Not all housewives know how to cook porridge from wheat grits. This is because such a product is not too common among modern culinary specialists. The most delicious and nutritious wheat cereal in milk is always obtained.

Classic wheat porridge in milk

When buckwheat and oatmeal “become boring”, it is worth diversifying the menu by offering this new dish to your family. Despite the lack of popularity among buyers, wheat groats can be found on sale in almost every supermarket. She will need to take half a glass. The remaining ingredients: 1 cup of fat milk (excellent if homemade), 1/3 cup of filtered water, a pinch of fine salt, a teaspoon of sugar, a slice of butter.

  1. Groats are thoroughly washed - until the water is clear. Even the smallest dust must be removed from it.
  2. Half the milk combined with water is brought to a boil. The liquid is salted.
  3. Prepared cereal is poured into the hot mixture. When the components boil again, the fire is reduced to the minimum.
  4. Next, treat should be cooked until thickened.
  5. Lastly, sand and oil are added, after which the dish is warmed up for a couple of minutes, filled with the remaining milk and cooked to the desired consistency.

Before serving, the porridge should be infused under the lid for 7-8 minutes.

How to cook in a slow cooker?

For cooking in a slow cooker, as a basis, you should choose medium-fat milk. For example, 2.5%. It takes 5 multi-cooker glasses. The rest of the ingredients: 1 multi-cooked glass of wheat flour, fine salt and white sugar to taste, high-quality butter.

  1. Groats are filled with a little lukewarm water. In this form, it is left for several minutes. During this time, all small impurities will rise to the surface. They can easily be drained with water. The liquid changes until the flour disappears completely.
  2. Prepared cereals and all dry ingredients are placed in the oven bowl. Milk and melted butter are poured on top to taste.
  3. In the corresponding program, wheat porridge with milk in a slow cooker is cooked for 60-65 minutes.

You can leave a little oil to also add it to an already prepared hot dish, laid out on plates.

With pumpkin

The specified vegetable will make the cooked porridge more bright and sunny. Especially in this version, the youngest members of the family like it. Pumpkins are enough to take 270-290 grams. The remaining ingredients: 320 ml of filtered water, 180 ml of fat milk, salt, white sugar to taste.

  1. Groats are thoroughly washed under running water. It is convenient to use a sieve (the smallest) for this.
  2. A mixture of milk and water is poured into a saucepan, brought to a boil. Immediately after the appearance of the first bubbles on the surface, cereal is poured into the liquid.
  3. Next, you need to cook the wheat porridge, not forgetting to stir it, 12-14 minutes.
  4. The pulp of a vegetable rubs on a grater. You can use both its small and large divisions. Together with salt and sand, pumpkin is laid out in a half-cooked dish.

The fire decreases, and the treat languishes under the lid for about another 15-17 minutes.

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How to cook in the oven?

It is believed that it is according to this recipe that the porridge from wheat groats is especially tasty. Berries and fruits will help to improve the result. Ingredients: 1 cup cereal, 8 ripe apricots, sugar to taste, a handful of fresh raspberries, 970 ml of baked milk, a pinch of salt.

  1. Berries and fruits are washed gently so as not to crumple. Apricots get rid of seeds and are cut in quarters.
  2. Wheat groats are well washed with running water, after which it is laid out and leveled in a baking dish.
  3. Prepared raspberries and apricots are laid out on top.
  4. Milk is salted and sweetened. When all the grains dissolve in it, you can pour the liquid into the mold.
  5. Cooking porridge will be 90 minutes in a well-heated oven.

Butter can be added to an already prepared dish or grated directly on top of fruits and berries before sending the form to the oven.

With honey and dried fruits

Their dried fruit is better to choose dried apricots, raisins and prunes - 60 grams each. The remaining ingredients: 120 g of cereal, 1 cup of fat milk, 60 g of liquid honey, a slice of butter.

  1. Wheat is thoroughly sorted and washed in several waters.
  2. The milk is brought to a boil. Immediately after that, a cereal is poured into it with a thin stream. It is important in the process and several minutes after continuously stirring the ingredients.
  3. It remains to add well-washed dried fruits. You can use them whole or cut them into pieces in advance. To make prunes and dried apricots easier to grind, they should first be steamed with boiling water.
  4. After adding dried fruits, the porridge will cook for another 6-8 minutes.

An already prepared dish is seasoned with melted butter. You can add sugar or natural bee honey to it, but usually sweets from dried fruits are quite enough.

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Secrets and tricks of cooking

If you know the basic secrets of making cereal from wheat groats, then it will always turn out perfect. On sale today you can find two types of the product under discussion: whole grain and finely divided. If you use the second option, then before cooking, you do not need to rinse it with water. Just select the trash. But whole grain cereals must be washed. Dishes from it are considered as useful as possible.

 

After boiling water, in which the cereal is already boiling, it is necessary to carefully remove foam from it. This will eliminate crumbs that are not noticed during washing, but can spoil the taste of the dish.

An ideal utensil for cooking such porridge is considered a cast iron cauldron. If he was not on the farm, it is worth using a container with a thick bottom and walls.

 

It does not matter if wheat porridge is being prepared as a side dish or a sweet dish, in any case it’s important to add butter to it. The more it will be, the tastier the treat will turn out.

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