How and how much time do you need to cook buckwheat?

 How and how much time do you need to cook buckwheat?

From buckwheat prepare a variety of dishes: soups, cereals, casseroles, and more. In the old recipes there are dishes of ground buckwheat groats.These are flat cakes, dumplings, dumplings, dumplings.

This vegetable culture contains many vitamins and mineral components that are beneficial to the human body. But buckwheat must be properly cooked to make an excellent dish.

Choice of cereals

Buckwheat whole grains are sold everywhere in stores. Hulled croup is called a kernel. This product is most often used for cooking. Other products are also made from buckwheat: flour, chopped grains (heavily crushed grains), prickles (crushed cereals). When choosing buckwheat, do not forget about some of the nuances:

  • when buying, you should choose a complete package, otherwise the food product may be damp;
  • it is desirable for buckwheat to get uniform, pure, without peel and small garbage;
  • After selecting and buying cereals, you need to cook it correctly.

Cooking Tips

Here are a few tips to help you make delicious buckwheat porridge.

  • Before cooking, the crumbs are sorted and disposed of. In the package with the product may be small pebbles. All this needs to be removed.
  • Grains are washed several times until the water is clear.
  • Water for cooking usually take two and a half times more in volume than cereals.
  • It is advisable not to pour the grain into boiling water, but pour cold water over it. Then the food will be cooked faster.
  • Porridge is better brewed in thick-walled dishes.
  • The lid when cooking should be closed.
  • It is desirable to salt the rump at the beginning of cooking.
  • Buckwheat porridge does not interfere in the cooking process.
  • If foam is formed, it must be removed with a spoon or a slotted spoon.
  • Preparing a side dish on average fifteen minutes on low heat.
  • After cooking, cover the pan or wrap with a towel. The croup is evaporated for twenty minutes and absorbs the remaining liquid.
  • To taste the dish is filled with butter.
  • In the dish, you can add any sauce, lemon juice, mushrooms, stew, liver, fried onions, various greens and other foods.
  • Crumbly porridge on milk is not cooked.
  • From two hundred grams of buckwheat we get six hundred grams of side dish.

Boiling on water

We describe the various methods of cooking porridge.

In the pan

This is a simple and fast cooking method. Water take in two and a half times more than cereals. After boiling the liquid, it is slightly salted, and clean buckwheat is poured. Fifteen minutes cooked on low heat. At the same time the pan lid is closed.

When buckwheat porridge is cooked, it is wrapped or covered with a towel for twenty minutes.

Before use, the dish is filled with butter.

In a pressure cooker

A glass of buckwheat will need two glasses of water. Initially, small debris is removed from the grains. Then they are washed several times and fall asleep in a pressure cooker with water. First, the dish is cooked on the stove over high heat. After about five minutes, the tank operating valve will begin to release steam. This means that the desired pressure in the pressure cooker has been reached, and it is necessary to reduce the heat to an average level. The cooking process takes twenty minutes. Next, buckwheat porridge add butter to taste, as well as any seasoning.

In a double boiler

A glass of clean cereal will require two glasses of water. Before cooking, buckwheat is lightly salted and dressed with butter. By the time the cooking process takes forty minutes.

In the slow cooker

From buckwheat remove small debris, it is washed several times. Next, the grains are calcined for five minutes, setting up the “Frying” process on the multi-cooker. At the next stage, add salted cold water to the container. It should be two and a half times more than cereals. Cook the food in the mode "Buckwheat" or "Rice". After cooking, season to taste with butter. The lid is closed for ten minutes to buckwheat porridge infused. Garnish ready!

Porridge with additives

Buckwheat is prepared not only separately, but also with various products. We describe several recipes.

With stew

Repeatedly washed glass of the moved grains. Open a can of stew (five hundred grams), finely chop the meat.

Three glasses of pure water are poured into a thick-walled pot. Washed cereal and stew are placed in this container. Necessarily some salt. The cooking process on a low heat takes fifteen minutes. Then the pot is wrapped and allowed to stand for ten minutes.

With vegetables

One glass of buckwheat is cleared of garbage and washed repeatedly. Two large onions are peeled and chopped. The two peppers are removed, the stalks and seeds are removed, then they are crushed with a knife. One large clean carrot rubbed on a coarse grater. Two large tomatoes finely chopped. A small bunch of parsley is washed, dried and chopped.

Pot put on the stove on a small fire. In it melt a little butter, which is then fried onion. In the next step, add the pepper and stew for seven minutes. Then carrots and tomatoes are poured into the container. The food is stewed for another five minutes. Then fall asleep buckwheat. Pour with clean salted water to cover the whole dish. The cooking process takes twenty-five minutes on low heat.

With mushrooms

First prepare the mushroom sauce. Thirty grams of dried mushrooms are well washed and put in a saucepan. Pour three glasses of clean cold water, let stand for an hour. Soaked mushrooms should swell. Next, they are removed and washed. Water is filtered, and mushrooms are boiled in it for five minutes. Then they pull out and shred.

Two large onions are peeled and cut into rings. Lightly sprinkled with sugar. Onion rings and mushrooms are fried in vegetable oil. Then pour mushroom broth and boil over low heat for ten minutes.

The next step is cooking porridge. Three hundred grams of buckwheat are sorted, removed small debris. Rinse under running water until the grains become clean. Two cups of clean, salted cold water are poured into the container. Fall asleep cereal. Cook for twenty minutes. Season to taste with butter. Give a few minutes to grow.

After cooking, the mushroom sauce is mixed with porridge and served to the table.

If no dry mushrooms, you can use mushrooms. They are cleaned, washed well, and then cooked as boiled dry mushrooms.

In the pot with liver

This is a simplified recipe for porridge in a merchant. This food is suitable for diet and very useful. For the dish will need beef or chicken liver.

Consider the cooking method.

  • Large onions and carrots are peeled and chopped.
  • Three hundred grams of chicken or beef liver washed under running cold water. Remove streaks and film. Cut into small bars.
  • Spread the liver, onion and carrot into the dishes. Add a teaspoon of ground paprika and salt. Everything is stirred and left for ten minutes.
  • After that, lay out the dish in small pots. Each serving should occupy a third of the capacity. Pots filled with clean cold water. In this case, the liquid should be one centimeter above the product. Next, cover the pots with foil or lids. Put the dish in a cold oven, which is then heated to two hundred degrees Celsius. The dish is stewed for thirty minutes.
  • During this time, one hundred grams of buckwheat is sifted and washed under running cold water in a colander. Then place the colander on the stand to drain the liquid.

When the liver with vegetables is cooked, lay buckwheat groats in pots. Add hot water, salt in portions and add a little butter. No need to mix ingredients. The pots are covered again with foil or lids. Put in the oven with a temperature of one hundred and eighty degrees Celsius. The food is tormented for thirty minutes.

After cooking, leave the pots in the oven for fifteen minutes. Then you can eat the dish with pleasure.

Buckwheat is useful to use not only adults but also young children.

Baby food

After six months, children can be fed buckwheat porridge. Food is prepared from buckwheat flour. This dish is boiled in water, milk. Add various fruits.

If there is no buckwheat flour, then cooked porridge from grits grind to a homogeneous mixture.

We give the recipes for babies.

Porridge on the water

For kids, choose in the store light buckwheat. Dark grains suggest that the product is intensely browned. It is desirable not to use such grain for kids.

The first time the food for children should be liquid. Sugar and salt are not needed. For cooking you will need two teaspoons of buckwheat flour and a glass of pure water.

If only buckwheat is available, you can make your own ground cereal. To do this, you need to sort the grain, rinse and dry. Next, in a blender or coffee grinder grind them.

In the next step, the prepared mixture is poured with water and boiled over low heat for about fifteen minutes. At the same time buckwheat porridge is constantly stirred. After cooking, the food should cool to room temperature. If desired, add infant formula to the food.

Milk Porridge

For the preparation of such foods used milk for kids. Preparing food, like on the water. The only difference is that the milk is half diluted with clean water.

These tips and recipes will help to cook properly and tasty dishes from buckwheat.

On how to cook buckwheat tasty and quickly in water, see the following video.

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