Porridge

For the British TV comedy, see Porridge (TV)

Porridge (also known in American English as hot cereal), is a simple dish made by boiling oats (normally crushed oats, occasionally oatmeal) or another meal in water or milk. Oat and semolina porridge are by far the most popular varieties. Some other meals used for porridge include wheat, peasemeal, barley, or cornmeal. In many cultures it is eaten as a breakfast, often with the addition of sugar or cream. As the traditional breakfast of Scotland, it is made with salt. Some manufacturers of breakfast cereal sell "ready-made" versions; aficionados question whether these can truly be called porridge.

Gruel is a thin porridge made with water.

Types of Porridge

• oatmeal porridge -- can be made with steel-cut oats (traditional in Ireland and Scotland) or with rolled oats (traditional in England and the United States. Known simply as porridge in the British Isles and simply as oatmeal in the United States.
• maize porridge
  • grits or ground hominy grits or ground posole -- traditional in the southern United States
  • atole -- Mexico -- water, milk
  • atole de chocolate or champurrado -- Spain -- sugar, milk, chocolate
• barley porridge
  • farina
• wheat porridge
  • cream of wheat or semolina
  • polentina (could also be made from corn) -- Italy -- raisins, milk, sugar
  • uppama or uppma -- a fried semolina (suzi or shuji) porridge traditional in southern India. Flavored with clarified butter (ghi), fried onions, toasted mustard seeds, curry leaves. Often mixed with vegetables and other foods, such as potatoes, fried dried red chilis, fried cauliflower, and toasted peanuts or cashew nuts.
• rice porridge
  • congee (also jook (Cantonese) or xifan (Mandarin)) -- with chicken or duck's eggs and pork, cilantro, fried wonton noodles, with fried bread (yao ja buai (Cant.) or yiu tiao (Mand.)
  • okayu -- Japan -- salt and green onions
  • nasi lemak -- Malaysia -- coconut milk, eggs, chopped peanuts, anchovies
  • kao dom -- Thailand -- cilantro, preserved duck eggs, fish sauce, sliced chili peppers, pickled mustard greens or salt cabbage preserves, red pepper flakes
  • chao bo -- Vietnam -- ground beef or chicken
  • arroz caldo or lugaw -- Philippines -- saffron, fish sauce, ginger
  • champurado -- Philippines -- evaporated milk, chocolate powder, sugar, milk
• peasemeal porridge (also pease porridge or pea porridge)

See also

• grits
• mush
• Rice congee

Sources

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See also: Porridge, American English, Atole, Barley, Breakfast, Breakfast cereal, British Isles, Champurrado