Cooking technology of fried buckwheat
Buckwheat porridge is not in vain considered one of the most useful. Less popular in the West, however, it is a common and many favorite dish in our country. Buckwheat is not only tasty in itself, it also contains many useful substances and a minimum of calories, it is recommended for food in diseases such as diabetes, obesity.
Peculiarities
A common way to cook buckwheat is boiling or steaming, however, there are numerous recipes for frying this cereal in a pan. Cooking it this way is no more difficult than traditional cooking, while all the useful properties are preserved, and the result exceeds all expectations.
Often, young housewives, just learning the basics of cooking, experienced unpleasant situations when boiled buckwheat turned out to be stuck together or overcooked. In order to avoid this, there are many tricks, and one of them is the preliminary frying of buckwheat in a pan. The taste and satiety of the finished dish will surprise and delight the household, making it one of the most beloved.
Buckwheat can be used as a side dish or an independent dish. It is good for lunch or breakfast, as an addition to meat, stewed vegetables. Many people eat it for dessert, mixed with milk, honey and nuts.
How to roast cereals?
To prepare a fragrant and crumbly porridge, you need to do just a few preliminary preparations with minimal time.It is incredibly simple to calcine buckwheat at home, you do not need to have any outstanding knowledge for this.
Before pouring buckwheat into a pan, you need to properly heat it on fire. You can fry cereals with or without sunflower oil. The difference will be in the calorie content of the product and the time of its preparation. Buckwheat flavored with oil is cooked for five minutes, “dry” - twice as much. Do not forget to stir the buckwheat thoroughly during calcination.
After the due date, buckwheat is poured into boiling water and cooked, as usual, until it is completely softened.
You can fry buckwheat after cooking. To prepare this dish, you need to take:
- buckwheat,
- carrot;
- onion;
- spices.
It is necessary to cook buckwheat with a little less water, and remove it from the heat without waiting for the grains to completely soften, leaving them a little hard.
Do not add a lot of salt to buckwheat. It is best to do this while roasting.
After that, you need to pay attention to vegetables. Carrots and onions are thoroughly washed under running water and peeled. Carrots are either finely chopped or rubbed on a grater, onions are chopped into cubes.
Vegetables are poured into a heated frying pan with hot vegetable oil and fried over medium heat until golden brown. After that, pre-cooked buckwheat is combined with frying in a pan, everything is cooked for ten minutes.
Before removing the buckwheat from the heat, salt and pepper are added, as well as other seasonings to taste.
The calorie content of such a dish, of course, will exceed simply boiled buckwheat with a minimum of oil and spices, however, it will be more tasty and original. Vegetables will add special flavor notes, and the cooking method will make the porridge crumbly.
Other recipes
In addition to vegetables, buckwheat can be mixed with mushrooms, meat, nuts. This dish can be eaten for breakfast, lunch or dinner. There are many recipes on how to cook even such a seemingly elementary thing as buckwheat porridge in an original way. Here are a few of them.
Fried buckwheat with mushrooms and vegetables
Buckwheat has a very pronounced taste and many useful properties, and with the help of this recipe you can turn it into a real culinary masterpiece.
For cooking you will need:
- buckwheat grain;
- onion;
- carrot;
- Bell pepper;
- other vegetables as desired;
- mushrooms;
- olive oil;
- spices.
Vegetables are thoroughly washed, peeled and seeds are cut into larger pieces than in the previous recipe, where they served only to improve taste. Randomly chopped vegetables are sent to a frying pan with hot oil, after which they need to be fried over medium heat.
Mushrooms after bringing vegetables to half-cookedness are sent to them in a pan, and the fire increases slightly. At this stage, pepper and salt are added, as well as other spices.
After the mushrooms are fried a little, you need to add buckwheat washed in water, mix and wait a while. The last stage: buckwheat is poured with two glasses of hot water and covered with a lid.
After 10-15 minutes, the dish will be finally ready, after which it is served to the table, garnished with dill, parsley or slices of sweet pepper.
Fried buckwheat with meat
A good dish for dinner is buckwheat cooked with meat. There are many variations of this recipe, both chicken and pork are used, as well as beef or minced meat. We offer fried buckwheat with chicken fillet.
For cooking you will need:
- buckwheat grain;
- chicken breast;
- onion;
- carrot;
- garlic;
- vegetable oil;
- spices.
Buckwheat is washed under water and cooked, as in previous recipes: fried in hot sunflower oil for five to ten minutes until the grains acquire a dark shade.
A clove of garlic is finely chopped, poured into a heated pan with butter or vegetable oil. Onion and carrots, cut into small pieces, are added to it. Stirring occasionally, the vegetables should be cooked until golden brown.
Chicken fillet is washed, cut into small cubes. It is worth remembering that the chicken is heavily fried, so choose the size you want. Pieces are poured into the same pan with vegetables and browned.
Pre-cooked buckwheat is poured to vegetables and meat, poured with two glasses of water, mixed and cooked for 15-20 minutes. If necessary, you can add a small amount of water.
Such a dish will turn out to be very satisfying and tasty, it will become a good high-calorie dinner after a hard day's work and will delight you with its originality.
Fried buckwheat with egg
Buckwheat porridge is good not only for dinner, but also for breakfast. Here is another recipe for a simple and original dish that will give satiety and energy for the whole day.
For cooking you will need:
- buckwheat grain;
- two or three eggs;
- onion;
- vegetable oil;
- spices.
First of all, eggs are boiled, cooled, peeled and cut into small pieces.
Vegetable oil is poured into a heated frying pan, buckwheat groats are poured and fried for about five minutes. Buckwheat is salted and peppered to taste, poured with two glasses of water, mixed and cooked under the lid until tender.
In a separate pan, finely chopped onion is fried until golden brown.
Onions and eggs are added to buckwheat after it is cooked. Mix the dish thoroughly and serve.
As already mentioned, buckwheat is good in any form, it is rich in vitamins and amino acids, contains proteins and slow carbohydrates that make meals with it satisfying, while being low in calories and recommended for diets. There are many ways to cook buckwheat, it is combined with many products. It is tasty, healthy, and dishes with it will satisfy any gourmet.
See the recipe for buckwheat with mushrooms below.