However, the millet soup bought from the supermarket always feels bad. When Bibimbap Jun went to the supermarket to buy millet again, he found that millet was divided into yellow millet and glutinous millet. I never noticed it before. No wonder the millet soup bought was not sweet at all.
When buying millet, there was actually a difference between glutinous millet and yellow millet. After listening to the salesman's explanation, I found that the difference between the two was so great. No wonder the original millet was not delicious.
First of all, let's look at the difference between glutinous millet and yellow millet.
in appearance
From the appearance point of view, glutinous millet particles are larger, and yellow millet particles are relatively smaller, so when we go to buy millet, we can judge it intuitively from the appearance.
Taste
Waxy millet has a stronger sticky feeling, shorter cooking time and looks very waxy, but it tastes loose and poor, and the smell of rice is not as rich as that of yellow millet. On the contrary, the taste of yellow millet is much softer, which is very suitable for cooking millet porridge, so if we want to cook porridge, we must choose yellow millet instead of glutinous millet.
How to eat
Waxy millet is suitable for making cakes and fried rice because it tastes loose and slightly worse.
Yellow millet is oily, soft in taste, and rich in rice oil, so it is very suitable for cooking porridge. The millet porridge cooked by yellow millet will have a layer of rice oil on it, which is very nutritious and very suitable for children to drink.
Is there a big difference in nutritional value between the two kinds of millet?
In fact, there is not much difference in nutritional value between the two kinds of millet, just because of their different uses, so there is no need to pay too much attention to the difference in nutritional value, just choose the one that suits you.
Where is the millet produced better?
Although millet is planted in many places, not every place is very popular with everyone. The most popular millet producing areas are generally Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Northeast China. So the quality of millet in these three places is higher.
After listening to the salesman's explanation, I finally understand why the millet I bought before is sometimes delicious and sometimes not. Feelings often buy glutinous millet, no wonder you can't get rice oil when you go home to cook porridge!
Finally, the salesman enthusiastically told me how Xiaomi could cook better and produce more rice oil, and I also shared it with you. I want millet porridge to be sticky and oily. Besides choosing the right millet, I should also pay attention to the following points:
1, when cooking millet porridge, don't cook the millet directly. Let's soak the millet for more than 4 hours in advance, so that the millet can fully absorb water.
2, the millet porridge must be boiled in water, after the millet is boiled, the water will turn to a small fire and simmer slowly after the second boiling, and choose to use a casserole as much as possible.
3. You should have enough patience in cooking millet porridge, and the cooking time must be long enough for at least half an hour. The millet porridge cooked in this way tastes the best.