Oatmeal is good in any performance.
Whether it is prepared on water, or on milk, coarse, or "quick" flakes are used. And you can add to it, well, almost everything that the soul desires, or that is lying in the refrigerator.
Of course, to prepare a particularly tasty dish, you have to select the products with the calculation, evaluating both the taste and the benefits of the final dish.
The apple version of oatmeal fully meets these requirements.
Oatmeal with apples - general principles of preparation
• Oatmeal is cooked in a pan on the stove, cooked in the oven or slow cooker. For quick cooking use a microwave, and sometimes such a porridge is cooked without cooking, steaming with boiling water.
• Oatmeal with apples can be prepared in water, milk or a mixture thereof. Sometimes milk is not mixed with water, but with clarified apple juice.
• In most cases, use cereals intended for instant cooking or "Hercules". For steaming, it is better to take flakes intended for cooking without boiling. In any case, you should carefully read the instructions on the package, which accurately indicates the cooking time.
• Apple varieties are selected according to their taste preferences. If you do not like sweet cereal, take sweet and sour apples. The fruit is peeled or left with a peel, it is necessary to remove the hard partitions with seeds and chop. Fruits are cut into slices, medium-sized cubes or chopped on a fine grater. Apples are added both raw and stewed, lay them in the cooking process or in already prepared oatmeal.
• Often, porridge is enriched with other products or fruits. In addition to apples, you can add bananas, dried fruits or honey to it. Oatmeal is flavored with cinnamon or vanilla, as you like, and be sure to season the hot gruel with butter.
Fragrant oatmeal with apples in the oven
Ingredients:
• two large apples, any sweet variety;
• 300 gr. oatmeal (cereal);
• half a glass of pitted raisins;
• unrefined sugar - 3 large spoons;
• a small pinch of nutmeg;
• cinnamon, crushed into powder - 1/2 tsp;
• a small pinch of vanillin;
• 20 gr. homemade butter;
• half a liter of milk.
Cooking method:
1. Scald raisins with boiling water and soak it in warm water for three minutes. Then rinse with cold and squeeze slightly.
2. In small cubes or cubes, cut both apples without peel and seeds.
3. Put the oatmeal in a deep bowl. Add chopped apples, raisins, spices to them. Sweeten, slightly add salt to your taste, and mix well.
4. Melt the butter at a minimum temperature, mix it with a fruit-oatmeal mixture and transfer to a heat-resistant form. Gently pour warm milk, mix and smooth the surface.
5. Place the pan in a hot oven and cook at 180 degrees.
6. Oatmeal with apples will be ready when all the milk is well absorbed into the cereal, after about 25 minutes.
Oatmeal with apples - a simple recipe
Ingredients:
• one glass of hercules flakes;
• 250 ml of pasteurized skim milk;
• one glass of filtered water;
• five tablespoons of sugar;
• two apples;
• 50 gr. sweet cream butter;
• a pair of pinches of ground cinnamon.
Cooking method:
1. Place a dry pan with cereal in it on a small fire.
2. Intensively stirring, fry the oatmeal for three minutes and set aside.
3. Boil a glass of water, mix it with milk and put on fire again. Into a hot, but not boiling, liquid, add the roasted oatmeal, stir and immediately lower the flame to the minimum. It will be even better if the container is placed on a flame divider.
4. Add three tablespoons of sugar, salt and, periodically mixing, boil a quarter of an hour. Be sure to add oil at the end and mix well.
5. Turn off the heat, cover the saucepan with something solid and leave it temporarily.
6. In a pan, melt a spoonful of butter. Dip peelless apples sliced into thin, approximately equal segments into it and fry them for three minutes. Then add two tablespoons of sugar mixed with cinnamon and continue to simmer until the sugar grains dissolve, until the sugar syrup begins to darken and thicken.
7. Put the prepared porridge on plates and lay on top of each serving a few caramelized apples.
Oatmeal with apples on the water in the microwave
Ingredients:
• half a glass of “quick” oatmeal, small;
• one glass of boiled drinking water;
• sugar refined to taste;
• a small bullseye.
Cooking method:
1. Peel the apple peel and cut into medium-sized cubes.
2. Pour oatmeal into the microwave container. While stirring, add granulated sugar and chopped apple.
3. Pour in cold drinking water, stir, immediately put in the microwave and turn it on for one and a half minutes, setting the maximum power mode. If the porridge is thin, add another forty seconds.
4. Flavor the cooked porridge with melted butter and serve.
Oatmeal with apples and liquid cream in milk
Ingredients:
• "Hercules" - 150 gr.;
• low-fat cream - 70 ml;
• two tablespoons of unrefined granulated sugar;
• natural apple clarified juice - 400 ml;
• two medium sweet apples;
• 400 ml of fresh unboiled milk;
• crushed cinnamon - 1/2 tsp.
Cooking method:
1. Pour cold milk over Hercules. Add all the juice and sugar, lightly salt and mix.
2. Put the pan on a small fire and, not ceasing to mix, bring to a boil. Then lower the flame to a minimum and continue cooking for another five minutes.
3. Remove from heat, wrap the pan in a terry towel and temporarily set aside.
4. Wash the apples, cut the peel and cut them into thin, medium-sized slices.
5. Add hot, unboiled cream, apple slices, and cinnamon powder to the finished oatmeal. Stir intensively and serve immediately.
Walnut oatmeal with apples on the water
Ingredients:
• sweet large apples - 2 pcs.;
• one and a half glasses of cool water;
• a small handful of walnut kernels;
• 10 gr. "Peasant" or homemade oil;
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder;
• a spoon of refined sugar;
• A full glass of Hercules flakes.
Cooking method:
1. Pour washed flakes into boiling white water with vigorous stirring. The liquid should cover the oatmeal with two fingers, if it is not enough - add boiling water and stir well after that.
2. Add sugar, salt to your taste, and leave to cook over low heat for five minutes.
3. Cut the peeled apples into thin, of any size, slices and put them in a pan in melted butter. Sprinkle the fruit with ground cinnamon and cook with the lid open until the slices are softer, for about five minutes.
4. Crush the mortar or chop the walnuts into small crumbs. You can grind on a coffee grinder.
5. Stir the prepared oatmeal well with nut crumbs and put on a plate, along the bottom of which spread out part of the stewed apples in advance. Put the remaining apples on top and decorate the serving with whole walnut kernels.
Oatmeal with apples and banana in a slow cooker
Ingredients:
• a small banana;
• medium-sized sweet apple;
• homemade butter - 10 g .;
• a large, without a hill, a spoonful of sugar;
• four glasses of skim milk;
• a glass of regular oatmeal.
Cooking method:
1. Pour oatmeal into the appliance. Add butter, granulated sugar and a little salt.
2. Grate the banana and peeled apple on a fine grater. Transfer fruit puree to oatmeal, mix everything well and start the "Porridge" mode.
3. In addition, season the oatmeal with butter and decorate the dish with banana rings, serve.
Oatmeal with apples, honey and candied fruits without cooking
Ingredients:
• three spoons of instant oatmeal (Extra);
• a large spoon of dried apricots;
• a spoonful of coconut flakes;
• candied fruit - 1 tsp;
• large juicy apple, sweet;
• honey - 1 tbsp. l .;
• spoon raisins of raisins;
• 150 ml of drinking water.
Cooking method:
1. Cook such a gruel in advance, preferably in the evening, so that the flakes have time to soften well.
2. Rinse raisins with dried apricots and pour dried fruit over boiling water. After this, rinse and dry well again. Leave the raisins whole, and cut the dried apricots into thin “noodles”.
3. In a small bowl or a half-liter jar, add raisins, chopped dried apricots and oatmeal. Shake, stirring, and pour boiling water. Cover with a lid, leave until morning.
4. Transfer the stable oatmeal to a plate, add the apple, chopped with a fine grater, honey and mix well. Sprinkle coconut flakes on top and garnish with candied fruit.
Oatmeal with apples - cooking tricks and useful tips
• When preparing oatmeal, add flakes to a hot liquid base, and when steaming, do the opposite - pour boiling water into the flakes.
• Hercules flakes are thicker and cook longer than others, but porridge from them turns out to be much tastier, thicker and healthier.
• Do not know how to choose the right proportions? Take 100 grams of cereal and 570 ml of liquid base (milk or water) and get a liquid gruel. For more viscous on the same mass of flakes it is enough to take 350 ml of liquid.
• Do not often and intensively stir the dish during the cooking process, it slows down the cooking time.
• Oatmeal with apples should be cooked just before eating, as it tends to thicken quickly. If you plan to cook in advance, take more fluids.
• Oatmeal likes to “steam”, so wrap the finished dish for 10 minutes in a warm blanket or terry towel.
• You can boil oatmeal completely in water and season with margarine. Sugar is added to taste or completely replaced by a handful of crushed raisins, and apples are placed on top and in large slices. It is very good to eat such a dish with cold boiled water.
