As you know, buckwheat is one of the most useful. In addition, it is an environmentally friendly product, since pesticides and chemicals are not used in the cultivation of buckwheat. Buckwheat is not afraid of weeds, and the use of chemistry to control them is simply inappropriate. Long gone are the days when buckwheat was considered a scarce product and its purchase was a very difficult undertaking. Currently, outlets provide a huge selection of buckwheat. The main thing is that the product is of high quality. Do not forget to look at the date of manufacture. Buckwheat on a store shelf loses its useful properties and qualities.
Smart assistant
So, in your refrigerator there are a couple of pieces of good meat, and on the shelf of the kitchen cabinet - high-quality buckwheat. What to cook from these products to make a tasty and satisfying dinner? If you have a multicooker in your kitchen, the answer is very simple. You can cook anything. A smart assistant will do everything for her mistress. No need to stand at the stove, constantly monitoring the process. Just prepare the products and put them in the bowl, and the crock-pot will do all the work itself. She will make sure that she does not get burnt and cooks on time.
One of the most popular dishes that housewives most often prepare with the help of a kitchen assistant is braised buckwheat with chicken. The dish is proven, low-calorie, healthy and very tasty.
List of Essential Ingredients
Required:
- 360 g chicken;
- 3 glasses of water;
- one small carrot;
- one and a half glasses of buckwheat;
- bulb;
- 2 tablespoons of sunflower oil;
- as many spoons of high-quality tomato paste;
- seasoning for chicken;
- salt;
- dried basil;
- fresh dill.
Features of cooking stewed buckwheat with chicken in a slow cooker
We wash the chicken fillet under cold water, slightly drying with a paper towel. Remove the skin, if any. We remove the central bone. Cut the fillet into large enough cubes. In the process of stewing, the meat will slightly decrease in size, so small slicing is unacceptable, unless, of course, you want to look for pieces of meat in the porridge later. Peel the carrots and cut into small cubes. Similarly, grind onions. If you want to add spice to stewed buckwheat with chicken, then prepare a couple more cloves of garlic chopped with a knife.
Pour some oil into the bottom of the bowl. Fry vegetables in it for a couple of minutes. We carry out the procedure in the "Frying" mode for 20 minutes. As soon as the start button was pressed, the kitchen assistant started work. In the process of frying, you can look after the vegetables, stirring them a couple of times with a special rubber spatula. After 7 minutes, we send the chicken cubes to the vegetables. Fry for a few more minutes. Pour buckwheat into a multicooker pan, pour water, add spices, tomato paste, dried basil and salt. Mix. Select the "quenching" mode. Close the lid and set the time to 40 minutes.
As soon as the kitchen assistant makes a mischievous squeak, the stewed buckwheat with chicken is ready. Before serving, the dish is decorated with greens. You can also add fresh greens salad to buckwheat .
Secrets and Tips
Do not be afraid to cook buckwheat in a slow cooker. It will turn out no less pleasant to taste than cooked on the stove. In addition, through the use of a smart kitchen assistant, buckwheat stewed with chicken will never burn, “will not run away” and will be at the optimum degree of readiness. To simplify the task in multicookers there are always modes "Extinguishing", "Porridge", "Grain". Some models even have a separate program called Buckwheat. If you are preparing not just porridge, but a full-fledged dish with the addition of vegetables or meat, it is recommended to use the "Pilaf" or "Stewing" programs.
Now directly on the preparation of cereals in a slow cooker. Even a novice housewife will master the recipe for stewed buckwheat with chicken if she knows the correct proportions of water and cereals. This is usually 1: 2. But in some recipes there are options 1: 1 or 1: 1,5. Moreover, it does not matter what the capacity of the multicooker bowl is. For cooking, special measuring cups are used, which come complete with the device.
To get a richer taste and aroma, it is recommended to fry the group for a couple of minutes in a dry pan. If you have only a slow cooker, then this is done in the "Frying" or "Baking" mode. If you look at the photo of stewed chicken with buckwheat, cooked in a slow cooker on "Braising" and "Baking", you will not notice the difference.
What to do if your slow cooker is not equipped with a special mode for making buckwheat porridge? Do not be afraid to cook the kernel without specialized functions. You can choose any mode at all, manually setting the temperature to 110 degrees and the cooking time 40 minutes. The program can be any, the main thing is that the liquid boils during cooking.