Buckwheat with mushrooms: recipe and cooking methods

Among the many dishes of traditional Russian cuisine, not the last place is buckwheat with mushrooms. The recipe for its preparation is extremely simple. In fact, this is an ordinary porridge into which mushrooms are added during cooking. Nevertheless, you can prepare such a dish in different ways.

Buckwheat pilaf

For starters, you can try to learn 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 salt;
• 0.6 liters of water;
• 40 grams of butter and vegetable oil;
• some ground pepper.

How to cook the most ordinary buckwheat with mushrooms? The recipe involves the following steps:

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

The finished dish will only have to mix and put it on a wide plate. Such a 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 prepared differently. True, the ingredients for work will need the same:

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

The main stages of cooking:

1. Sort buckwheat, pour into a saucepan, pour water and put on fire. In this case, the ratio of liquid to cereal must be 2: 1. To make the porridge more flavorful, buckwheat can be fried a little in a dry frying pan.
2. As soon as the water boils, you need to close the pan with a lid and cook porridge over low heat for about a quarter of an hour.
3. Wrap the pot with ready-made buckwheat tightly and set aside.
4. Peel and chop the onion into small cubes. Mushrooms are best cut into thin slices.
5. Heat vegetable oil in a pan.
6. Pass the onion in it. It should be a little transparent.
7. Add chopped mushrooms to the onion. Fry until they are well browned.
8. Salt the products (to taste) and pepper a little.
9. Transfer the fried mushrooms with onions to a pan with buckwheat and mix.
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, a little butter can be added to the finished porridge for flavor.

Technique to help

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

• 3 cups (multi-cooked) buckwheat;
• 1 pod of sweet pepper;
• salt;
• 2 carrots;
• some mushrooms (any);
• 2 onions;
• 5 multi-cooked glasses of water;
• vegetable oil.

To cook such a dish, you must step by step:

1. First, the mushrooms must be washed separately, arbitrarily cut and boiled. This stage can be excluded if mushrooms are used for work.
2. Peel the vegetables (if necessary) and rinse. After that, they must be crushed. It is better to grate the carrots, and cut the onions and peppers arbitrarily into cubes.
3. Prepared vegetables to fill in a multicooker bowl. Set the “baking” mode and pass them for 10 minutes.
4. Add boiled mushrooms. Continue frying for approximately 10 minutes under the same regime.
5. Rinse the cereals well and add to the vegetables. Pour food with water and salt a little. Set the "buckwheat" (or "porridge") mode.
6. After the timer signal, open the lid and mix thoroughly the contents of the bowl.
7. Let the finished dish stand for about 10 minutes.

Buckwheat with mushrooms in a slow cooker, prepared according to this recipe, turns out to be 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, for the work they mainly used cast iron pots. This cookware is ideal for cooking by stewing or slow and long stewing. Nowadays, the oven can be replaced with an oven. In it, buckwheat with mushrooms in pots is especially tasty. For this option, you need a standard set of ingredients:

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

Cooking Technique:

1. Finely chop the onion.
2. Lightly fry it in oil in a pan. The beam should become transparent.
3. Add coarsely chopped mushrooms and cook until almost all the moisture has evaporated.
4. After this, the products can be pepper and salt.
5. To this, add buckwheat to the pan. Warm all together for no more than 3-4 minutes.
6. Put the products in pots, fill with water and send them to the oven for 40 minutes.
7. After the time has passed, turn off the fire. Let the buckwheat stand for another 20 minutes, so that it is properly steamed.

The finished porridge will only have to shift into plates. Although you can use small portioned pots. Then no extra dishes are required.

Calorie dishes

Buckwheat has long been considered one of the most popular and sought-after cereals. It is usually used to make delicate flavorful porridge or an excellent crumbly side dish. But this is not limited to the use of buckwheat in cooking. It is included in the composition of 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 is obtained with an original taste and unique aroma. A distinctive feature of buckwheat is its high energy value. After all, 100 grams of pure product contains about 343 kilocalories. Nevertheless, experts often advise using dishes prepared from it for dietary nutrition. This is especially true for cereals with various additives. For example, what is remarkable 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 can well be included in the daily diet, without fear for the consequences. True, in this case, do not add butter, which significantly increases the overall energy value.