Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to cook pearl barley porridge with milk? Prepare the products. Choose milk of any fat content, which you like, it does not matter. Cooking porridge is a long process, so calculate the time by which you need the dish. If you want to serve this porridge for breakfast, it is better to cook it the night before, respectively, it is necessary to soak the cereal in the morning.
Step 2:
Sort out the grits, taking away garbage and excess inclusions. Then rinse it thoroughly under cool running water. Rinse the cereal until the water that you will drain from it becomes transparent. Fill the washed pearl barley with clean cold water. For this purpose, take filtered or bottled water.
Step 3:
Leave the pearl barley to soak for 8 hours at room temperature. During this time, it will swell a little and become softer. Throw the grits on a sieve and rinse well again. Then let the water drain.
Step 4:
Pour milk into the pot in which the porridge will be cooked. Preheat it to a warm state. Pour in the prepared grits.
Step 5:
Put the pan on a low heat. With constant stirring, wait for the milk to boil. Add sugar and salt. Reduce the heat to low and boil the porridge for 5 minutes. Do not forget to stir it so that the milk does not burn. Next, we will cook the porridge in a water bath.
Step 6:
Make a water bath. Take a pot of such a size that you can put a pot of porridge in it so that it hangs on its walls without reaching the bottom. Pour water into a large saucepan. Bring it to a boil. Put a pot of porridge on top. Be careful that boiling water does not splash out. Drain the excess water carefully.
Step 7:
Make the fire so that the water in a large saucepan boils slightly. Leave the porridge to cook in a water bath for 5 hours. Pour water into a large saucepan from time to time. It is not necessary to monitor the porridge, it will not burn, as it is steamed. After 5 hours, the cereal will absorb almost all the milk, will become soft and fragrant. Serve the porridge with butter, it will emphasize and complement its creamy taste. Bon appetit!
Porridge really turned out like from the oven! Fragrant, fully boiled, with a melted taste. Very tasty! It was worth the five-hour wait!
Important! To make pearl barley dishes always delicious, read the article about the subtleties of choice and secrets of cooking pearl barley .
How to choose the perfect pot for soup, porridge or pickling cucumbers read the article about pots.
For cooking, it is better to use filtered or bottled water that is neutral to taste. If you use tap water, keep in mind that it can give the dish an unpleasant characteristic taste.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Whole cow's milk - 68 kcal/100g
- Milk 3.5% fat content - 64 kcal/100g
- Milk 3.2% fat content - 60 kcal/100g
- Milk 1.5% fat content - 47 kcal/100g
- Concentrated milk 7.5% fat content - 140 kcal/100g
- Milk 2.5% fat content - 54 kcal/100g
- Pearl barley - 340 kcal/100g
- Granulated sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Water - 0 kcal/100g