Benefits and harms
Everyone knows that oatmeal is very healthy. Its benefits are that it stimulates the emotional background, improves brain function, removes bad cholesterol and excess salt from the body. It also protects the gastric mucosa well, removes toxins, and the main benefit for those losing weight is improved intestinal function, and as a result, the ability to lose weight.
The harm of the product is that, along with toxins, oatmeal can also remove some useful elements from the body. Porridge should not be eaten on a regular basis for more than two weeks, as in this case it will begin to remove calcium. That is why after a diet you definitely need a break.
Simple recipe
Procedure for preparing dietary oatmeal with apples:
- Pour water into a small saucepan and place it on the stove;
- While the water is boiling, heat the milk until hot;
- Pour the cereal into boiling water and add hot milk;
- Combine the ingredients with a spoon and add cinnamon and salt;
- Stir and cook until tender for about twenty-five minutes, stirring occasionally with a spoon;
- If necessary, you can add a little hot water or milk;
- While the porridge is preparing, peel the apple and grate it;
- Remove the finished porridge from the heat and immediately transfer to a plate;
- Add apple, honey, mix and eat.
Porridge with lemon
Oatmeal cooked with lemon is an excellent solution to improve the body's protective properties, since this representative of citrus fruits carries an impressive amount of vitamin C.
Ingredients
- 2 glasses of milk;
- 1 glass of water;
- 1 cup oatmeal;
- juice of 1 lemon;
- 1 banana;
- 1 tsp. Flaxseed;
- 0.5 tsp. lemon zest;
- salt - a pinch.
Cooking method
- Soak the flakes in water for several hours, adding 1 tbsp. l. lemon juice.
- Drain the water. Add milk and water. Boil. Add flax seed. Boil until the oatmeal absorbs liquid.
- Add zest, lemon juice, salt. Mix. Add mashed banana. Mix well.
- The consistency should be thick.
- Use when cooled.
Bon appetit!
This article presents to your attention a selection of recipes for delicious and healthy rice porridge with fragrant apples.
Basic recipe
Cooking rice porridge with apples in water:
- Pour the rice into a deep bowl and rinse in water until the turbidity completely disappears. If you have time, you can pre-soak the rice for a quarter of an hour;
- Place the cereal in a saucepan, add cold water. For half a glass you will need to take half a glass of water;
- Place the pan on the stove and cook for a little over half an hour. It will take approximately this amount of time for the dish to reach the required consistency;
- After the cereal boils, you need to add salt;
- While it is cooking, wash the apples and finely chop them;
- Remove the finished rice from the stove and cover with a lid;
- Meanwhile, place butter in a hot frying pan. When it melts, pour in the previously prepared apples;
- Simmer the apples covered for about 3 minutes, then add sugar and stir. Continue cooking the mixture for several minutes without reducing the heat;
- After this, add the cereal to the apples. Mix thoroughly, cover the pan with a lid and turn off the heat;
- The dish must be kept covered for several minutes so that it is saturated with apple flavor.
Baked oatmeal with apples, honey and cinnamon
- 30 g brown sugar;
- 1 apple;
- 15 g butter;
- 340 g oatmeal;
- 3 g cinnamon;
- 1 g nutmeg;
- 70 g raisins;
- 2 g salt;
- 450 ml milk.
How much time - 40 minutes.
Nutritional content – 189 kcal/100 g.
Actions:
- Immediately turn on the oven at 175 Celsius so that it has time to warm up;
- Wash the apple, peel it and cut into cubes;
- Place in a bowl, add sugar, cereal, cinnamon, nutmeg, raisins and salt;
- Mix all ingredients well;
- Melt the butter in the microwave or on the stove, add it to the rest of the products;
- Mix everything again and transfer this time to a baking dish;
- Pour milk over everything and place in the oven for thirty minutes;
- Before serving, you can pour milk over the porridge and add spices to taste.
How to cook oatmeal porridge in the microwave
This recipe can just help out if you can’t cook breakfast on the stove. There are several ways to cook oatmeal porridge in the microwave, and this is one of the most successful. You can pour milk over the oatmeal in the evening and then the cooking time will be reduced to a minute.
• 3 spoons of oatmeal;
• 1 teaspoon of sugar (or honey);
• 1 piece of butter;
1. Take a microwave-safe container and pour cereal into it.
2. Stir milk with a pinch of salt, immediately add sugar. If honey is used, it is better to add it to the already prepared porridge, so as not to destroy the vitamins during cooking.
3. Place the container in the microwave and turn it on at 700 watts.
4. Cook for three minutes. You can cover it with a microwave-safe lid to avoid accidental splashes.
5. Take out the porridge, put a piece of butter on top and you're done!
Milk porridge with apples and berries in a slow cooker
- 1 apple;
- 1 handful of blueberries;
- 35 g butter;
- 1 handful of raspberries;
- 5 g sugar;
- 1 handful of blackberries;
- 2 g salt;
- 430 ml milk;
- 220 g oatmeal.
How much time - 15 minutes.
Nutritional value – 90 kcal/100 g.
Actions:
- First of all, pour the cereal into the multicooker bowl;
- Next, pour milk into them and add butter;
- Add salt and sugar, stir;
- Turn on the multicooker for ten minutes and start working on the berries/fruits;
- Wash the apple, peel it and cut it into any size;
- Place the finished porridge on plates and add a little blueberry, a little apple, raspberry and blackberry to each serving;
- Serve warm.
Cooking porridge in a slow cooker
If you have a multicooker in your kitchen, cooking oatmeal porridge will be even easier. You don’t have to worry that the dish will burn, and you can calmly go about your business while the unit is running. For cooking you will need the following ingredients:
- oat flakes for cooking;
- filtered water;
- a little salt;
- butter.
Cooking porridge in a slow cooker:
- Place the oatmeal in the bowl of the appliance and fill it with hot water.
- Throw in a pinch of salt, stir, close the lid of the device and set the mode for cooking porridge.
- After the process is completed, carefully so as not to get burned by the steam, lift the lid of the unit and add butter into the dish.
- Close the device again and let the porridge brew.
Hercules on water will be an excellent addition to meat, fish or poultry dishes. And if you want to serve a sweet dish, you can flavor the porridge with sugar or honey, and also add nuts, berries or dried fruits.
How to cook lazy oatmeal with apples without cooking
- 30 g oatmeal;
- 25 ml yogurt without additives;
- 70 ml milk;
- 5 g honey;
- 80 g apple;
- 3 g cinnamon.
How much time – 5 minutes + night.
Nutritional content – 109 kcal/100 g.
Actions:
- Pour the cereal into a bowl, add yogurt;
- Mix well to evenly distribute the oatmeal over the yogurt;
- Pour in the milk and combine well again;
- Send cinnamon and honey there and mix;
- Pour the ingredients into a jar or glass, cover and put in the refrigerator overnight;
- Before serving, peel the apple, chop it and add to the porridge;
- Can be served immediately. Store in the refrigerator for up to four days, in the freezer for up to one month.
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Salad with mango and avocado - light, with an exotic taste.
Bread with garlic in the oven is excellent, homemade, aromatic and tasty.
How to cook oatmeal porridge with raisins
In general, raisins can simply be washed and added to any porridge. But it will not be very tasty and aromatic. It’s better to tell you how best to cook rolled oats with raisins. Similarly, you can prepare porridge with dried apricots, prunes and other dried fruits, just adjusting the amount of sugar.
• 100 grams of rolled oats;
• 50 grams of raisins;
• 20 grams of butter;
1. Boil a mixture of water and milk.
2. Add a pinch of salt and sugar. Raisins themselves contain a lot of sugars. This needs to be taken into account. If you don’t like overly sweet dishes, you can just add a little salt to the milk.
3. Add the flakes and cook for three minutes after boiling.
4. Rinse the raisins, let the porridge boil well again, throw in a piece of butter, stir and cover with a lid.
5. Turn off and leave for 10 minutes.
Apple Pie Recipe
- 140 g granulated sugar;
- 3 g cinnamon;
- 3 eggs;
- 130 g oatmeal;
- 120 g butter;
- 4 apples;
- 120 g flour;
- 3 g baking powder.
How long is it - 1 hour and 20 minutes.
Nutritional content – 216 kcal/100 g.
Recipe for oatmeal pie with apples step by step:
- Place a small piece of butter in a frying pan and place it on the stove;
- Melt it, and while it is heating, wash the apples and cut them into slices. If desired, you can peel the fruit;
- Add apples to butter, sprinkle with cinnamon and add a little sugar;
- Fry them for ten minutes, remembering to stir;
- Then remove the pan from the heat and let the apples cool;
- Transfer the remaining soft butter to a bowl, add the remaining sugar;
- Beat the ingredients into a light, airy mass using a whisk;
- Add eggs to the butter and beat everything again until smooth;
- Add baking powder with flour (it is advisable to put it through a sieve);
- Mix everything with a whisk;
- Add oatmeal flakes, mix everything again;
- Leave the dough for half an hour so that the flakes have time to swell;
- Place half of the mixture in the mold and distribute evenly;
- Next, lay out the apples, but it is advisable to distribute them inside them so that they do not release their juice into the edges of the pie, otherwise it will not bake;
- Heat the oven to 180 Celsius;
- Remove the pie for forty minutes, remove, cool and serve with tea/coffee.
How to lose weight on oatmeal and apples
Every person who wants to lose a couple of extra pounds will be ready to do anything to do it quickly and without extra effort. Such people are not ready to engage in physical activity; it is much easier for them to pay a large amount of money to get a “miracle product” that will literally make their body slim in one go.
But losing weight is not easy. Sports and proper nutrition are always highly desirable here. That is, a day “on the water”, “on kefir” is not entirely good and not at all healthy.
Let's talk about a healthier diet option, the main product of which is oatmeal. This is a product that is recommended for consumption without dieting. Cereals are a source of fiber, which cleverly swells in the stomach, creating a feeling of fullness. Which is precisely the main advantage of the product on a diet. Oatmeal also improves digestion and, as a result, speeds up metabolism.
The essence of the diet is as follows: in one day you need to eat 1-1.5 kg of apples and a glass of oatmeal, which, of course, must first be prepared. It can be boiled in either water or milk. Tea without sugar and water - in unlimited quantities.
This diet must be followed for two weeks. As a gift at the end of the diet, you will receive minus 7-10 kg on the scales.
Three-food diet: oatmeal, cottage cheese, apple
All three products are incredibly useful. Apples are sweet, so they will make it easy to give up sweets. Cottage cheese is a fermented milk product that every body absolutely needs. Oatmeal contains fiber and helps the body feel full.
This diet consists of three foods, each of which appears every day. For breakfast, you need to prepare a portion of porridge with water or milk and add a few apples to it.
For lunch, you need to eat a portion of porridge again, adding five grams of honey to it. Add about one hundred grams of cottage cheese and again a few apples to the oatmeal.
For dinner, prepare one hundred grams of cottage cheese and three apples.
If you still feel hungry throughout the day (although this should not be the case), you can eat about three hundred grams of vegetables between breakfast and lunch or lunch and dinner. Teas and water can be drunk in unlimited quantities. Of course, it is recommended to drink tea without sugar.
You can stick to this menu from one week to ten days. Then take a break for at least a month and you can repeat it again. It takes from 500 grams to 1.5 kg per day.
As you know, the best breakfast is porridge.
They contain complex carbohydrates that take a long time to digest, due to which we don’t remember about food for a long time, feeling a pleasant surge of energy and satiety after breakfast.
For breakfast, milk porridge is most often cooked. What can you combine oatmeal with? First of all, these are fruits. It will be both tasty and healthy.
Today I am sharing recipes with apples. Oatmeal with an apple is a great breakfast option for those who are mindful of their figure. Firstly, it cooks very quickly. Secondly, it is low in calories, and thirdly, it is healthy.
Oatmeal with apples has a wonderful taste; both adults and children will enjoy eating it. It is better to use sweet varieties of apples.
There are several options for preparing oatmeal with apples. Choose one of them or alternate in different sequences, and healthy, tasty porridge will be a frequent guest on your table.
Oatmeal with apples
We are often told: “You should eat oatmeal for breakfast.” And many people think of the famous “Oatmeal, sir!” and a plate of unleavened gray oatmeal is presented.
Of course, not everyone can eat this, and only a few can make it a daily breakfast that fills you with joy, gives energy, and so on.
However, making oatmeal delicious is quite simple - if only you had the desire (and apples :)... Let's start with the simplest recipe.
Ingredients:
- “Hercules” cereal - 1 cup;
- milk - 3.5 cups;
- sugar, salt - to taste;
- apples - 0.5 pcs.;
- butter - 1 tbsp. l.
Preparation:
1. Pour milk into a saucepan or ladle and bring to a boil.
2.Pour oatmeal into boiling milk, add salt and sugar.
3. Cook oatmeal, stirring constantly so that nothing burns (about 15 minutes). The cooking time depends on the size of the Hercules flakes; see the package for the exact cooking time. Turn off the finished porridge.
4. Grate the apple on a coarse grater.
5. Place oatmeal in a plate, add grated apple and butter on top.
6. Mix oatmeal with an apple and enjoy a delicious, healthy breakfast!
Oatmeal with apples and cinnamon
Ingredients:
- Butter 1 tablespoon
- Oat flakes 150 g
- Apples 60 g
- Ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon
- A pinch of salt
- Sugar 1 tablespoon
- Honey 1.5 tablespoons
- Water 220 ml
Pour oatmeal into a saucepan, add salt and a spoonful of sugar. Stir, add water, put butter on top. Place on the stove over moderate heat. The porridge must be stirred during cooking. Once the flakes have absorbed all the water, remove from heat. If you have very fast tiles, this will take about three minutes. While the porridge is boiling, cut half an apple into squares and place on a plate. Sprinkle cinnamon on top and add a tablespoon of honey.
When the porridge is ready, transfer it to the apples with cinnamon and honey and mix. You can decorate the top with berries or mint.
Oatmeal with applesauce
Ingredients
- cereals
- sweet apples - 2-3 pcs
- water/milk
- cinnamon to taste
Preparation:
1. Peel the apples. Our apples must be very sweet. Grind both apples into puree in a blender. 2. Pour oatmeal into a saucepan for 2 servings, pour in applesauce. Stir and add water. You can chop three apples, then you need even less water, and the porridge will be even more apple-like and sweeter. 3. Stir the porridge, bring to a boil, turn off the heat and simmer under the lid for 5-10 minutes, stir occasionally. Add cinnamon and after a minute turn it off and let it brew a little. 4. Decorate the porridge with pieces of fresh apple, you can sprinkle with raisins, nuts, etc.
I would like to note that I add applesauce to the finished porridge - it tastes better to me :o)
Oatmeal with apples and cream
Ingredients:
- 150 g oat flakes
- milk - 400 ml
- 70 ml cream 10% fat
- apples - 2 pcs
- 400 ml apple juice
- sugar - 50g
- 0.5 tsp. ground cinnamon
Preparation:
1. Pour oatmeal into a saucepan. Pour in apple juice and milk, add sugar. Place on the fire and, stirring constantly, bring to a boil. Reduce heat and cook for 5 minutes. Remove from heat, cover and leave in a warm place for another 5 minutes.
2. Wash the apples, peel them and cut into thin slices. Add apples, cinnamon and cream to hot porridge. Mix quickly and serve.
Oatmeal with stewed apples
Ingredients:
- a glass of oatmeal;
- 1.5 cups of water for cooking cereal;
- 2 apples;
- 0.5 tsp ground cinnamon;
- a handful of walnuts;
- 1 teaspoon butter;
- sugar, salt to your taste.
Preparation:
- Place water in a small saucepan on the stove and bring to a boil. While stirring, add oatmeal. The water should cover two fingers of flakes. Porridge is considered very healthy when it is slightly thin and viscous. Reduce heat to medium and simmer for about 5 minutes until oatmeal is cooked through.
- Peel the apples, cut into slices, place in a frying pan with heated butter, sprinkle with ground cinnamon and simmer with the lid open for 5 minutes, the apples should become softer. The aroma is already preparing our stomach for breakfast, producing saliva!
- Crush the walnuts in a mortar until fine crumbs, or, if you want to feel their taste on your tongue, larger ones. Mix the nut crumbs with the prepared oatmeal.
- Place apples on the bottom of the plate, cover with a layer of porridge, and again beautifully place apple slices and several whole walnut kernels on top. Serve to the table.
Oatmeal
with caramel apples
Ingredients:
- 1 cup small oatmeal
- 3 glasses of milk
- 1 tbsp. butter (50 g)
- 2 apples
- 3 tbsp. light brown sugar
- cinnamon to taste (¼ tsp)
- a pinch of salt
Preparation:
1. Pour milk over the oatmeal, add salt and 1 tbsp. sugar, cook for 5-10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
2. Peel the apples, remove the core and cut into cubes about 1 cm in size.
3. Place butter and diced apples in a frying pan, add cinnamon, add sugar, and put on fire. Over low heat, fry the apples to your liking until the apples are completely soft and coated with a layer of caramel syrup. I fried them for about 5 minutes and they came out with a little crunch. The frying time and amount of sugar depends on the type of apple and your taste preferences.
4. Garnish the porridge with a fan of stewed apple slices, pour over the remaining caramel syrup, sprinkle with toasted pine nuts and serve.
Enjoy your meal!
Oatmeal differs from others in that it is prepared not from “stripped” and polished grains, as is done with buckwheat, rice or millet, but from whole grains, from which the rough husk is simply removed and pressed so that they boil faster. In other cereals, due to pre-processing and removal of the shell and germ, much less useful dietary fiber remains, but a lot of starch, while in rolled oatmeal the beneficial substances are preserved.
Nowadays there are a lot of instant cereals based on oatmeal flakes on sale. Their main difference from regular cereals is that they are thinner flakes that can be eaten by simply pouring boiled water over them. But the thinner the flakes, the faster starch is released from them, which turns into sugar and then into fat. For those who are watching their figure, this option is not suitable, and even pieces of fruit and berries, which are bait in such porridges, should not confuse you. After all, there are not so many of them, and it is not they that give the rich fruity taste, but artificial flavors and additives. Therefore, it is better to learn how to cook delicious oatmeal yourself. And anyone can add fresh or frozen berries to it.
- Crispy apples – 2 pcs.
- Oatmeal – 1 cup
- Milk – 2 cups
- Water – 1 glass
- Sugar – 1 tbsp.
- Salt to taste
- Low-fat natural yogurt – ½ cup
COOKING
1 Wash 2 apples. If desired, peel them. Using an apple corer, remove the core and seeds so that only the pulp remains. Cut into small pieces.2 Heat a deep saucepan with 3 cups of milk and 1 cup of water over medium heat.3 After boiling, reduce the heat to low.4 Add 1 cup of oatmeal. Cook, stirring lightly, for about 2 minutes.5 Add chopped apples, salt and sugar to the milk. Bring to a boil again.6 Cook until the oatmeal with apples thickens.7 Place the resulting dish on plates. Pour each plate with 2 tablespoons of low-fat natural yogurt.
Note:
Hard apples are best suited for making oatmeal.
The nutritional value:
- 207 calories
- 1 g fat
- 0 mg. cholesterol
- 46 g carbohydrates
- 10 g sugar
- 5 g protein
- 4 g fiber
- 166 mg sodium
- 234 mg potassium
How to cook rolled oats with apples
A version of the magical oatmeal porridge, which is prepared with fresh apples. The dish is very nutritious, healthy, but not boring. You can also add some raisins, nuts or other dried fruits to apples, but this is a matter of taste.
• 1 glass of rolled oats;
• 3.5 glasses of milk or its mixture with water;
• 1 spoon of butter;
• sugar and salt to your taste;
1. Boil the milk. If desired, dilute it with water, maybe by a third or even in half.
2. Add sugar, do not forget to salt the porridge so that it reveals its taste.
3. Add oatmeal and cook for about 7 minutes.
4. Throw the oil into the pan and turn it off.
5. The apple needs to be washed and grated on a coarse grater. The skin can be left or removed, do it the way you like best.
6. Throw the apple into the pan, stir and let it brew for ten minutes. During this time, the porridge will be saturated with a fruity aroma and will become extraordinary.
7. Place on plates and you’re done!
Oatmeal with milk, apples and honey
INGREDIENTS
- Salt to taste
- Apple (hard) – ½ pc.
- Milk – 2 cups
- Honey – 1 tsp.
- Butter
- Nuts optional
COOKING
1 Wash the apple. If desired, remove the skin. Cut half or a whole apple into small slices.2 If you are preparing oatmeal with nuts, preheat the oven to 200C. Place the nuts on a baking sheet in the oven and toast until fragrant, 6 to 8 minutes. Grind them.3 If you prefer oatmeal with milk without nuts, then prepare oatmeal according to the standard recipe.4 Add 2 cups of milk to a medium saucepan and bring to a boil. Add rolled oats and cook for 5 minutes.5 Add apple slices and cook, stirring, until the apples become soft and the oatmeal thickens.6 Add butter, honey and nuts (optional) to the oatmeal. The dish is ready! Bon appetit!
How to cook rolled oats in water
Hercules porridge on water is a dietary and therapeutic food dish. It is prescribed for obesity, diseases of the digestive system, and is also given to people with lactose intolerance. Therefore, it doesn’t hurt to know how oatmeal porridge is cooked.
• 1 glass of rolled oats;
1. Salt the water and put it on the stove, let it boil.
2. Add rolled oats, stir, bring to a boil and reduce heat.
3. Cook until thickened. We look at the condition of the cereal; on average, the process takes from 7 to 10 minutes.
4. Add sugar, boil for a minute and turn off. But you can sprinkle sugar on ready-made porridge in bowls.
Oatmeal in water with apples and cinnamon
INGREDIENTS
- Oatmeal or rolled oats – ½ cup
- Apple (hard) – ½ pc.
- Salt to taste
- Water – 2 glasses
- Sugar – 1 tsp.
- Butter
- Ground cinnamon
PREPARATION The recipe for making oatmeal in water with apples and cinnamon is similar to the previous recipes. In this case, water replaces milk. You can also replace honey with sugar if you wish. Cook the porridge according to the recipe described earlier. At the end, add a little cinnamon to give the porridge a more spicy taste. Porridge cooked in water without adding spices can turn out very sticky. That's why apple and cinnamon are the perfect addition to this recipe.
Diet option for weight loss
Oatmeal dishes are often included in weight loss programs, since this product allows you to quickly fill up and enrich your cells with useful microelements, as a result of which the feeling of hunger does not make itself felt for a long time. To lose weight on rolled oats, it is important to adhere to the following principles for preparing porridge:
- make a dish based on water, and if milk is added, it should be low in fat;
- do not put sugar or condensed milk into the porridge, and if you want something sweet, take a little natural honey;
- season breakfast or lunch not with butter, but with vegetable oil, and sunflower oil is not very suitable in this case; it is better to use olive or flaxseed oil.
A dish prepared in compliance with these rules will contain fewer calories and its moderate consumption will not lead to gaining extra pounds.
There are several ways to make dietary porridge. Let's look at them in more detail:
- Creating a dish according to a classic recipe. In this case, the porridge is made in a saucepan on low heat, or flakes that do not require cooking are used, which should be filled with hot liquid.
- Using a slow cooker, microwave or pressure cooker. In this case, the rolled oats are filled with water or milk and the porridge is cooked in the appropriate mode for 10-20 minutes - this depends on the type of unit.
- Cooking in the oven. To make breakfast, you need a fireproof dish, into which you place cereal filled with hot water or milk, and then put it in the oven, preheated to 200 degrees, for half an hour. In this case, the porridge will need to be stirred from time to time so that it does not burn and the cereal cooks evenly.
The good thing about the above methods for preparing oatmeal porridge in water is that you don’t need expensive products to create it. Another significant advantage is that oatmeal can be combined with a large number of different ingredients. It can be made with vegetables, fruits, berries and nuts, or you can cook a more satisfying version, adding meat, poultry or offal to the dish.