Cabbage soup and porridge are our food.Well, no one can argue with the wisdom of our ancestors. No matter how sophisticated we are in the culinary arts, no matter what newfangled recipes we try, sometimes we want something ridiculously simple and indecently healthy. And what could be simpler than porridge? And healthier? The only thing healthier than porridge is porridge with pumpkin! Why with pumpkin? Because pumpkin porridge can be cooked with any cereal: rice, millet, buckwheat, oatmeal. And also because pumpkin itself is oily, and porridge made from it often does not need additional "oiling". And this porridge can be made sweet or salty, boiled in milk or water, baked in the oven, steamed or cooked in a slow cooker. And no matter how and with what we cook it, it will still be pumpkin. So all we have to do is go through the most interesting recipes and choose the ones that best suit our mood (and condition). Let's get started?
Pumpkin porridge
Yes, that's right: a pumpkin porridge recipe without any grains. Haven't tried it? Then you definitely need to try it! Ingredients:
- Medium Pumpkin
- A glass of fatty milk or cream
- Tablespoon of butter
- A teaspoon of cinnamon
- Sugar (for your taste)
Preparation:Remove the hard rind from the pumpkin, remove the core with seeds and cut into small pieces. Boil in water until soft. Throw the boiled pumpkin into a colander and let the excess water drain. Return the pumpkin to the pan, add milk, butter, cinnamon and sugar. Bring our porridge to a boil and, stirring, cook for about five minutes.
Pumpkin porridge with rice on milk
Classic rice porridge with pumpkin puree. It turns out viscous, tender, aromatic and is perfect for children's menu. Ingredients:
- Raw pumpkin (about a kilogram)
- Milk (liter)
- Rice (glass)
- Butter (100 g)
- Sugar (tablespoon)
- Salt
Preparation:Cut the pumpkin into small pieces and, pouring in milk (one and a half cups), boil over low heat. Cool and rub through a sieve. Cook crumbly rice porridge: a cup of cereal for three cups of milk (salted). Mix the finished porridge with pumpkin puree, add sugar and butter, put in a pot or baking dish and put in a preheated oven. Simmer the porridge until golden brown.
Pumpkin porridge in the multivariate
Porridge from cereal mix: with rice and millet. Dedicated to fans of the fashionable kitchen appliance... Ingredients:
- Raw pumpkin (300-400 g)
- Milk (liter)
- Rice (half a glass)
- Millet (half a glass)
- Sugar (tablespoon)
- Butter (2 tbsp.)
Preparation: First, prepare the pumpkin.Cut it and put it in a multicooker. Add a spoonful of butter. Cook in the "bake" mode for about twenty minutes. While the pumpkin is baking, rinse and soak the cereals. Add milk, butter and sugar to the finished pumpkin, add salt, pour in rice and millet. Set the time after which the porridge should be ready, and go about your business. The huge advantage of this method of cooking is the lack of control! You don't need to watch the porridge, stir it or make sure it doesn't burn. In addition, you can "start the process" in the evening, and enjoy delicious pumpkin porridge for breakfast.
Manna porridge with pumpkin and orange
A very unexpected combination.Really? Well, the ingredients are quite edible, which means the porridge promises to be not only edible, but also tasty. And if you also like semolina porridge, why not try to cook it in such an unusual way? Ingredients:
- Pumpkin
- Milk
- Manka
- Butter
- Orange peel
- Sugar and salt
- Vanillin
Remove the zest from the washed orange:grate the crust on a fine grater. Peel the pumpkin - also on a grater, but only on a large one. By the way, in this recipe we calculate the amount of products based on the volume of the pumpkin - all other products will only "dilute" it. Therefore, focus on the required volume of the pan in which you will cook the porridge. Put the pumpkin in a saucepan (saucepan), add orange zest, sugar and salt (to taste). Put the pan on the fire and, stirring, simmer the pumpkin until soft. If the pumpkin gives little juice, then you can add water or milk. Then add semolina. If you know how to "regulate" the amount of semolina for porridge, then pour it at your discretion. If not, then add semolina at the rate of: a tablespoon of cereal per glass of liquid. So, having poured in the semolina, let the porridge boil and remove the pan from the fire. Add butter and a pinch of vanilla and begin your meal.
Pumpkin porridge with peas and bacon
This recipe was born in a "hard time".And it came to us from the distant times of the Great Patriotic War, when people did not think too much and cooked food from the most accessible products. In the original, porridge was prepared from millet, peas, pumpkin and lard. But we will try to "refined" the recipe a little and cook it with rice and bacon. Ingredients:
- Rice (half a glass)
- Peas (half a glass)
- Raw pumpkin slices (glass)
- Bacon
- Water
- Salt
Preparation:Boil the well-washed peas until half-cooked. Add the peas to the washed rice, pour in water and cook. While the peas and rice are cooking, let's work on the pumpkin and bacon. Peel the pumpkin and chop finely. Fry the chopped bacon in a dry frying pan to melt the fat. Remove the fried bacon pieces, put the pumpkin in their place and fry it in the fat left from the bacon. When the rice and peas are cooked, add the bacon and pumpkin, add salt. The porridge is ready.
Coach for Cinderella
This is a fabulous recipe! If your child does not like pumpkin, but you want to feed him pumpkin porridge at all costs, then this is your chance. Take a chance! Ingredients:
- A small pumpkin (better than a bright color)
- Raisins
- Millet
- Butter
- Milk
- Sugar or honey
- Cinnamon
Preparation:Wash the pumpkin well and cut off the top. Remove all the seeds and the loose fibrous core. The carriage is ready! Fill the "carriage" with washed millet (about a third of the pumpkin's volume), add raisins, sugar and cinnamon. Sugar to taste, a teaspoon of cinnamon. Pour milk into the "carriage" and cover with a lid-top (remember the one you cut off at the very beginning?). Take a tall heat-resistant dish, pour some water into it and put the pumpkin. Put the dish with the pumpkin in the oven. Bake on medium heat for about an hour and a half. The carriage is served! Well, what do you think? Did you like any recipe for pumpkin porridge? Then - get to work. Take the pumpkin and cook the porridge. Compose a real "pumpkin symphony" where Madame Pumpkin will be the soloist and you will conduct! We recommend reading:
