Pumpkin is a very useful product, which today is used to prepare a variety of dishes. But most often it is used in the preparation of cereals and is especially harmoniously combined with rice groats. The main thing is to choose a suitable recipe, the more such a dish is prepared is very simple.
Secrets of cooking rice porridge with pumpkin
Like any dish, the preparation of such porridge begins with the choice of products. First of all, you need to buy a pumpkin: it should be fresh and juicy, because only in this case porridge will turn out tasty and fragrant. It is preferable to choose honey varieties, since such a pumpkin will be sweeter.
Rice is better to choose round grain, because it swells faster. Milk is preferable to buy low-fat, but you can use homemade.
To taste you can add salt, sugar, honey, oil - vegetable or cream. Rice porridge with pumpkin will be especially tasty when adding dried fruits or nuts, but it can also be supplemented with fresh fruits, especially apples and bananas.
Cook in a saucepan
The easiest way to cook such a dish in the pan: cut pumpkin, soak, cook for 10-15 minutes on low heat so that it becomes soft. Then add milk, sugar, boil, fall asleep washed several times rice. After boiling the second time, we maintain the pot on the stove for about 20 minutes to cook the rice, and serve to the table.
In the slow cooker
It is a pleasure to cook in a slow cooker, because there is no need to constantly monitor the state of the product. Just pour rice, pumpkin cubes, sugar into the bowl, pour water or milk. It remains to choose the most suitable mode - and that's it! Multicooker itself will signal the end of cooking.
In the oven
Cook in the oven can be either in the pot, or in the pumpkin itself, the first option is preferable, because it takes less time. We simply put rice, spices, pumpkin pieces into the container, pour everything with milk or water and put it in the oven for an hour and a half at a temperature of at least +180 degrees. It remains to serve porridge to the table, filling it with honey, fruit.
The classic recipes for pumpkin porridge with rice
It is quite simple to prepare such a dish, and it can be prepared both in milk, and in water, and even in the pumpkin itself - many people will like this unusual presentation.
On milk
Cooking time: 60 minutes.
Calories per 100 g: 92 kcal.
This dish will be useful for both children and adults. And if you wish, you can vary the taste by adding cinnamon or vanilla. Ingredients are as follows:
- 700 g pumpkin;
- 0.5 tbsp. rice cereal;
- 300 ml of milk;
- 3-5 g of salt;
- 60 g of sugar;
- 10 g butter.
The preparation is as follows:
- Vegetables cleaned of seeds, peel, washed, cut into cubes.
- Rice washed in water 2-3 times - the water should be clear.
- Put pumpkin pulp in a saucepan, pour water, bring to a boil over low heat.
- After 10 minutes, pour milk into a container, boil, add salt and add sugar.
- Cover the rice, cover the pan with a lid.
- Cook on low heat for half an hour.
Add the butter to the finished porridge and mix.
On the water
Cooking time: 30 minutes.
Caloric content per 100 g: 58 kcal.
This porridge is ideal for those who are on a diet, as it has a low calorie content. It is also suitable for vegetarians, as it does not contain animal products.
Ingredients need the following:
- 1 kg of pumpkin pulp;
- 0.5 tbsp. rice;
- 100 ml of water;
- 30 grams of salt;
- 2 handfuls of raisins;
- 2 g of salt.
Cooking:
- We take pumpkin pulp, cut into cubes, pour water and boil over low heat.
- Cover rice, cook for 10 minutes, stirring.
- Spread the washed raisins and continue cooking until the rice is soft.
- Salt, add sugar, grind with a blender.
- We fill with oil and leave to infuse for 10 minutes, then serve.
In the pumpkin
Cooking time: 120 minutes.
Calorie: 93 kcal per 100 g
This dish is considered the height of culinary excellence, but it will take a lot of time to cook such porridge. Suitable for breakfast and lunch, and thanks to the amazing taste and excellent presentation, even small children will like it.
Looking for the following products:
- 2 kg of pumpkin;
- 400 grams of rice;
- 0.5 liters of milk;
- 30 g butter;
- on 20 g of prunes, dried apricots, raisins, nuts;
- 1 apple.
First you need to prepare the fruit of the pumpkin: carefully wash it, cut off the top, remove the seeds, for which it is most convenient to use a spoon. Wash rice several times to completely release the starch.
Wash dried fruits, cut apples into slices.
Mix rice, fruit, salt, add sugar (can be replaced with honey or condensed milk). At the bottom of the pumpkin put half the butter, stuffing with 70% rice and dried fruit filling, put the remaining butter on top. All fill with milk or cream, close the pumpkin cap, wrap the fruit in foil.
We bake in the oven for an hour at a temperature of +210 degrees. Before serving, cut it into pieces, season with nuts or cranberries.
Simple cooking recipe in a slow cooker
Cooking time: 70 minutes.
Caloric content per 100 g: 78 kcal.
Rice porridge with pumpkin and so is prepared quite simply, and the slow cooker simplifies the process even more, as it eliminates the need to constantly monitor the cooking.
You will need the following ingredients:
- 150 grams of rice;
- 0.5 tsp salts;
- 300 g pumpkin;
- 450 ml of milk;
- 20 grams of sugar.
Preparation will be as follows:
- Soften the pumpkin a little: cut it into small pieces, put the multicooker in the bowl and cook for 15 minutes in the Baking mode.
- After the indicated time, we pour rice into a container, pour in milk, add salt and sugar.
- We set up the mode "Porridge", we prepare for half an hour (in some models of multicookers there is no this mode, so you need to set the mode "Quenching").
Recipe for rice-millet porridge with pumpkin
Cooking time: 50 minutes.
Caloric content per 100 g: 120 kcal.
Such a dish will be more satisfying and useful, since several cereals are used in its preparation, and the taste of this dish is simply amazing.
To cook it, you will need:
- 500 ml of milk;
- 1 tbsp. Sahara;
- 0.5 st. rice and millet groats;
- 300 g pumpkin;
- 30 g butter.
The cooking process is as follows:
- Fill the cereals with water so that they infuse and swell a little.
- At this time we prepare a pumpkin: cut it into small pieces or rub it on a grater.
- Pour the milk into a container, boil, lay the pumpkin there and cook for five minutes.
- After the specified time, we pour it into the cereal tank, salt, wait until the mass boils, cook for another 10 minutes.
- Remove the pan from the stove, put the oil in the mass and leave to infuse for another 15 minutes.
Chefs Secrets
If you want to cook delicious and nourishing porridge from the first time, listen to the following tips from professionals:
- Before cooking the rice, rinse with at least three waters - the liquid should become clear, all the starch should be removed from it. Due to this, the porridge will turn out crumbly, grains of rice will not stick together.
- Additionally, you can add orange or lemon zest to the dish, cardamom and cinnamon are well combined.
- If you use dried fruits, you can not soak them additionally - they still swell when cooking porridge.
- The optimal proportions of porridge and water (milk) - 1: 1.
- Instead of sugar, you can use honey, condensed milk (they need to be put after cooking so that the useful properties of the products are not lost).
- You can decorate porridge with nuts, cranberries, lingonberries.
