For a long time nobody doubts advantage of porridge. However not everyone is impressed by its appearance and consistence. Porridge will become by all means more attractive if to decorate a ready-to-eat meal with segments of oranges, the whole berries, nuts. And the pinch of cinnamon will give to porridge the invigorating aroma.
Fresh taste of porridge and its "snotty" consistence the far little to liking. However in care of the health and if desired to lose weight, willy-nilly it is necessary to master recipes of its preparation. It is more useful not to find this dietary dish. Nutritionists assure that the most useful porridge – integral or ground, welded on water without sugar and salt. However, the pinch of salt won't do big harm, and sugar will be replaced by honey and fruit: in the summer – fresh, in the winter – dried or frozen.
How to cook the most useful porridge
Even in a pursuit of saving of time, you shouldn't choose for cooking of porridge instant flakes as preliminary heat treatment deprived of them the useful properties inherent in an oats germ. If the choice fell nevertheless on flakes, then it is better to stop on "Oat-flakes" or flakes "Extra – 1". The most rough, and, so with cellulose, "Oat-flakes" are rich, it is an independent grade of oats.
The quality of Ekstra has gradation. "Ekstra-3" — gentle flakes which will cook in 5 minutes. They are good for baby food and for people with problems of a digestive tract. "Extra – 2" it is made from a kibbled grain and twice more time for cooking will demand. Flakes of "Ekstra-1" are developed from a whole grain, and therefore 15 min. will cook. They aren't less useful, than "Oat-flakes".
Concept about tasty porridge at everyone the. Someone loves liquid, and it is pleasant to someone dense more. Therefore the ratio of flakes and liquid can be both 1:1, and 1:2. For whole and shredded porridge of a proportion others - 1:4. To accelerate process of preparation of a breakfast, it is possible to fill in a whole grain of oats with boiled water since evening.
And to add 0.4 liters of milk to the inflated glass of oats in the morning and to cook minutes 20 on slow fire. Already cut or polished fresh fruit or dried fruits which are steamed out in boiled water are added to ready porridge to taste. Of course, to make such tasty useful porridge, it is necessary to strive since evening or to get up in the morning a bit earlier.
Instant recipes of porridge
With flakes everything much more simply and quicker. Their washout, it is possible to fill in with water in half with milk at once, to add salt and, having brought to the boil, to lower fire. Then to leave to pine a breakfast of 5-7 minutes. The washed-out dried fruits or the frozen fruit can be sent at once too to the capacity where porridge is cooked. During this time they won't boil soft and will keep the useful properties. Porridge with orange has an attractive appearance and a peculiar taste.
For this purpose orange is cleaned and divided into segments. Before cleaning of fruit, it needs to be washed up well, the dried peel will be put to use too. It is rubbed and from several segments in porridge juice is squeezed out. All this goes to capacity for preparation of porridge together with flakes, water or milk at once. The dish is already complemented with the remained fresh segments of orange in a plate.
Scots prefer not to cook porridge, and to fill up it at fast stirring in the boiling water. After that the pan is removed from fire for about 20 minutes. Salt, sugar, fruit – all this is added to porridge of room temperature. Americans for acceleration of preparation of porridge for breakfast in addition crush flakes the blender.
Porridge with fruit can be made from flakes cold-process. For this purpose since evening "Oat-flakes" should be filled in with mix from yogurt, fruit, nuts. It is possible to add a pinch of cinnamon or coconut flakes. It isn't necessary to remove in the fridge. It is enough to leave the covered bowl on a table in kitchen that next morning the aroma of porridge with fruit notified on the beginning of wonderful day.