Experienced housewives know that there is one important point in preparing dishes from millet – preliminary processing of the cereal.
Therefore, when preparing to cook porridge with milk or prepare a side dish for meat or fish, cooks pour boiling water over millet. Let's figure out why this needs to be done.
The reason is that this cereal has a bitter taste when cooked. There are options: you can pour boiling water over the cereal, leave it in the water for 30 minutes, or you can rinse it in warm water in several stages.
Option one: boiling water
This is the simplest option, and its obvious advantage is that it saves time.
All you need to do is pour the grain into a suitable bowl or saucepan and then pour in boiling water. After keeping the cereal in hot water for 1-2 minutes, drain the boiling water and pour in new water. Then drain the water, pour in new water and cook.
Option two: soaking
Just pour plain water into a bowl or saucepan so that the millet is completely covered with water and leave everything for 30 minutes. Then rinse and you can cook.
Option three: rinsing
This is a longer, but no less effective way to get rid of bitterness in cereals. It is enough to rinse the millet three times:
- the first time in warm water (temperature about 40 degrees);
- the second time the water temperature should already be around 50 degrees;
- for the third time 60 degrees Celsius.
Next, add water at a rate of 2-2.5 cups of water per 1 cup of millet and cook.
