Millet Porridge with Pumpkin and Raisins
A delicious, wholesome millet porridge with pumpkin and raisins. Eat up and stay healthy! Just looking at this sunny porridge brings a smile, and the taste brings good vibes. The Chinese call millet "golden" for good reason — it's rich in vitamins B2 and B5, plus iron, potassium, magnesium, copper, and manganese. It's great for kids' healthy growth and development. People who love this porridge rarely deal with heart or circulation problems; it also helps keep fat from building up, and offers plenty of other benefits. The pumpkin and raisins boost both the flavor and the nutrition. I really recommend this porridge — for your health and your looks.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
Rinse the millet well and pour hot water over it to wash away any bitterness. Cut the pumpkin into small pieces. Pick through the raisins (you sometimes find little stems or grit that could crack a tooth), then rinse them.
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Step 2:
Pour the milk and water into a pot. You can cook it in milk alone with no water, but I like to thin the milk down. Bring to a boil and add the pumpkin, millet, raisins, sugar, salt, and a little butter (save the rest of the butter to add to each bowl at serving). Bring back to a boil.
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Step 3:
Turn the heat down as low as it will go and cover with a lid. Cook for about 30 minutes, stirring now and then, so it doesn't boil over.
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Step 4:
Turn off the heat and let it sit, covered, for 10–30 minutes so the porridge can rest. It tastes even better if you finish it in the oven or wrap the pot in a towel for an hour. Your delicious, wholesome breakfast is ready. Enjoy — to your health!
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
- Pumpkin - 29 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
- Raisins - 280 kcal/100g
- Kishmish - 279 kcal/100g
- Water - 0 kcal/100g
- Table salt - 0 kcal/100g
