The glory of porridge (merged)

tanith

This is the way I always make it and I love it.....

Just for one person I use a half a cup of Scotts Porrige Oats
one cup half and half milk and water
stir in a non-stick saucepan for 4 or 5 mins

Put into a bowl with a little cold milk & brown sugar


DELICIOUS...... I know it should really be served with salt but NO NO NO:eek:

Counting_Pennies_2

I cook mine for the whole family including a toddler, so I cook with whole milk.

I cook it in the microwave. 90g oats to 700ml of milk for 6 mins.

It makes it wonderfully creamy.

I make it thick and then pour skimmed milk into the grown ups bowls and more whole milk to my son's, this cools it down.

I serve mine and my sons with sugar free jam and my husband has a crisy coat of sugar on his. yum

lizzG

I do it in the microwave.

use the same measuring utensil, I use a small cup for one portion.

One cup of porridge then two cups of milk.

put in micro for 2 mins on high.

comes out lovely and creamy and if you cook it in the bowl that yr gonna eat it from, it saves on the washing up.

Pink.

Hi jellyang,

We have a great thread on making porridge that should help you so I'll merge your thread with it as it helps to keep all the suggestions together.

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Whitefiver

Hi,

One thing that I have found helped a great deal when making porridge was a diffuser plate on the gas ring - made the simmering much more even, with no hot spots, and no burning!

I almost always use oatmeal, not rolled oats, and they do need a longer period of cooking.

I bought my diffuser from Debenhams - £5 if I recall, but I am sure you could get cheaper.

Hope that helps,

Regards,

White.

Boomdocker

Well there's nothing fancy abut the way I do mine.

I use a small ladle to measure my oats, then add 2 ladles of water and 1 of skimmed milk. Nuke for 3 mins. Add a tablespoon of golden syrup,stir and enjoy.

Asda Otas 48p, syrup 88p. Thats 2 weks of brekkie for £1.36 compared to the bacon sarnie at work for 70p a day.

I do worry about the syrup though and may consider trying honey, woulds that be better do you think?

pavlovs_dog

ive been trying to cook my porridge in the micro, but i think i must be cooking it too long, because it is thick rather than runny :rolleyes: going to give it a go on the hob

i wanted to know if you can pre-soak the porridge oats in milk (im guessing this would make it even creamier?) and does anyone do this?

reason i ask is that since ive started going to the gym, my appetite has gone through the roof, and i thought this would be a nice post-workout snack :beer:

Money~Bunny_3

Oh boy yes you can soak them. I found it recommended in a recipe book from the late nineteenth century as a way of making porridge go further and be tastier.

hazzie123

I blitz my porridge oats in the blender to make them look like ready brek.The little`un aint keen on the lumpy oaty bits if i dont do it that way.

I usually boil some milk and water,usually half and half in a pan then chuck in the blitzed oats and whisk it with my hand blender until nice and smooth.Good thing about it your not really cooking them,just heating them up in the boiling hot milk.

I love to eat mine with,peanuts,raisins,sesame seeds,orange and banana`s if I have them.

Penny-Wise_4

I like my porridge made with water and a pinch of salt, then with a little milk around the edges of the bowl so the porridge comes away from the side and floats on the milk. It spoils my morning if my porridge doesn’t float.

My mum used to like it made with water and salt with a thin layer of sugar sprinkled on top of the hot porridge to melt a little, then milk poured on quickly but carefully so the melted sugar sets and floats on the milk. She can’t have dairy or soya now so can’t do that.

My dad eats it made with water and salt made in a pan on the hob, then he eats it out of the pan, with the wooden spoon he used to stir it. He likes to save on washing up and therefore water – they have a water meter.

OH likes his made with milk topped with golden syrup.