Those who do not hear the familiar "Oatmeal, sir" in the morning (in English, of course), most likely, sometimes you have to cook oatmeal yourself. Well-cooked oatmeal is an extremely satisfying and healthy breakfast. Traditionally, oatmeal was eaten in Scotland, Scandinavia, in Russia, and it was popular among other Slavic peoples. Cooked oat porridge on water or on milk.
Currently, oatmeal is prepared most often from oat flakes - this is a flattened ground oats grain. In recent decades, breakfast cereals are gaining popularity, the main ingredient in them is oat flakes.
In addition to oat flakes and the second main component (that is, water, milk or sour-milk liquid products), sugar, honey, dried fruits, cinnamon, nuts, butter, salt, fruit jam or syrup and even cheese can be added to the oatmeal. Also in oatmeal can be added fresh fruit, cut into small pieces and / or various fresh berries.
In fact, it is not difficult to cook oatmeal at all, you need to pour oatmeal with water and boil until cooked (it will turn out porridge, mash or thicker, depends on the amount of water). And sometimes you have to take oatmeal with you when you go to work or to nature, and in these cases it is convenient to make "lazy" oatmeal in a bank, this alternative recipe is much easier.
To prepare a "lazy" oatmeal, pour the oat flakes with boiling water, or milk, kefir (other liquid fermented milk products) and wait for the flakes to swell. Of course, this variant of preparation is preferable from the point of view of dietology. On sale there are special steamed flakes, you can use them, but the usual quality oat flakes are much more useful.
Tell you how to prepare a "lazy" oatmeal in a glass jar.
Choosing a jar
It is better to choose a jar with a screw cap or with a lid with a special locking device, the effect of which is to tightly pressurize the lid tightly to the neck of the can and fix it in this position.
About Safety
The bank should not have any damage, cracks and chips, it is desirable that there are no bubbles in the glass. When steaming oatmeal, boiling water must be dry outside and inside, and stand on a dry (preferably wooden) stand.
"Lazy" oatmeal in a can - recipe
Ingredients:
- oat flakes - 0,5 glasses;
- water or milk - 1-1.5 cups.
Preparation
We fall asleep oat flakes in the jar. Dry flakes in the jar should not exceed 1 / 3-1 / 2 of the total volume. Fill in a jar of boiling water or even cold boiled water (then just wait longer until it is ready, but this option is even better). Optimal pour flakes with water at a temperature of about 60-70 ° C. If you use milk instead of water, do not boil it, just heat it (of course, it is better that the milk be pasteurized). You can add a little cinnamon and other spices (cardamom, saffron, ground ginger, etc.) to the can of oatmeal.
In the finished oatmeal can add oil, honey, fruit jam or syrup, steamed shredded dried fruits, shredded nuts, pieces of fresh fruit. Dried fruits and nuts can be laid with flakes before steaming. Fresh fruit-berries should be added to the prepared oatmeal in order not to lose vitamins during steaming. In the version with a cold or slightly warm pouring, you can also lay them at once.
"Lazy" oatmeal with yogurt - recipe
- oat flakes - 0,5 glasses;
- kefir or unsweetened drinking yoghurt of average fat content - 1-2 glasses;
- berries, crushed nuts, steamed dried fruits or fresh fruit - if desired.
Oat flakes separately or together with other components are poured with kefir and wait until the flakes absorb kefir. It should be noted that there is oatmeal cooked on the basis of yogurt or other sour-milk liquid products, should not be immediately after sleep, but at least a minute after 40.
In the same way, you can prepare healthy breakfasts from multi-cereal flakes.