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 different ways to cook buckwheat in the microwave.
How to cook?
Currently, there are a considerable number of simple recipes on how to make buckwheat porridge in the microwave step by step.
On milk
To cook the product in this way, you must first carefully sort and rinse the buckwheat. After that, pass it through a metal sieve. Put the prepared cereal in a deep bowl.
Add some salt to it. Fill everything with drinking water and bring it to a full boil. Then close the bowl with a lid and put it in the microwave oven.
You can use two methods for further preparation. So, it is permissible to simply leave the bowl in the appliance 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 period to maintain the temperature of the product. In this case, the porridge will be completely ready only after a few hours.
In another case, a container with the product is placed in the microwave oven, and the device is turned on for several minutes. Porridge will cook much faster than in a pan. At the end, everything is transferred to plates and poured with milk.
If desired, you can add a little honey, berries or fruits to the finished dish.
On the water
The groats are manually sorted out and washed well under filtered water. It is poured into a glass cup. Then everyone is poured with liquid (to prepare 1 serving, 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 the maximum power of the device. If the porridge turned out to be too dry, then you need to send the dish back for a few more minutes. During this time, it should be completely cooked.
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 at a power of only 500 watts.
The finished product is sprinkled with salt.
It is recommended to fill it with butter or vegetable oil. You can also put chopped greens or a little mustard on top.
With vegetables
Take a deep glass dish and pour some vegetable oil into it. At the same time, chop the vegetables with a knife. For this dressing, it 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 bowl and sent to the microwave for several minutes at the maximum power of the device. The resulting mixture is well mixed and slightly salted.
After that, everything is again sent to the microwave oven for 5-7 minutes. Before this, the bowl is slightly covered with a lid. After that, pour the washed buckwheat into another glass bowl and put it in the microwave for a few minutes. Then mix vegetables and buckwheat together in one deep plate.
With mushrooms
Rinse buckwheat well under cool running water. At the same time, cut the onion into small cubes. Finely chop the mushrooms.
Take a glass dish and grease it with olive oil. Put the chopped onion in there. Send the container to the microwave for 3-4 minutes.
Then take out the dishes and put the mushrooms in it.The container with all the ingredients is once again placed in the microwave oven for the same time at the highest power. At the end, buckwheat is placed there, all this is salted.
The resulting mass is thoroughly mixed, and then sent to cook in a microwave oven.
Ready porridge is taken out, laid out on plates, decorated with chopped herbs and served at the table.
With chicken
The grains are well washed and sorted. After that, they are poured into a glass container. The groats are carefully salted. At the same time take the chicken breast. It is also washed in chilled water.
If there is a bone in the chicken, then it must be carefully removed. The skin should also be cut off. This will get rid of excess calories in the product. You do not need to cut the ingredient itself. It is placed whole.
The breast is placed on top of the cereal. Meanwhile, prepare the vegetable dressing. To do this, cut the tomatoes into circles and finely chop the onion. Vegetables are laid out on the chicken.
All ingredients are poured from above with boiling water. Take a separate bowl and put sour cream and one finely chopped chicken egg into it. Products can be sprinkled with a little salt. All this is mixed up.
The resulting sour cream mass is poured over the entire dish. Cover it with a lid and send it to the microwave. There, buckwheat with chicken should remain for 20 minutes with a device power of at least 900 watts.
After this time, remove the dishes with the dish. Sprinkle it on top with grated cheese. After that, put the buckwheat again in the microwave oven for 3-5 minutes. Then arrange everything on plates and serve.
with egg
The groats are sorted and washed under running water. Then it is poured into a container. One broken egg is placed there on top of the buckwheat. And also there it is worth adding a little chopped herbs and spicy spices.
All products mix well with each other. Then the dish is sent to the microwave. Its power must be at least 1000 watts. Buckwheat with an egg is taken out of the microwave oven after 3-5 minutes. Then the resulting dish is distributed on plates and served at the table.
Buckwheat in bags
Packing bags with the product are laid out in a glass bowl. They are poured with boiling water. The container is covered with a lid so that there is at least a small distance between them. This must be done so that the liquid does not boil away during cooking.
The dish in the dishes is sent to the microwave for ten minutes. In this case, the power of the device should be maximum. Then the bags are placed in the sink and wait until all the moisture drains from them.
After a few minutes, carefully cut the bags of buckwheat with a knife. Transfer the finished cereal to a plate. Salt it and mix thoroughly. Buckwheat porridge can be served at the table.
Helpful Hints
If you want to cook buckwheat in the microwave, then you should choose durable dishes made of thick and heat-resistant glass for this. Such a container will not deteriorate and will not crack during the cooking process.
Before starting cooking, be sure to sort the product by hand. Don't forget to rinse it. Do this under clean, running water. These procedures allow you to get rid of vegetable debris and burnt grains in porridge.
After the dish is completely ready, 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 greater aroma and taste, it is recommended to add various spices to the dish. Remember that such dry additives are added before heat treatment.Fresh should be added after cooking.
Do not forget that if you cook buckwheat in the microwave, then you need to fill it with exclusively boiling water, and not just warm water. The oven turns on at the maximum power level.
Some housewives note that the most intense taste of the dish is obtained by selecting the function on the “Defrost” device. But at the same time, buckwheat porridge will cook longer, at least 30 minutes.
If you want the product to be as airy and well steamed as possible, then you must first send the buckwheat grains to the microwave for several minutes at minimum power.
If you want to cook grains in a microwave oven, then you should take into account that in such an apparatus, the products should be salted better than with standard heat treatment. That is why salt is introduced into the dish carefully in small portions.
Before starting cooking, it is important to correctly calculate the proportions of the products used. Remember that one part of buckwheat is two parts of filtered water. If this ratio is violated, the dish may turn out to be tasteless.
Pay attention to the choice of suitable cereals. The best option for cooking is buckwheat. It is a first class product. It contains the least amount of low-quality grains and plant debris, dust.
How to cook buckwheat in the microwave, see below.