Practice of millet and pumpkin porridge
Ingredients: millet100g, pumpkin 300g.
Production steps:
1. Peel and cut the pumpkin, wash the millet and soak it in water for 20 minutes;
2. Prepare half a bottle of boiling water, pour it into the rice cooker and cook the millet for 30 minutes; When cooking millet, mash the pumpkin with a blender;
After 3.30 minutes, add pumpkin and cook for about 15 minutes, stirring from time to time to avoid sticking to the pot.
How to make millet pumpkin porridge delicious?
First of all, let's go to the market to choose old pumpkins, which must be older pumpkins. This directly determines the taste of pumpkin porridge, and because it is an old pumpkin, it is not astringent and tastes sweeter. Then clean the surface of the pumpkin, peel off the surface with a knife and cut it into small squares. Then clean the millet and soak it in clear water for half an hour, so that the boiled millet and pumpkin porridge will be more fragrant, thicker and easier to cook, as mentioned in the last article. This little secret must be remembered!
The next most important step is to add a proper amount of water to the pot, first pour in the chopped pumpkin pieces, and then simmer for half an hour on low heat, so that the boiled pumpkin will be loose, sticky and better to drink. At this time, the millet is ready. Add it, then add a little edible alkali to boil, turn to low heat and stir slowly. Finally, add some cooking oil until the porridge is cooked. Cooking oil can make millet pumpkin porridge thicker, more beautiful in color and more appetizing!
Cooking skills of millet and pumpkin porridge
1. Choose fresh pumpkins, eat millet pumpkin porridge on the same day, buy fresh pumpkins, peel and steam them, remove pumpkin seeds and wash them, and keep the pumpkin pulp. Some pumpkins steamed with pumpkin pulp are sweeter, and some people don't know why they haven't eaten pumpkin. The boiled millet pumpkin porridge is not sweet. Choose older pumpkins. Old pumpkins will stay in the sun for a long time, grow longer and be sweeter when cooked.
2. Soak the millet before cooking it. Soaked millet is better to cook and tastes softer and stronger. Many people don't know this skill, so remember it.
3. The order in which millet and pumpkin are put into the pot, pumpkin or millet first. I tell you, millet and whole pumpkin are put into the pot at the same time, and the water depends on the number of people who eat.
4. The key step of producing rice oil from millet porridge is the quality of rice. Generally speaking, the rice oil of coarse rice is higher than that of refined rice, and ordinary rice in supermarkets can also be used. The cooking time of rice determines the oil output of rice oil.
Purchasing skills of Xiaomi
When buying millet, you should choose high-quality millet with uniform color, normal smell, no impurities and no more than 6% broken rice. Don't choose inferior millet with variegated colors, broken rice and many impurities.
At present, some unscrupulous merchants in the market dye millet with turmeric powder, so we must pay attention to identification when buying millet. You can dip your palm in some water and rub a few millet. The color of millet dyed with turmeric powder changes from yellow to gray, and the yellow powder will remain in your palm.