Hercules porridge.

Some people start their day with sandwiches, while others start their day with milk porridge. Both of these affect your health. It just affects things differently. Milk porridges are favorable, but sandwiches, unfortunately, are not. Doctors and nutritionists often talk a lot about the benefits of cereals. One of them is oatmeal, or rolled oats (after all, rolled oats are specially processed oat grains). Why is oatmeal so beneficial? Firstly, a rich composition of vitamins and microelements, important both individually and in combination. Secondly, because it normalizes the functioning of systems such as digestive, cardiovascular and nervous (thanks to B vitamins, it improves memory and increases brain performance); improves liver and kidney function; cleanses the body, removes toxins and waste; increases overall tone. Thirdly, oatmeal is a natural antidepressant. Therefore, porridges made from it have a beneficial effect not only on well-being, but also on mood.

So, friends, don’t say “Phi,” but include oatmeal porridge in your diet. A slow cooker will help you. While you're taking your morning shower and getting ready (or maybe, like me, walking the dogs), she'll prepare a healthy breakfast for you. Let's prepare oatmeal porridge with milk in a slow cooker.

Ingredients for oatmeal porridge

Oatmeal "Hercules" - one glass (volume 250 ml)
Milk (fat content not higher than 3.5%) - 1 liter
Butter - 25 grams
Salt - to taste
Granulated sugar - to taste

1. This simple and accessible set of ingredients will be used for our future porridge. Hercules should, of course, not be instantly prepared. That is, not the one that is simply poured with boiling water. Personally, I don’t see the need to dilute milk with water. But, if for some reason you always cook porridge with diluted milk, then do it as you are usually used to.

2. Place the butter in a bowl, dividing it into small pieces. (This is for taste, and not a safety net against milk escaping or porridge sticking to the bowl.) Now put the rolled oats into the multicooker.

3. Pour in milk (or, if desired, milk and water). At your discretion and taste, add salt and sweeten, mix gently. Then close the lid and turn the handle, locking it. Through the menu, select “Stewing” (program without pressure, works in the mode of a regular multicooker) and time 1 hour. Next, as always, is “Start”. Let the rolled oats cook, I’ll make a short digression and explain why we set this particular mode. Oursson MP 5010 does not have a special Milk Porridge program. Representatives of the Oursson company recommend choosing the “Stew” mode for porridges with milk, since this program is guaranteed not to allow the milk to escape. I trust the representatives, however, I like to find out everything thoroughly through experience. Having tried (and more than once!) to cook porridge from various cereals in milk using the “Porridge” (under pressure) and “Stewing” (without pressure) programs, I now confirm - yes! We cook all dairy products at “Stewing”. The program works very delicately, despite the high power of the multicooker. The time I set for the oatmeal porridge is 1 hour - this is the minimum time, the factory setting. Initially, it seemed to me that 1 hour was too long for Hercules. But, believe me, it’s very normal, and the porridge turns out simply amazing.

4. While I was making a short excursion, an hour passed unnoticed and signals were heard. Let's go open the cover of the MV. Let's see if the milk porridge is ready? Oh yes! Still so ready!

We serve plates, spoons and lay out the rolled oats. If desired, add fresh berries or fruits. After all, they will perfectly complement the dish.

The multicooker, a miracle of kitchen appliances, has made it much easier for housewives to prepare breakfast: while we are getting ready for work, the device cooks the porridge itself. Hercules porridge in a slow cooker is one of the healthy breakfast options. In the article you will find a selection of simple, delicious recipes, as well as useful tips for working with a multicooker.

Recipe 1. Milk porridge

Traditional recipe for oatmeal with milk.

Ingredients:

0.5 cups of Hercules flakes,
0.5 glasses of milk,
0.5 cups cream,
butter - 1 tsp,
salt and sugar - to taste.

Step by step recipe:

It is not necessary to use cream; you can take a glass of milk. But with cream it turns out a very tender and flavorful dish.
Pour the cereal into the slow cooker and fill it with milk and cream.
Set the “Milk porridge” mode. Cooking time - 20-25 minutes.
When serving, add salt, sugar and a little butter.

Recipe 2. Whole oatmeal porridge

The recipe uses coarse rolled oats. The cooking time is much longer, but this porridge retains maximum benefits.

You will need:

milk - 3 glasses,
oatmeal (grains) - 1 cup,
sugar - 2 tbsp,
butter - 30 g,
salt - a pinch.

Cooking steps:

Grease the multicooker bowl with a piece of butter.
Rinse the cereal with water and place it in the bottom of the bowl.
Add milk.
Salt and add granulated sugar.
Set the “Porridge” mode and cook for 60 minutes.

Recipe 3. On the water

Dietary recipe for rolled oats with water - quick and economical.

Required Products:

700 g water (boiled),
350 g flakes,
2 tbsp. Sahara,
1 tsp butter,
salt,
pieces of fruit (dried fruits).

Step by step recipe:

Grease the bowl with butter.
Rinse the oatmeal with warm water.
Mix the cereal with water directly in the bowl.
Set the “Porridge” mode. Cooking time - 20-25 minutes.
Sugar, salt and fruit are added directly to the plate.

Recipe 4. Steamed

Hercules porridge can be cooked in a multicooker using the “Steam” mode. Recipe for multicookers that do not have the “Milk porridge” function.

You will need:

40 g flakes,
0.5 l milk,
1 tsp butter,
salt and sugar.

How to cook:

Find a heat-resistant dish that will fit into the multicooker bowl. The rolled oats will be prepared in it.
Pour the cereal into a bowl and add milk.
Fill the bowl with water to the bottom line, then place the bowl of cereal in it.
Turn on the “Steam” mode for 20 minutes.
Then turn on the “Keep Warm” mode to thicken the porridge.
Add salt and sugar before serving.
Useful additions to porridge: dried apricots, raisins, nuts, honey.

Advice! Never add honey to hot porridge, as all its beneficial properties are lost at temperatures above 40 degrees.

Recipe 5. With carrots and orange

Sunny porridge with carrots and orange is a healthy breakfast for children.

You will need:

one large carrot,
one orange,
rolled oats - 6 tbsp.,
cane or regular sugar - 2 tbsp.,
30 g butter,
150 ml water.

Cooking:

Peel the carrots, cut into rings and squeeze the juice in a juicer. You can do this by hand by grating the carrots on a fine grater and rolling them in gauze.
Grind the orange peel on a grater or in a blender, mix with carrot pulp.
Squeeze the orange juice and mix it with the carrot juice. You should get 300 ml of juice.
Place the pulp with zest in the multicooker bowl, pour in the juice, add sugar and 150 ml of water.
Rinse the cereal and add to the bowl. Leave everything for 10 minutes.
Turn the multicooker to “Soup” mode, bring the mixture to a boil and stop immediately. Let the porridge simmer for 15 minutes.
Serve with butter.

Cooking porridge in a saucepan is different from cooking in a slow cooker. To make the dish tender and tasty, follow these tips.

Oatmeal is actually whole grains, and Hercules flakes are the oatmeal we are used to. Don't get confused!
Maintain proportions. The recommended ratio of cereal to liquid is 1:2. When porridge is cooked in a saucepan, the water evaporates freely, so take 3 measures of liquid per 1 measure of cereal. In a slow cooker, the evaporation process is especially difficult. You need to take less water or milk so that the rolled oats do not turn out too liquid.
The multi-cooker “Porridge” mode does not involve boiling. Maximum temperature - 90 degrees. Therefore, boil water and milk in advance.
To prevent the porridge from burning, rinse the bottom of the bowl with cold water before cooking.
Choose good rolled oats. It should be light, large, without dark spots. Choose transparent plastic packaging in which all the cereal is clearly visible.
Oatmeal is usually not washed before cooking. But if you do this, you will get a cleaner and more delicate taste.
Add sugar and salt after the cereal is cooked. This way you will retain maximum beneficial properties when cooking.
Rolled oats can be stored for up to 12 months. Polyethylene packaging is preferred. It protects the product from moisture. In a cardboard box, the cereal will lose its beneficial properties and become rancid.
Do not open the multicooker lid during cooking. This applies to any dish unless the recipe requires gradual addition of ingredients into the bowl.
To prevent the oatmeal from splashing and foaming, grease the multicooker bowl with butter.
The average cooking time for porridge depends on the characteristics of your technique. The Redmond multicooker will cook oatmeal in 15 minutes, and the Polaris model in 10. Cooking coarse oatmeal takes from 40 to 60 minutes.
For those whose mornings start very actively, there are multicookers with a delayed cooking mode (“Delayed Start”). Simply add all the ingredients into the bowl and set a time for your breakfast to be ready.
How to get children interested in oatmeal porridge? Use grated chocolate to draw something directly on the plate. You can also draw using jam, preserves, condensed milk or honey.

Hercules porridge in a slow cooker is the best option for breakfast: it is healthy, tasty and does not take much time. Bon appetit!

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How to cook oatmeal porridge in a slow cooker. Recipe with step-by-step photos and video instructions. Cook deliciously and for your pleasure. Bon appetit!

20 min

90 kcal

5/5 (4)

Probably everyone in their life has wondered why ordinary oatmeal is so beautifully called Hercules porridge? Here's your answer: the Russian people have long believed that oats provide powerful strength, since oats were fed to horses, including draft horses. Therefore, porridge made from oat grains was also considered a source of strength for people. In Soviet times, oatmeal was sold in a package called “Hercules” - apparently, it received this name in honor of the most powerful hero of antiquity, Hercules.
Oatmeal contains many useful substances, such as B vitamins and many others. Regular consumption of oatmeal porridge strengthens bones and the cardiovascular system.
It is recommended to be given to children, convalescent people and those who follow any diet regimen. And how to cook the miraculous oatmeal porridge in a slow cooker, I describe in detail below!

What you need to know before cooking

Kitchen appliances: multicooker.

Ingredients:

How to choose the right ingredients:
Oatmeal can be prepared with either milk or water. Cooked oatmeal porridge with water in a slow cooker will not lose any of its beneficial properties. It’s not scary if you dilute milk with water, which is a little lacking.
If you have doubts about the quality of water or milk, it is better to boil the liquid before cooking, since the multicooker in the “Porridge” or “Milk porridge” mode does not bring the temperature to a boil.

Cooking sequence

Before loading the ingredients, grease the multicooker bowl with a piece of butter. Thus, the porridge will not “run away” during cooking and will not splatter on the walls of the bowl.
Now pour oatmeal, sugar and salt into the bowl, add milk or water and close the lid.
Depending on the brand and model of your multicooker, set the “Porridge” or “Milk porridge” mode for 20 minutes, or “Multicook” for 10 minutes.

You can also boil something in a multicooker using the “Rice/Pilaf” or “Quick Heating” mode.
After the specified time, your “strongman porridge” is ready - put it on plates and eat.

Video recipe

The recipe for making rolled oats porridge with milk in a slow cooker with the addition of ground nuts is presented in the video.

Oatmeal is the best nutritious and healthy The breakfast dish you can imagine! You can wash it down with tea, coffee, milk or simple compote. In addition to unsweetened porridge, you can eat 100 grams of light vegetable salad.

Other cooking options

“Hercules” can be made thick or thin - for a medium-thick porridge you need a ratio of 1:4 (that is, 1 multi-cup of cereal per 4 cups of liquid). For a thinner porridge, increase the volume of liquid by 1 multi-cup. For a thicker consistency, on the contrary, reduce by 1 multi-cup. Many oatmeal lovers consider Monastyrsky rolled oats to be the healthiest cereal for cooking. You can also make the porridge sweet or salty. Unsweetened porridge goes well with any meat product, be it a cutlet, sausage or boiled chicken fillet.
For sweet porridge, you can use honey instead of sugar. Only honey should be added to ready-made, not very hot porridge, as it ceases to be useful after exposure to high temperatures!
You can also add pieces of fresh fruit or dried fruits and nuts to sweet oatmeal.
In addition to the fact that oatmeal itself is healthy, it has additional properties

Time: 40 min.

Servings: 6

Difficulty: 2 out of 5

Recipe for delicious oatmeal porridge in the Polaris multicooker

Cooking oatmeal porridge in the Polaris multicooker is appreciated in our time, because thanks to kitchen appliances oatmeal turns out soft, satisfying and very healthy. Moreover, many housewives claim that this recipe turns out to be very airy, so it is difficult to compare it with porridge cooked on the stove - this dish tastes more like a sweet mousse. However, to prepare such porridge, it is important to follow a few tips that will make it especially tender and healthy.

Nowadays, in kindergartens, rolled oats porridge is always included in the menu, since it is quite difficult to find healthier and more satisfying cereals. A properly cooked dish turns out viscous and thick, which ensures normal digestion for both children and adults. In addition, oatmeal contains a lot of useful substances, which include:

Magnesium;
Phosphorus;
Calcium;
Potassium.

These elements are especially needed by the body, and they are quite difficult to find in modern products. Therefore, sometimes such porridge must be included in the diet in order to constantly provide the body with useful substances.

But not only children benefit from rolled oats porridge - nutritionists say that such a dish helps to quickly lose weight, as well as normalize the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract and remove harmful elements from the body. Therefore, this dish is ideal as a healthy and nutritious meal, especially if prepared with honey, milk or fresh fruit.

It is also impossible not to notice that the fiber that is part of the cereal provides a person with satiety for 4 hours. At the same time, he will not feel hungry during this period and will not constantly “snack” while waiting for food.

Hercules porridge is the coarsest flakes. That is, they were subjected to minimal processing, which means they retained all the beneficial properties and microelements. And since the porridge is cooked in a slow cooker for only 20 minutes, this explains its beneficial properties, because it takes much longer to cook on the stove. As a result, the dish will turn out not only healthy, but also very tasty.

Some recipe secrets:

Try to use only classic rolled oats. Buy only those products that can be easily seen in a transparent pack or packaging. If the cereal has not been processed, it will be light, large and without dark spots. Important: in a plastic bag, the flakes retain their beneficial properties throughout the year, and in this form they are reliably protected from moisture.
Be sure to follow the proportions of the cereal. To make the porridge viscous, you should take a little more liquid, since it evaporates during cooking. The optimal ratio of cereal and water is 2:1.
Use natural milk or purified water. This recipe is prepared in a slow cooker using the “Milk Porridge” program. This program ensures that the liquid boils away and also does not allow it to “escape”, so the milk is heated only to 90 degrees. This means that the liquid does not completely boil, so you should take care of this in advance.
Do not open the lid during cooking. This rule applies to all preparations in a multicooker, since in this case the temperature in the device is disturbed and the cooking time increases.
Before cooking, you need to grease the bowl with oil. To ensure that the porridge certainly did not run away, did not splash or foam, the walls of the multicooker bowl can be greased with oil.

You need to cook a dish in the Polaris multicooker using the “Multicook” mode, which will prepare the recipe in just 10 minutes.

This cooking option is considered the easiest and fastest, so you need to prepare the ingredients included in the recipe in advance.

Ingredients:

Step 1

Pour milk and water into the bowl.

Step 2

Add cereal, salt and sugar.

Step 3

Mix the ingredients and select the “Multi-cook” program.

As soon as the oatmeal porridge is cooked in the Polaris multicooker, add butter to it and serve.

Oatmeal recipes

10 minutes

90 kcal

5/5 (1)

One of the ideal breakfast options for the whole family is oatmeal porridge. Hercules is very useful for the body, it perfectly satisfies hunger and prepares the body well for an active working day. Some people prefer rolled oats cooked with milk, while others prefer porridge with water.

How to cook oatmeal porridge so that it turns out nutritious, aromatic, does not burn and does not require your constant attention when cooking? It's easy, use a slow cooker. Just a little effort and time on your part, maximum benefit for the whole family.

Recipe for oatmeal porridge with milk in a slow cooker

Kitchen appliances: multicooker.

Ingredients

How to choose the right ingredients

Everyone knows that you need to eat rolled oats to be healthy and strong. To ensure your breakfast is just like this, you need to consider the following factors when choosing rolled oats:

Did you know? Hercules envelops the gastric mucosa and gently cleanses the intestines. Widely used in dietary nutrition.

We will cook porridge with milk. This is a perishable product, so choose fresh milk. The optimal fat content is 2.5% or 3.2%.

You can season the porridge with butter. The healthiest oil is the one with a fat content of 82%. It adds flavor to the dish and contains mainly animal fats.

Recipe step by step

Hercules porridge on water in a slow cooker

Season this dietary porridge with a teaspoon of olive oil (per serving). Chopped nut mixture will add additional piquancy to the porridge. It's very simple to make: chop and mix walnuts, cashews and almonds.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.
Number of servings: 2.
Kitchen appliances: multicooker.

Ingredients

Recipe step by step

What is this porridge served with?

Sweet rolled oats are seasoned with butter and served with jam, jam or condensed milk. Hercules porridge goes well with fruits and berries. Most often, apples, strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries are added to it. It is also perfectly complemented by dried fruits: raisins, prunes, dried apricots.

Porridge is delicious with cookies or fresh baked goods as a snack. For breakfast you can serve tea, coffee, compote or herbal decoction.

Video recipe for cooking oatmeal porridge in a slow cooker

Watch in a short video how easy it is to cook oatmeal porridge in a slow cooker. Just 7 minutes and a healthy breakfast for the whole family is ready!

https://youtu.be/uCbcjPi_e14

Do not open the multicooker while preparing rolled oats. This will make the porridge taste richer.
If porridge with milk seems too greasy to you, milk can be diluted with water in a 1:1 ratio.
You can season the porridge with either butter or vegetable oil.. Often rolled oats cooked in water without adding sugar are seasoned with vegetable oil.
Brown cane sugar contains fiber, which makes brown sugar lower on the glycemic index than white sugar. Adding brown sugar to rolled oats will have a beneficial effect on the functioning of the pancreas and will make breakfast not only satisfying, but also healthy.
If rolled oats cooked with milk is an independent dish, then rolled oats cooked in water can be a side dish option. It can be served with meat and fish dishes, salads, and pickles.
If you don't have a slow cooker, there's no reason to leave your family without a healthy, nutritious breakfast. Find out how to make rolled oats with milk for breakfast or as a side dish.
Hercules is the “closest relative” of oatmeal. Oatmeal is a less processed oat grain that is extremely beneficial for digestion, but takes longer to prepare than rolled oats. Since oatmeal is less processed, it is a more natural product and can be consumed every day! Check out the cooking recipe.
An excellent dietary dish is oatmeal with water. Busy housewives will appreciate the preparation.

Cooking oatmeal porridge in a wonderful slow cooker is very quick and easy. This is an excellent everyday dish, which can be varied by adding fruits, berries, dried fruits, honey, and nuts. Hercules goes well with main dishes. It can be served as a side dish for meat or fish. Tell us in the comments: does your family prefer salty or sweet oatmeal porridge cooked in a slow cooker?