Useful properties of wheat porridge

Kasha is a useful and nutritious dish of traditional Russian cuisine. Wheat porridge in the old days was necessarily present on the tables of past generations, whether it's a festive table or an ordinary meal. To make it more delicious, it was prepared in butter and milk. Today we will talk about the useful properties of wheat porridge.

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Wheat porridge is made from durum wheat, is available in any store and at a price affordable to everyone. One of the positive aspects of this cereal can be called a long period of its storage with preservation of all nutritional properties.

Wheat porridge - a supplier of a large amount of fiber in our body. If you regularly eat it, then you will not have problems with digestion, you will clear your gastrointestinal tract and take control of the processes of fat metabolism in our body.

Wheat porridge is very low-calorie, so it can be used by those who are dieting or trying to lose weight. Wheat cereals contain a large amount of minerals, such as phosphorus, zinc, iron, silver, beta-carotene, as well as vegetable fats, proteins, B1, B2 vitamins and others. Due to the content of a large amount of protein, it supplies the body with energy. That's why it can be eaten even by vegetarians. And since the porridge is made from wheat, it also contains vitamin E, which is able to rejuvenate, smooth out our skin, fill it with shine, strengthens the hair and nails.

Distinctive feature of wheat porridge from the others - it has a homogeneous consistency, and this makes it more convenient during cooking, because all grains are prepared simultaneously. Wheat cereals are easy to digest by the body, but at the same time it has a high caloric content - not less than 325 kcal per 100 g. This croup has fortifying properties, increases immunity, is recommended for nutrition to people whose production activity is associated with the use of physical labor. If you do not have a special love for porridge, then you can make from it no less tasty and useful different dishes, such as casseroles, puddings, little bits.

Dishes made from wheat cereals reduce the level of cholesterol in the blood. Eat porridge at breakfast, and you will feel full until lunch, full of strength and energy. Having this porridge in the diet, it is possible to improve the activity of the brain and the cardiovascular system.

Wheat is able to remove from the body slag, toxic substances, salts of heavy metals, the effects of antibiotic use, useful properties in this, of course, contribute.

In the store you can meet and wheat flakes - from them you can quickly cook porridge or muesli, they do not require cooking and are quickly prepared, which is very much welcomed by modern housewives. If you want to throw a few pounds, you can try a seven-day diet on wheat porridge, because the properties of porridge allow it to be achieved. It will saturate your body with vitamins, relieve of excess fatty deposits in the abdomen. Only eat without salt, sugar, milk and butter, and then you say goodbye to 4 kilograms. This diet recommends eating fresh vegetables and fruits (except potatoes and bananas), sour-milk products, honey, green tea.

You can cook wheat cereal in various ways. It can be served salty, or sweet. Add the oil, salt, black pepper, cook it on a meat broth - and you will get the first or second course. And if you cook porridge on milk, adding honey, butter, dried fruits, bananas, nuts, you will get a very tasty and useful sweet dish. It is a pity that such a mess is not a frequent guest on our dinner table, because it is very useful.

And finally, there is a recipe for cooking dishes from this cereal .

For example, you can cook a child over 8 months of wheat porridge with apples. To do this, take water, milk and cereals in half a glass, 1 apple and a little butter. Wash the rind for 25 minutes. Then the finished porridge is ground in a blender. After this, pour the milk into it and cook for another 5 minutes. In the meantime, we peel the apple and the seeds from the peel and seeds and three on a fine grater, and then mix with the porridge. Even children who do not like porridge, this will gladly eat.

And for adults it is recommended to cook wheat porridge with carrots. For its preparation, you need 2 cups of cereals, 2 medium carrots, 1 liter of water, butter, 2 onions, parsley or dill. Croup should be washed, pour water, adding a little salt, and cook until thick consistency. At the same time, we clean, cut and fry onions and carrots in a frying pan. Then we combine all this, and we send it to the oven for 45-50 minutes. Ready porridge spread on plates, pouring on top with melted butter and sprinkling with the taste of parsley or dill. This dish can also be consumed as lean.

Now you know everything about the useful properties of wheat porridge, to stay always in shape and feel great, as you can see, quite simply!