The well-known semolina is just the equally well-known coarsely ground wheat groats. Semolina is rich in vegetable protein and starch, is well absorbed, contains B vitamins, potassium, phosphorus, iron, calcium. It boils well, making it quick and easy to prepare. True, not everyone likes semolina porridge, and the same dish for breakfast quickly gets boring. But this is not a problem, because there are a great variety of semolina dishes.
Do you consider semolina porridge a simple and boring dish? The Minister of Finance and member of the State Council, Count Dmitry Guryev, would not agree with you. It is in his honor that the Guryev porridge is named, for the preparation of which foams are melted from milk, and then laid out on a dish, mixed with thick porridge. Nuts, dried fruits and jam are added to the dish. By the way, Guryev porridge was the favorite dish of Emperor Alexander III.
You can make a real dessert from semolina porridge without fiddling with foams. Just add raisins, dried apricots, prunes, nuts, chocolate, jam, condensed milk, fresh berries or fruits to your taste, and from spices - turmeric, vanilla, cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg. Do not make the porridge too thick, do not serve it cold and avoid the appearance of lumps: for this, pour the cereal in a small stream or dilute it in milk or water in advance.
This cereal is widely used for making casseroles, puddings, cakes, pancakes. Semolina recipes are not limited to sweets. It is added to soups and salads, serves as the basis for dumplings. In some semolina dishes, this cereal is not even felt, for example, having tried semolina mousse, your guests may not guess what this delicate dessert is made of.
It is prepared like this: first, cook a concentrated compote from berries (for example, cranberries), then wipe them through a sieve and, based on the resulting mass, cook a thick sweet semolina porridge. After that, it must be quickly cooled and beaten with a mixer at maximum speed until the mass becomes airy. Serve with milk or just like that.
Baking from semolina is easy to prepare, but it turns out to be very tender and melt in your mouth. There are a lot of options for making manna, and here is one of them. You will need:
- 1 tbsp. decoys, - 1 tbsp. flour,
- 1 tbsp brown sugar
- a little vanillin (you can add lemon zest)
- 100 gr. butter
- 1 tbsp of kefir (baked milk, fermented baked milk)
- 0.5 tsp salt
- 0.5 tsp citric acid
- 1 tsp baking soda.
You can add cocoa (carob), pre-soaked raisins, poppy seeds, nuts, chopped apples.
Cooking is as easy as shelling pears: mix dry ingredients, rub in butter, pour in kefir. Put the resulting dough on a baking sheet sprinkled with semolina. Bake for 35-40 minutes at 180-200 degrees.
An easy-to-prepare and tasty dish - cheese cakes with semolina. In order for their recipe, it is enough to add semolina instead of flour, or add it instead of part of the flour. In addition to the fact that this way the cheesecakes will keep their shape better, they will turn out more magnificent and tender.
Another great solution to how to cook semolina is rava fret. These deliciously sweet golden colored balls are popular in India. They are prepared from semolina, sugar, butter and spices.
