Millet Kasha

Millet kasha is excellent healthy choice for children and adults. Millet is one of the oldest grains known by people and ranked as 6th most important grain. The benefits include great selection of vitamins and minerals, so it is huge addition to our diet.

Millet kasha mostly serves for breakfast. If you have kids, it is one of the best solutions how to improve the healthy eating habits. Kids love milk millet kasha and my daughter eats it all the time.

Before we start you have to remember: this meal is easy and fast to cook, well preserves in refrigerator without loosing testing quality and most important that is a healthy meal.

Ingredients: milk, millet grain, salt, sugar, butter. That is it. Almost forgot, and only 15-20 minutes of your time. Such little time to make your kids happy.

Step 1

Take 2-qt. pot or sauce pot of medium size. Fill it out with milk almost to the top. Set your burner flame to a medium-low. Let the milk worm up to the boiling point.

 salt and 3 teaspoons of sugar  

step 2

Add a pinch of salt and 3 teaspoons of sugar or as much as you like for your own taste.

millet grain and an empty glass  

Step 3

While milk is warming up, take a millet grain and an empty glass. Fill the 2/3rd of the glass with millet. After you measure the amount that you need, poor it into the mixing bowl so you can wash it.

 Washing the millet grain           

Step 4

Wash the millet grain with slightly warm water, until water is completely clear. Take out bad grains. You want your kasha to look great and taste good. Drain water very well.

 Steering mixture          

Step 5

As soon as your milk is in boiling point, poor washed grains into the pot of milk. Be careful, it is already hot. Steer mixture well.

 Seting timer      

Step6

Adjust your burner flame so that milk is boiling just a little bit.  Usually it is a low flame setting. Set your timer for 15 minutes.  Steer it with a table spoon time to time. Cooking time will not exceed a 15 min. After 10 min. check millet for softness by tasting it. Some people prefer harder grains and some prefer very mashie. Keep in mind that when kasha is ready and you turn the burner off. Take the pot and put it on a cold burner. Millet will continue to soften for some time and if you leave it on a hot burner you will get a mash potato.

Step 7

TIP:While your kasha is cooking and you fill that it is not ready yet but it is alredy looking very thick, meaning: you put too much of millet. Don’t worry take some out and add more milk. You can add milk at any time while it’s cooking.

 ready millet kasha       

Step8

When kasha is ready add a cube (less than 1”) of unsalted butter. Steer very well. Cover the pot. Place the pot on a cold burner