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Prepared by: Galina.budanova
11/12/2019 Cooking time: 40 min
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If you love oatmeal cookies, then this recipe is definitely for you, because they cannot be compared to store-bought oatmeal cookies. It's quick and easy to prepare and makes a great snack.
Oatmeal with milk, recipe:
- Pour milk into a saucepan or whatever we have according to plan (I take half and half milk with filtered water), put it on medium heat.
- Add sugar, salt, stir and wait until the milk becomes very hot, but not yet boiling.
- At this moment, add oatmeal, stir and reduce the heat slightly.
- Wash the raisins and place them in the pan.
- After boiling, cook the oatmeal for 6-10 minutes, then turn it off, cover with a lid and leave for another 10 minutes. During this time, the oatmeal under the lid will acquire its characteristic “oatmeal” consistency - the milk will become viscous, and the flakes will lose their clear outline.
Oatmeal with milk is ready! You can add butter to it - this is especially nice when you want to tickle the nerves of your fellow citizens who are losing weight. But even without fellow citizens, with butter is simply even tastier than without it.
If you are a fan of a more, I apologize, “snotty” version of oatmeal - that is, when it more closely resembles a homogeneous thick jelly - this is not at all difficult to achieve. The ingredients and method of action are still the same, only the flakes need to be poured into the milk at that stage while it is still cold - at the very beginning of cooking. That's all, actually. I can’t even believe that I wrote a whole treatise around ordinary oatmeal with milk. In my defense, I can say that my recipe is proven in proportions, it is very difficult to mess up this mess.
I hope you find my version of oatmeal with milk useful.
Enjoy your life in the kitchen and in life.
Interestingly, am I the only one who, having said the word “oatmeal”, wants to add - sir!? "Oatmeal, sir!" — The immortal phrase of the kind and honest butler John Barrymore, which became a catchphrase, was written into the script of the feature film, and, as far as I know, it was not heard in the original work by Arthur Conan Doyle. Moreover, she was not even mentioned there.
Despite this, oatmeal - oatmeal - is firmly associated with the “English” breakfast. Typically, the traditional breakfast in Great Britain is fried eggs with bacon or ham - Hamendags, sometimes with tomatoes and mushrooms, toasted bread and pudding. Oatmeal, however, is considered a traditional Scottish dish, almost the main dish of Scotland - the hallmark of cooking, but here it is.
Firstly, oatmeal is very simple and affordable. Secondly, it is very useful. And thirdly, oatmeal can be very diverse.
Many people believe that oatmeal is useful for dieting because it is low in calories. Not at all, the calorie content of oatmeal is slightly less than that of pork. But this porridge very gradually releases calories to the body, the longer it allows you to feel full.
Oatmeal is prepared from cereals or flakes. Frankly, I don’t even know what oatmeal is. Oatmeal is the most common product for making oatmeal and is the traditional base. Flattened and steamed grains of high-quality oats are very thin, so they cook quite quickly. Sometimes it is enough to pour oatmeal into a cup and pour boiling water over it while the oatmeal cooks for up to an hour.
Oatmeal is cooked in water or milk. Quite often, sugar or honey, butter, fresh and dried fruits, nuts, as well as various spices: vanillin, cinnamon, etc. are added to oatmeal.
Surely many remember the Hercules oatmeal, in a cardboard package with the image of a cheeky boy with a spoon. I remember, I remember very well! They constantly told me - if you eat oatmeal, you will become a rolled oatmeal. But, I couldn’t stand oatmeal!
Oatmeal is not just flattened grains. The trade name “muesli” is a mixture of oatmeal with dried pieces of fruit, raisins, nuts and peeled seeds. Or “granola” - the same oatmeal with nuts and honey, baked to a crust.
But oatmeal is still porridge. Boiled or steamed grains in water or milk with tasty and healthy additives.
Oatmeal. Step by step recipe
Ingredients (2 servings)
- Oatmeal 1.5-2 cups
- Milk 0.8-1 l
- Natural honey, butter, raisins, candied fruits, nuts, vanillin, cinnamon to taste
- When starting to cook oatmeal, you need to understand that oatmeal cooks very quickly, and there is no time to think about “what else should I add?” it simply won't happen. Prepare in advance everything you are going to add to the porridge.
- Oatmeal is cooked in water or milk, most often.
Not being a big fan of oatmeal, I haven’t developed a relationship with it since childhood, I don’t see a noticeable taste difference between porridge cooked with water or milk. However, it is very likely that good milk has long been a fantasy. To prepare high-quality and tasty oatmeal, the milk must be natural and fresh, ideally fresh. If you doubt the quality of milk, oatmeal with water is prepared in the same way and is very tasty. The best porridge is made with rolled oatmeal - Since childhood, I remember that the best porridge is made with rolled oatmeal. I was surprised that the trade name “Hercules” was on sale. Buy the best cereal. To make porridge for breakfast, one glass of oatmeal is enough. By the way, an ordinary faceted glass holds 80-85 grams of oatmeal, and the calorie content of this amount is about 280 kcal.
- So, prepare a glass of cereal, boiled milk (or fresh milk, if you are sure that it is fresh), honey and tasty additives: nuts, raisins, candied fruits.
Tasty additives: nuts, raisins, candied fruits - If you read the instructions on the package of oatmeal, and they are always there, you might think that you just need to pour boiling water over dry oatmeal and you will get oatmeal. Frankly, I have always been offended by the “just add water” technology. The porridge must be boiled; this is the only way to achieve the consistency of porridge, and not flakes swollen in water.
- Boil milk in a small saucepan.
As soon as the milk starts to “run away,” reduce the heat and add 1 tbsp. l. butter and, if desired, vanilla and cinnamon. Boil milk in a small saucepan - Add oatmeal to milk.
Stir thoroughly so that the porridge cooks uniformly. Oatmeal is cooked over the lowest heat, at which the faint formation of steam bubbles on its surface is barely noticeable. Add oatmeal to milk - Wash the prepared raisins and candied fruits and add them to the saucepan in which the oatmeal is cooked.
Wash the prepared raisins and candied fruits and add them to the saucepan - At the lowest boil, the oatmeal is cooked for 5-6 minutes.
- If you like your porridge thinner, use more milk. The amount of dry cereal is enough for breakfast, taking into account that in addition to oatmeal there will be something else: toasted bread, maybe coffee or...
- After the allotted time, remove the saucepan from the heat and add 1-2 tbsp to the porridge.
l. natural bee honey. The porridge can be sweeter, so use the amount of honey to taste. Stir and let the oatmeal sit for 1-2 minutes. Add 1 tbsp to the porridge. l. natural bee honey
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