There is no limit to perfection - the phrase is familiar and battered, but completely true. Someone got the idea to cook a meal of several cereals - maybe for the sake of curiosity, or maybe out of cost. Well, in fact, it turned out a wonderful mess with a good name - "Friendship".
Friendship porridge in a slow cooker - general principles of cooking
• The well-known porridge "Friendship" is prepared from two or more types of cereals. The most commonly used rice cereal and millet. But often the dish is prepared by combining rice with buckwheat, corn grits and barley.
• Cereals are mixed in equal proportions. Before use, they must be sorted out, washed and thoroughly dried from water residues. The cooking time for each cereal is different and therefore certain types of them require preliminary preparation. So, it is advisable to soak the pearl barley before cooking for at least 2 hours, changing the water a couple of times. When cooking rice with corn grits, to speed up the cooking process, it is also recommended to soak both types in the same container for an hour.
• Porridge "Friendship" is mainly a sweet dish that is cooked in milk or replaced with water. To prepare a dairy dish, it is best to take non-fat pasteurized milk. Its recommended fat content should not exceed 2.5%. If you take a more fatty product, then be sure to dilute it with water. Milk porridge is sweetened and salted at its discretion, add butter. In milk porridge "Friendship" is often boiled with pumpkin or raisins, which, if desired, can be replaced with dried fruits.
• Very often porridge made from rice and buckwheat on water is prepared with mushrooms or meat (low-fat minced meat).
• Prepare the Friendship porridge in a slow cooker using the modes: Milk porridge, Buckwheat, Pilaf, or Porridge. Mushrooms, vegetables and minced meat are fried on the options “Baking” or “Frying”.
Milk porridge "Friendship" in a slow cooker - millet with rice
Ingredients:
• 1.2 l. pasteurized 2.5% milk;
• half a glass of polished millet;
• half a glass of round-grain rice;
• 2 spoons of sugar;
• 20 gr. creamy unsalted butter.
Cooking method:
1. Sort the cereals, scald the washed millet with boiling water, and rinse the rice in cold water. This will help get rid of bitterness.
2. Dry the rinsed cereals well on a sieve and transfer to a cooking bowl.
3. Salt, add a little sugar to taste. Add butter and fill with milk. If milk is fat, dilute with drinking water.
4. Stir well and set to cook by selecting the "Milk Porridge" auto-mode. It will take 40 minutes.
Friendship porridge in a slow cooker on milk from millet and rice with pumpkin
Ingredients:
• 250 gr. fresh juicy pumpkin;
• 100 gr. millet;
• 90 gr. polished rice;
• 700 ml of homemade, not skim milk;
• three tablespoons of sugar refined;
• 50 gr. "Peasant", natural oil;
• cool boiled water - 1.5 cups.
Cooking method:
1. Sow millet and rice separately. Rinse the rice with a large volume of running water, and pour millet for 10 minutes with boiling water. Then rinse and dry well.
2. Cut the peel from the pumpkin, try to grab the greenish pulp under it. Select the seeds along with the fibers and cut the pumpkin pulp into small cubes.
3. Put washed cereals and pieces of pumpkin in a multi-cooker bowl. Add slices of butter, dilute milk with water and transfer to cereals. Sweeten, salt to your taste and mix the contents of the bowl thoroughly.
4. Set the timer for 50 minutes and turn on the multicook in the "Cereals" or "Milk Porridge" mode.
5. After cooking, without opening the lid, soak the dish for half an hour on heating.
Friendship porridge in a slow cooker made from corn grits and rice with raisins and walnuts
Ingredients:
• 200 gr. corn grits;
• half a glass of rice (approximately 100 gr.);
• medium fat milk - 700 ml;
• boiled water, drinking - 2 tbsp .;
• creamy 82.5% butter - 60 g .;
• a small pinch ground into cinnamon powder;
• 0.5 tbsp. l beet sugar;
• liquid honey - to taste;
• a small handful of pitted raisins;
• walnut kernels - 50 gr.
Cooking method:
1. Soak the washed raisins for a quarter of an hour. Rinse, dry and cut in half.
2. Pour the sorted rice and corn grits into a deep bowl. Pour in specially cooled water and leave for one hour, then rinse well. It is more convenient to do this in a sieve. Water will drain through it, and small cells will not allow a single grain to slip out. Leave the washed cereals for a while on a sieve and substitute a bowl under it so that excess liquid flows into it.
3. Dried rice with corn grits, transfer to a cooking bowl, put raisins and pour cold milk. Add sugar, mix thoroughly and add a little salt.
4. Cut the butter into small pieces and spread evenly on top.
5. Cook the porridge under the lid on the "Cereals" option. Set the timer for 40 minutes. This is enough to make the dish steamed well and become friable.
6. Grind the walnut kernels with a knife and sprinkle the porridge spread on the plates with crumbs. Pour honey and serve. Additionally, you can add a little oil to each plate.
Friendship porridge in a slow cooker made from buckwheat and rice in milk
Ingredients:
• rice quality groats - 0.5 tbsp .;
• half a glass of buckwheat;
• three glasses of nonfat 2.5% milk;
• a glass of drinking water (boiled);
• one and a half tablespoons of sugar;
• a small piece of peasant oil.
Cooking method:
1. Without mixing, sort out litter and specks of cereals, rinse each separately. Decant the fluid as best as possible.
2. Put rice in the bowl, fill with water and start the slow cooker on the “Rice” option and cook for a quarter of an hour.
3. Then add buckwheat, put the butter and pour in all the milk. Sweeten, add a small pinch of fine salt and mix well.
4. Put the slow cooker in the "Multi-cook" mode and set the timer for 15 minutes.
5. Stand the already prepared dish in the switched off device with the lid closed for 10 minutes.
Triple porridge "Friendship" in a slow cooker made of pearl barley, buckwheat and rice with mushrooms
Ingredients:
• 90 gr. pearl barley;
• half a glass of buckwheat;
• 100 gr. polished rice;
• a glass of frozen chopped champignons;
• one onion;
• 550 ml of filtered water;
• two garlic cloves;
• 40 gr. frozen out vegetable oil;
• several branches of young herbs (dill or curly parsley).
Cooking method:
1. Two hours before cooking, soak the barley in cold water, rinse well and dry in a colander.
2. Carefully sort and rinse the rice with buckwheat, dry, do not need to soak.
3. Run the multicooker on the option "Frying". Pour the oil into the bowl and warm it for about 3 minutes.
4. Dip finely chopped onions and pre-thawed mushrooms in the oil. Add any chopped garlic immediately. Stir well and cook for 20 minutes in the set mode. Do not forget to mix.
5. For the mushrooms fried with onions, add all the cereals. Salt to your taste and add finely chopped greens. Pour water and stir the contents of the bowl so that all the components are evenly distributed.
6. Preparing the dish in auto mode "Buckwheat" under a closed lid. In addition, soak by turning on the "Preheat" function for 10-15 minutes, after executing the main program.
Friendship porridge in a slow cooker with minced meat, rice and buckwheat
Ingredients:
• a glass of round-grain rice (polished);
• one glass of toasted (dark) buckwheat;
• a pound of any low-fat minced meat;
• head of a bitter onion;
• filtered drinking water - 6 tbsp .;
• a small carrot;
• frozen oil - 2 tbsp. l .;
• one large tomato or a spoonful of thick unsurpassed tomato.
Cooking method:
1. First of all, prepare the cereals: carefully sort them, rinse and dry them by laying them on a sieve.
2. Chop the onions in small pieces, and rub the carrots with large chips. Cut the tomato into small cubes. Put chopped onions, tomato and carrots in a bowl, pour in the oil and fry on the “Baking”.
3. When the vegetables are softened well, put the minced meat to them and mash it with a fork. Continue cooking for another 20 minutes without changing the set mode.
4. Pour buckwheat with rice into the bowl, pour in water and do not forget to salt.
5. Stir, lower the lid and enable the "Pilaf" option. After the automatic program ends, thoroughly stir the contents of the bowl. You can keep the finished dish in a state of heating for some time, but not more than a quarter of an hour.
Friendship porridge in a slow cooker made from rice, buckwheat and lentils
Ingredients:
• 50 gr. green lentils;
• buckwheat - 100 gr.;
• polished round-grain rice - 100 gr.;
• refined oil (sunflower) - 2 tbsp. l .;
• a small carrot;
• half of the middle onion.
Cooking method:
1. Separately sort out cereals and rinse each well in cold water. Strain from moisture.
2. Chop the onions in small slices, carrots in thin strips.
3. On the "Fry" 2 minutes warm oil and dip chopped vegetables into it. Fry, constantly stirring, so as not to burn.
4. When the carrot becomes saturated, and the onion is slightly browned, put the lentils in the vegetables and add a little water.
5. Bring to half-preparedness and pour in buckwheat with rice.
6. Pour in enough water to cover the cereals only a little. Lightly salt and season the porridge with ground pepper.
7. Switch to "Pilaf" mode and cook until the cycle is complete.
Friendship porridge in a slow cooker - useful cooking tips and tricks
• Try to buy polished millet of bright color. It does not need to be doused with boiling water or soaked in it. Such cereal in itself is not bitter.
• To make the barley dish cook faster, use crushed cereal.
• The more thoroughly you rinse the cereals, the more crumbly the dish will turn out.
• If there is no time to soak the cereals, pour them with boiling water for half an hour.
• Porridge "Friendship", cooked at the recommended modes, is crumbly. If you want to get more viscous, cook it on the "Stew" option for one hour.
