Buckwheat with mushrooms: recipe and cooking methods

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Among the numerous dishes of traditional Russian cuisine, buckwheat with mushrooms is not the last. The recipe for its preparation is extremely simple. In fact, this is ordinary porridge, in which mushrooms are added during cooking. However, there are many ways to prepare such a dish.

Buckwheat pilaf

For a start, you can try to master the simplest recipe. Buckwheat with mushrooms will turn out fragrant and crumbly if you make it in the form of pilaf. To work, you will need the following components:

• 300 grams of buckwheat;
• 1 onion;
• 0, 5 kilograms of champignons;
• 10 grams of s alt;
• 0, 6 liters of water;
• 40 grams each of butter and vegetable oil;
• a little ground pepper.

How is the most common buckwheat with mushrooms prepared? The recipe calls for the following steps:

1. First of all, the peeled onion along with the mushrooms must be carefully cut into cubes.
2. To work, you need a cauldron or a pan with thick walls. Putting it on fire, pour vegetable oil first. It should warm up a bit. Then add butter.
3. Pour the onion into the boiling mixture and saute it lightly.
4. Next add the mushrooms and wait until they are soft enough. At this time, they need to be s alted and add a little pepper for flavor.
5. Rinse the grits with cold water. Transfer it to the pan.
6. Pour food with water and simmer for 20 minutes under the lid over low heat.

The finished dish will only need to be mixed and put on a wide plate. Such fragrant and delicious buckwheat pilaf does not need any addition.

Porridge with mushrooms

A good result can be achieved if you use another original recipe. Buckwheat with mushrooms in this case will be cooked differently. True, the ingredients for work will need the same:

• 1 cup (210 grams) buckwheat;
• 5 grams of s alt;
• 400 milliliters of water;
• 10 grams of butter;
• 1 onion;
• 3 pinches ground black pepper;
• 35 grams of any vegetable oil;
• 250 grams of mushrooms.

Basic cooking steps:

1. Sort the buckwheat, put it in a saucepan, pour water and put on fire. In this case, the ratio of liquid and cereal must be 2: 1. To make porridgemore fragrant, buckwheat can be lightly fried in a dry frying pan beforehand.
2. As soon as the water boils, cover the pot with a lid and cook the porridge over low heat for about a quarter of an hour.
3. Wrap the pan with ready-made buckwheat tightly and set aside.
4. Peel the onion and chop into small cubes. Mushrooms are best cut into thin slices.
5. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan.
6. Sauté the bow in it. It should become slightly transparent.
7. Add chopped mushrooms to the onion. Fry until they are well browned.
8. S alt the food (to taste) and pepper a little.
9. Put the fried mushrooms with onions into a pan with buckwheat and stir.
10. Cover the pan with a lid and immediately send it to the oven. There, porridge should languish at 150 degrees from 40 minutes to 1.5 hours.

Before serving, you can add a little butter to the finished porridge for flavor.

Technology to help

Buckwheat with mushrooms is very easy to prepare in a slow cooker. To make the dish tastier, you can add various vegetables to it. For such a recipe, you will need the following set of basic ingredients:

• 3 cups (multi-cooker) buckwheat;
• 1 bell pepper;
• s alt;
• 2 carrots;
• some mushrooms (any);
• 2 bulbs;
• 5 multi-cooker glasses of water;
• vegetable oil.

You need to cook such a dish step by step:

1. First mushrooms separately needwash, randomly cut and boil. This stage can be excluded if you use champignons for work.
2. Peel (if necessary) and rinse vegetables. After that, they must be crushed. It is better to grate the carrots, and randomly cut the onion and pepper into cubes.
3. Pour the prepared vegetables into the multicooker bowl. Set the "baking" mode and sauté them for 10 minutes.
4. Add boiled mushrooms. Continue frying for about 10 more minutes at the same mode.
5. Rinse the grits well and add to the vegetables. Pour the food with water and s alt a little. Set the mode to "buckwheat" (or "porridge").
6. After the timer signal, open the lid and mix the contents of the bowl well.
7. Let the finished dish stand for about 10 more minutes.

Buckwheat with mushrooms in a multicooker, prepared according to this recipe, turns out fragrant, juicy and very tasty.

Porridge in a pot

Earlier in Russia, almost all the dishes of the hostess were cooked in the oven. At the same time, they mainly used cast-iron or pots for work. This cookware is ideal for preparing dishes by simmering or slow and long stewing. Nowadays, the stove can be replaced with an oven. In it, buckwheat with mushrooms in pots turns out to be especially tasty. For this option, you will need a standard set of ingredients:

• 1 cup buckwheat;
• 100 grams of onion;
• s alt;
• 400 grams of mushrooms;
• 2 glasses of water;
• ground pepper;
• 35-40 grams of vegetable oil.

Method of cooking:

1. Chop the onion finely.
2. Lightly fry it in oil in a frying pan. The bow should become transparent.
3. Add coarsely chopped mushrooms and cook until almost all moisture has evaporated.
4. After that, the products can be peppered and s alted.
5. Add buckwheat to the pan here. Warm everything together for no more than 3-4 minutes.
6. Put the products into pots, pour water and put them in the oven for 40 minutes.
7. When the time is up turn off the fire. Let the buckwheat stand for another 20 minutes so that it steams properly.

Ready porridge will only need to be transferred to plates. Although you can use small serving pots. Then no additional utensils are required.

Dish calories

Buckwheat has long been considered one of the most popular and sought-after cereals. It is usually used to make a delicate fragrant porridge or an excellent crumbly side dish. But the use of buckwheat in cooking is not limited to this. It is included in cutlets and all kinds of casseroles, and is also used as a filling for poultry or pies. In addition, it is worth noting that buckwheat goes well with other products (meat, mushrooms, vegetables). As a result, each time a new independent dish with an original taste and unique aroma is obtained. A distinctive feature of buckwheat is its high energy value. After all, 100 grams of a pure product contains about 343 kilocalories. However, dishes prepared from itexperts often advise using for dietary nutrition. This is especially true for cereals with various additives. For example, what is remarkable about buckwheat with mushrooms? The calorie content of the finished dish, taking into account all the products included in it, is relatively small. 100 grams of such porridge contains from 69 to 70 kilocalories.

It is quite possible to include it in your daily diet without fear for the consequences. True, in this case, you should not add butter, which significantly increases the overall energy value.