I offer the simplest, most aromatic and delicious dishes from the most popular Russian cereals.
Buckwheat, containing essential amino acids, trace elements and vitamins, can fully replace meat products.
Buckwheat is quickly prepared, suitable for baby and diet food, is easily digested, for which housewives appreciate it. Even an amateur can cope with cooking buckwheat porridge – it’s very simple. Moreover, buckwheat can not only be cooked, since in addition to cereals, there are many other recipes (with meat, vegetables, gravy and whatever) using this excellent product as a side dish.
We show you 10 of the most delicious buckwheat recipes with photos of the final result.
Important: Before cooking, we always sort out cereals and rinse them thoroughly.
- Buckwheat with vegetables in a slow cooker
An appetizing, healthy dish of a vegetarian and lean table.
Ingredients:
- Buckwheat (unground) – 2 glasses.
- Water, broth – 4 glasses.
- Onions – 1 pc.
- Carrots – 1 pc.
- Vegetable oil – 0.5 cups.
How to cook:
- Grind the vegetables.
- We prepare cereals.
Pour oil into the container of the multicooker, put the onion, and in the “Baking / Frying” mode, cook it for 2 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add carrots (or other vegetables) and fry for another 3 minutes.
Fill the finished vegetables with water, add cereals, salt, spices. Switch to the “Quenching” mode and cook for another 20-30 minutes.
Fresh vegetables can be replaced with frozen mixture. It is laid after frying, adding a little water.
- Lean buckwheat cutlets
A very convenient recipe if you want something new and appetizing. You can add mushrooms to cutlets.
Ingredients:
- Buckwheat (unground) – 1 glass.
- Water or broth – 2 cups.
- Onions – 1 pc.
- Carrots – 1 pc.
- Vegetable oil.
- Breadcrumbs or flour.
How to cook:
Boil buckwheat until tender.
Cooking onion and carrot sautéing. Add mushrooms as desired.
Mix porridge with frying, salt, spices, scroll through a meat grinder, sculpt cutlets. Breaded in breadcrumbs or flour.
Fry the patties until crusty over medium heat until tender, about 2-3 minutes on each side.
- Delicate buckwheat with meat in a pot
A juicy dish that, thanks to the use of ceramic dishes, is literally saturated with the aromas of each component.
Ingredients:
- Buckwheat (unground) – 1 glass.
- Meat (any) – 500-600 g.
- Mushrooms (optional).
- Onions – 1 pc.
- Carrots – 1 pc.
- Broth or water – 2 cups.
How to cook:
Fry vegetables, meat, mushrooms until half cooked.
Lay raw buckwheat, meat, vegetables and mushrooms in layers in a pot. Add salt, spices and a piece of butter to taste.
Fill with hot broth or water.
Simmer in the oven for an hour at 180 degrees.
- Buckwheat with stew in a pan
The easiest and most satisfying dish to prepare.
Ingredients:
- Buckwheat (unground) – 2 glasses.
- Stew – 1 can.
- Onions – 1 pc.
- Carrots – 1 pc.
- Vegetable oil.
- Broth or water – 4 cups.
How to cook:
Saute the vegetables in a deep frying pan, add the stew to them and cook for 5-10 minutes.
Pour raw cereals on a layer of frying, add salt, put your favorite spices and pour boiling water.
Cook under a lid over low heat for about half an hour, turn off the heating and insist buckwheat for about 10-15 minutes.
- Buckwheat with oyster mushrooms and onions
An inexpensive and high-calorie dish that will become indispensable during fasting days.
Ingredients:
- Buckwheat (unground) – 1 glass.
- Mushrooms – 500 g.
- Onions – 1 pc.
- Carrots – 1 pc.
- Oil (any).
- Broth or water – 2 cups.
How to cook:
Cook crumbly buckwheat porridge.
Fry the onion in a deep thick-walled dish until transparent, add the chopped mushrooms, then the carrots, and cook for another 2-3 minutes. We reduce the heat, and stew vegetables with mushrooms under the lid for 10-15 minutes.
Add salt as needed, sprinkle with spices and garlic, fill with hot broth or boiling water and spread the finished porridge on top.
On low heat, cook the dish under the lid for several minutes until it is completely soaked.
- Diet buckwheat soup with chicken
Despite the low calorie content, the soup is able to quickly satisfy hunger, and therefore is indispensable for those who want to lose weight.
- Buckwheat (unground) – 5-6 tbsp. spoons.
- Chicken breast – 500 g.
- Onions – 1 pc.
- Carrots – 1 pc.
- Potatoes – 2-3 pcs.
- Spices, herbs.
- Broth or water.
How to cook:
Cook chicken breast broth.
Cut the potatoes into convenient pieces, chop the vegetables. We prepare buckwheat.
Put vegetables, cereals, salt, spices into the finished broth. Cook the soup for about half an hour. At the end, add greens, turn off the heating and insist under the lid for several minutes.
- Buckwheat porridge with carrots and onions in the oven
According to experienced housewives, porridge baked in the oven is tastier and more aromatic than cooked on the stove.
Ingredients:
- Buckwheat (unground) – 1 glass.
- Water or vegetable (mushroom) broth – 2 cups.
- Onions – 1 pc.
- Carrots – 1 pc.
- Vegetable oil – 2-3 tbsp. spoons.
How to cook:
We prepare cereals, grind vegetables and sauté halfway through.
Put raw cereals and grilled vegetables in a refractory form, mix, add spices, salt, pour boiling water.
Cover the container with foil and bake at 180 degrees for about half an hour.
- Juicy buckwheat meatballs without meat
This high-calorie original dish will be appreciated by those who want to diversify their diet.
Ingredients:
- Buckwheat (unground) – 2 glasses.
- Mushrooms – 500 g.
- Onions – 2 pcs.
- Carrots – 2 pcs.
- Tomato paste – 2 tbsp spoons, or tomatoes – 3-4 pcs.
- Vegetable oil.
- Flour, bread crumbs.
- Broth or water – 4 cups.
How to cook:
We cook viscous porridge from cereals.
Finely chop the onion and carrots and sauté in a little oil. Fry the mushrooms separately.
Grind half of the vegetables and mushrooms using a meat grinder (blender).
Mix the vegetable mass with cooled buckwheat, add seasonings and salt.
We form balls of the required size, bread in flour or breadcrumbs, fry until a crust appears.
Prepare the sauce from the second half of the sautéed vegetables, adding diluted tomato paste or chopped tomatoes, salt, spices, water, boil for 10 minutes.
Put the meatballs in a thick-walled dish, pour the sauce and simmer for 15-20 minutes.
- Buckwheat with pork as a merchant
Despite the name, the dish can be prepared with any meat. Buckwheat in a merchant’s way is often called the Russian version of pilaf.
Ingredients:
- Buckwheat (unground) – 2 glasses.
- Meat (any) – 500 g.
- Tomatoes – 2 pcs.
- Onions – 1 pc.
- Carrots – 1 pc.
- Vegetable oil.
- Broth or water – 4 cups.
How to cook:
Saute chopped onions and carrots, add grated tomatoes (or diluted tomato paste), simmer together for 10 minutes. Fry the pieces of meat separately until tender.
In a bowl, mix vegetables and meat, salt, spices, put raw cereals on top, pour boiling water.
Cooking the dish under the lid, over low heat for about half an hour.
- Buckwheat with minced meat and mushrooms
A popular dish that does not require special cooking skills.
Ingredients:
- Buckwheat (unground) – 1 glass.
- Minced meat – 200 g.
- Mushrooms – 200 g.
- Onions – 1 pc.
- Carrots – 1 pc.
- Vegetable oil.
- Broth or water – 2 cups.
How to cook:
In a frying pan with heated oil at intervals of 2-3 minutes. alternately lay onions, carrots, minced meat, mushrooms. Fry together for 10 minutes.
Pour raw cereals on top, pour boiling water, add salt and spices and cook with low heat under a lid for about half an hour.
