Shchi yes porridge - our food. Yeah, with the wisdom of our ancestors no one will argue. No matter how sophisticated we are in culinary art, no matter how modern fashionable recipes are tried, sometimes we want something ridiculously simple and indecently useful. And what could be easier than porridge? And more useful? More useful than porridge can only be porridge with pumpkin! Why with a pumpkin? Yes, because pumpkin porridge can be cooked with any cereal: rice, millet, buckwheat, oatmeal. And also because the pumpkin itself is oily, and the porridge from it often does not need additional "cajoling." And you can make such porridge sweet or salty, cook on milk or on water, bake in the oven, cook on a steam or in a multivark. And as though, and with what we would not have prepared it, it will still be a pumpkin. So we just have to sort out the most interesting recipes and choose from them more suitable for our mood (and state). Shall we proceed?
Pumpkin porridge
Yes, yes, that's right: a recipe for pumpkin porridge without any cereal. Have not you tried? Then definitely need to try! Ingredients:
- Medium Pumpkin
- A glass of fatty milk or cream
- Tablespoon of butter
- A teaspoon of cinnamon
- Sugar (for your taste)
Preparation: Remove from the pumpkin hard crust, remove the core with seeds and cut into small pieces. Boil in water until soft. We throw the cooked pumpkin into a colander and let it drain off excess water. Return the pumpkin to the pan, top up the milk, put the butter, cinnamon and sugar. We bring our porridge to a boil and, stirring, cook for about five minutes.
Pumpkin porridge with rice on milk
Classical rice porridge with pumpkin puree. It turns out viscous, tender, fragrant and perfectly suited for children's menus. Ingredients:
- Raw pumpkin (about a kilogram)
- Milk (liter)
- Rice (glass)
- Butter (100 g)
- Sugar (tablespoon)
- Salt
Preparation: Slice the pumpkin in small pieces and, filling the milk (one and a half cup), boil on low heat. Cool and wipe through a sieve. We cook friable rice porridge: a glass of cereals for three glasses of milk (salted). Ready porridge mixed with pumpkin puree, we put sugar and oil in it, put it in a pot or in a baking dish and put it in a preheated oven. Throw porridge to a ruddy crust. 
Pumpkin porridge in the multivariate
Porridge of cereal mixture: with rice and millet. To fans of a fashionable kitchen unit is dedicated ... 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. We cut it and put it in the multivark. We add a spoonful of oil. We cook in the "baking" mode for about twenty minutes. While the pumpkin is baked, washed and soaked cereals. To the finished pumpkin, add milk, butter and sugar, add salt, pour rice and millet. We set the time through which the porridge should be ready, and we deal with our own affairs. A huge advantage of this method of cooking is lack of control! For the porridge do not need to watch, it does not need to be stirred and watched so that it does not burn. In addition, you can "start the process" in the evening, and at breakfast to eat delicious pumpkin mush.
Manna porridge with pumpkin and orange
A very unexpected combination. True? Well, the ingredients are quite edible, which means that the porridge promises to turn out not only edible, but also delicious. And if you still love semolina porridge, then why not try to cook it so unusually? Ingredients:
- Pumpkin
- Milk
- Manka
- Butter
- Orange peel
- Sugar and salt
- Vanillin
From the washed orange we remove the peel: rub the crust on a fine grater. Purified pumpkin - also on a grater, but only on a large. By the way, in this recipe, the number of products is calculated from the pumpkin volume - all other products are only "diluted". Therefore, be guided by the necessary volume of the pot in which you will cook porridge. Spread the pumpkin in a saucepan (saucepan), add orange zest, sugar and salt (to taste). We put the pan on the fire and, stirring, squash the pumpkin until soft. If the pumpkin gives a little juice, then you can add water or milk. Then we fall asleep a manga. If you know how to "regulate" the amount of semolina for porridge, then pour out at your discretion. If not, then put the mango out of the calculation: a tablespoon of cereals into a glass of liquid. So, falling asleep manku, let the porridge boil and remove the pan from the fire. We add oil and a pinch of vanilla and proceed to the meal. 
Pumpkin porridge with peas and bacon
This recipe was born in a "dashing time". And he came to us from the distant times of the Great Patriotic War, when people did not philosophize and prepared food from the most affordable products. In the original, the porridge was prepared from millet, peas, pumpkins and lard. But we will try a little "refine" the recipe and cook it with rice and bacon. Ingredients:
- Rice (half a glass)
- Peas (half a glass)
- Raw pumpkin slices (glass)
- Bacon
- Water
- Salt
Preparation: Well washed peas are cooked until half cooked. Add washed peas to the peas, fill them with water and cook. While the peas are brewed with rice, let's take a pumpkin and bacon. We clean the pumpkin from the peel and finely chop it. Sliced bacon is fried in a dry frying pan, so that bacon is extruded. Toasted pieces of bacon are removed, and in their place we put a pumpkin and fry it in the remaining fat from the bacon. When rice with peas are cooked, add bacon and pumpkin, salt to them. The porridge is ready.
Coach for Cinderella
It's just a fabulous recipe! If your child does not like a pumpkin and you want to feed him with pumpkin porridge at all costs, then this is your chance. Risk it! Ingredients:
- A small pumpkin (better than a bright color)
- Raisins
- Millet
- Butter
- Milk
- Sugar or honey
- Cinnamon
Preparation: Pumpkin is good for me and cut off the top of her. We take out all the seeds and a loose fibrous core. The carriage is ready! Fill the "carriage" with washed wheat (about a third of the pumpkin volume), add raisins, sugar and cinnamon. Sugar - to taste, cinnamon - a teaspoon. Fill in the "carriage" milk and cover with a cap-crown (remember, which was cut at the very beginning?). We take heat-resistant high utensils, pour a little water into it and put a pumpkin. Utensils with pumpkin - in the oven. Bake on medium heat for an hour and a half. The carriage is served! Well? Did you like some recipe of pumpkin porridge? Then - for the cause. Take the pumpkin and cook the porridge. Write a real "pumpkin symphony", where Madame Pumpkin will solo, and you will conduct! We advise you to read:
