Buckwheat in the microwave: cooking rules and recipes
Many people include buckwheat porridge in their diet. After all, this product has excellent taste, a lot of useful properties. The article will discuss the different ways of cooking buckwheat in the microwave.
How to cook?
Currently, there are a considerable number of simple recipes, how to make buckwheat porridge in a microwave oven step by step.
On milk
To cook the product in this way, you must first carefully sort out and wash the buckwheat. After that, pass it through a metal sieve. Put the prepared cereal in a deep bowl.
Add a little salt to it. Fill all with drinking water and bring it to a full boil. Then cover the bowl with a lid and put it in the microwave oven.
You can use two methods of further preparation. So, it is permissible to just leave the bowl in the device for the whole night. In this case, the device acts as a special thermos for the dish. After all, it will allow for a long time to keep the temperature of the product. In this case, the porridge will be fully prepared only after a few hours.
In another case, a container with a product is placed in the microwave oven, and the device is switched on for a few minutes. Porridge cooked much faster than in a saucepan. In the end, everything is put on plates and poured with milk.
If you wish, you can add some honey, berries or fruit to the finished dish.
On the water
The croup is hand picked and rinsed well under filtered water. It is poured into a glass cup. Then everything is poured with liquid (to prepare 1 portion, you need to take 1 glass of water and 0.5 cups of buckwheat).
Put the dishes with the ingredients in the microwave. There it is left for 3-4 minutes at maximum power of the device. If the porridge is too dry, then you need to send the dish back for a few more minutes. During this time, it should completely do it.
If you want buckwheat to become more crumbly and soft, then cover the container with it with a lid and put it in the microwave for 5-7 minutes with a power of only 500 watts.
The finished product is sprinkled with salt.
It is recommended to fill with butter or vegetable oil. You can also put crushed greens or a little mustard on top.
With vegetables
Take a glass bowl and pour some vegetable oil into it. Simultaneously chop the vegetables with a knife. For this gas station is better to take onions, carrots, tomatoes and sweet peppers. It is also recommended to add parsley, dill and basil leaves.
Carefully chopped vegetable mass is laid out in a pot and sent to the microwave for a few minutes at maximum power of the device. The resulting mixture is well mixed and slightly salted.
After that, everything is sent back to the microwave for 5-7 minutes. Before this bowl a little cover over the lid. After that, pour the washed buckwheat into another glass bowl and put it in the microwave for a few minutes. Then mix the vegetables and buckwheat together in one deep dish.
With mushrooms
Rinse the buckwheat well under cool running water. At the same time, cut onions into small cubes. Chop the mushrooms finely.
Take a glass dish and grease it with olive oil. Put there chopped onions. Send the container to the microwave for 3-4 minutes.
Then take the dishes and put the mushrooms in it. The container with all the ingredients once again put in the microwave oven at the same time at the highest power. In the end, buckwheat is placed there, and it is all salted.
The resulting mass is thoroughly mixed, and then sent to cook in a microwave oven.
The finished porridge is taken out, laid out on plates, decorated with chopped greens and served to the table.
With Chiken
Grains are well washed and sorted. After that, they poured into a glass container. Groats thoroughly salt. At the same time take chicken breast. It is also washed in chilled water.
If there is bone in the chicken, then it must be carefully removed. The skin should also be cut. This will get rid of extra calories in the product. Cutting the ingredient itself is not necessary. He put the whole.
Breast lay on top of cereals. At the same time, prepare a vegetable dressing.To do this, cut tomatoes into slices and finely chop onions. Vegetables are laid out on chicken.
All the ingredients on top are filled with boiling water. Take a separate bowl and put in it sour cream and one finely chopped chicken egg. Products can be sprinkled with salt. It is all mixed up.
The resulting sour cream pours the whole dish. Cover it with a lid and put it in the microwave. There, buckwheat with chicken should remain for 20 minutes with a machine power of at least 900 W.
After this time, take out the dishes with the dish. Sprinkle it on top of pre-grated cheese. After that, put buckwheat again in the microwave oven for 3-5 minutes. Then arrange everything in plates and serve to the table.
With egg
The croup is sorted and washed under running water. Then it is poured into the container. There also lay one broken egg on top of buckwheat. And there it is worth adding a little chopped greens and spicy spices.
All products are well mixed together. Then the dish is sent to the microwave. Its power in this case should be not less than 1000 watts. Buckwheat with egg is taken from the microwave oven in 3-5 minutes. Then the resulting dish is distributed into plates and served to the table.
Buckwheat in packs
Packing bags with the product spread in a glass bowl. They poured boiling water. Capacity cover with a lid so that between them was at least a small distance. This must be done so that the liquid does not boil off during cooking.
The dish in the dish is sent to the microwave for ten minutes. The power of the device should be maximum. Then put the bags in the sink and wait until all the moisture is drained from them.
After a few minutes, carefully cut the bags of buckwheat with a knife. Put the finished cereal on a plate. Salt it and mix thoroughly. Buckwheat porridge can be served.
Useful tips
If you want to cook buckwheat in the microwave, then you should choose for this a solid dish made of thick and heat-resistant glass. Such capacity will not deteriorate and will not crack during cooking.
Before cooking, be sure to sort through the product manually. Do not forget to rinse it. It should be done under clean, running water. These procedures allow you to get rid of vegetable garbage and burnt grains in porridge.
After the dish is fully prepared, you should pour a little vegetable oil into it or fill it with butter. Such an ingredient will make the product softer, and buckwheat grains will not stick together.
For more flavor and taste, it is recommended to add various spices to the dish. Remember that these dry supplements are put before heat treatment. Fresh should be made after cooking.
Do not forget that if you cook buckwheat in the microwave, then you need to fill it with boiling water exclusively, and not just warm water. The furnace turns on at maximum power level.
Some housewives say that the most intense taste of the dish is obtained by choosing the function on the “Defrost” device. But at the same time buckwheat porridge will stew longer, at least 30 minutes.
If you want the product to be as airy as possible and well steamed, then you must first send buckwheat grains to the microwave for a few minutes at minimum power.
If you want to cook grains in a microwave oven, then you should note that in such a device the products should be salted better than with standard heat treatment. That is why the salt is introduced into the dish gently in small portions.
Before cooking it is important to correctly calculate the proportions of the products used. Remember that for one part of buckwheat there are two parts of filtered water. If this ratio is violated, the dish can be tasteless.
Pay attention and choose suitable cereals. The best option for cooking is considered to be buckwheat. It is a first-class product.It contains the smallest amount of poor-quality grains and vegetable garbage, dust.
How to cook buckwheat in the microwave, see below.