Oatmeal - a recipe for a delicious and healthy breakfast

Oatmeal in the old days was very respected for nutritional value and beneficial effect on the gastrointestinal tract. Today the tradition of eating oatmeal is lost, so maybe we'll try to revive it?

What is the use of oatmeal?

Not every child today knows what an oatmeal looks like, because most moms buy and prepare oatmeal. And earlier from oats cooked soups, cereals, jelly and homemade kvass. It is said that dishes from oats are still very popular in Ireland. Haggis - the national Irish dish, is a stuffed oats stuffed with sheep's stomach.

Oatmeal porridge, the recipe of which has been preserved by old cookbooks, is not at all like the modern one. Oat grains are cooked for a long time, but they possess extremely useful properties. Porridge is nutritious, easy to digest and therefore useful to an exhausted organism. Contains proteins, fiber, amino acids, B vitamins, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, zinc, calcium, iron. Oatmeal is useful to an irritated stomach - enveloping its walls, it helps to relieve inflammation in gastritis. Due to the rich spectrum of vitamins, trace elements and amino acids, oatmeal helps skin rejuvenate, strengthens hair and has a beneficial effect on the nervous system. It also stimulates intestinal peristalsis. Thus, we come to the conclusion that oatmeal porridge is a recipe for a daily diet of dietary nutrition.

English breakfast

They say that the tradition of breakfast with milk porridge was introduced by the British. They invented porridge from oat flakes, which does not require cooking. For all its usefulness, oatmeal porridge, the recipe of which was invented by the English, is very ... distinctive and not everyone will like. To be frank, she simply has no taste. Therefore, we will offer a completely different recipe, which even Sir Henry would appreciate from the famous film The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Oatmeal, sir!

For two portions we take oat flakes - 1 glass, vanilla sugar - half a bag, salt - a tiny pinch, 1 apple green apple, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1 glass of milk, 50 g butter - Oatmeal On milk, the recipe of which is often found on the Internet, presupposes pre-boiling milk. However, Professor V.V. Pokhlebkin advises in his book "Secrets of Good Food" to boil cereals on water and add milk or cream to the ready-made porridge. To make oatmeal porridge, the recipe of which will please both adults and children, in our favorite saucepan we boil 1.5 cups of water, slightly add, pour into the boiled water a diced green apple and cook for about three minutes. Add to the apple oat flakes, stirring, cooked no longer than five minutes and traced to thicken, porridge is not burnt. Before turning off the cooker, add the milk, sugar and vanilla to the porridge. We mix it, turn off the fire, add the butter to the saucepan and cover it with a lid. Now let our porridge stay warm until we make tea and butter butter rolls. If you decorate the prepared dish with strawberries, cherries, cherries or sprinkle porridge with steamed raisins - you will get a real delicacy. When everything is ready, we serve the yummy food on the table and we favorably receive exclamations of delight and compliments of the household.

To the question of losing weight

As you can see, cooking oatmeal does not take much time, so it's the perfect breakfast for those who like to eat deliciously. Those who are concerned about the issue of weight loss, the above recipe is categorically contraindicated. If you are on a diet - eat oat flakes without salt, sugar, milk and, of course, without oil. Steam them with boiling water, add flaxseed, chopped almonds, microscopic portion of honey (not more than a teaspoon), a handful of dried fruits and lose weight on health.