Step 1: Soak the millet for a long time.
When making millet porridge, you need to wash and soak the millet in advance for about fifteen minutes, so that the millet can be soaked, and the water-soluble nutrients in the millet will not lose more, which is healthier. Generally speaking, millet can be simply cleaned, and the nutrition of millet porridge will be lost if the cleaning time is too long or too hard.
Step 2: Put the millet porridge in hot water.
Many people think it is correct to put millet and water into the pot when cooking millet porridge. In fact, this will not only make millet porridge easier to stick to the bottom of the pot, but also better preserve the nutrients in millet. The correct way is to put boiling water into the pot, instead of turning the fire down immediately. After the fire boils, continue to cook with high fire for about five minutes, and then cook with low fire, so that the millet porridge will be thicker.
Step 3: Add some ingredients when cooking millet porridge.
In addition to being cooked separately, millet porridge is also cooked with auxiliary materials, which makes the nutrition better and more comprehensive. For example, adding red dates, because red dates have the effect of promoting blood circulation and invigorating qi, and there are many vitamins, which have the effect of beautifying skin and nourishing blood for women. The effect of adding red beans is also good, invigorating the spleen and appetizing, delicious and nutritious, but red beans are more difficult to cook, so you should soak them in warm water for an hour in advance. There are peanuts, gourds, pumpkins, barley and so on.
Step 4: Cook millet porridge slowly on low heat.
Cook millet porridge with low fire to avoid the problem of millet porridge sticking to the pot. By stirring, the cooked millet porridge can be made more viscous and fragrant. Small fire, boil, boil, boil until the rice grains bloom, the clear soup becomes sticky, the flavor is fragrant, and the sweet millet porridge is cooked! Boil for at least 40 minutes.
Usually it only takes fifteen to twenty minutes. According to the general process of porridge cooking, inject appropriate amount of water, cover and wait for 20 minutes. Moreover, the temperature of the pressure cooker itself is ok, and it also saves fuel. The time of cooking porridge in pressure cooker depends on how much porridge you cook, but it has little effect, because a pot can cook up to 8 people, so the time will not be much different.
If you want millet porridge to taste better, you can add white rice and glutinous rice to cook it together, so that the cooked millet porridge is thick, fragrant and sticky. More importantly, you can add cereal to enhance the flavor of porridge, just because cereal is cooked quickly, and you have to wait until the rice is cooked.
Add millet after the water is completely boiled. This not only cooks porridge faster, but also won't paste the bottom of the pot; If you like sweets, you can put some rock sugar;
It usually takes only 15 to 20 minutes to cook millet porridge in a pressure cooker, but it is best not to cook millet porridge in a pressure cooker, because the grains of millet are relatively broken, which may easily block the valve of the pressure cooker, thus causing some safety hazards.
Extended data:
Millet porridge is a kind of porridge made of millet as the main raw material. It has a light taste and a clear fragrance. The preparation is simple and easy, 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.