You can talk about the benefits of pumpkins for a long time, but for most housewives, more weighty arguments are that many tasty and quick dishes are prepared from this vegetable. So, pumpkin porridge in a slow cooker can be an ideal treat for a hearty breakfast. It is cooked with various cereals and cereals, cured with dried fruits, sugar or honey.

Pumpkin porridge in a slow cooker - a simple recipe with millet

Millet porridge often appeared in the diet of our ancestors one hundred two hundred years ago. Now for breakfast, many prefer to cook oatmeal, which just needs to be steamed in boiling water.

The presence in the kitchen arsenal of a multicooker with a delayed start function allows you to significantly diversify the menu, for example, by preparing millet porridge with pumpkin from the following ingredients:

  • 50-100 g of pumpkin pulp;
  • 1 multi-cup millet;
  • 4 multi-cups of home or store milk with a fat content of 3.2%;
  • 60 g of granulated sugar;
  • 50 g butter;
  • 4 g of salt;
  • 3 g of cinnamon.

Stages of cooking in a multicooker:

  1. Chopped pumpkin pulp chopped from seeds and peel into small cubes or grate on a coarse grater. The smaller the orange vegetable will be before laying in the multi-pan, the faster it will cook.
  2. Sort millet groats from litter, rinse thoroughly, rinse with boiling water and soak for ten minutes. This procedure will help get rid of millet from possible bitterness.
  3. Grease the bottom of the multi-pan with butter, put chopped pumpkin, millet, sugar and salt on top. Gently add milk (lovers of rarer porridge can increase the amount of liquid by one multi-glass), cover and cook in the "Milk porridge" mode. If there is no such function, you can use the program “Cereals”. Cooking time will be about half an hour.
  4. After a beep at the end of the program, add butter, a pinch of cinnamon, mix and leave to warm for 30 minutes. After that, millet porridge with pumpkin is ready.

From millet and rice groats

This pumpkin porridge in a slow cooker turns out to be especially sunny and not only thanks to the orange queen of autumn. The sun color is also added to the finished dish by millet groats, which goes well with rice.

So, the list of ingredients used will be as follows:

  • 500 g of pumpkin without seeds and peel;
  • 110 g of rice cereal;
  • 110 g of millet groats;
  • 1000 ml of milk;
  • 100 g of sugar;
  • 5 g of salt;
  • 100 g butter.

Cooking progress:

  1. Fold the pumpkin, crushed in small arbitrary pieces, into a multi-pan and pour a small amount of water. Cook in the "Stewing" mode until soft (about 30 minutes), and then mashed potato masher. If the family does not like when pumpkin in porridge turns into mashed potatoes, then slicing the vegetable should be more neat slices and cook not until soft, but until half-cooked.
  2. Pour washed grains, salt, sugar to pumpkin puree and pour all over with warm milk. Then cook using the "Milk porridge" function. Depending on the power of the gadget, the cooking process can take up to one and a half hours.
  3. After a sound signal about the end of the device, add chopped butter to the finished porridge, stir so that it completely disperses in the porridge and can be served.

How to cook with rice?

Many people like the sweet version of rice porridge with pumpkin. A handful of dried fruits (raisins, dried apricots, prunes, dried cherries, etc.) can enrich the taste of the finished dish, and add sweets.

As for the traditional grocery set for this version of pumpkin porridge, it will be like this:

  • 300-400 g of pumpkin;
  • 1 cup of rice cereal;
  • 300 ml of milk;
  • 30 g of honey (can be replaced with an appropriate amount of sugar);
  • 50 g of butter.

Pumpkin porridge with rice is cooked in a slow cooker as follows:

  1. Cut the cleaned pulp of the pumpkin into arbitrary small pieces, put in the bowl of the multicooker, pour in a small amount of water and cook in the “Stew” mode until soft. Depending on the pumpkin variety, this can take anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour.
  2. When the vegetable is well softened and it can be kneaded with a spoon, put washed rice groats, honey, pour milk into the slow cooker and cook further in the “Milk Porridge” / “Cereals” mode. Before serving, put a small piece of oil in each plate.

With apples

It is better to cook pumpkin porridge with apples on the water, because if the fruit has at least a slight sourness, then the milk will certainly curl. For creamy taste and aroma, you can add a piece of butter to the porridge or use fat cream diluted with water for cooking.

To prepare a dietary pumpkin porridge on the water you need to take:

  • 500 g pumpkin;
  • 200 g of apples;
  • 1 multi-glass of rice;
  • 50 g of raisins;
  • 60-90 g of sugar;
  • 30 g butter;
  • 3 multi-glasses of water.

Cooking method:

  1. Cut the peel from an orange vegetable and chop it into small slices. For apples, cut the core and cut the flesh into slices. Peel the fruit if desired.
  2. Put the pumpkin in the electric pan, apple slices on it. Rinse the rice until clear water, similarly do raisins. Put these ingredients in a multicooker bowl, add sugar and add water. Water can be used instead of milk or together with milk in different proportions for any recipe in this collection in order to reduce the calorie content of the finished porridge or make it dietary.
  3. Cook porridge using the "Pilaf" function. At the end of cooking, add butter and mix the contents of the bowl.

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Buckwheat porridge with pumpkin in a slow cooker

At first glance, it seems that these two products (buckwheat and pumpkin) combine little, but you can make a delicious side dish from them.The secret to making delicious pumpkin porridge in a multicooker with buckwheat is to choose the right spices that add a unique flavor to the pumpkin.

To make buckwheat porridge and pumpkin you will need:

  • 100 g of buckwheat;
  • 300 g pumpkin;
  • 70 g of onions;
  • 30-45 ml of vegetable oil;
  • 1 clove of garlic;
  • 1 bay leaf;
  • ½ sprigs of dry rosemary;
  • 4 peas of allspice;
  • salt to taste.

Step by step cooking:

  1. Sort the groats thoroughly, removing all the rubbish. Then rinse, transfer to a multicooker bowl, salt, add three times a large amount of water and cook using one of the appropriate modes ("Buckwheat" or "Cereals"). Transfer the prepared porridge to a separate container.
  2. Rinse the electric pan after boiling the buckwheat and wipe dry. Then pour vegetable oil into it and turn on the “Frying” mode (if it is absent, the “Baking” option will do).
  3. When the oil is well cooked in two or three minutes, put the finely chopped onions with garlic and spices. Stir fry for five minutes.
  4. Put the small cubes of pumpkin pulp into the oil, which has had enough of the aromas of spices and herbs, and cook for 10-15 minutes until soft. Then return buckwheat to the multicooker bowl, mix and let stand for 10 minutes on heating. The side dish is ready.

Nuances of cooking in slow cookers: Redmond, Polaris

In addition to the proportions of the ingredients in the cooking process, the duration of all culinary processes is of great importance. For a dish such as pumpkin porridge in a slow cooker, the cooking time is affected not only by the selected ingredients, but also by the power of the device and the available cooking programs.

 

First, consider how selected foods can influence cooking. Pumpkin is the main ingredient in the dish. Its different varieties can reach readiness for different times, ceteris paribus. The rider and softer the pumpkin pulp will be, the sooner it will be cooked.

Regular rice groats will cook longer, unlike steamed rice, millet, buckwheat, corn and semolina.

As for cooking programs, for multicookers of different manufacturers, the appropriate functions may differ:

  1. In Redmond devices, this dish is prepared using the options "Milk porridge", "Stewing" and "Steaming."
  2. In Polaris gadgets, the available functions for the preparation of "Milk porridge" and "Porridge".
  3. Other manufacturers (Panasonic, Phillips and Mulinex) can use the programs "Stew", "Milk porridge" and "Porridge".

Whatever model of the multicooker is in the assistants of the hostess, the preparation of pumpkin porridge for the first time is better controlled at all stages and, if necessary, adjusted, and, having already reached the ideal result, trust the preparation completely to the device and devote this time to yourself and your loved ones.

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