Some people say that a bowl of porridge cooked just right is a healing effect, ordinary people boil a bowl of white rice porridge is homely, but for Cantonese people, "porridge" has its own faction, with white rice bottomed porridge can be used with a variety of ingredients to make a variety of delicious porridge, usually a little like skin egg lean porridge, complex like pig porridge.
Although boiling porridge looks like a small white hand can be made, but want to cook a bowl of porridge to a good, boiled to thick or exquisite, the choice of rice, the choice of water temperature and the size of the fire will determine the final direction of a bowl of porridge, whether it is delicious or not, to identify whether a bowl of porridge is cooked successfully is to see what shape the cooked rice grains are, if the rice grains are still granular, this bowl of porridge still belongs to the rice is rice, water is water, belongs to the unsuccessful, if the rice grains are cooked out soft to the boiled porridge, the bowl of porridge is successful.
I asked a restaurant chef how to cook a bowl of porridge, and he told me four tips for cooking porridge:
First: it is best to use new rice, new rice retains the most original nutrients of rice grains, and do not soak, soaking for a long time will lose the aroma of rice;
Second: oil mixed with rice, mixed with cooking oil in the rice, stirred evenly, this is an important step in the texture of the cooked porridge, the ratio of rice and oil is generally 100 grams of rice and 10 grams of oil;
Step 3: This step should be noted, remind the discomfort of the rice cooker, find a pot that can cook porridge on an open fire, pour the water into it, boil and then pour the rice, the ratio of water and rice is: 20:1; remember to wait for the water to boil and then add rice, the water is boiled and then add rice, the water is boiled and then add rice!
If you are lazy to use cold water directly under the rice, the paste pot will blame me ~)
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The fourth is slow boiling porridge, after boiling on high heat, turn to medium-low heat to cook for about 45 minutes, so that a simple grain of rice can be soft and sticky to the boiled porridge bottom is ready, if you want to make a Cantonese-style porridge, you can add materials now, if you eat white porridge directly, to this step is completed.
I used this method of boiling porridge to cook a millet sweet potato porridge, using Shanxi's small yellow rice plus a small handful of northeast porridge rice, and then add a small handful of goji berries, a sweet potato, the boiled porridge is thick with rice flavor, really lubricating and fragrant!
Ingredients: sweet potato millet porridge rice goji berries
Step 2: Rinse the millet porridge rice goji berries slightly, wash the sweet potatoes and cut into cubes for later;
Prepare a cast iron pot, pour water into the boil and pour in millet and porridge rice and sweet potatoes;
After bringing to a boil, simmer slowly for about 45 minutes over medium-low heat;
Why eat more millet porridge in winter? As the saying goes: "The way to maintain health, grains first." Grains and grains, millet is king. "Xiaomi usually does not need to be refined. Therefore, more nutrients and minerals are preserved, of which the vitamin B1 content is several times that of rice, which is a good product for health vegetarian food. In northern Shaanxi, there is still an old saying: "Rice fat's mother-in-law, Suide's Han", the opening praise is "rice fat aunt", because she will run the family, coupled with the good skin of eating millet all year round, the white and tender, the woman of rice fat is famous for beauty.
Today I use to cook porridge is the millet of Qinzhou, Shanxi, which is golden in color and rich in nutrients, and the rice used to cook porridge is fragrant and particularly thick;
Shanxi Qinzhou Huang Xiaomi ¥35.9 purchase
Shanxi Qin County is known as the first township of organic millet, which is located at the top of the South Taihang Mountain between 35 degrees and 36 degrees north latitude, with deep soil layer, good structure and rich content of organic matter, so the millet grown here is not only of high quality, but also very rich in nutrition.
Nutritious Porridge Rice ¥13.6 Purchase
Coupled with nutritious porridge rice, porridge rice is germ rice, moderate processing preserves the nutritional content, and rice oil is mellow.