Oatmeal is good in any performance.
Whether it is being cooked on water, or on milk, coarse, or “fast” flakes have been used. And you can add to it well, almost everything that the soul wishes, or what is lying around in the refrigerator.
Of course, for the preparation of a particularly delicious dish, you will have to select products with a calculation, assessing both the taste and the benefit of the final dish.
Apple version of oatmeal fully meets these requirements.
Oatmeal with apples - general principles of cooking
• Oatmeal is boiled in a saucepan on the stove, cooked in an oven or a slow cooker. For quick use a microwave oven, and sometimes such a gruel is prepared without cooking, steaming with boiling water.
• Oatmeal with apples can be cooked in water, milk, or a mixture thereof. Sometimes milk is mixed not with water, but with clarified apple juice.
• In most cases, use flakes intended for instant cooking or “Hercules”. For steaming, it is better to take flakes intended for cooking without boiling. In any case, you should carefully read the instructions on the package, which accurately indicates the cooking time.
• Apple varieties are selected according to their taste preferences. If you do not like sweet porridge, take the sweet and sour apples. Fruits are peeled or left with the peel, be sure to remove the hard partitions with seeds and crushed. Fruits are cut into slices, small cubes or crushed on a small grater. Apples are added both raw and stewed, laid in the process of cooking or in the ready oatmeal.
• Often the gruel is enriched with other foods or fruits. In it, except for apples, you can add bananas, dried fruit or honey. Flavor oatmeal with cinnamon or vanilla, as you like, and be sure to flavor hot porridge with butter.
Fragrant oatmeal with apples in the oven
Ingredients:
• two large apples, of any sweet variety;
• 300 gr. oatmeal (flakes);
• half a cup of raisins without stones; • unrefined sugar - 3 large spoons;
• a small pinch of nutmeg;
• cinnamon, powdered in powder - 1/2 tsp;
• a small pinch of vanilla;
• 20 gr. homemade butter;
• half a liter of milk.
Cooking Method:
1. Scald the raisins with boiling water and soak it in warm water for three minutes. Then rinse with cold and slightly squeeze.
2. Cut both apples without peel and seeds into small cubes or sticks.
3. Put the oatmeal in a deep bowl. Add to them crushed apples, raisins, spices. Sweeten, add a little salt to your taste, and mix well.
4. Melt the butter at the minimum temperature, mix it with the fruit-oat mixture and transfer to the heat-resistant form. Gently pour warm milk, mix and level the surface.
5. Put the form in a hot oven and cook at 180 degrees.
6. Oatmeal with apples will be ready when all the milk is well absorbed in the flakes, after about 25 minutes.
Oatmeal with apples - a simple recipe
Ingredients:
• one glass of oatmeal flakes;
• 250 ml of pasteurized non-skimmed milk;
• one glass of filtered water;
• five tablespoons of sugar;
• two apples;
• 50 gr. sweet cream butter;
• A couple of pinched ground cinnamon.
Cooking Method:
1. Put on a small fire a dry frying pan with flakes poured into it.
2. Stir vigorously, fry the oatmeal for three minutes and set aside.
3. Boil a glass of water, mix it with milk and put it on fire again. In a hot, but not boiling, liquid, enter the fried oatmeal, stir and immediately lower the flame level to the very minimum. It would be even better if the container was placed on the flame splitter.
4. Add three spoons of sugar, add salt and, stirring occasionally, boil for a quarter of an hour. At the end, be sure to add butter and mix well.
5. Turn off the heat, cover the saucepan with something thick and temporarily leave it.
6. Melt a spoonful of butter in a pan. Dip the peeled apples into thin, roughly equal slices and fry them for three minutes. Then add two tablespoons of sugar mixed with cinnamon and continue to simmer until the sugar grains dissolve until the sugar syrup begins to darken and thicken. 7. Arrange the finished gruel in plates and place a few caramelized apples on top of each serving.
Oatmeal with apples on the water in the microwave
Ingredients:
• half a cup of “fast” oatmeal, small;
• one cup of boiled drinking water;
• sugar refined - to taste;
• small apple.
Cooking Method:
1. Peel the apple peel and cut into small cubes.
2. Pour the oatmeal into the microwave container. Stir in the sugar and chopped apple while stirring.
3. Pour in cold drinking water, stir, immediately put in the microwave and turn it on for a minute and a half, setting the maximum power mode. If the porridge is watery, add another forty seconds.
4. Finish the finished gruel well with melted butter butter and serve.
Oatmeal with apples and liquid cream with milk
Ingredients:
• “Hercules” - 150 gr .;
• low-fat cream - 70 ml;
• two tablespoons of unrefined sugar;
• natural apple clarified juice - 400 ml;
• two medium sweet apples;
• 400 ml fresh unboiled milk;
• crushed cinnamon - 1/2 tsp.
Cooking Method:
1. Cold milk pour “Hercules”. Add all the juice and sugar, lightly salt and mix.
2. Put the pot on a small fire and, without ceasing to stir, bring to the boil. Then lower the flame to a minimum and continue cooking for another five minutes.
3. Remove from heat, wrap the pot in a towel and temporarily set aside.
4. Wash the apples, cut the peel and cut them into thin, medium-sized bars.
5. Add hot, unboiled cream, apple slices and cinnamon powder to the finished oatmeal. Stir vigorously and serve immediately.
Nut oatmeal with apples on the water
Ingredients:
• sweet large apples - 2 pcs .;
• one and a half glasses of cool water;
• a small handful of walnut hearts;
• 10 gr. “Peasant” or homemade butter;
• 1/2 tsp. cinnamon powder;
• Spoon refined sugar;
• a full glass of cereal “Hercules”. Cooking Method:
1. Pour the washed flakes into boiling water with a white key with vigorous stirring. The liquid should cover the oatmeal on two fingers, if it is not enough - add boiling water and mix well after that.
2. Add sugar, add salt to your taste, and leave to cook on low heat for five minutes.
3. Cut the apples without peel into thin, any size plates and place them in a pan, in melted butter. Sprinkle the fruit with ground cinnamon and cook with the lid open, until the slices are softer, about five minutes.
4. Mix in a mortar or blender the walnuts into a fine crumb. You can grind on a coffee grinder.
5. Mix the prepared oatmeal with nut crumb well and place on a plate, on the bottom of which lay out a part of the stewed apples beforehand. Top with the remaining apples and garnish with a portion of whole walnut kernels.
Oatmeal with apples and banana in a slow cooker
Ingredients:
• small banana;
• small sweet apple;
• homemade butter - 10 g;
• large, no slides, a spoon of sugar;
• four glasses of non-skimmed milk;
• a glass of regular oatmeal.
Cooking Method:
1. Pour oatmeal into the hob. Add butter, granulated sugar and a little salt.
2. On a fine grater, rub the banana and peeled apple. Transfer the fruit puree to oatmeal, mix everything well and start the “Porridge” mode.
3. Add the finished oatmeal with butter and, garnish with banana rings, serve.
Oatmeal with apples, honey and candied fruit without boiling
Ingredients:
• three spoons of quick-cooked oatmeal (“Extra”);
• large spoon of dried apricots;
• spoon of coconut chips;
• candied fruit - 1 tsp;
• large juicy apple, sweet;
• honey - 1 tbsp. l .;
• A spoon of raisin raisins;
• 150 ml of drinking water.
Cooking Method:
1. You need to prepare such a gruel in advance, preferably from the evening, so that the flakes should be softened well.
2. Wash the raisins with dried apricots and pour boiled water over the dried fruits. After this, rinse and dry again. Leave the raisins whole and chop the dried apricots into thin "noodles". 3. In a small bowl or half-liter jar, fold the raisins, chopped dried apricots and oatmeal. Shake, stirring, and pour boiling water. Cover with a lid, leave until morning.
4. Put the oatmeal into the plate, add the apple, honey, crushed with a fine grater, and mix well. Sprinkle with coconut flakes and garnish with candied fruit.
Oatmeal with apples - cooking tricks and useful tips
• When cooking oatmeal, add flakes to a hot liquid base, and when steaming, do the opposite - pour boiling water into flakes.
• Flakes “Hercules” are thicker and cook longer than others, but porridge is much tastier, thicker and healthier.
• Do not know how to choose the right proportions? Take 100 grams of cereal and 570 ml of liquid base (milk or water) and get a liquid gruel. For more viscous on the same mass of flakes, just take 350 ml of liquid.
• It is not necessary to stir the dish frequently and intensively during the cooking process, this slows down the cooking time.
• Oatmeal porridge with apples should be prepared just before use, as it tends to thicken quickly. If you plan to cook in advance, take more liquid.
• Oatmeal loves to “steam up”, so wrap a ready dish for 10 minutes in a warm blanket or terry towel.
• You can cook oatmeal completely in water and fill with margarine. Sugar is added to taste or completely replaced by a handful of crushed raisins, and apples are placed on top and in large slices. It is very good to eat such a dish, washed down with cold boiled water.
