Oatmeal is considered one of the healthiest of all types of cereals. It contains a high amount of valuable vegetable fats and proteins. The substances avenalin and avenin, which are part of oatmeal, contain all the essential amino acids.
Purchase and preparation of products
When choosing porridge, you should focus on the naturalness of the products. Therefore, it is worth purchasing only high-quality flakes or cooking a dish from natural grains, but the cooking process will be longer. Also, when choosing oatmeal, you should pay attention to their name.
Extra flakes are considered the most delicate and thinnest, they are suitable for people with sensitive stomachs or for children. Such flakes are prepared for no more than 10 minutes. Another type of oatmeal called "Hercules" is designed for thick and satisfying porridge, which is explained by the thicker flakes of this type of oatmeal. It takes a little longer to prepare "Hercules", but the porridge is tastier.
Before cooking oatmeal, rinse the oat flakes or whole grains thoroughly.
Cooking process
For the proper preparation of oatmeal, you will need one glass of oatmeal or cereal, two or three glasses of milk, skim milk can, a pinch of salt and sugar to taste.
The first stage of cooking is to soak cereals or flakes in water overnight. The same should be done with instant porridge, although the packaging usually indicates a cooking time of up to 10 minutes. This procedure will make the porridge soft and tender.
In the morning, water is drained from cereals or flakes, after which milk, salt and sugar are added to it to taste. Then the container is sent with all the contents to a slow fire. As soon as the cereal boils, the fire is reduced to a minimum level, and the practically finished porridge is constantly stirred and boiled until tender. Before serving oatmeal to the table, add butter to it. Optionally, you can add sour cream, condensed milk or honey to the porridge.
If you are fasting or have a milk intolerance, you can replace it with water without changing the principle of preparation. Sugar can also be replaced with honey. If you add dried fruits or nuts to the porridge, you can not only increase the amount of vitamins in it, but also give the dish more calories and nutritional value.
How to make oatmeal even tastier
If the oatmeal is being prepared for a small child, you can improve its taste by using fruit and berry fillings or cream. Moreover, the cream is introduced into the finished product gradually, otherwise they will simply lose their taste. Kids eat this kind of porridge with pleasure, and if you change the fruit fillers, each time the porridge will be different and will not get bored.
