How to cook pea porridge with meat?
Long ago peas were one of the key dishes,possessing a lot of useful properties. Peas were cooked from peas, soups, baked pies, made jelly. But these days the product is no longer used so often, and it is bought only for canned salads. Preserved peas are undoubtedly useful, but it can not be compared with dry peas. Dry pea dishes have the necessary proteins for a person and can even replace meat. Legumes restore good digestion and relieve the problems associated with this.
Recipe for pea porridge with meat
By preparing the pea mush in this way, youget a royal dish. Peas in itself are hearty, and if you add meat to it, you will get a very tasty and nutritious dinner, appetizing to look at, though not festive.
But how correctly to cook pea porridge? Before starting to prepare pea porridge, beans must be soaked in cool water until 8 o'clock. Thanks to this, the product will quickly cook and take a consistency that is similar to mashed potatoes. It is necessary to salt peas when it has boiled on a plate, and do not forget to reduce the big fire.
How to cook a croquet? Stuffed on a small fire for about an hour. Sometimes you need to stir so that it does not burn out. When it is almost ready, it is filled with various spices or herbs, for example, parsley, carrots and other. And before serving, mix with butter.
Necessary ingredients:
2 cups of peas divided into halves
4-5 cups of water or better than meat broth
several small heads of onions or one large
ground pepper
300 g of pork
salt and spices.
Cooking method:
Dry peas are cleaned under water, and we fill the dishescold water with peas for up to 8 hours. This can be done in the evening, and in the morning already begin to prepare the dish. When the peas swell, drain the water and rinse again. Then pour the water in the proportions of 1: 2. You can take pork broth, then the porridge will be more satisfying. We put the dishes on the middle fire, wait until the boil, reduce the fire.
If the water evaporates quickly, before the peas are ready, then add more. Cook peas to the full readiness - it should stop crackling and completely boil.
When the porridge is ready, it can be kneaded by a tolty to a homogeneous pulp-like mass. After we set it aside.
We begin cooking meat and vegetables. Onions are cleaned and chopped finely. Pork my and cut into slices.
On a pre-heated frying pan on vegetablefry the onions to a yellow shade and put the pork there. Cover the lid and wait until ready. Pork with onion should be salted and add spices to taste.
When the meat is cooked, we heat the oven. When the meat is ready, add it to the pot and put it all in the oven for 10 minutes.
Pea porridge with meat is ready. When serving, add butter or fat cream.
Cooking tips
When buying peas, you need to pay attention to the presence of debris and any impurities in it.
The cooking pot should be with a thick bottom and walls. This contributes to the good boiling of peas.
When serving, if you observe a healthy lifestyle, cream with cereal should not be mixed, but it is better to add vegetable or other oil.
If the time for soaking peas is short, andyou need to cook pea porridge as quickly as possible, then you can take advantage of a small secret. It is necessary to soak the product in water with soda (0.5 tsp soda) and then after 1 hour you can start cooking, before thoroughly washing the legumes to remove the soda smell.
