In order to preserve the nutrients with which buckwheat is saturated, you need to be able to cook it properly, based on the available recipes, in accordance with the necessary proportions and your own taste.
Buckwheat boiled in water should be not only tasty, but crumbly and nutritious, as well as take its proper and decent place on the table among other snacks, side dishes and dishes.
In cooking, there are many ways and a lot of recipes for preparing this product in water.
But for a real gourmet, some subtleties are also important, especially the process of turning such ordinary cereals into a true masterpiece of taste and saturation.
How to cook buckwheat in water - the general principles of cooking dishes
• Before proceeding with the preparation of buckwheat, it is necessary to sort out from possibly trapped in the rump - pebbles, small grains and husks of other types of grain and other “garbage”.
• If the purchased buckwheat seeds are light, then they can be lightly fried in a hot frying pan without oil. Then, in the process, buckwheat will get an even more appetizing look, get some crispness and originality of taste.
• For cooking buckwheat, it is better to pick up dishes in which the cereal can warm up and swell evenly, it can be a saucepan with a thick bottom and walls, as well as a cauldron or ceramic pots.
• In order for buckwheat to be cooked correctly, it is necessary to observe all the proportions, namely the ratio of water and cereal (1: 2). And since buckwheat in the cooking process also increases in volume, then the dishes need to pick up certain dimensions.
• In order for buckwheat groats not to lose their taste, the shape of the grains and the spicy flavor need to be determined with the time of cooking. It is important not to digest the cereal and remove it from the fire in time.
• Buckwheat should not be stirred with a spoon during cooking, as well as cook it with the lid open. Initially, before boiling water, the fire under the pan should be large. Then, after boiling, grits should be cooked over medium heat. Well, before the end of cooking, the fire must be reduced to a minimum for complete evaporation of the liquid, both from the surface of the cereal and from the bottom of the pan. • After cooking buckwheat, the container with grits should be wrapped in a blanket for 20 minutes for better steaming.
• The finished dish is recommended to be served hot with a piece of butter.
Recipe 1. How to cook buckwheat on water (a traditional dish)
Ingredients:
• Buckwheat - 400 gr.
• Water - 800 ml.
• Oil (vegetable) - 50 ml.
• Salt - 0.5 tsp.
Cooking Method:
Before cooking, the buckwheat must be sifted and then rinsed several times in water and dried thoroughly.
Next, buckwheat should be put on a hot frying pan and fry for 5 minutes until golden.
Further, it is necessary to pour water into a thick-walled pot, salt it a little, add buckwheat fried in a pan and bring the components to a boil over high heat.
After boiling some water, it is necessary to remove the foam from the surface with a slotted spoon or a special spoon. Then you need to turn down the heat and continue cooking the buckwheat for another 10 minutes.
Then the pan with buckwheat must be removed from the fire and under a closed lid, let the dish stand for a few more minutes.
Also, after removing from the heat, the pot of cereal can still be wrapped in a blanket for steaming. When the buckwheat boiled on water is ready, you can add a piece of butter to it to improve the taste, and then serve the dish to the table.
Recipe 2. How to cook buckwheat on water in a slow cooker
Ingredients:
• Buckwheat - 1 cup from the multicooker.
• Vodicka - 2 tbsp.
• Salt - 0.5 tsp.
• Butter (butter) - 60 gr.
Cooking Method:
Buckwheat must be thoroughly washed from unnecessary "garbage".
Then washed buckwheat should be poured into a special bowl of the multicooker, salt it according to your own taste and pour with some water.
After it is necessary to connect the multicooker and set a special mode on it - “Buckwheat” or “Krupa”. Next, you need a timer located on the slow cooker to put on an hour of cooking.
After the allotted time, it is necessary to add a piece of butter to the prepared buckwheat, which should be lightly sprinkled over the croup to better dissolve it. Hot and crumbly buckwheat can be served at the table.
Recipe 3. How to cook buckwheat on water in a microwave
Ingredients:
• Boiling water - 400 ml.
• Buckwheat - 200 ml.
• Salt - 15 gr.
Cooking Method:
Buckwheat must be washed, put into a special pan, slightly salted and pour boiling water.
Then set the pot with the grits in the microwave, covering the container with a lid.
Important! When cooking buckwheat in the microwave, less salt should be placed in the prepared dish, otherwise you can easily over-salt it.
The microwave oven needs to set the maximum power. To prepare a dish for a start, you need an average of about 5 minutes.
After the time is up, the microwave oven needs to be opened, remove the lid from the pan, setting the power to somewhere around 600 watts and continue cooking buckwheat at the specified power for about 8 more minutes. In the middle of the process it will be necessary to mix the buckwheat well.
After this time, the water should evaporate completely and the buckwheat should be cooked.
Recipe 4. How to cook buckwheat on water in the oven
Ingredients:
• Buckwheat - 600 gr.
• Water - 900 ml.
• Butter butter - 120 gr.
• Onion - 2 pcs.
• Salt.
• Greenery.
• Butter for frying.
Cooking Method:
Buckwheat must be sorted out. Then you need to clean the onions from the husk and finely chop them, and then fry in butter in a frying pan. Next, onions must be removed from the pan on a clean plate.
The crawled buckwheat should be poured into a frying pan, poured hot, salted water and sent under a lid to an oven preheated to 200 degrees.
While the buckwheat is in the oven, you need to take the greens, wash it and chop it.
After half an hour, the fire must be extinguished, and the buckwheat should be left in the oven for a while under the lid for another hour.
After this time, buckwheat must be removed from the oven, add butter, roasted onion and greens.
Cooked, therefore, buckwheat will be a great side dish for meatballs and other meat dishes.
Recipe 5. How to cook buckwheat on water by steaming the product
Ingredients:
• Buckwheat - 200 gr.
• Water - 600 ml.
• Salt.
• Butter cream.
• Thermos or saucepan with lid.
Cooking Method:
Buckwheat need to sort out, thoroughly washed and put in a pan or thermos.
Then you need to pour buckwheat with some water, you can hot, but not below 60 degrees.
Next, dishes with buckwheat must be wrapped in a towel or blanket and left in this form for 4, and better for 8 hours.
After the prescribed time, add butter to the buckwheat, then salt it and mix well. Now porridge is ready to eat.
Recipe 6. How to cook buckwheat on water in a pot
Ingredients:
• Buckwheat - 250 gr.
• Water - 500 ml.
• Butter.
• Sugar, salt - to taste.
Cooking Method:
Buckwheat must be carefully searched for rubbish and various stones in it. Then you need to rinse it with clean water.
Then you need to put it in a pot, pour water on the basis of the ratio 1: 2, add sugar and salt and close the lid.
After all the components in the pot you need to put in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees for 20-25 minutes.
After the allotted time the fire in the oven needs to be put out, get a pot of buckwheat and add a piece of butter to send back for 25 minutes to infuse.
Thus, porridge can be eaten as a separate dish, or as a side dish for meat or fish.
Recipe 7. How to cook buckwheat on water in a pot with meat and mushrooms
Ingredients:
• Pulp - 150/200 gr.
• Buckwheat - 200 gr.
• A handful of mushrooms.
• Greenery.
• Salt, spices.
Cooking Method:
Before starting the preparation of buckwheat on water, a picked up pot must be poured with cold water. The pot is soaked with moisture, and then in the process of cooking will give it to the products.
The buckwheat must be sorted and rinsed thoroughly. Cut the meat into medium slices, peeled carrots into thin straws, mushrooms in small cubes. At the bottom of the pot first thing you need to lay the meat. Put carrots and mushroom slices on top of the meat and cover everything with buckwheat and pour in some water. After you need all the ingredients of salt, sprinkle with spices and remove the pot with the available components in the oven.
To prepare, thus, the buckwheat will be 40-50 minutes. After the allotted time, a pot of buckwheat should be taken to season the resulting dish with greens and serve hot to the table.
How to cook buckwheat in water - small tricks and useful tips
• Buckwheat before making it necessary to sort out from litter.
• Before cooking, buckwheat is better to soak in cold water, so it will cook faster.
• In order for the porridge to turn out crumbly, it is necessary to pour boiling water 2-3 times before cooking.
• In order for the buckwheat to steam up and turn out tasty and soft, you need to wrap it in a blanket or a warm towel after the end of cooking.
• It is not recommended to mix buckwheat while cooking.
• After the buckwheat has been cooked, it must be wrapped in a blanket for evaporation for 40-50 minutes.
• Buckwheat in the form of a side dish will be tasty with butter, stew, fried onion, greens, and mushrooms.
