How much do you need buckwheat per serving for one person and for a large company?
Buckwheat, like many other cereals, is important for a healthy diet, because it has a low calorie content and contains many useful substances.But for proper diet planning it is important to know how much ready-made meals come from a different amount of buckwheat. Therefore, it is worth considering how much one buckwheat per serving is needed for one person and how much one needs to take cereals when cooking for a large company.
Special features
Buckwheat differs from most other cereals in its rich composition with very low caloric content. Thus, the caloric content of 100 grams of boiled buckwheat does not exceed 120 kilocalories, while it contains up to 20 grams of carbohydrates, up to 5 grams of fat and up to 4 grams of protein. Harmful saturated fats in the composition of such a portion will be no more than 0.8 g - most of the fats that make up buckwheat, are useful mono-and polyunsaturated. This dish will be rich in vitamin PP, as well as B vitamins, which in 100 grams of buckwheat contain:
- up to 0.5 mg of vitamin B1;
- up to 0.2 mg of vitamin B2;
- up to 0.4 mg of vitamin B6.
Of the beneficial trace elements in notable quantities, this dish will contain:
- sodium;
- iron;
- calcium;
- molybdenum;
- zinc;
- potassium;
- iodine;
- phosphorus;
- cobalt;
- fluorine.
With such a rich composition, this side dish is also good in that it has practically no contraindications, so it can be safely recommended for cases when you need to feed a relatively large mixed company (up to 4 people).
However, in this case it is better to avoid cooking buckwheat dishes on milk, because many modern adults suffer from intolerance of lactose, which is part of dairy products.
Cooking porridge and side dish
When cooking any main dishes from buckwheat, it is important to remember the fact that during cooking the volume of its grains increases by an average of 3 times. In this case, the final volume of the finished dish will depend on the amount of water used and the duration of cooking. Therefore, by controlling the ratio of the amount of liquid and used buckwheat, you can get a variety of dishes - from crumbly side dishes to sticky stewed porridges.
It is believed that The average portion of finished buckwheat per person weighs from 115 to 150 grams. Therefore, if you want to cook a medium-sized porridge for 1 person, then it is enough to take 50 grams of dry cereals (approximately one glass or three tablespoons). Buckwheat is brewed for 1 serving in an amount of water exceeding its volume three times — that is, you will need to take the liquid in the order of three glasses or ten tablespoons.
If you want to cook buckwheat for 4 servings or for a company of four people, then all proportions are multiplied by 4, which means that for four servings of buckwheat porridge 200 grams of buckwheat (four cups, twelve spoons) are enough, about two and a half liters). From this it follows that for buckwheat in 1 kg of portions contains approximately 5.
If you want to get a more crumbly version of buckwheat side dish, then the amount of water should be reduced at the rate of two glasses of water per cup of cereal. Then for four servings you will need all the same four cups of buckwheat, but eight glasses of water (1.6 liters).
To get, on the contrary, a more boiled and viscous version of the buckwheat dish, the amount of water can be increased by calculating four glasses of liquid per cup of the dry component. Then for 4 people you will need 4 cups of buckwheat and 16 glasses of water (3.2 liters).
Another interesting recipe for getting buckwheat porridge - the required amount of glasses of buckwheat is poured with fresh boiling water in a saucepan so that a layer of water up to 4 cm high is formed above the layer of cereal. In this form, you need to leave the pan for the night in the morning to have tasty porridge .
If buckwheat porridge turned out to be too crumbly for your taste, then you can boil it in a little more water.
If you think that the water in the finished dish is too much, then you can increase the crispness of your side dish by frying or boiling it off, as well as adding a little milk.
Cooking porridge from packaged buckwheat
Sometimes buckwheat is not sold in the form of loose grain, but already packaged in portions in sealed permeable bags. In this case, one or two sachets will be enough for 1 serving, which you need to fill with one and a half liters of hot water.
Cooking soup
When cooking the soup will need much more water. A standard portion of buckwheat soup for 1 person is 1 ladle (it is about 1/3 liter). For such a portion, you need 20 grams of cereal and 300 milliliters of water. To cook soup for a company of four people, respectively, need 80 grams of buckwheat and 1.2 liters of water. 80 grams of cereal is about one and a half cups or four and a half tablespoons.
On how to cook buckwheat, see the following video.
