Secrets of cooking pea porridge

If the pea porridge disgusts you, then you simply do not know how to cook it properly. Peas are an incredibly useful product. It contains vitamins A, B, C, digestible proteins, calcium and iron. Favorably affects the digestive system and contains few calories. The recipe for pea porridge is useful to girls who follow their figure, mothers who want to feed their crumbs with a useful dish, men who train hard and need lots of protein to build muscle mass.

How to choose and prepare peas:

• The most useful peas for porridge is not chopped. Its minus is pre-soaking in water. It is best to leave non-peeled peas in the water for the night;
• no less useful will be fresh peas. But the season of its maturation does not last long;
• soak the useful beans best in a cast-iron pan for 5-8 hours;
• cook the porridge in the water in which the peas were soaked;
• choose a thick-walled pot for cooking, then the peas will boil evenly.

Recipe number 1. Dietary pea porridge

The recipe for dietary pea porridge on the water is suitable for girls who want to lose weight before they leave. In 100 grams of this dish contains only 90 kilocalories.

Necessary ingredients:

• peas - 1 glass
• water - 4 cups
• salt.

Cooking method:

1. soak peas for the night. In the morning put the saucepan on a slow fire and bring to a boil;
2. legumes quickly burn, so you should constantly stir your dish;
3. boiled porridge on the water will be 30-60 minutes. The fact that the dish is ready will be indicated by a puree-like consistency of porridge. Grind the peas with carcass and serve to the table.

If you have a multivark, use the recipe for cooking pea porridge in this wonder device. Set it to the "Buckwheat groats" mode. Refill the dish with butter.

Recipe number 2. Pea porridge with meat in English

If you do not follow the extra calories, the recipe for pea porridge with meat is sure to please you. This dish came to us from rainy England. At home, the recipe for cooking pea porridge with bacon is very popular.

Necessary ingredients:

• frozen peas - 250 g
• bacon - 100 g
• chicken soup - 1 glass
• flour - 2 tbsp. l.
• butter - 2 tbsp. l.
• cream cheese 150 g
• onions - 1 pc
• salt, spices to taste.

Cooking method:

1. cut the bacon and fry it in a hot frying pan or in a cauldron until it starts to absorb fat. Then add finely chopped onions. Fry until golden brown;
2. add butter to the cauldron. When it melt, we throw there two spoons of flour, stirring. We hold on fire for 2 more minutes;
3. add chicken broth and cook until a thick sauce is formed in the cauldron;
4. Add the last pea in the pan. If you like more friable dishes, cook for 7 minutes. To form a puree state of porridge, leave the cauldron on fire for 20-25 minutes. Do not forget to stir;
5. Decorate with greens and sprinkle with your favorite seasonings.

If the recipe for pea porridge with meat came to your liking, freeze fresh peas for the winter. When cooking porridge, you can add to the pan a variety of ingredients: sugar, black pepper or bay leaf. The dish is ideally combined with cutlets, sauerkraut and pickled cucumbers.