin porridge with melted honey.
Ingredients required for the recipe:
Put the pieces of pumpkin in a pan with a thick bottom. Put the washed rice and raisins. Sprinkle sugar on top and fill all the ingredients with milk. Set the saucepan on the slowest fire. Cook until soft pumpkin and rice, occasionally stirring porridge. Once the pumpkin has cooked, remove the pan from the heat, put the butter and crush the ingredients with a wooden cracker. Porridge is ready. Enjoy your meal!
Now among housewives, recipes for pumpkin porridge boiled in milk are gaining popularity. After several experiments, we concluded that the Muscat pumpkin is best suited. Porridge cereals from this particular variety have the best taste, both in cold and in hot form. By the way, a delicious pumpkin porridge is obtained without a slow cooker, in any simple kitchen. Porridge can be prepared not only from pure pumpkin, but also diluted with various cereals. This is done in order to pick up the excess moisture that porridge with pumpkin gives off during cooking.
Millet, rice, semolina or corn grits and oatmeal are best suited for such characteristics. Different recipes use various additives, such as honey, nuts, prunes and dried apricots, as well as traditional raisins, but there are no differences on how to cook pumpkin porridge.
We present to your attention a recipe with accompanying photos from the category "Pumpkin porridge in milk". So, how to cook pumpkin porridge in milk? You can also add oatmeal and cook in milk.
1. The pumpkin needs to be peeled, cut into approximately equal small cubes and put into a pan.
2. Then we pour out the water there (there should still be not enough - so that it has time to boil) and cook the pumpkin over high heat with the lid closed, about 10 minutes (until the pumpkin becomes soft).
3. If excess water remains, drain. Then mash the boiled pumpkin, turning it into a homogeneous mass (as in the photo).
4. After pouring milk (after reducing the gas under the pan) and wait until this mixture boils (about 10 minutes).
5. Spread the prepared rice on top, pour sugar and salt (optional) and leave to cook for about half an hour, until the rice is ready.
6. Once the pumpkin porridge is ready, remove it from the heat, put the butter on top, cover and let it sit for about 15 minutes. As you can see, it is not at all difficult to cook the pumpkin porridge.
Porridge with pumpkin allows you to save all the necessary elements in a slightly modified form. Pumpkin is especially famous as a storehouse of potassium, calcium and carotene (orange plant pigment). Each housewife has her own personal recipe for pumpkin porridge. For some dishes, the vegetable must be boiled or stewed in advance, in some recipes you need to make mashed potatoes in a blender from healthy pumpkin.
And some dishes can be cooked and put into the pumpkin itself! And the abundance of additives makes porridge from pumpkin - one of the favorite in the family. Especially after indicating its immediate benefits. But do not be too hopeful - even such a harmless milk pumpkin porridge can do some harm.
There is no doubt about the benefits. It occupies a leading position among vegetables in the number of substances necessary for the body, various minerals, as well as vitamins of several groups (B, E, C), including even vitamin T, which is very rare in vegetables. The low calorie content put it in the forefront of the list of foods people on a diet.P pumpkin porridge just obvious. Another plus is a large list of recipes, which includes pumpkin, as an important and useful component. But it is worth noting that pumpkin porridge is the leader in this list.
Also pumpkin porridge: lowers blood pressure, strengthens the heart muscle, as it contains calcium. A large number of trace elements, such as magnesium, sodium, sulfur, iron, fluoride and copper, allow the pumpkin to strengthen the nervous system and blood vessels, cleanse the kidneys, stomach and liver (but do not overdo it - an excess of benefits is also harmful!). Helps in the normalization of metabolic processes and blood formation processes. But there is a small list of diseases that are incompatible with the use of pumpkin porridge (especially on!). Failure to follow certain precautions can be harmful to your health.
If you suffer from diabetes, gastritis with low acidity, or stomach or duodenal ulcers, you should refrain from cooking recipes that include this orange vegetable - this is potentially harmful. But it is small enough to show how useful it is as a nutritious and dietary product.
And yet, how many calories are in pumpkin porridge? If you use a recipe in which, it is worth noting that the calorie content of pumpkin porridge is amazingly low. 100 g of such milk porridge contains only 20 part of the daily calorie intake for an adult. It turns out that every day you can eat such pumpkin porridge in any reasonable amount - calorie content allows. It is on a low calorie level that most pumpkin diets are based.
If you want something more original, cook for your loved ones.
Try this delicious and proven recipe for millet porridge with pumpkin. This is the best breakfast you can think of, both for children and adults. Millet porridge with pumpkin takes care of your health, gives energy for the whole day, protects against diseases and stresses. Preparing porridge is simple, it turns out tender and aromatic. If desired, you can cook pumpkin millet porridge in water, you can with milk, add raisins, nuts or cinnamon.
Ingredients:
Pumpkin porridge in combination with cereals is a dish that mothers often feed in childhood. It is also popular among lovers of healthy and wholesome food, because in this gruel, even after heat treatment, many useful vitamins and minerals are preserved.
Most often, millet porridge with pumpkin is cooked in the cold season, it is perfect for both a wholesome breakfast and a light dinner.
The simplest and most familiar recipe for millet porridge was prepared for us by mothers in childhood. Millet porridge with pumpkin in milk is sweet and aromatic.
So that the dish is infused and well steamed, the container is wrapped in a blanket for an hour. An alternative is to hold for half an hour in a water bath.
Tip. A dish prepared in homemade cow's milk will be much more flavorful, nourishing and healthier than in a store.
Porridge, boiled on water, tastes slightly fresher than milk. However, it remains just as tasty and healthy. The dish is suitable for those who do not like dairy products or with lactose intolerance.
Important. When cooking, be sure to remove the seeds and peel.
Many housewives have long appreciated the convenience of cooking in a slow cooker. An amazing device allows you to cook almost everything - from scrambled eggs to borsch. And pumpkin porridge with millet was no exception.
Cooking millet porridge with pumpkin in a multicooker is available even to a novice cook - you just need to put all of the above ingredients together in a multicooker bowl. Cooking lasts 1 hour 10 minutes in the “Milk porridge" mode.
Before serving, the porridge is thoroughly mixed with a silicone or wooden spoon.
It is believed that in terms of taste, pumpkin is best combined with rice porridge. In this recipe, we offer to mix millet and rice, add a little raisins - the porridge will turn out tender and moderately sweet.
A dish with honey and dried fruits is incredibly sweet and healthy. This option is recommended to cook in the cold season, when human immunity is weakened. Porridge will give a huge amount of vitamins and minerals, energizing and strengthening the immune system.
Delicate, aromatic and very nutritious milk porridge made from rice and millet will be an excellent dinner for the whole family.
On a note. Before serving, you can add raisins, candied fruit or grated chocolate. Another option - add 2-3 teaspoons of jam or jam.
Porridge from pumpkin and millet, cooked in pots, turns out to be boiled, tender and juicy, saturated with the nutmeg aroma of pumpkin pulp. This option is most close to how the dish was prepared earlier - in the oven, on fire.
Porridge cooked in pots will be even tastier if you add dried fruits to it. It is also worth noting that the oven is not preheated in advance - the filled pots are placed in a cold oven, and then heated to a minimum temperature.