Buckwheat groats are an excellent universal product. About the benefits you can talk endlessly.
You can prepare a lot of hearty dishes from cereals: for breakfast - buckwheat porridge with milk, for lunch buckwheat soup, and for dinner this cereal can be stewed with meat. Moreover, buckwheat can be added to cutlets, stuffed with vegetables or made into a casserole.
Buckwheat is just a real find for housewives who do not want to spend a lot of time cooking. It is superbly satisfying. Such cereals have many vitamins and few calories. Let's find out what is the energy value of this product and the calorie content of buckwheat with meat.
Calorie Buckwheat
Buckwheat is also called buckwheat kernel, it is we who eat it. Calorie content of the product is 308 kcal per 100 grams of dry product.
Please note that the calorie content of the not yet finished cereal is taken into account. When cooking, buckwheat increases in volume, absorbing water, so the energy value of the finished product should be divided by 3.
It follows that the calorie content of finished buckwheat is from 90 to 95 kcal per 100 grams.
Calorie buckwheat with meat
Next, consider a simple recipe for buckwheat with meat in a pot. The table shows the products that will be needed for cooking, and their energy value.
This table will help calculate the calorie content of buckwheat with meat of any origin (poultry, beef, lamb).
We will use pork for example.
Ingredient | Product weight | Calories, kcal |
Pork (pulp) | 400 grams | 1500 |
Buckwheat | 400 grams | 1340 |
Onion | 300 grams | 164 |
Carrot | 150 grams | 51 |
Butter | 20 grams | 149.6 |
Boiled water or filtered | 1,5 liters | 0 |
Total | 2770 grams | 3204.6 |
Total per 100 grams of product | one hundred | 115.69 |
As you can see, the calorie content of buckwheat with meat (100 grams) is not so great. If you want to reduce the calorie content of the finished dish, then do not add butter.
Buckwheat and meat recipe
All necessary ingredients are listed in the table. For cooking buckwheat, you will need salt and pepper to taste. The calorie content of spices in the table is not taken into account, since it is negligible.
- Chop the onion and grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Put everything in a dish. How to cut onions and not cry at the same time, see the video posted in the article below.
- Cut the meat into small cubes and send it to the vegetables. Pepper the contents of the dish.
- Pour half a glass of water (100 ml) into a baking pot (it is better to take a clay one), put meat and vegetables in the water.
- Put a closed pot in a cold oven. Turn on the oven, set the temperature to approximately 200-220 ° C. Bake for about an hour.
- While the meat with vegetables is baked, it is necessary to rinse the buckwheat and lightly fry it for 2-3 minutes in a hot pan.
- Take out the pot, add butter, washed buckwheat, salt and the remaining water. Mix the contents of the pot well.
- Put in the oven for another half hour.
- Turn off the oven, but buckwheat is not worth taking out yet. She must still stand there for 25 minutes.
When serving, the dish can be decorated with greens.
Buckwheat benefits
You can write books about the beneficial properties of this cereal. It is worth noting the main trace elements that make up the buckwheat kernel:
- Copper. This trace element is contained in it in huge quantities, even exceeding the daily norm. Copper increases blood coagulation, strengthens the walls of blood vessels and increases the level of hemoglobin in the blood.
- Calcium is responsible for the formation and strengthening of the skeletal system. Therefore, buckwheat is so useful for children, adolescents and people of advanced age.
- Phosphorus prevents the formation of kidney stones, prevents skin aging. This element is simply necessary, because it helps to establish metabolic processes in the body.
- All vitamins of group B, vitamin A, E and PP.
Those who decide to get rid of extra pounds, it is advisable to include buckwheat in the diet.