What can you make from wheat?

Millet today - not the most popular product, but it was not always. For centuries, in our country it was one of the most popular and sought-after products included in almost daily diet of people in Russia. Maybe the point is that not every modern chef knows what to cook from it, you can not just mess, but a lot of other tasty and healthy dishes?

Millet or millet cereal - is peeled from the outer shell of millet seeds. Buy it still can be in almost every store, so the preparation of various dishes from it - the question only one desire. A try is definitely worth it, because it is not only delicious, but also a very useful product.

In the old millet called "golden crumbs" from the bright yellow and valuable useful properties, but at the cost of it has always been low. In millet contains a lot of useful substances, amino acids, minerals (manganese, potassium, iron, sodium, magnesium, etc.), Healthy fats, proteins and vitamins (B1, B2, B6, B9, PP). Due to the dietary properties and low calorie eating millet is recommended to all who wish to lose weight - it even prevents the formation of fatty deposits. With regular consumption of millet prevents cholesterol plaques, displays the body of heavy metals, toxins and wastes, as well as antibiotics. Doctors recommend eating wheat to all who suffer from various diseases gastrointestinal tract, liver, as well as allergic reactions and diabetes. Contraindications to eat millet grains are hypothyroidism (because it contains iodine prevents the absorption of substances), decreased gastric acidity and inflammation of the colon.

Recipes from millet

Of course, the most famous dish of millet - a porridge, which is often cooked with pumpkin and other vegetables. But not only can cook porridge of millet grains: to make it possible and soups, and casseroles, and stews, and cabbage rolls and meat balls, and even pancakes and cakes. We will tell you about the most delicious and interesting dishes.

Usually before cooking millet washed well with hot water until its transparency. Millet is not stored for a long time, because starts to taste bitter, but remove the "bitterness" can be: it should fry in a dry frying pan or scalded with boiling water before cooking.

Soup recipe with roasted millet

Need: 4L chicken / mutton broth, 1 chicken, 1 onion and carrots, bay leaf, 1 clove garlic, millet, potatoes, ground paprika, cumin, parsley.

How to cook soup with millet. Millet fry in a dry frying pan, lightly browned, pour in the boiling broth, and chicken chop finely finished. Onion and carrot fry, add sliced potatoes into cubes, fry and put in the soup, bring to a boil, add the laurel, cumin and ground paprika, then on low heat. Before serving, season with herbs and garlic soup.

Recipe for vegetable soup puree with millet

You will need: 3 potato tuber, 1 carrot, on? parsley root and a glass of milk, 1 tbsp sour cream and millet, dill, salt.

How to cook soup with millet. The washed millet add water and boil until tender. Vegetables with a small amount of water to boil until tender. Connect cereals and vegetables, pyurirovat, pour the hot milk, bring to a boil, remove from heat. Before serving, fill the soup with sour cream, salt and sugar to taste, as well as herbs.

Recipe for cooking millet patties

Need: 5 glasses of water / milk, 2 cups millet and eggs, 0.5 cups of crushed crackers, 2-3 tablespoons butter, 1 tbsp sugar, 1 tsp salt.

How to cook meatballs from millet. Water bring to a boil, add sugar and salt, washed millet, boil for 15-20 minutes, stirring occasionally, then cover with a lid and turn off the heat and leave for half an hour. The cooled porridge mixed with raw eggs, meat balls with wet hands to mold, breaded in flour or breadcrumbs and fry in a pan with butter.

Recipe of millet casserole with mushrooms

You will need: 1 kg of mushrooms 350g millet, 100g smoked bacon, onion 1.5-2 butter.

How to cook millet casserole. Rinse and coarsely chop the mushrooms and fry with bacon in butter or lard for 2 min, onion chopped, add to the mushrooms and fry for another minute. Millet wash, pour in boiling water, boil for 45 minutes, then mix with the mushroom mixture, salt the taste, put the mixture into a mold, place in a preheated 180 degree oven for 45 minutes or an hour - casserole should get a crisp, dry.

Millet and pumpkin - the perfect combination, that's why it is best known for such dishes of this cereal. If you do not want to cook the usual cereal, make a casserole.

Recipe of millet casserole with pumpkin

You will need: 400g pumpkin on milk 150g millet, 100g sour cream, 2 eggs, salt.

How to cook millet, pumpkin pudding. Cut into small cubes prepared pumpkin, put in a saucepan, pour the milk, bring to a boil, add the millet and cook prepared, salted, until cooked products. Give porridge to cool to drive an egg, stir, put on a baking all smooth layer (to grease the pan with oil and sprinkle with breadcrumbs), coat with egg mixture on top, whipped with sour cream and bake in the oven until browning. Serve the pudding with sour cream or butter.

Very interesting option - millet casserole with prunes.

Recipe for cooking millet casserole with prunes

Need: 1.8 liter of milk, 1 liter of water, 320 g of millet, 250g prunes, 80g butter, cinnamon, sugar, and salt.

How to cook millet casserole with prunes. Millet washed, scalded with boiling water 2 times, drain the water, in 1 liter of water to boil millet, also adding hot milk, sugar and butter, salted. Cool slightly and mix with water soaked prunes and cinnamon. Put the mixture into a mold, cover with the lid and bake for 45 minutes, remove the lid and blushed. Such as casserole served dessert.

Delicious obtained from wheat pancakes.

Recipe for cooking millet pancakes

You will need: 200g butter, 25g of yeast 6 cups milk 5 eggs, 2 cups of flour and wheat, sugar, and salt.

How to cook pancakes made from wheat. In a pan pour 2 cups of warm milk, add yeast, then all the sifted flour, knead the dough, cover with a towel and leave to warm 1-1,5ch. Millet wash, boil in the remaining milk, cool, enter the egg yolks, mashed with salt and sugar, mix thoroughly. Connect dough and cooked millet porridge, give the test again to come.