Porridge, especially made from oatmeal, is an easy-to-eat cereal appetizing and very tasty, as well as fortified and containing a lot of trace elements, as well as healthy substances.
Of course, porridge can be cooked in milk, but cooked in water, it will be considered a diet food, as well as nutritious and easily perceived by the human body.
Cooking porridge is easy and fast.
Knowing some of the principles and based on the recipes for cooking this dish, you can easily create this delicious dish at home by yourself and without any help.
General principles of cooking oatmeal boiled in water
Despite the fact that cooking porridge on the water is simple, certain skills and skills of a chef must still be:
• To make oatmeal cooked in water, get more saturated and at the same time tender and appetizing, it is recommended to pick up uncooked, and whole grains for its cooking.
• If, however, there are still crushed kernels on hand, after cooking, the porridge must be thrown back in a colander - in order to get rid of all unnecessary particles.
• Oatmeal intended for cooking porridge should be soaked for a few hours in advance in lightly salted boiling water.
• To create a dietary meal - oatmeal should be boiled on some water with a small amount of salt and oil.
• Oatmeal porridge during cooking should be mixed regularly, preferably with a wooden spoon, in order to avoid sticking of the dish.
• Oatmeal porridge is better to cook in a slow cooker, or in a saucepan with a special coating, which will prevent the process of possible burning and a thick bottom.
• You can cook oatmeal in a slow cooker - in the evening lay in it the required recipe products, and by the morning have a hearty and healthy dish.
• In order for the oatmeal in the microwave to be well boiled soft and cooked tasty and delicious, the oats must be well steamed beforehand.
• The food should be provided with oil to obtain an even more delicate texture, and also let the oatmeal brew in a container under the lid closed. • In order to make oatmeal porridge boiled in water of some refinement and savor, it is necessary to add dried fruits, syrups or fresh fruits to it during its preparation.
• It is more expedient to cook porridge on non-carbonated mineral water or on purified water passed through a filter.
• It is better to make the described porridge on the water from oat kernels than from purchased cereal - oat-flakes.
Recipes and important nuances of how to cook porridge on the water
Recipe 1. How to cook porridge in water (Traditional version)
Ingredients:
• Groats (oatmeal) - 200 gr.
• Mineral (non-carbonated) - 400 ml.
• Sugar, salt.
• Butter).
Cooking Method:
For the preparation of this dish it is necessary to take whole grains of oatmeal, preferably processed, as they will not give the future porridge some bitterness.
It is desirable to pour into the container with thick walls the prescribed amount of water and put it on a small fire.
As soon as the water boils to it you need to add salt and oatmeal prepared for this occasion.
Then you need to mix the existing components, reduce the heat and continue cooking the oatmeal, stirring occasionally.
After 20 minutes, you should add butter, sugar and thoroughly mix all the components together.
After the ready-to-eat food should be allowed to insist under the lid closed and after serving oatmeal miracle for breakfast.
Recipe 2. How to cook porridge in water (option to create porridge in a slow cooker)
Ingredients:
• Hercules - 1 cup (measured).
• Salt.
• Honey or granulated sugar.
• Butter).
• Nuts (walnuts).
• Vodichka (purified) - 2 glasses.
Cooking Method:
First you need a bowl of multicooker to thoroughly lubricate pre-dissolved butter. Then you need to pour oatmeal into the container and pour mineral water on them.
After you need to mess porridge to your own taste and salt and sugar.
Then you need to select the desired mode on the multicooker - “Kashi” and set it to 30 minutes.
After a certain sound signal, which means that the porridge is prepared, it is necessary to add to the oatmeal - honey, crumbled nuts and butter (butter). Next, the porridge must be thoroughly mixed and left for further insistence for 10-15 minutes.
After all these actions, porridge can be served at the table.
Recipe 3. How to cook porridge on the water in the microwave
Ingredients:
• Flakes (oatmeal) - 120 gr.
• Vodichka (purified).
• Butter (butter) - 30 gr.
• Honey - 60 ml.
• Apple - 1/2 fruit.
Cooking Method:
In the microwave oven you need to pour the right amount of oatmeal and fill it with water.
Then the container with oatmeal should be installed in the microwave for 4 minutes.
After you need to add honey to the porridge, butter, and an apple and serve it to the table.
Recipe 4. How to cook porridge in water with fruit
Ingredients:
• Groats (oatmeal) - 200 gr.
• Fresh fruit (any).
• Water (boiled) - 400 ml.
• Sugar, salt.
• Butter).
Cooking Method:
In a bowl with thick walls need to pour flakes and pour them with the necessary amount of water.
Then you need to put the future porridge on a small fire and boil it for about 25 minutes.
After the porridge boils in it you need to add salt, sugar and cook until they dissolve.
Before the end of cooking, add butter to the porridge and mix everything thoroughly.
While the porridge is boiled, the picked fresh fruit must be chopped (can be in a blender).
The oatmeal prepared in this way must be laid out in a colander and chafed until a homogeneous consistency is obtained.
After the fruits are prepared in a certain way, you need to lay out the porridge and mix everything together.
Serve such a porridge for breakfast with the addition of heated syrup or condensed milk to it.
Recipe 5. How to cook porridge in water and with offal
Ingredients:
• Flakes (Hercules) - 400 gr.
• Water - 700 ml.
• Heart, liver, ventricles.
• Onion.
• Butter - 3 tbsp. spoons.
• Salt - an amateur.
Cooking Method:
In a container with cool little water you need to add flakes of rolled oats and putting them on the fire, wait for the liquid to boil. After the water boils it needs to be salted and boiled for half an hour over low heat with the lid closed. Heart with ventricles need to put in a saucepan, pour some water and leave them in it for 30 minutes. After this time, the water from under the offal must be changed and put them on fire.
After the offal begins to boil, you need to remove the foam from them and add some water for about an hour on low heat.
As soon as the giblets are cooked, they need to be thrown back into a colander and cooled, and then passed through a meat grinder.
The liver must be cooked separately - wash, chop and fry in butter in a frying pan together with onions and giblets twisted through a meat grinder.
Then cooked porridge of oatmeal flakes should be thoroughly mixed with roasted giblets, lightly salt and serve to the table hot.
How to cook porridge in water - little tricks and tips
• When the process of cooking oatmeal in water is in progress - be careful and try not to burn yourself.
• It is more expedient to cook porridge portions, as this dish is not stored for long even in the refrigerator.
• To save time, do not cook porridge in the evening, in order to have time for breakfast. Oatmeal loses its flavor characteristics when heated, the added dried fruit will be over-steamed, and the apple will darken.
• In order to keep the apple dark and look appetizing in oatmeal, it must be mixed with lemon juice to prevent the oxidation process.
• Vodichku from under raisins soaked for oatmeal, which contains a lot of nutrients and the trace elements necessary for the human body do not need to pour.
• In porridge instead of fruit and other sweet ingredients, you can put pieces of bacon, preferably fried or cheese.
• Also, oatmeal cooked in water will be a great side dish to many fish and meat dishes.
