The Recipe of a Tasty Breakfast

To tell you the truth when I was getting married I was not good at cooking. Well, my pancakes with stuffings were really delicious but it was the only dish in my menu. Then I learnt some recipes from my mum and friends. My hubby also taught me to make some tasty meals. I remembered about his brand-name dishes now when there are lots of autumn vegetables and fruits in the gardens and our one-year-old started refusing from these very vegetables if they are cooked without anything else.

Millet with vegetables and berries. Recipe

Boil about a glass of millet adding a bit of salt into the pan. Warm up butter in a frying pan with high sides. Put peeled and diced carrots (2 medium-sized) and then pumpkin (about ¼ of a whole pumpkin) into the frying pan. Stew them without water under the lid. When the carrots and pumpkin have become soft, add the boiled millet into the frying pan. The dish is ready!

And now attention! It was the easiest variant of the dish. In our family, we make it a bit tastier. The real savour to it can be added by:

1) Walnuts. The pieces of walnuts should be put into the frying pan (after the pumpkin) and then stewed for a while together with the vegetables;

and/or

2) Apples, peeled and diced. Stew the apples together with the vegetables adding them on the frying pan after the pumpkin. But if you make this porridge with apples, note that the porridge should be eaten immediately after it is cooked otherwise the apples become too soft;

and/or

3) Cranberries. Add the berries in the same way as nuts.

Serve the porridge with honey and cheese.

Our one-year-old daughter liked this porridge very much (by the way, it was the first time in her life she had been eating millet) and I was able to enjoy cooking for the whole family.

And what tasty recipes with millet or pumpkin do you know? We will be happy to get your ideas and comments!

Anastasia

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