How To Cook Corn Porridge In Milk: Step-by-step Recipes With Photos And Videos, Including In A Slow Cooker And For Babies

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

Corn porridge with milk: preparing a healthy dish for the whole family

Corn porridge is not very popular in our country. More often than not, corn is associated with cereals or sweet sticks, which children love. However, among all kinds of cereals, in terms of its usefulness, it occupies an honorable fourth place, second only to buckwheat, oatmeal and lentils. Corn grits are rich in trace elements and vitamins, it removes toxins from the body well, and it is also successfully included in diets for cardiovascular diseases. For breakfast in many Russian families, it is customary to cook milk porridge. Why not start cooking it with corn? Consider recipes for making cereals with milk from corn grits.

Content

• 1 Corn grits or flour - which is good?
• 2 How and how much to cook milk porridge

• 3 Step by step recipes

  • 3.1 Classic version

    3.1.1 Video: Cooking Milk Corn Porridge on the Stove

  • 3.2 Liquid meal for babies

  • 3.3 Cooking in a multicooker

    3.3.1 Video: corn porridge in milk with pumpkin in a slow cooker

• 4 Reviews and advice from hostesses from forums

Corn grits or flour - which is good?

Corn grits are of different grinds:

• small (the size of grains is like semolina);
• medium (grains like wheat or barley);
• large.

Separately, it is necessary to highlight another corn flour, the grains of which are crushed to a powdery state.

Finely ground cereals are also referred to as coarse corn flour, from which traditional dishes are prepared in some countries: hominy in Romania and polenta in Italy. In our country, cornmeal porridge is cooked for young children under one year old and used as the first complementary food.

Corn porridge with milk can be made from cereals of any grind, but you need to know the following nuance: the smaller it is, the sooner the dish will be ready. Recipes usually state that the cooking time for porridge is 30 to 40 minutes. A dish of coarse cereals is cooked for about an hour.

If you want to cook porridge for a child, choose cornmeal or finely ground cereals.

How and how much to cook milk porridge

It is better to cook milk porridge in a saucepan with a thick bottom or in a cauldron, since corn sticks to the bottom very quickly and strongly. It must also be remembered that continuous stirring is imperative.

The ratio of the main ingredients is as follows: cereals, water, milk - 1: 2: 2. With such proportions, the porridge turns out to be boiled, but not steep. If you want a thinner dish, you can dilute the milk with another glass of water. Then the ratio will be as follows: cereals, water, milk - 1: 3: 2.

Corn milk porridge is prepared in three stages:

1. Boil the cereals in boiling water until they swell, until the water evaporates.
2. Fill the swollen cereal with milk (if you need liquid porridge, add another glass of water), cook under the lid until tender, mix.
3. We insist porridge for several minutes.

It will not be superfluous to season the finished porridge with additional ingredients: for example, raisins or dried apricots

Step by step recipes

Classic version

Required Ingredients:

• medium-ground corn grits - 1 glass;
• purified water - 2 glasses;
• milk - 2 glasses;
• sugar - 1 tablespoon;
• salt (to taste).

If you decide to cook wholemeal cornmeal, only the cooking time will change.

Cooking process:

1. Boil milk, cool.

   

   Boil the milk first.

2. Rinse the corn grits in a sieve with cold water.
3. In a large saucepan with thick sides, boil water and salt.
4. Add cereal to boiling liquid.

5. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until the moisture evaporates.

   

   Don't forget to stir the cereal!

6. Pour the steamed cereals with boiled milk. Add a glass of water if necessary.
7. Cook for another 15–20 minutes, stirring every 2–3 minutes. The saucepan is supposed to be covered with a lid in between stirring, so that the cereal is more boiled.

8. Put a piece of butter in the finished porridge and let it brew.

   

   Butter is added when the porridge is ready

9. Season the dish with sugar or honey and serve.

Video: Cooking Milk Corn Porridge on the Stove

Liquid meal for babies

If the baby has already tasted buckwheat and rice porridge and is more than eight months old, you can try adding corn to his diet. This can be done after the introduction of water-based food into complementary foods and if the child is not allergic to milk.

Required ingredients per serving:

• corn flour - 3 tablespoons;
• water - 100 ml;
• milk - 200 ml;
• salt, sugar (to taste).

Cooking process:

1. Fill the cornmeal with cold water.
2. We put it on the stove and immediately begin to mix, it is advisable to do it with a whisk (this does not form lumps).
3. Stirring continuously, cook porridge for 20 minutes on low heat.
4. Add milk, after boiling, keep it on the stove for another 5-10 minutes.
5. Salt to taste, sprinkle with sugar, add butter.

6. Serve warm to the kid so that he does not burn.

   

   Feed your baby only warm porridge so that he does not burn the oral mucosa

Cooking in a slow cooker

The easiest way to cook corn porridge in milk is in a multicooker. The process does not require constant stirring. If you correctly observe all the proportions, then the cereal will not burn to the bottom.

To make two servings of thin corn milk porridge, we need:

• corn grits - 100 g;
• purified water - 1.5 cups;
• pasteurized milk - 1.5 cups;
• butter - 50 g;
• sugar, salt (to taste).

Cooking process:

1. Put the washed cereals in the multicooker bowl.
2. Fill the contents with milk and water.
3. Salt and add sugar to taste.
4. We select the mode "Milk porridge", set the time - 35 minutes.
5. When the dish is ready, let it stand in the "Heating" mode for another 15–20 minutes.
6. We serve porridge on the table.

Video: corn porridge in milk with pumpkin in a slow cooker

Reviews and advice from hostesses from forums

Corn groats are capricious in preparation and require attention. However, observing the rules of cooking, you will get an excellent result that will delight you and your loved ones with the taste and benefits.