When cooking millet porridge, first boil the water in the pot, and then add millet. After boiling, turn the fire into a slow fire. The porridge thickens, the millet explodes, and the fire is turned off. Stir it from time to time in the process of cooking porridge just put rice to avoid porridge burning.
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Millet porridge is a kind of porridge made of millet as the main raw material. It is light in taste, rich in fragrance, simple to make, and has the characteristics of invigorating stomach and promoting digestion. When cooking porridge, you must first boil the water and then add the washed millet, boil it first, then simmer it with slow fire, and then turn off the heat after the soup is sticky.
Millet is a traditional healthy food, which can be stewed with rice and porridge alone. Millet is one of the main foods in the north, and many areas have the custom of eating millet porridge for dinner. Millet is rich in nutrition, but like other cereals, the lysine in protein is too low. You can mix sweet potatoes, quinoa, beans, dates, pumpkins, longan, longan and other ingredients in porridge to increase nutrition and taste.
Tips for cooking millet porridge
Actually, cooking porridge is not that simple. It is not that you can make delicious millet porridge drops by putting water and rice together. Here are some tips for cooking millet porridge:
1, you should choose fresh millet instead of old rice, the taste will be much worse.
2. When the water is about to boil, put in the rice. Simmer for 8- 10 minutes with high fire, and then simmer for 15-20 minutes with medium and small fire.
3, can't be lazy, just stir the pot to prevent the bottom of the pot from burning, try to uncover the lid as little as possible when simmering, and prevent the overflowing pot from leaving a seam when covering the lid.
4, put enough water in the pot, don't add water in the middle, water is generally 15-20 times of ingredients. Bottled water can be used instead in areas with poor water quality.
Some areas like to add edible alkali to make rice softer and worse. Cook for more than half an hour and add a little edible alkali, but the taste of millet porridge with edible alkali will be affected. (Not recommended for pregnant women and babies)
6. When rice is in flower shape, it is more delicious.
Matters needing attention
Millet porridge is healthy food. Can be cooked separately, or you can add quinoa, jujube, red beans, sweet potatoes, lotus seeds, lilies, longan and so on. , make different flavors of nutrients. Millet can be made into cakes by grinding into powder, which is delicious. Compendium of Materia Medica says that Xiaomi "cures nausea and dysentery, cooks porridge, benefits dantian, supplements deficiency and stimulates appetite."
Traditional millet variety "Red Skin" has been planted in many places because of its low yield and yellowish color after peeling, which has high economic benefits, but the rice porridge cooked by traditional varieties is richer in rice oil and more fragrant in taste.
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