Buckwheat with mushrooms is a versatile dish that can be served for breakfast or dinner. In addition, it is an excellent side dish that goes well with any meat dishes.
You can prepare buckwheat with mushrooms in different ways. Here is one of the easiest options. 400 grams of fresh or freshly frozen mushrooms and three onions should be taken on a glass of fast-boiling buckwheat kernel cereal.
It is best to cook such porridge in dishes with a thick bottom, for example, in a stewpan or a chicken bowl, you can use a cauldron. Pour a little vegetable oil into the bottom of the dishes and fry the finely chopped onion on it, not forgetting to stir. When the onion is almost ready, add the mushrooms, cut into small slices, and continue to fry. We keep our dish on fire until the juice that has stood out from the mushrooms evaporates. Now the time has come to pour buckwheat into the cauldron, which must first be washed and dried. Pour two glasses of salted boiling water into our dishes, level the buckwheat and continue to keep the porridge over high heat. As soon as the water disappears from the surface, we cover the dishes with a lid, reduce the heating to low, and simmer the porridge until cooked, after which we mix everything.
Buckwheat with mushrooms can also be prepared using dried or canned mushrooms. Another option for cooking this dish is to make dressing from onions and mushrooms (optionally add sour cream or mayonnaise) and mix with ready-made loose buckwheat porridge.
I must say that a dish such as buckwheat with mushrooms can be the complement or main dish on the festive table during the fast. Especially if you cook it in portioned pots.
So, to prepare a dish of buckwheat with mushrooms in a pot, we need a glass of buckwheat groats, 250 grams of mushrooms (fresh or fresh frozen, in the case of dry mushrooms, about 50 grams will be needed), one or two onions, a little oil, salt and seasonings.
Forest mushrooms are best used, but you can, of course, get along with champignons. Boil the mushrooms and cut into large enough pieces. When using dry mushrooms, they should be soaked before boiling. Chop the onion as small as possible. Fry onion and mushrooms in vegetable oil and combine this mass with washed raw buckwheat. We mix and arrange the mass in portioned pots (although such porridge can be prepared in one large clay pot).
Now prepare the liquid to fill. It is best if you have a natural mushroom broth that remains after boiling the mushrooms. But if there is no such broth, you can take a vegetable broth or just salted boiling water. Pour the liquid into the pots so that it rises about two fingers above the cereal layer. We cover the pots with lids and send them to the hot oven. Cook porridge at a temperature of 220 degrees for 15 minutes. Then reduce the heat to 160 degrees and continue cooking for another 40 minutes. Ready buckwheat porridge is served on the table, sprinkled with herbs. If you want to cook a very festive option, then the pots instead of the lid can be covered with “hats” made from yeast dough.
Buckwheat porridge with mushrooms can also be cooked using modern kitchen appliances, such as a slow cooker. If your appliance has a 4.5-liter bowl, then take 3 measuring cups of buckwheat, 6 measuring cups of water or broth, 4 small onions, 350-400 grams of mushrooms, a teaspoon of salt (its quantity is best determined to your taste) and 6 tablespoons of vegetable oil.
Chop the onion finely, mushrooms into fairly large slices. Pour oil into the multicooker bowl, put onions and turn on the device in the “baking” mode, setting the time to 40 minutes. From time to time, open the lid and stir the onion with a silicone spatula or a multicooker spoon. 20 minutes after the onion is fried, add the mushrooms. Mix and leave the products to fry until the end of the regime, that is, for another 20 minutes.
Now add the washed buckwheat to the bowl, pour in the salted water, close the lid and turn on the buckwheat mode. After the timer sounds, our buckwheat with mushrooms in the slow cooker is ready. You can lay it out on plates and call everyone to the table.