It will be useful for each cook to know how to cook pea porridge in water. If you cook it without additives, you get a great lunch for the duration of the diet. And with meat or mushrooms, the treat will turn into a full, hearty, tasty and nutritious dinner for the whole family.

The classic recipe for pea porridge on the water

Ingredients: half a glass of peas, 2 cups of filtered water, a pinch of table salt, a slice of butter.

  1. The cereal is soaked for 3-4 hours. If possible, it is worth leaving it in cold water all night.
  2. In the morning, the peas set off to cook in the same liquid in which they had soaked. To do this, you need to use dishes with a thick bottom and walls.
  3. First, the components will boil over medium heat. Then the heating should be reduced to the smallest, salt and leave the dish to cook until cooked.

The resulting dish is flavored with butter.

How much time to cook?

The exact time of cooking porridge of peas in the water depends on the quality of the selected cereals and on some other parameters. It usually takes from 35 to 85 minutes to cook the cereal in question.

The fastest cooked chopped peas, which until then had been in the water all night. As long as possible - a whole product without preliminary soaking.

The proportions of water and peas

In order for the finished treat to turn out really tasty, you must correctly observe the proportions of water and peas. If you want to get friable porridge, which will become a delicious side dish for meat or fish, then you should take 2 parts of liquid for 1 part of cereal.

To prepare a delicate soft dish that will appeal to the smallest members of the family, you need to use 4 parts of liquid for 1 part of cereal.

How to cook with meat?

Ingredients: 2 tbsp. dry peas, 320 g pork pulp, large onion, 4-5 tbsp. filtered water, salt, spices.

  1. The cereal will be soaked in cold water for at least an hour.
  2. The product is washed, poured with new liquid, slightly kneading with a nibbler for potatoes and sent to boil until completely softened.
  3. Small pieces of pork with onion cubes are fried in any fat until both products are golden. Dressing is salted and sprinkled with spices. You can take a ready-made set of seasonings for meat or pilaf.
  4. Ready porridge is mixed with pork and vegetable dressing, transferred to a mold and sent to the oven for 10-12 minutes.

The dish is decorated with a lot of chopped greens.

Stew Recipe

Ingredients: a pound of cereal, a liter of filtered water, a standard can of beef or pork stew, a large piece of butter, onion and carrot, a couple of leaves of laurel, a mixture of peppers, salt.

  1. To speed up the cooking process of such a dish, the cereal is pre-soaked in cold water from the tap for 7-8 hours. Next, the peas are washed, transferred to a pot with salt water and lavrushka, and cooked until soft.
  2. Shredded vegetables are passaged on a small amount of any oil. When they are well fried, the whole contents of the can of stew are laid out in a pan. On the fat from it, you can immediately begin to pass the vegetables.

Ready peas are pepper, mixed with melted butter and the contents of the pan.

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How to cook in a slow cooker?

Ingredients: a glass of peas soaked in water, a large onion, 3 cups of filtered water, a slice of butter, salt, a mixture of colored peppers.

  1. First, onion cubes are thoroughly fried in a suitable program.
  2. Prepared cereals are laid out for the vegetable. The components are poured with water, salted, peppered and cooked in the braising program for 120 minutes.

After such a long languor, a very tender mashed porridge is obtained. It remains only to fill it with butter.

Pea porridge with mushrooms

Ingredients: a glass of dry crushed peas, 2 glasses of water, onion, 220 g of fresh champignons, fine salt. How to cook pea porridge with the addition of mushrooms, is described below.

  1. Groats are pre-soaked in cold water for 6-7 hours. Then the water is drained, and the peas are washed well.
  2. Boil the cereals until cooked in a salty liquid.
  3. The onion is peeled, washed, cut into a small cube and fried in a mixture of sunflower and butter. Mushrooms cut into thin slices are added to the vegetables. Together, the ingredients are fried for 8-9 minutes. You can set aside a couple of tablespoons of a mixture of mushrooms and vegetables for decoration treats.
  4. Ready porridge is laid out in the pan. After mixing the components, they simmer together over low heat for another couple of minutes. At this point, salt is added.

Porridge is laid out on a plate with a serving ring and decorated with mushrooms and onions on top.

With the addition of smoked meats

Ingredients: 1.5 cups of peas, 3 cups of filtered water, pre-soaked overnight, 2 chicken legs (smoked), medium carrots, 2 large onions, a bunch of various fresh herbs, fine salt to taste, a mixture of colored peppers.

  1. First, all chicken meat is carefully removed from the seeds, ½ liter of filtered water is poured and sent to cook.
  2. Approximately 10-12 minutes after boiling the liquid, prepared peas are poured into the saucepan, and the meat is transferred to the plate. At minimum heat, the contents of the container will languish under a closed lid for approximately 90 minutes. Sometimes the mass must be thoroughly mixed.
  3. If the water boils away earlier, you need to add it as necessary.
  4. Chopped vegetables in any convenient way are fried in any fat.Then pieces of smoked meat are poured out to them, and the components are fried together.
  5. It remains to put the frying in the finished porridge, salt it and sprinkle with ground peppers.

Lastly, finely chopped greens are poured into the treats, which one should be chosen according to your own taste.

With onions and carrots

Ingredients: 1.5 cups of peas, 2 times more filtered water, 60 g of butter, half a carrot and onion, salt, flavorful herbs to taste.

  1. Crushed peas are repeatedly washed with water until transparent.
  2. Groats are poured with the amount of water indicated in the recipe and sent to boil until soft.
  3. Carrots and onions are cut into small cubes, laid out in an oiled pan and fried until golden brown.
  4. When the cereal absorbs all the water into itself, it turns into a homogeneous puree with a blender.
  5. Next, peas are mixed with frying. At this stage, the mass is salted, sprinkled with any aromatic herbs and generously seasoned with softened butter.

It is delicious to serve with various vegetable salads. You can use it as a side dish for any meat or even seafood.

Calorie pea porridge on the water

It is the discussed variant of pea porridge (on water) that is the most dietary. Especially if you do not add butter and frying to the treat.

As for the calorie content of such a dish, it is 90 kcal per 100 g of product. Instead of frying, you can mix porridge with fresh vegetables so as not to greatly increase this figure.

 

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