Buckwheat porridge is one of the primordially Russian products and still remains one of the favorite cereals of housewives. It goes well with any hot dishes as a side dish.
The secret of buckwheat's popularity is simple - with minimal costs for its preparation, an excellent side dish is obtained at the exit, combined with milk and sugar, as well as with meat, gravies, mushrooms.
Buckwheat porridge can be cooked in a clay pot in the oven. The cooking time will increase, but the taste will be richer and more pleasant.
The composition of the cereal
Buckwheat has a truly unique composition. Buckwheat contains iron, iodine, nickel, copper, phosphorus, zinc, boron, cobalt, which are so necessary for the body. In addition, it has a high content of trace elements and organic acids such as malic, oxalic, maleic, citric. It is also worth mentioning that all vitamins and trace elements in this cereal are in a balanced ratio. This means that they are well absorbed by the body, filling it with strength, energy and health.
Buckwheat will also be of interest to vegetarians, because it has a record high content of easily digestible vegetable protein - as much as 12.6 grams per 100 grams of dry weight.
If you use buckwheat in your diet, then it is worth remembering that when weighing a dish it is better to take into account the weight of a dry product, since it is impossible to determine exactly how much buckwheat will boil down in advance.
Fans of buckwheat diets need to be careful: such a diet promotes the leaching of calcium, the risk of fractures and cracks in bones increases.
Cooking buckwheat
In order to cook buckwheat, you need 1 glass of buckwheat and 2.5-3 glasses of water. It is best to use pots with thick sides and bottom as cooking utensils to avoid sticking. In addition, when choosing the size of the dishes, you need to take into account that when cooking buckwheat increases in size by 2-4 times, so it is better to choose the required volume with a small margin. It is convenient to cook small portions of buckwheat in a small 2-liter saucepan: 1 glass of cereal for 2, 5-3 cups of water.
The increase in size of buckwheat depends on how long it will be boiled. Thus, from 1 glass of cereals you will get either 2 glasses of crumbly buckwheat - grain to grain, or up to 4 glasses of boiled buckwheat. How much time to cook cereals depends only on the goals of cooking buckwheat. As a rule, crumbly porridge makes excellent milk soups that will appeal to children, especially if you add sugar or bright edible decorations to the plate, which are also used for Easter cakes. As an alternative to sugar, you can season the dish with dried fruits: dried apricots, raisins or candied fruits. Boiled porridge is ideal as a side dish.
