Pumpkin dishes are very popular in various culinary traditions of many countries and peoples. Traditionally Russian delicious and useful option - pumpkin porridge. The preparation of such a porridge is a simple process, but still requires a minimum of skill. You can cook pumpkin porridge, using as a basis pumpkin flesh, and you can combine a pumpkin with various cereals, for example, with rice or millet, as well as manna, corn or oatmeal. To fill a ready porridge well butter, milk, sour cream or cream. To make it especially tasty, you can add nuts, honey, prunes, raisins, dried apricots and other dried fruits, as well as some dry spices.
Pumpkin and milk are a healthy combination
Pumpkin porridge with milk is a useful dish for baby food.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup of rice;
- 200 g of pulp pulp;
- 1 cup of milk;
- 1-2 tablespoons of honey;
- 30 g of butter.
Preparation:
How to cook porridge porridge? Rinse the rice in a saucepan, fill it with water (250-300 ml), add a little salt and bring it to a boil. Reduce the heat and cook, not stirring too often, for about 12-15 minutes - a rather viscous rice porridge should turn out. Pumpkin cut into small cubes or we rub it on a large grater (it is good to use a combine or chopper). In a separate, wet from the inside, saucepan pour the milk and bring to a boil. We put in a boiling milk pumpkin and we cook on low heat, stirring, for about 15-10 minutes. The boiled pumpkin will be crushed (or processed in a blender) and mixed with rice porridge. Fill the porridge with butter. You can add rinsed raisins - so it will taste better.
Porridge on the water
Not everyone likes porridge on milk. You can cook porridge porridge on the water. In this version, we simply cook rice, foie, oatmeal, pearl porridge on the water (you can use corn grits) and separately cook pumpkin pulp, grind it and mix everything. It is good to fill this porridge with cream and / or add steamed dried fruits, cut into small pieces. Undoubtedly, adding some spices (garlic, vanilla, cinnamon, saffron, turmeric, sweet paprika, ginger and hot red pepper) to this pumpkin porridge will also add to the taste of this dish, the main thing is to observe the measure.
Porridge in a double boiler
Pumpkin porridge in a double boiler can also turn out delicious. For cooking, you need 500 grams of pulp pulp (without skin). Pumpkin flesh is cut into small cubes, placed in a steamer and filled with water to half the volume. Turn on the steamer and cook a pumpkin for 15-20 minutes, then mash the pulp or pee in the blender. Then you can mix the pumpkin mass with the prepared cereal porridge, boiled or pasteurized milk, butter, cream, add honey, dried fruits, peeled pumpkin seeds, garlic and dried spices. In such exquisite spicy pumpkin porridge it is good to add a glass of Madera or sherry, of course, if it is cooked for adults. To pumpkin gruel you can serve freshly brewed tea with lemon, hot chocolate, coffee, mate, rooibos, lapacho.
Porridge in the pumpkin
A separate theme is porridge, baked in a pumpkin in a rustic style, when a pumpkin is used as a natural container for baking. At a small round pumpkin,