How long millet soup to cook?

Millet soup needs to be cooked for 1,5 hours.

How to make millet soup with chicken

Products

Chicken drumstick – 1 piece

Potatoes – 5 pieces

Millet – 3 tablespoons

Carrots – 1 small

Onion – 1 small

Greens – to taste

Salt – to taste

Preparation of products

1. Peel half of the carrots, onions and 5 potatoes and rinse under running water.

2. Cut the potatoes into cubes.

3. Grate the carrots on a medium grater.

4. Finely chop the onion.

5. Rinse the greens under water and chop them finely.

6. Rinse with 3 tablespoons of millet.

How to make millet chicken soup

1. Boil one chicken drumstick in a separate saucepan.

2. Remove the drumstick and separate the meat from the bones.

3. Cut the meat into pieces.

4. Set the soup pot on high heat and add water.

5. Put potatoes, carrots, onions into the water and wait for the water to boil.

6. When the water boils, reduce heat to medium.

7. When the potatoes are cooked in the soup, add 3 tablespoons of millet, pieces of chicken drumstick and salt to the soup.

8. Put chopped greens into the soup 5 minutes before the end of cooking.

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Millet soup like grandma’s

Millet soup – lean or with chicken – is sometimes called grandmother’s. The secret of the name “grandmother’s millet soup” may be incomprehensible to those whom grandmother did not regale with such a soup. Why, then, is the dish called that? The thing is that millet, as one of the cheapest cereals, was often used during the Second World War, and even after, because the economy was destroyed, and there was literally not enough food. Various dishes were prepared from millet, including soups, the cost of which was literally approaching zero. This is one of the reasons why the soup is called “grandmother’s” – after all, it was just our grandmothers or great-grandmothers who made it.

There is also another explanation. Now, only milk porridge is prepared from millet. Many people associate cereal with the fact that it is fed to poultry, for example, chickens. Because millet belongs to the “retro style”, dishes made from it are also often called grandmother’s. Indeed, today the culinary fashion has practically excluded millet from the list of regularly used products.