Tanya Corn - Restaurant Quality Porridge: Key for simple porridge cooking at home with recipes

Contents

Introduction

T h ere is lots of literature and studies about the health benefits and importance of including porridge in the daily menu, yet there is little information on how to make the porridge cooking process easy and effortless.

This book will provide you with "know-how" for transforming the porridge cooking process from tiring and time-consuming to simple and time saving.

I am sure with the easy-to-follow recipes from this book, porridge will become an integral part of your well-balanced diet and healthy lifestyle, and you will be surprised on how easy and exciting a cooking process can be!

L et's get started!

Nutrition Advantages of Porridge

W h y is porridge great for your health?

Porridge serves as a rich source of healthy fiber and micronutrients, it improves your overall health, and fills your body with energy.

Health Benefits of Including Porridge in Your Daily Menu:

Relatively low in calories

Porridge is a simple but nourishing meal with surprisingly few calories.

Helps regulate appetite

High fiber content makes you feel fuller for longer.

Rich source of vitamins and minerals

Rich in zinc, copper, manganese, iron and is also considered to help reduce free-radicals.

Cooking Porridge

N o w that we know that porridge is good for your health, let's get started with the cooking process.

Everyone who has cooked porridge at least once knows how much attention this process requires in order to get a good quality, tasty meal and how it requires you to stand there and constantly stir the porridge until it's ready. As a result, you are fully involved in this time-consuming process and pay all your attention to it.

I was a big fan of restaurant-quality porridge. However, owing to a lack of time, I had cooked such porridge very rarely. It has continued for many years until I discovered a different way of porridge cooking.

I have explored various porridge cooking methods and tons of recipes before I found the best approach.

Since then, creamy restaurant-quality porridge has become a daily meal.

Following my "know-how" porridge home-cooking will become an easy and pleasant, so you can achieve restaurant-style meal quality in your own kitchen.

L et's look through this simple process step by step.

Cooking Process Components

T he first thing you need a flameware clay pot .

A clay dish is an alkaline, natural material, and its safe to use. Also clay does not oxidize food and presents a high-temperature heat capacity with low thermal conductivity. Clay perfectly absorbs and holds heat for a long time, thus providing a "thermos" effect. Food in clay pots is neither fried nor boiled but stewed, so natural juices and flavors are retained in the pot while nutrients and vitamins are preserved. Cooking in a pot does not require a lot of time, and there is no need to constantly stir or check the food.

Another point that can never be ignored is the characteristic structure of the clay - porosity, which allows water to be stored during the preparation process. As a result, the food is tasty and healthy as there is no need to add oil/butter.

Pots keep food warm for a long time, keeping a lot of vitamins and nutrients in the food to the maximum, makes the taste unique as a result of which you get delicious food.

The second component you need - the oven, of course.

Last but not least, you need - a desire to cook !

If you have all 3 above-mentioned components - follow the recipes below and enjoy restaurant-quality porridge!

Cooking Process: Step-by-Step

A ll recipes are based on cereal and liquid proportions. So you are free to choose any container for cooking. Bowl, mug, cup, glass - anything that fits. [1]

To cook porridge with a milk base or water base is up to you. Such ingredients used are sugar, salt, butter, or other spices, depending on individual taste habits.

To create the restaurant-quality porridge, please follow the main instructions in the presented recipes:

given proportions between chosen cereal and liquid (milk or water)

cooking temperature

cooking time and conditions

How to serve a ready meal depends on your taste preferences and creative fantasies.

D on't be afraid to experiment, and you will succeed!

Cereal s

A c cording to the World Health Organization, a person's life expectancy and his health condition is determined by 60% of his lifestyle and nutritional system, 15% is heredity, another 15% is from environmental conditions, and only 10% come from access to health services. Therefore, it is obvious why people who take care of their health and appearance try to eat natural foods rich in vegetables, protein, carbohydrates, and other trace elements.

Dietitians around the world have compiled lists of functional foods. Natural cereals and legumes play a major role on these lists.

Vitamins and minerals found in cereals are of great importance to human health, but the content of any element may be more or less, depending on the type of cereal.

You will find the description of the healthy benefits of such cereals like oats, millet, wheat, rice, buckwheat, lentils, peas as well as respective porridge cooking recipes.

kinds of cereal descriptions + delicious porridge recipes.

Oatmeal

T he beneficial properties of oatmeal for the human body have been proven for a long time - firstly, it is the best source of fiber and complex carbohydrates, and secondly, it contains all the most important components for health (magnesium, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, iron, iodine, zinc and vitamins B1, B2, PP, E), and thirdly, oats are an excellent antioxidant.

Oatmeal is actively recommended for those who are trying to lose extra weight, and it is also believed that it is a natural antidepressant, raising moods and removing stress.

Calorie content - on average about 345 kcal per 100 grams of oatmeal.

Oatmeal Pot

In gredients:

sugar, salt, butter, or other spices, depending on individual taste habit s

P ut oatmeal and water in a clay pot and place the pot in the oven (not preheated). Only after that, turn on the oven at the necessary temperature.

Cooking process:

Ready! Bon appetit!

Millet Groats

M illet is considered one of the least allergenic cereals. It is very easily absorbed by the body, so it is suitable even for people with sensitive digestion. Millet contains 70% starch, 12-15% protein, containing essential amino acids as well as a large amount of fat 2.6-3.7%, fiber 0.5-08-08%, a small amount of sugar up to 2%, vitamins B1, B2, PP and a large amount of phosphorus, potassium, and magnesium. There are more vitamins of group B in it than in the grains of all other cereals, and the amount of folic acid is twice as large as in wheat and corn. Phosphorus is 1.5 times more than in meat! Millet contains a significant amount of zinc, iodine, potassium, sodium, magnesium, and bromine. Millet has a fortifying effect on the body, and it is believed that it contributes to the removal of antibiotics and toxins from the body.