How to cook buckwheat on water

Buckwheat porridge for many is one of the most delicious, healthy, and therefore favorite dishes. It can be combined with various products, served independently or as part of other foods. At the same time, boiled buckwheat must be in moderation dry and crumbly. But how to cook buckwheat on the water so that it meets all these requirements and has only benefits to the body?

To get scattered buckwheat without effort in just 20 minutes, buy a special cereal in the store, packaged in portioned bags. Then:

Boil more water in a saucepan;
sunbathe it;
lower the bag;
Reduce the fire, cover with a lid and cook for 15-20 minutes, as indicated in the instructions;
When the porridge is ready, cut the bag with scissors, and put its contents on a plate;
If desired, add a little butter or vegetable oil and serve to the table.

For those who do not want to use the benefits of the modern food industry, we offer a simple way to make buckwheat porridge, which our grandmothers also used. Before starting cooking, sort out dry cereal well. Remove black particles, small pebbles, the remains of other cereals and other small garbage from it.

Take a glass of dry buckwheat and pour it with a large amount of slightly warm water. Cold in this case will not work, because it will not be able to wash off all the dust and dirt that gathered on separate grains. Rinse the cereal as follows, changing the water at least twice.

Transfer buckwheat to a suitable pan and share exactly two glasses of cold water. You can from the crane if you are sure that it is quite clean, but better bottled. Water should definitely be twice as much as cereals. Only such proportions will make perfect porridge. Further:

Put the container on a large fire.
As soon as the water boils, add a little salt.
Cook with a lot of seething for 5 minutes. Cover the pan with a lid or reduce fire.
Then remove the buckwheat from the fire, rearrange it on the table.
Cover tightly with a lid and wrap well with a large towel.
In this state, leave for about 20-25 minutes.

After the indicated time, remove the towel. Ideal buckwheat with separate dry grains is ready, you can serve it on a side dish or use it for preparing other dishes.

Sometimes buckwheat is needed more boiled and wet, for example, to make casseroles. The following method is suitable for this:

We take 4.5-5 glasses of water for 2 cups of buckwheat and pour it into a pan.
We put on the stove and wait until it boils.
Salt, add pre -selected and washed buckwheat.
We reduce the fire to the minimum so that the water in the saucepan barely boils, cover with a lid;
Cook for about 20-25 minutes. In this case, water does not boil, but the porridge turns out the so -called “scope”. In it, if desired, add butter, cottage cheese, sugar, stew and other products.

Cooking buckwheat is very simple. In addition to the proposed methods, you can prepare delicious porridge in a double boiler, in the oven or microwave. The main thing is to observe proportions and put a little love in cooking.

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Eddie1 01/28/2016 at 17:23

It is very convenient to cook buckwheat in a slow cooker, and not only because it turns out scattered there and retains a lot of vitamins: in parallel with porridge, diet cutlets, or an omelet, or, for example, sausages - a lot of things!