The most delicious pumpkin porridge. Pumpkin dishes: recipes for grandmothers of several generations

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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.

The benefits of pumpkin porridge

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.

Cooking nuances

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.

The classic recipe for pumpkin porridge in milk

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:

  • pumpkin - 400 g;
  • milk - 1 tbsp .;
  • salt - 1/3 tsp;
  • sugar - 1 tsp.

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.

The recipe for pumpkin porridge with millet on the water

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:

  • pumpkin - 300 g;
  • millet - 100 g;
  • water - 2 tbsp .;
  • salt and sugar to taste.

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.

Pumpkin porridge with rice and raisins in milk

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:

  • pumpkin - 400 g;
  • rice groats - 100 g;
  • milk - 1 tbsp .;
  • raisins - 60-80 g;
  • walnuts - 40 g;
  • sugar - 4 tsp.

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.

Pumpkin and corn porridge in a slow cooker

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:

  • pumpkin - 400 g;
  • corn grits - 120 g;
  • raisins - 60 g;
  • milk - 1 tbsp .;
  • water - 1 tbsp .;
  • honey to taste;
  • salt to taste.

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.

Pumpkin porridge with semolina is almost like a dessert

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:

  • pumpkin - 300 g;
  • semolina - 3 tbsp. l .;
  • milk - 200 ml;
  • salt and sugar to taste.

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.

How to cook pumpkin porridge: method one

Required Products:

  • cream (low-fat) or milk with a volume of 300 ml;
  • pumpkin (peeled pulp) weighing 500 g;
  • a cube of butter (grams per 50);
  • a couple of spoons of sugar and a little cinnamon for taste.

Cooking technology

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.

How to cook pumpkin porridge: method two

Cook porridge with millet. This will require:


How to cook pumpkin porridge in a slow cooker: technology

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.

How to make pumpkin porridge with cinnamon

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:

  • pumpkin (chopped pulp) in an amount of 250 g;
  • milk (any fat content) of 200 ml;
  • cinnamon - half a dessert spoon;
  • salt, sugar.

Pumpkin porridge with milk: cooking technology

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.

How to cook pumpkin porridge with rice

Ingredients required for the recipe:

  • pumpkin (chopped pulp) in quantities of 600 g;
  • washed rice - 2 large spoons (with top);
  • washed raisins weighing 100 g;
  • a few tablespoons of sugar;
  • milk (of any fat content) with a volume of 100 ml;
  • piece of butter (50 g).

Cooking technology

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.

Cooking progress

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.

Video recipe


  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.

Benefit and 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:

  • 1 cup millet
  • 500 gr. pumpkins
  • 2.5 cups of water
  • 1-2 tbsp. milk
  • 2-3 tbsp Sahara
  • a pinch of salt
  • 40 gr butter
  • raisins (optional)
  • cinnamon (optional)
  • For millet porridge, we need 500 grams of pumpkin. We choose orange and sweet pumpkin. Since pumpkin is a dense vegetable with a fairly strong skin, we attract helpers from the strong half to the kitchen to help cut and peel the pumpkin.
  • Cut the pumpkin into cubes, can be quite large. Some people prefer to grate a pumpkin, but it’s rather tiring, then I’ll tell you a secret how to chop a pumpkin literally in a minute without any effort.
  • So, fill the chopped pumpkin with water, we need 2.5 glasses of water. Cooking pumpkin in milk makes no sense, it is better boiled in ordinary water.
  • We put the pan on the fire, cook the pumpkin for 15 minutes. After this time, pumpkin slices lose their density and hardness. If you want no pieces of pumpkin in millet porridge or small pieces, then squash the pumpkin with an ordinary potato crush.
  • I usually leave a small number of pumpkin cubes not crushed, the rest crush.
  • The next step is to add the millet to the boiled pumpkin. A very important point: the croup should first be sorted out, in millet quite often pebbles, pieces of land, etc.
  • To make millet porridge with pumpkin tasty, you should not just wash the cereal, but pour boiling water over it and then drain the water. All the dust leaves and, importantly, the bitterness inherent in millet leaves.
  • After adding millet to the pumpkin, put a pinch of salt, and then continue to cook porridge over low heat under a lid. Cook for 15 minutes, take care that the porridge does not burn.
  • Usually by this time millet is almost ready, add butter and sugar to taste. It is not worth saving on oil, it is oil that softens the taste of millet, makes millet porridge with pumpkin tender.
  • The amount of sugar depends on the sweetness of the pumpkin, so try. It is important not to shift so that the pumpkin porridge does not turn out sugary.
  • And the final point - be sure to add milk (boiled or pasteurized, so as not to curl) in millet porridge with pumpkin. How much milk to pour depends on what kind of porridge you like, liquid or thick. I usually pour quite a lot of milk, as then millet still comes and additionally takes the liquid.
  • Boil the porridge for a couple of minutes, add raisins or cinnamon if desired. Turn off the fire, leave the porridge for 15-20 minutes to insist.
  • That's all, the tasty and healthy millet porridge with pumpkin is ready, we serve with milk. Who wants to, he rinses the porridge with milk, who wants to - adds to the porridge, as in the photo))))). Also see

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.

Products:

  • 1 tbsp millet
  • 3 tbsp milk
  • 500 g pumpkin pulp
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • ½ tsp salt.

Step-by-step preparation of milk porridge:

  1. First you need to prepare a pumpkin: wash it well, cut off the place with the rest of the stem and peel it. In order for the pumpkin to boil well and quickly, cut into small pieces - the smaller the size, the faster the pulp will cook.
  2. Pour milk into an enamel container and heat. When it is almost hot, add pumpkin slices, sugar and salt. Cook with a quarter of an hour.
  3. Rinse millet through a sieve with running water and add to the almost ready pumpkin porridge. Mix well and cook at low temperature for another third of an hour. Readiness is determined by the degree of thickening of the porridge.

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.

Recipe for cooking on the water

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.

Ingredients for porridge on the water for 6 servings:

  • 750 gr pumpkin
  • 3 glasses of water
  • 1.5 stack of millet groats
  • ¼ tsp fine salt
  • 1 tbsp butter for dressing.

How to cook millet porridge with pumpkin in water:

  1. The first step is to prepare the cereal: rinse through a fine sieve under running water, after which you can pour boiling water and leave for several minutes.
  2. Pour water into an enameled pan and set to bask. Dissolve the salt.
  3. While millet is infused and water boils, prepare the pumpkin: peel, rinse and cut into a small cube, 1 * 1 cm in size. Fold in boiling water and cook for 10-15 minutes.
  4. Pour millet porridge with pumpkin cubes, mix well and leave to cook under the lid for another third of an hour, while reducing the heat. The contents should be periodically stirred.
  5. Turn off the fire, add oil, close the lid tightly and cover with a towel on top. Leave the dish to evaporate for half an hour. Then mix thoroughly so that the butter is evenly distributed and can be served.

Important. When cooking, be sure to remove the seeds and peel.

Milk millet with pumpkin in a slow cooker

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.

Ingredients for 3 servings:

  • 1 stack of millet
  • ½ liter of water
  • 2 stacks of grated pumpkin
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 2 tbsp butter.

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.

Oven baked porridge with milk in the oven

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.

Ingredients for 2 servings:

  • 200 gr fresh peeled pumpkin pulp
  • ¼ stack of rice
  • ¼ stack of millet
  • 1.5-2 stacks of milk (more if you like thin porridge)
  • 1 tbsp butter
  • ½ tbsp sugar
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 stack of light raisins.

Cooking millet porridge with pumpkin in the oven:

  1. Preheat the oven 180 degrees in advance. For cooking, it is recommended to use a cauldron or ducklings.
  2. Boil water in a saucepan. Dilute the salt. When the liquid boils, pour the washed rice and millet, and boil for 2-3 minutes, then turn off the heat and drain the liquid.
  3. Washed and peeled pumpkin seeds and peel cut into a small cube. Put cereals, raisins, butter in a cauldron. Pour the entire contents with milk so that its level does not completely cover the mixture of cereals. Put the pumpkin on top and sprinkle with sugar.
  4. Cover the cauldrons and put in the oven for a third of an hour. Then turn off the oven and leave to brew for another quarter hour. Stir the layers before serving.

Honey and Dried Fruit Recipe

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.

Products for cooking in 2 servings:

  • 4 tbsp rice cereal
  • 2 tbsp millet
  • 4 dried pears
  • 8 sun-dried peaches
  • 200 g dried pieces of pumpkin
  • 6 pcs dried apricots
  • 1 cup milk
  • 4 tbsp honey (preferably liquid)
  • 2 cinnamon sticks
  • ½ tsp vanilla extract.

How to cook sweet porridge:

  1. Cut dried apricots, pears, pumpkin and peaches into small pieces, pour boiling water to the top, add cinnamon and bring to a boil at a slow temperature, stirring continuously. When it boils, introduce vanilla and honey, mix thoroughly and let it brew.
  2. Rinse millet and pour boiling water for 15-20 minutes.
  3. While the fruit mixture is infused, put the milk to boil. When it boils, pour them cereal and cereal so that the milk covers the porridge. Cover with a saucer or lid for a few minutes. Then mix with the fruit mixture and serve.

Millet porridge with rice

Delicate, aromatic and very nutritious milk porridge made from rice and millet will be an excellent dinner for the whole family.

Ingredients for cooking:

  • 2 tbsp of water
  • 1 tbsp milk
  • ½ tablespoon millet porridge
  • ½ t rice cereal
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp butter.

Cooking:

  1. Rinse both cereals under running water and cook on water. After boiling, boil for 10-12 minutes.
  2. Heat milk in a separate container and pour into almost ready porridge. If the milk is cold or at room temperature during the infusion, it will curl up in lumps and the dish will not work.
  3. Add salt and sugar to the dish. In the process of cooking, the porridge should be stirred periodically.
  4. Turn off the stove, put a piece of butter on top of the porridge and leave for 5-7 minutes. During this time, the butter will melt, and the porridge will infuse. Then mix and serve.

On a note. Before serving, you can add raisins, candied fruit or grated chocolate. Another option - add 2-3 teaspoons of jam or jam.

Cooked recipe with pumpkin in a pot

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.

Products for cooking:

  • 300 gr pumpkin pulp
  • 1 liter of milk
  • 300 gr millet
  • 1.5 tbsp oil
  • 2 tbsp sugar (adjust to taste)
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 sachet of vanillin or vanilla sugar.

Cooking porridge in pots:

  1. The first step is to prepare the pumpkin - peeling and slicing into small pieces.
  2. Millet groats must be rinsed with water several times. This removes dust and small debris from the cereal. Sometimes the cereal gives a taste of bitterness to the finished dish, which you can get rid of, pouring it with boiling water for 3-5 minutes. The boiled water is released with bitterness.
  3. Lay out in a pots pumpkin sticks and cereals, sprinkle sugar, vanilla and salt on top. It is better to add oil at the end, when the dish is almost ready. A piece of oil is placed on top, and mixed before eating.
  4. Pour milk into containers at ⅔ volume. Then cover and place in the oven. You need to cook the dish at a low temperature, not more than 180 degrees. For readiness, depending on the temperature, it will take from 30 to 45 minutes.

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.