Rice porridge - 8 delicious recipes how to cook

1 Classic rice porridge with milk
2 How to cook liquid milk rice porridge?
3 Rice porridge with raisins
4 Cooking on the water
5 With the addition of dried fruits
6 Recipe with apples
7 With the addition of pumpkin
8 Hearty Chicken Recipe
9 With vegetables

The popularity of rice is due to its use in a wide variety of dishes, both first and second. However the most famous and familiar food from childhood is delicious rice porridge, for the preparation of which it is necessary to remember exactly and observe the proportions, time and procedure.

Classic rice porridge with milk

Milk porridge from a distant childhood, for the preparation of 4-5 servings of which you will need:

round-grain rice - 200 g;
water - 500 ml;
milk - 500 ml;
sugar - 60 g;
butter - 5 g per serving;
salt - a pinch.

To prepare a hearty healthy breakfast, you will need an enamel pan and the following steps:

Rice is washed until transparent and placed in a pot of cold water.
The contents are brought to a boil, after which the intensity of the fire is reduced to a minimum.
The porridge is cooked until the liquid has completely evaporated with constant stirring to prevent the cereal from sticking to the bottom.
Boiled milk in a separate container is poured into porridge.
Milk porridge is again brought to a boil, and then the fire decreases.
Cooking, during which sugar and salt are added, continues until the product is ready, determined by the tooth: if the rice has become soft, you can remove it from the heat.

Attention! Rice porridge with milk in a slow cooker turns out to be no less tasty, without requiring a constant presence: all the ingredients are placed in the bowl, and the slow cooker is set to the “Milk porridge” mode. After the beep, the rice milk breakfast is ready to serve.

How to cook liquid milk rice porridge?

Fans of more liquid milk porridge can use the classic recipe described above, but with an increase in the volume of water by 100 ml and milk, depending on the wishes: the less often the consistency is needed, the more milk should be added.

Important! The degree of density can also be adjusted by the amount of rice, keeping the volumes of milk and water from the recipe, and reducing the amount of the main ingredient.

Rice porridge with raisins

Another recipe for an ordinary, at first glance, dish. Porridge with raisins is very popular among children. The basis is a set of products and a cooking method from a classic milk porridge recipe, but with the addition of 100 g of raisins, which are well washed and soaked. Prepared dry berries are added 3 minutes before the end of cooking rice with milk.

Cooking on the water

Rice porridge on water, with exact proportions, turns out to be very crumbly.

To prepare the perfect meal for healthy eaters you will need the following products:

polished rice - 200 g;
water - 500 ml;
butter - 50 g;
salt - to taste.

The cooking process is very simple:

Rice is thoroughly washed with running water and poured with boiling water.
Salted water is brought to a boil, where the cereal is then poured.
After 3 minutes, when it warms up, the fire decreases, and the rice is cooked under a closed lid.
After it swells, oil is put into the pan.
Porridge continues to steam under a closed lid for another 20 minutes.

Important! Rice porridge on water with a crumbly structure is excellent in a slow cooker in the "Cereals" mode. It is only necessary to lay the above ingredients and wait for the sound signal that the porridge is ready.

With the addition of dried fruits

To prepare a sweet porridge with dried fruits, which is a complete breakfast that gives enough energy for the whole day, you can use the recipe for making rice porridge with water. Two minutes before the dish is ready, 100 g of chopped dried fruits are added to it: dried pears, peaches, apples, prunes, dried apricots in proportions to taste.

Rice is easily digested and completely absorbed by the body.

Recipe with apples

Rice porridge with apples is especially good in the autumn-winter period, when the body needs additional vitamins so much.

For this recipe you will need:

round-grain rice - 120 g;
water - 500 ml;
milk - 250 ml;
sugar - 40-50 g;
medium-sized apple - 1 pc.;
chocolate - 2 pieces;
salt - to taste.

For apple-flavored porridge:

The washed rice is placed in a pot of water and placed on a medium-intensity fire.
Rice is cooked with constant stirring until the liquid disappears completely.
Then milk is poured into it and brought to a boil.
A peeled and diced apple is added to the rice, after which the porridge is cooked for another 3 minutes over low heat.
Before serving, butter and chocolate pieces are laid out on plates.

With the addition of pumpkin

Beautiful, bright porridge, containing a large amount of nutrients, is perfect for unloading the stomach after the holidays.

To create a pumpkin dish you will need:

round-grain rice - 120 g;
pumpkin (peeled and cut into cubes) - 200 g;
milk - 250 ml;
sugar - 80-100 g;
butter - 70 g;
salt - to taste.

To cook rice porridge with the addition of pumpkin, you must follow the following instructions:

Separately, the pumpkin is boiled until soft, removed from the water, which should not be drained.
Washed rice is boiled in a liter of water until cooked, discarded in a colander, and then returned to the saucepan.
The cereal is poured with milk and brought to a boil.
Pieces of pumpkin, salt, sugar are laid out in boiled porridge and 120 ml of the liquid in which the vegetable was boiled is added.
After 3 minutes, rice porridge with pumpkin is ready.

Advice! If there is time, then you should let the porridge brew, after wrapping the pan: the dish becomes more fragrant, and the taste is more saturated.

Hearty chicken recipe

Rice groats with chicken breast is a fragrant dish with a beautiful golden color. Due to its satiety, such porridge becomes an integral part of the daily diet.

To create porridge with chicken from 200 g of round-grain rice, you will need:

chicken breast - 500 g;
carrots - 1 pc.;
onion - 1 pc.;
vegetable oil - 100 ml;
salt and spices (pepper, basil, turmeric, cumin) - to taste.

Before cooking rice with chicken, the products are prepared: the washed rice is soaked for an hour, the chicken breast and onion are cut into cubes, and the carrots are rubbed on a coarse grater.

When everything is ready:

Oil is poured into the pan and heated.
Pieces of chicken meat are placed in the oil, to which, after the formation of a whitish crust on them, onions and carrots are added.
Meat and vegetables are fried over medium heat until the latter are soft, seasoned and salted.
Rice, from which water is drained in advance, is laid out to the meat and vegetable mass.
After the rice is saturated with fat and becomes transparent, hot water is poured into the pan, and the rice is hidden under water by 1.5 cm.
Within 15 minutes, during which the porridge should be cooked, the process is constantly monitored: rice can burn if the water evaporates ahead of time.

Advice! Such a dish should not be served immediately after cooking is completed: after 15 minutes, when the rice cools down a bit, the porridge will become more fragrant.

With vegetables

Rice with vegetables is a great side dish for delicious juicy meat. But the dish can also be served on its own as a lenten meal, which is important for religious people during fasts.

For the execution of the recipe you need:

long-grain rice - 200 g;
water (boiling water) - 400 ml;
sweet pepper - 1 pc.;
carrots - 1 pc.;
onion - 1 pc.;
green peas - 100 g;
olive oil - 50 ml;
salt and spices (pepper, basil, saffron, coriander, paprika) - to taste.

To make a nutritious dish from this set of products:

Olive oil is poured into a deep frying pan, on which chopped onions and carrots are fried for 5 minutes.
Peas are added for another 5 minutes.
The mixture is salted, seasoned.
Rice is evenly distributed over the contents from above and poured with boiling water.
Rice with vegetables is cooked for 15-20 minutes over low heat until the liquid disappears completely.

Important! Any vegetables are added to rice: canned corn, broccoli, green beans and others.

Thus, the taste of rice porridge, which is familiar to everyone since childhood, can be changed beyond recognition through the use of auxiliary products. Rice dishes, which can be sweet, dietary, hearty, will appeal to both adults, regardless of gender, and children.