Pumpkin is the real queen of the autumn and winter table. This royal miracle vegetable grows everywhere, does not require special care, does not take up much space on the site and grows to enormous sizes. The beautiful pumpkin is very tasty and healthy. Juices are made from it, jam is made. Pumpkin is also added to porridge - rice, semolina or millet.
You can cook porridge with pumpkin in different ways.
The easiest way is to mix slices of pumpkin peeled and seeds with rice or millet porridge boiled in water until half cooked, add milk and simmer until the pumpkin becomes transparent. Porridge cooked in this way is very tasty, especially rice porridge. As for millet, it is possible to cook deliciously porridge with millet pumpkin if the pumpkin pieces are pre-baked in the oven. The baked pieces are added to the finished millet millet porridge, the pan is placed in an oven or microwave oven for half an hour with minimal heating. With this method of preparation, the taste of the ingredients of the porridge is combined into a single ensemble. This gives the dish a special sophistication.
Semolina porridge with pumpkin is cooked separately
Pumpkin can also be added to semolina porridge, it is very tasty and healthy, especially for kids. Pumpkin takes much longer to cook than semolina porridge, so its pieces are boiled in water or milk in advance. You can also bake the pumpkin in the oven. The boiled pumpkin is rubbed through a sieve and added to the finished semolina porridge, everything is mixed with a small amount of butter - a tasty and healthy dish for the child is ready.
How to cook pumpkin porridge without a pan
To do this, cook the pumpkin porridge correctly right in the pumpkin. The pumpkin must be washed well, without peeling the peel, cut off the layer at the base, peel the pumpkin inside and put rice or millet groats cooked until cooked, pieces of vegetables and fruits, prunes, raisins, add milk or cream, butter in layers. Then close the pumpkin with a cut layer - "lid" and bake in the oven at medium temperature until tender. The larger the pumpkin, the longer it takes to cook and the tastier the porridge turns out.
