Oat flakes aren't for nothing called by name the ancient Roman mythical hero - Ercole. They are protein-rich also high-valuable vegetable fats. The plate of Herculean porridge provides up to 15% of daily need for the majority of valuable nutritive matters. It is possible to make such porridge on milk in several ways.
It is required to you
- 2 glasses of oat-flakes;
- 1 l of milk;
- ½ tsps of salt;
- sugar to taste;
- 1-2 tsps of a desi.
Instruction
1. At first touch flakes to clean them from a peel, not kibbled grain and garbage. Unlike grits, they don't demand preliminary preparation before cooking (washings and soakings).
2. To make gerkulesovy porridge according to the classical recipe, boil milk, add salt, sugar, then fill up oat flakes. You cook on weak fire within 10-15 minutes before solidification, constantly stirring slowly. Fill ready porridge with a desi.
3. It is also possible to add fruit, berries, candied fruits, raisin, prunes, nuts or a tax oat-flakesof with jam, but in this case you cook it without sugar.
4. Oat flakes can be made in the microwave oven. For this purpose fill in them with milk, salt, you cook at full capacity within 4 minutes, watching that milk didn't escape. During this time mix porridge 2-3 times.
5. Most often on packing of oat-flakes write a way of its preparation, as a rule, it corresponds to the classical recipe, only the recommended cooking time differs. Small flakes cook 3-5 minutes, larger - 10-15. If you use oat flakes of fast cooking, just in case add 1-2 minutes, and determine readiness of porridge by degree of cookiness of oat-flakes.
6. Besides, porridge from oat flakes can be cooked also in an oven. Pour oat-flakes into a pot, fill in with boiled milk, add salt, sugar, cover also to a potomita in an oven of 30-40 minutes. That milk didn't escape, grease a pot with a desi inside.
7. For preparation of oat flakes it is possible to use both the whole milk and concentrated, condensed or dry, divorced water.
8. Not pasteurized milk for porridge needs to be boiled previously, to cool a little, again to bring to the boil and to fill up flakes.
9. Gerkulesovy porridge will suit persons interested to lose weight as a nutritious breakfast as has high nutrition value and doesn't contain starch. But in this case milk needs to be parted in half with water, and not to add sugar and oil to ready porridge, having replaced them to taste with dried fruits, nuts, etc.