Millet porridge with milk in a slow cooker

Simple, delicious and healthy, for breakfast for the whole family! Millet porridge with milk in a slow cooker is a quick and easy dish, cooking such porridge will not cause unnecessary problems and hassle. Compliance with certain rules and tricks will save the cereal from bitterness, because of which some housewives do not like wheat.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 18 % 5 g
Fats 14 % 4 g
Carbohydrates 68 % 19 g
134 kcal
GI: 20 / 0 / 80

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 40 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to cook millet porridge with milk in a slow cooker? Prepare the ingredients. First of all, choose the right millet. The cereal should be fresh, not have an artificial unnatural bright yellow color. It is better to buy ground millet. If ordinary unpolished millet is at hand, then you can cook delicious porridge from it, you just need to prepare it more carefully for cooking.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Wash this millet very well, changing the water several times until it becomes transparent. Then fill it with clean cold water and leave it for two hours. If time does not allow soaking the cereal for so long, then pour boiling water over it and leave for 5 minutes. Then rinse the millet again with cold water. Such methods will help to rid the millet of bitterness. If the millet is ground, it is enough to wash it with cold, and then several times with hot water.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Put the washed millet in the bowl of the slow cooker. Add sugar and salt. If you want to cook a sweet porridge, then increase the amount of sugar.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Pour in the milk. Choose the fat content of milk yourself, depending on what calorie content of the dish you want to get. The fatter the milk, the more nutritious the porridge will turn out. When adding milk, observe the proportions of cereals and liquid for making liquid porridge. For one part of the cereal, take four parts of milk.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    So that the milk does not start to come out through the lid valve of the slow cooker during cooking, you can lubricate the edge of the bowl of the slow cooker with a piece of butter. Turn on a suitable program for cooking milk porridge on your slow cooker. If there is a time selection option on it, then set 20 minutes. After the beep, leave the porridge under the lid on the "heating" mode for 20-30 minutes.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Serve the porridge to the table by adding butter to it. You can also put fresh berries, jam or jam to taste. Enjoy your meal!

Keep in mind that the cooking time and mode are indicated approximately in the recipe. All slow cookers work differently and even the same models of the same manufacturer may have their own characteristics. Before you start cooking a new dish for you in a slow cooker, carefully study the instructions for it, and then in practice try to cook dishes that are familiar to you first, and then new ones, choosing the mode and time individually for your own technique.

To make millet porridge delicious, read the article about the subtleties of choice and the secrets of cooking millet groats.

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
  • Millet groats - 335   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Butter 82% - 734   kcal/100g
  • Amateur unsalted butter - 709   kcal/100g
  • Unsalted peasant butter - 661   kcal/100g
  • Peasant salted butter - 652   kcal/100g
  • Melted butter - 869   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g

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