Millet is a kind of food crop that we eat every day for a long time. I still remember that when I was a child, rice was often planted at home, and rice was the shape of millet's food crop. Now, the number of kinds has decreased, and many children still don't know what rice looks like. When I was a child, every year in autumn, the ears of rice in the field were particularly round and bent, and some grass people were needed in the field to prevent birds from stealing rice. After school, everyone was often driven to the field by their parents to see the rice. You don't have to say that the rice grown at home was particularly delicious at that time, and the boiled millet porridge was covered with a thick layer of rice oil. Now I feel that I can't eat such delicious millet from now on.

What we eat now is basically bought in the supermarket. We find that there are many kinds of millet in the shopping mall, and the price difference of each kind is quite big. The cheaper one is more than two yuan, and the more expensive one is more than ten yuan a catty. However, when I bought millet from the supermarket, I always felt bad when I cooked soup. It was not until the bibimbap gentleman went to the supermarket to buy millet again that I realized that millet was also different from yellow millet and glutinous millet. I had never noticed it before, so no wonder the millet soup I could buy was not sweet at all. When buying millet, there was actually a difference between glutinous millet and yellow millet. After listening to the introduction of the salesperson, I found that the difference between the two was so great. No wonder the original millet was not delicious.

First, let's look at the difference between glutinous millet and yellow millet. From the appearance, the particles of glutinous millet are larger, and the particles of yellow millet are smaller, so when we buy millet, we can distinguish it visually. Waxy millet has a strong sticky feeling, shorter cooking time and looks very waxy, but it tastes loose and weak, and the aroma of rice is not as strong as that of yellow millet. Conversely, the taste of yellow millet needs to be much softer, especially suitable for cooking millet porridge, so if we want to cook porridge, we must choose yellow millet instead of waxy millet. Because glutinous millet tastes scattered and slightly worse, it is suitable for snacks and fried rice. Yellow millet is oil-soluble, soft in taste, and rich in rice oil, so it is especially suitable for cooking porridge. The millet porridge boiled by yellow millet will have a layer of rice oil on it, which is rich in nutrients and is especially suitable for children to drink.

In fact, the difference in nutritional components between the two kinds of millet is not too big, just because their uses are different, so there is no need to care too much about the difference in nutritional components, just choose the right one. Although millet is planted in many places, not every region is very popular and warmly welcomed. The origin of millet, which is favored by everyone, is generally Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Northeast China. Because the quality of millet in these three places is higher. After listening to the salesperson's interpretation, I finally understood why I bought millet before, sometimes it was delicious and sometimes it was not delicious. Emotions sometimes buy glutinous millet, so it's no wonder that when you go home, you can't get rice oil when you cook porridge!

In addition to selecting yellow millet, we should pay attention to the following aspects: 1. In the case of cooking millet porridge, millet should not be put into the pot. We should soak the millet directly for more than 4 hours in advance, so that the millet can absorb enough nutrients. 2, the millet porridge must be put in the pot with boiling water. After the millet enters the pot, the water will be boiled slowly with a small fire after the second boiling, and try to cook it in a stone pot. 3, boiled millet porridge needs a certain amount of care, the cooking time must be long enough, cooking for at least half an hour, so the boiled millet porridge tastes the best. When buying millet, there is actually a difference between glutinous millet and yellow millet. After listening to it, it is so different! Everyone will know how to buy millet in the future! Don't make the wrong choice again!