Guriev porridge: Imperial cooking dishes

Kashi occupy in our kitchen a very special place, and not just because they saturate the body with energy, give health and longevity. One of the most interesting cereals traditional Russian cuisine is Guriev porridge - very interesting, tasty and healthy dish.

Guriev porridge can cook for breakfast or lunch, but some of her fans love her to eat at any time of the day. So was an admirer of the Emperor Alexander III, who considered it his favorite dish. Interesting and sad historical fact - that it was going to eat the emperor before the train on which he was traveling with his family, crashed, after which Alexander III became hurt badly and eventually died due to kidney disease.

Came up with this wonderful dish in the early 19th century fortress cook Zahar Kuzmin, who loved porridge Minister DA Sasha made their home cook. Recipe porridge gradually began to master all the chefs Moscow nobility, she began appearing in cookbooks even outside of Russia and became very famous. Today, it remains one of the most popular cereals.

Guriev porridge - is both a main dish and dessert, so it is so fond of children. Its traditional components - a semolina, nuts, cream or milk foam, dry fruits. As for cooking, it is not very simple, but it's definitely worth it, and it is easy to make, cook it at least once.

Briefly describe the technology of preparation Guriev porridge, you can:

1. Preparation semolina;
2. Preparation of dairy foams;
3. Grinding nuts and baking them, without which the porridge will get ugly gray color and lose the taste;
4. Preparation of dried fruit;
5. Putting layers of ingredients;
6. Vexation of porridge in the oven.

Particularly noteworthy cooking dairy foams. To prepare them, you need milk or cream to pour into a wide pan and place in preheated oven to medium temperature. When you see the foam, it is necessary to remove and put on a dish, then you need to wait for the new foam and so on until 5 or more times, depending on how much of the foams is required on your quantity semolina.

Dried fruit for Guriev porridge suitable dried apricots, raisins, figs, candied fruit. Nuts better to take two kinds of, for example, filberts and peanuts. Very often vykladyvanii cereal layers used honey or jam, and the sequence shall be as follows: cereal, dried fruit, honey / jam, nuts, foam, porridge again and so on. How many layers will Guriev porridge, every woman can decide at its discretion.

Let's look at the classic method of cooking Guriev porridge.

Recipe classical Guriev porridge

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Need: 600 g of 35% cream, 200 g of shelled walnuts 200g raisins, 200 g of semolina, 100 grams of sugar.

How to cook Guriev porridge. Grind? nuts, fry the rest. Put in 1 tablespoon roasted Nuts sugar and add the same amount of water over medium heat caramelize nuts, remove from heat. Pour boiling water over raisins and leave for 10 minutes. Pour the cream into a wide pan, put in a preheated 160 degree oven, wait until foam appears, remove it with a slotted spoon, put on a platter, prepared in the same manner 4 more foam and cool them, cut into one wide strips. Pour the semolina into the remaining hot cream with constant stirring, add the remaining sugar, salt the, cook until cooked semolina. Add to mush chopped foam, obsushenny raisins, chopped nuts and mix. Lubricate the form of porridge with butter, put a layer of cereal, ram, put a layer of nuts, put the foam, then a layer of cereal, nuts and foam and so on. Sprinkle with the last layer of sugar cereal, bake in a preheated 170-degree oven until caramelization of sugar. After baking, turn the pudding onto a plate, arrange karmelizovannymi nuts and berries.

This recipe can slightly change or supplement. So, if you want to diversify porridge jam or honey, or both, and others, share them with thin layers of alternately layered cereal.

Since the preparation of this porridge - is not easy, you can find many recipes very simplified its preparation.

The recipe is simple and fast Guriev porridge

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You will need: 2 cups milk, 1 cup semolina? cup of sweet almond, 2 tablespoons butter, 4 tablespoons sugar? tsp vanilla 2 tablespoons walnut.

How to quickly cook Guriev porridge. Pour the milk into a saucepan, add sugar and vanilla and bring to a boil, add the semolina while stirring, boil for 10 minutes, give porridge to cool slightly, add chopped almonds and calcined mix. Grease the pan with butter or form of porridge, put porridge, sprinkle it with grated walnuts and sugar, bake in the preheated oven until the average temperature of browning.

You can decorate the finished porridge with berries, cream, fruit, nuts, so often confused with cakes and pastries. However, the unusual Guriev porridge that, in fact, it is not cereal, and dessert, and cake, and a cake. The closest to it and similar type of food - it puddings, so this gruel can be called grit casserole. Try to cook it with different nuts, several kinds of jam, honey, add as many foams - far enough patience, do any number of layers and amaze children and themselves this wonderful delicious dish, and that it always turned out well, remember the following:

• Nuts before adding to the porridge should always be calcined;
• You can use several kinds of jam and honey, but to save the creamy taste, honey and jam is better served with a ready porridge separately;
• Serve gruel can be in the same pot in which you baked it in such a case it is better to use the a la carte pots;
• A variety of flavors can be spiced porridge - cardamom, orange peel, cinnamon and rum;
• Decorating porridge can be caramelized nuts or just sprinkle it on top of sugar - it melted and get a nice caramel;
• If possible, interbedded cereal, nuts and foams can be fresh berries;
• When mixing oatmeal with nuts and dried fruit, it is possible to "dignify" adding butter, which is known to be "not spoil porridge ...".