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How to cook porridge on an airfryer. Video
You can cook any kind of food in the airfryer, but porridge is especially good in it. This method of cooking allows you to make an airy, crumbly porridge to your taste, reminiscent of the one that was previously cooked in Russian ovens. The main secret of these delicious cereals is the exact proportions.
Cook porridge in the airfryer
How to cook pea porridge in an airfryer
For pea porridge you will need: – 1 glass of dry peas; – water – 300 g; – 1 onion; – 1 carrot; – 2 tbsp. olive oil; – salt. To make a delicious pea porridge, you need to put it in the airfryer after soaking the peas for 3-4 hours in warm boiled water. For cooking porridge in the airfryer, you can use special dishes designed for this purpose. But delicious porridge will turn out if you use an ordinary saucepan or clay pot.
There is no need to stir food during cooking in the airfryer
Preheat a skillet and fry the finely chopped onion in it until golden brown. Add coarse grated carrots to it and blanch the vegetables for another 4-5 minutes. Put the soaked peas in a pan in layers – a layer of peas, a layer of vegetables fried in a pan. Boil water and pour it into a saucepan with water, salt. Turn on the fan of the airfryer at full power, set the temperature to 220 degrees. It takes 25 minutes to cook pea porridge in the airfryer, but after turning it off, it should stand for another 20-30 minutes to brew.
Unsweetened porridge can be cooked by adding fried vegetables or mushrooms to the cereal.
How to cook millet porridge in an airfryer
Millet porridge in the airfryer also turns out to be very tasty. For her you will need: – ½ glass of millet; – 1 glass of milk; – ½ carrots; – 1 tsp. granulated sugar; – 1 tbsp. butter or ghee; – salt to taste.
To remove the bitterness that millet may have, pour boiling water over the cereal before cooking the millet porridge in the airfryer. Peel and grate the carrots, you can fry them a little in butter or ghee. Put cereals in a saucepan, add carrots, sugar and salt, mix. Boil the milk and pour it into a saucepan. Set the fan to medium power and cook the porridge for 30 minutes at a temperature of 250 degrees. Leave the pan to stand after turning off the airfryer for another 10 minutes.
How to cook sweet porridge in an airfryer
Sweet porridges – rice, millet, semolina, cooked in milk with the addition of dried fruits – are very tasty in the airfryer. Rice groats must first be soaked for a couple of hours in warm water, millet must be scalded with boiling water so that there is no bitterness in it. It is necessary to pre-soak dried fruits – raisins, dried apricots. Dried apricots can be cut into quarters. Pour hot milk into a saucepan, dilute it with water in a 3: 1 ratio. To make the sweet porridge even tastier, add butter and a little vanilla to it on the tip of a knife.