As the famous saying goes - you can't spoil porridge with butter. Let's find out what is good about butter porridge, let's discover all its secrets.
What are porridges
Valuable grains and legumes that can be used to make delicious cereals include the following: rice, buckwheat, oats, barley, semolina, peas, wheat, bran, millet, barley and rye flakes, millet, corn, beans, beans.
In turn, the following types of porridge can be prepared from the corresponding cereals:
- wheat;
- millet;
- corn;
- barley;
- oatmeal;
- rice;
- buckwheat;
- semolina.
There are many options for hearty meals!
Benefits of porridge
Different types of butter porridge are digested for a long time in the body. In this regard, the body does not feel hungry longer and does not freeze in the cold season. A valuable meal is considered indispensable for hearty breakfasts, it is also useful to eat porridge for lunch and dinner.
Butter porridge from the above cereals is an excellent antioxidant. A rich dish is able to regulatemetabolic process in the body, improve the functioning of the digestive system, lower cholesterol levels.
For example, by regularly eating wheat porridge, you can remove s alts of heavy metals, toxins, slags, toxins from the body, remove excess body fat. There is no harm in eating cereals. Although in everything you need to observe a sense of proportion.
In addition, wheat butter porridge is recommended as an important element in the diet of people with cardiovascular diseases. Millet and buckwheat porridge have a positive effect on the work of the hematopoietic system and on the activity of the liver. If you want to improve the condition of nails and hair, then the use of pearl barley and rice porridge is indispensable. Also, these types of cereals are rich in B vitamins and therefore have a beneficial effect on immunity and vision.
Oatmeal butter porridge is ideal for breakfast. It must be consumed by those who wish to be he althy. A large amount of carbohydrates quickly saturates the body, and an indispensable element of oatmeal, biotin, fights drowsiness and fatigue, reduces the risk of stomach ulcers.
How to cook porridge?
There may be several options for cooking porridge. Firstly, you can cook it with water or milk - this is a matter of taste for everyone. Secondly, tender flakes of oatmeal, pearl barley or corn are simply poured with boiling water and covered with a lid, steaming the dish until tender (about 10 minutes). It is customary to add washed cereals to boiling s alted water and cook over low heat, periodically stirring the porridge with a spoon. Water in a potshould be 2-3 cm larger than cereals. If there is more liquid, it must be drained at the end of cooking. At the end of cooking, the porridge is seasoned with butter or vegetable oil.
Other information about cereals
The benefits of cereals have been proven more than once. From childhood, mothers inspire their children that those who eat porridge grow faster, gain strength and remain he althy. Schoolchildren at labor lessons study how butter porridge is prepared, how it is written - on the subjects of writing and literature. From the media in he althy nutrition programs, we repeatedly hear the same thing, that there is no more useful product that can saturate the body with valuable trace elements than this one. Butter porridge or butter porridge - it does not matter, the main thing is not to forget to fill it with oil for greater benefit. And the more, the better - as the famous saying goes.
Porridge for the holidays
Every year in the winter season, or rather at the end of February, we celebrate Maslenitsa. A week before Lent, Christians have been celebrating the end of winter since time immemorial. People have fun and treat themselves to delicious dishes, among which there must be pancakes and butter porridge.
On military holidays it is customary to treat yourself to field porridge - the most satisfying dish at the front. For example, when military-sports games “Zarnitsa” are held among schoolchildren in a forest area or at a training ground, it is also customary to honor players there for dinner with hot butter porridge - real food for heroes.
