How to cook spelled
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1. Rinse the spelled in a sieve, put in a saucepan.
- Rinse the spelled with water and pour in a saucepan 3 centimeters above the spelled level.
- Leave the spelled for half an hour at room temperature.
- Rinse the groats again, drain the water, transfer to a saucepan.
- Pour the spelled with fresh water in a ratio of 1: 3 - for example, for 1 glass of spelled 3 cups of water.
- Add salt.
- Put the spelled on fire, cover, cook over low heat for 30 minutes after boiling.
- Add salt to the porridge, add butter (butter or vegetable) and mix.
How to quickly cook spelled
You will need - 1 glass of spelled, 3 glasses of water.1. Rinse the spelled, put in a saucepan.
2. Pour spelled with water - 3 times more than cereals (for 1 glass spelled 3 glasses of water).
3. Put a saucepan with spelled on the fire, bring to a boil.
4. Add salt and cook for 35 minutes.
5. After cooking, leave for 20 minutes.
Cooking tips
Do I need to soak the spelled? Since spelled is crushed wild wheat, soaking will certainly soften the cereal. There are quite a lot of spelled varieties and there are hard grain varieties - they will cook without soaking for a long time and can boil down into porridge. However, if the spelled has already been tested and without soaking, it is enough to add a small amount of cooking time, then you can skip this step.For morning cereals, spelled can be cooked with added sugar and fruit additives. For greater nutritional value, you can cook spelled porridge in milk. To enhance the taste, the spelled can be soaked not in water, but in kefir or yogurt.
For garnish, spelled after cooking can be fried with onions, carrots, seasonal vegetables, mushrooms.
Spelled price - from 150 rubles / 400 grams. (on average in Moscow for June 2019), cereals can be found in large hypermarkets. Despite the price and the fact that spelled is considered a rather rare cereal, be prepared for the fact that the cereal may turn out to be with pebbles and vegetable husks - the stones must be selected, and the husks must be removed by washing the cereals.
Other cereals that, along with spelled, are produced from wheat - semolina, poltava groats, bulgur, couscous... The taste of boiled spelled is very similar to semolina and "asks" to supplement itself with butter. The calorie content of spelled is 337 kcal / 100 grams.
The spelled boils well - from 170 grams of dry cereal, 780 grams of garnish are obtained.
Fusofacts
Spelled is semi-wild wheat, it is coarser and less productive, it is quite difficult to process it for easy preparation. For a long time they stopped producing spelled - it is necessary to collect and process wild wheat using manual labor. However, now, during the fashion for ecological food, spelled has received a new round of production.The spelled is mentioned by Pushkin in "The Tale of the Priest and His Worker Balda". According to the plot of the tale, Balda agrees to harsh working conditions in exchange for 3 shchelban and food in the form of a boiled spelled. I must say that Balda's calculation was pragmatic: spelled is really considered very nutritious and healthy, it can saturate and give strength for a long time. Homer mentions spelled in the Odyssey, is mentioned in the Bible.
The benefits are considered to be healthier than wheat.
Other names for cereals are spelled, kamut, two-grain.
Store spelled in a dry, dark place for up to 2 years.