Porridge does not have to be sweet. From any cereal, you can prepare a savory dish to garnish or to use as an independent dish. Tasty and crumbly porridge for the second is obtained from buckwheat. This croup is rich in fiber, contains a significant amount of folic acid and other valuable elements. It nourishes and energizes for a long time, helps to avoid anemia, helps to cleanse the body of toxins and lose weight. Buckwheat porridge on the water can be cooked in a slow cooker. With this device it is possible to get a dish that tastes similar to that made in a Russian stove. Even an experienced housewife who can cook delicious buckwheat porridge without the help of kitchen gadgets, on the stove or in the oven can take advantage of this advantage.
Cooking Features
Multivarka - an indispensable assistant in the kitchen. She frees the hostess a lot of time and allows getting an excellent result even for an inexperienced cook. However, with the help of this smart unit, not everyone is able to cook crumbly and tasty buckwheat porridge. From frustration save knowledge of several important points.
- In buckwheat, small litter is often found, sometimes even pebbles come across. Before boiling porridge from it, the grits should be carefully picked and rinsed to clean water. So that it does not swell during washing, it is washed under running water, placed in a sieve. Then the rump does not hurt to dry, poured on a towel.
- Porridge will be more crumbly, if before using buckwheat in a dry frying pan.
- For cooking buckwheat porridge on water in a slow cooker, you can use one of such programs as “Kasha”, “Krupa”, “Buckwheat”, “Rice”. The names of the programs may be different (they depend on the model of the multicooker and its manufacturer), but all of them are intended for cooking meals from cereals and have approximately the same execution algorithm. Cooking time buckwheat porridge is 30-40 minutes, it depends on the power of the unit.
- To make porridge tender and crumbly, you need to choose the right ratio of cereals and liquids. To obtain a crumbly buckwheat cereal, two glasses of water are taken for a glass of cereals (a glass with a capacity of 0.25 liters contains 200-210 g of buckwheat). If you add less liquid, porridge will be rough, hard, can burn. If you add more water, the porridge will turn out to be viscous - this is a dish for an amateur.
- If buckwheat porridge is cooked with vegetables, mushrooms, meat, then these ingredients are prepared first, then mixed with prepared cereal, poured with water and boiled together with buckwheat until ready.
- Buckwheat will be tastier if after completing the main program, add butter to the porridge and leave to simmer in heating mode for about half an hour.
Buckwheat porridge in water can be cooked according to several recipes. Each version of this dish has its admirers.
A simple recipe for buckwheat porridge on water in a slow cooker
Composition:
- buckwheat groats - 0, 2 kg;
- water - 0, 5 l;
- butter (optional) - 40-50 g;
- salt, seasonings - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Pour the cereal onto the table so that the grains are better visible. Go through, removing pebbles and small litter.
- Pour the buckwheat into a sieve, rinse until clean water, put it on a kitchen towel so that the cereal dries faster.
- Put buckwheat in a cast iron skillet. Put on the fire. Fry for a few minutes, stirring with a spatula.
- Place prepared cereal in a multicooker container, sprinkle salt on it. If you want to make sweet porridge, add sugar.
- Fill the cereal with boiled water, which may be warm or cold. If you use hot water, porridge will cook faster.
- Lower the unit cover. Install the program “Buckwheat” or similar. Start the device for 30-40 minutes.
- When the program is completed, add butter to the porridge, mix.
- Leave buckwheat for half an hour in heating mode.
After a specified time, fragrant crumbly porridge can be laid out on plates and served at the table. More often it is used as a side dish, but sometimes serves as an independent dish.
Buckwheat porridge on water with vegetables in a slow cooker
Composition:
- buckwheat groats - 0, 2 kg;
- water or broth - 0, 5 l;
- sweet pepper - 0, 2 kg;
- carrots - 100 g;
- onions - 100 g;
- refined vegetable oil - 40 ml;
- salt, spices - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Free the onions from the husk, cut them into thin half rings.
- Cut the pepper in half. Remove seeds from it. Cut the flesh into quarters of rings no thicker than half a centimeter.
- Wash and peel carrots. Grind grated for Korean salads or cut into thin strips.
- Pour oil into the multicooker container, place vegetables in it.
- Activate the unit by selecting the program “Frying” or “Baking” (the choice depends on the presence of the cooking function in the device).
- Cook the vegetables in the selected mode for 10-15 minutes, until soft.
- Temporarily turn off the device.
- Sort and wash the buckwheat, shift it to the vegetables, salt and season to taste.
- Pour water into the multicooker. Start the unit in “Kasha” mode for 30 minutes.
- Stir the porridge with vegetables and leave to simmer in heating mode for at least 30 minutes.
A dish prepared according to this recipe is nourishing, it can be served as a separate dish or as a side dish.
Buckwheat porridge on water with meat in a slow cooker
Composition:
- meat (pork or beef) - 0, 25 kg;
- buckwheat - 0, 21 kg;
- broth - 0, 5 l;
- onions - 100 g;
- carrots - 100 g;
- vegetable oil - 40 ml;
- salt, black pepper powder - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash meat, remove films. Cut the pulp into medium-sized bars.
- Scrape carrots, wash and blot with a napkin. Grate a little.
- Onion, freeing from the husk, cut into small cubes.
- Spoon the buckwheat, rinse, dry.
- Pour oil into the bowl of the multicooker, place meat in it. Activate frying or baking mode. Cook the meat, stirring it from time to time, for 15-20 minutes (beef needs to be cooked longer than pork).
- Add vegetables. Continue to cook food in the same mode for another 10 minutes.
- Transfer buckwheat to bowl, add salt and pepper, pour in broth. Stir.
- Switch the multicooker to the porridge cooking mode.
- Cook porridge for 30-40 minutes.
Buckwheat porridge with meat - a full dish, satisfying and healthy.
The process of cooking buckwheat porridge in the multicooker is simple. Observing the recommendations accompanying the selected recipe, even an inexperienced cook can make it tasty and appetizing.
