Even a completely inexperienced cook needs to try to spoil buckwheat porridge - it has such a rich taste and aroma. You can cook buckwheat in different ways - in a saucepan, microwave, multicooker, oven and even over a fire. Everyone will choose the best option for themselves.
Preparing cereals for cooking
If you are interested in how to cook crumbly buckwheat, remember the basic rules:
- when cooking buckwheat at home, use 1 part of cereal and 2 parts of water, unless the recipe says otherwise;
- carefully sort the cereals before cooking, removing all litter and unrefined grains;
- if you bought not calcined buckwheat, before cooking, fry it in a pan for 5-7 minutes and sift through a sieve;
- Thoroughly rinse the required portion of cereal immediately before cooking.
Loose buckwheat in a saucepan
After preparing the cereal, it remains to cook the buckwheat in a saucepan with thick walls, even better in a cauldron. It's simple: preheat the dishes a little, put a glass of cereal in it and fill it with two glasses of clean filtered water. Salt, after boiling, cover with a lid and do not interfere with the process anymore until all the water has boiled off over low heat (this is about 15 minutes). Add the butter, wrap the pan and let the buckwheat porridge brew for another 15 minutes.
Express buckwheat
If you need to cook buckwheat as quickly as possible, pour a glass of washed cereal into a saucepan and pour two glasses of boiling water over it. Season with salt, immediately add a tablespoon of butter and cover with a lid. Leave on medium heat for 10 minutes, wrap and let the porridge "ripen" for 5-7 minutes.
Buckwheat in the microwave
Pour a glass of washed cereals with 1.5 cups of boiled water and soak at room temperature for 20 minutes in a special dish for microwave ovens. After that, without covering the container with a lid, hold it in the microwave for 5 minutes at full power, then salt, stir and close. Reduce power to 60% and cook for 10 minutes. Turn off the microwave and leave the cookware with buckwheat porridge in it for 5-7 minutes.
Buckwheat in a slow cooker
Pour a glass of sorted and washed cereals with two glasses of water, salt and cook in a slow cooker in the "Buckwheat" or "Milk porridge" mode. Add oil at the end of cooking.
Buckwheat in the oven
Buckwheat goes well with meat and vegetables, so you can cook delicious hearty dishes from this cereal in the oven. So, an excellent merchant porridge will turn out on the basis of one chicken breast and 350 g of buckwheat. Use a voluminous cauldron, gosper. In it, fry the meat cut into pieces, chopped onion, large bell peppers and grated carrots in vegetable oil. Add two tablespoons of tomato paste, mix everything and put the fried washed buckwheat on top and pour water 3 cm above the cereal. Put crushed garlic, chopped herbs to taste and salt. Heat the oven to 180 ° C and cook the dish in it for 40 minutes.
Buckwheat on the fire
You already know how to cook buckwheat in different ways at home. If you like hiking, picnics in nature, be sure to take some fried cereals and a can of stew with you. Buckwheat porridge can be easily cooked on a fire in a cast iron - hearty, with an unforgettable aroma. To do this, it is enough to boil 3 glasses of water in a pot and add a glass of washed cereal, cover with a lid. On an open fire, the liquid will boil faster, so you need more of it than usual! When the water is almost absorbed, add a can of stewed meat to the porridge, salt and mix everything thoroughly.
