Pumpkin porridge with milk is very useful, especially for people who suffer from impaired heart function and anemia.
Besides the fact that this porridge is healthy, it is also incredibly tasty.
Pumpkin porridge with milk - the basic principles of cooking
For making delicious pumpkin porridge with milk, you need pumpkin, sugar, milk and salt. Peel the pumpkin, rinse and cut into small cubes. Bring the milk to a boil and put the sliced pumpkin in it. Season the contents with sugar and salt. Cook on low heat, stirring occasionally, so that the porridge does not burn.
Willingness dishes determined by the pumpkin. It should fall apart into fibers.
Pumpkin porridge is also prepared with cereals: rice, oatmeal, corn, wheat, etc.
To make porridge aromatic, vanillin, cinnamon or citrus zest can be added to it.
You can also add pieces of fresh fruit or berries to the pumpkin porridge.
The dish can be cooked not only on the stove, but also in the oven or the slow cooker.
Recipe 1. Pumpkin porridge with milk and rice
Ingredients
- sugar - 30 g;
- rice - half a cup;
- pumpkin - 250 g;
- salt;
- a glass of milk;
- boiled water.
Method of preparation
1. We clean the pumpkin from the rind, wash it, and grind it in small pieces.
2. Put the sliced pumpkin in a saucepan, pour water so that the vegetable is completely covered with liquid. We send to the fire, covered with a lid.
3. When the water boils, reduce the heat and cook the pumpkin until half cooked.
4. Wash rice in several waters, to its transparency. Add the cereal to the pot with pumpkin. Stir. If necessary, top up with boiled water. Slightly increase the heat and cook until soft rice.
5. When most of the water is boiling away and the rice is soft, pour in the milk. Salt and add sugar. Keep on fire, stirring constantly until the milk boils. Then reduce the heat to the minimum and boil the porridge for another five minutes. Put the porridge on plates and serve, putting in each piece of butter.
Recipe 2. Pumpkin porridge with milk in a slow cooker
Ingredients
- 300 ml of milk;
- kitchen salt;
- 300 g pumpkin;
- 60 g of sugar;
- millet - 200 g;
- half a pack of butter;
- 200 ml of boiled water.
Method of preparation
1. Millet sorted out and well washed to the transparency of the water. Lightly dry.
2. Pour the cereal into the container of the device. We activate the “frying” function and fry the millet, constantly stirring, for five minutes.
3. Salt, pour boiling water, close the lid and leave so that the water is absorbed into the grits. Then pour millet with boiling milk. We lower the lid and run the program “porridge” for half an hour.
4. Peel the pumpkin. Cut it into small pieces. We spread in a deep plate and sprinkle with sugar. Stir.
5. After half an hour, open the lid of the device. Put pumpkin in porridge, add butter, stir and close the lid. We continue to cook on the same program for another half an hour. Ready porridge laid out on plates. You can sprinkle it with ground cinnamon.
Recipe 3. Pumpkin porridge with milk, semolina and oranges
Ingredients
- kitchen salt;
- milk - half a liter;
- pumpkin - 300 g;
- sugar;
- semolina - half a cup;
- butter - 100 g;
- orange peel.
Method of preparation
1. Rinse a large orange, wipe it with a towel and remove the zest using the smallest grater.
2. Wash the pumpkin, remove the peel with a sharp knife and rub the vegetable into large chips.
3. Put the grated pumpkin in the cauldron, add orange zest to it. Season everything with salt and sugar. Simmer the pumpkin, stirring gently, over low heat until soft.
4. Put the stewed pumpkin into the saucepan, pour in the milk and put it on the fire. Boil the contents.
5. Gradually add semolina, boil porridge until thick and remove from heat. Arrange in plates and add to each piece of butter.
Recipe 4. Pumpkin porridge with milk in a pot
Ingredients
- a little more than a glass of millet;
- butter - a quarter pack;
- milk - liter;
- 90 g of honey;
- pumpkin - 300 g.
Method of preparation
1. Rinse millet groats in warm water until transparent. Then fill the millet with boiling water and cook for just a couple of minutes. Broth drain. This will get rid of the characteristic bitterness of the grits.
2. Peel the pumpkin and chop it into small cubes.
3. Pour the milk into a thick-walled pot and put it on a fire. As soon as it boils, reduce the heat and add millet. Cook for ten minutes, stirring frequently.
4. Add pumpkin cubes to the pan, stir and cook for another five minutes.
5. Put the porridge in pots, in each place a piece of butter. Cover with lids and put in the oven for forty minutes. Cook porridge at 150C. Take out the finished porridge, cool to a warm state and pour honey.
Recipe 5. Pumpkin porridge with milk and apricots
Ingredients
- pumpkin - 250 g;
- kitchen salt;
- milk - half a cup;
- white sugar;
- ten apricots.
Method of preparation
1. Wash the pumpkin and cut it into small pieces.
2. Pour the milk into a thick-walled pot and set it on fire. When the contents of the pan boil, add the chopped pumpkin, mix and cook for ten minutes.
3. Wash the apricots, pat dry with napkins, break them in half and remove the stones. Cut the flesh of the fruit into slices and add to the milk with pumpkin.
4. Season porridge with sugar and salt. Cook on low heat, stirring constantly, for another five minutes. When serving, place the butter.
Recipe 6. Pumpkin porridge with milk and oatmeal in a slow cooker
Ingredients
- a piece of butter;
- a glass of oatmeal;
- 150 g pumpkin;
- half a liter of milk;
- honey;
- drinking water - 200 ml;
- salt and white sugar to taste.
Method of preparation
1. Cut the peeled pumpkin into slices. Put in a container for steaming. Pour half a liter of water into the container. Close the lid. Switch valve to “Closed” mode. Steam the vegetable until soft.
2. Put the finished pumpkin in a plate and mash it until it is mashed.
3. Drain the water from the tank, wipe it with a towel and oil it. Pour the oatmeal and add sugar and salt to it. Send pumpkin puree here.
4. Fill all with milk and add a little boiled water. Lower the lid and start the “multi-cook” function. Cooking time is 25 minutes. Set the temperature to 100C.
5. Cool porridge to a warm state, arrange in plates and pour honey.
Recipe 7. Pumpkin porridge with milk and dumplings
Ingredients
- one pumpkin;
- filtered water;
- liter of milk;
- flour;
- white sugar.
Method of preparation
1. With my pumpkin under the tap, wipe it off with a napkin and cut off the skin. Peeled vegetable cut into small pieces.
2. Put the sliced pumpkin in a saucepan and pour filtered water. Cover with a lid and set on fire. When the contents begin to boil, make a slow fire and boil the pumpkin until it is completely boiled.
3. Pour the milk into the pan and mix. Knead dough from water and flour. Then we tear small pieces from it and put in porridge.
4. Cook on low heat, stirring for about 15 minutes. At the end add sugar, stir and serve to the table with butter.
Recipe 8. Pumpkin porridge with milk, rice and corn grinder in the slow cooker
Ingredients
- 800 g pumpkin;
- 80 g raisins;
- a quarter pack of butter;
- two glasses of drinking water;
- a glass of corn grits;
- liter of milk;
- a glass of rice;
- 100 g of sugar;
- cinnamon stick;
- salt;
- honey;
- pumpkin seeds.
Method of preparation
1. Cut the peel off the pumpkin with a sharp knife, scrub the inner flesh and seeds. The hard part of the pumpkin cut into arbitrary pieces. Place the pumpkin in the container of the device. Top with butter pieces and sprinkle with sugar. Lower the lid and turn on baking mode. Cook for 20 minutes, stirring a couple of times.
2. Wash rice and corn grits until the water is clear.
3. Put the raisins in a cup, fill with boiling water and steamed for five minutes. Put the cinnamon stick.
4. Remove the pumpkin container from the device. Mash vegetable tolkushkoy to a state of mashed potatoes. Pour rice and corn grits. Fill the contents of the container with milk diluted with water. Salt the porridge and add sugar. Stir and activate the milk porridge program. Cook for 35 minutes, stirring occasionally.
5. Ten minutes before readiness add steamed raisins to porridge. Leave the porridge for another half an hour in heating mode. Spread porridge on plates. Sprinkle pumpkin seeds on top.
Pumpkin porridge with milk - tips and tricks
- For the preparation of porridge it is better to use the pumpkin variety. From her porridge will be delicious and hot and cold.
- To improve the taste of porridge, add honey, nuts or dried fruits to the finished dish.
- Porridge can be cooked only from pumpkin, or with the addition of various cereals.
- Pumpkin in porridge should be completely boiled soft, only in this case porridge will turn out tasty.
