How to cook chicken cutlets with buckwheat? What kind of food is this? You will find answers to these and other questions in the article. Typical meatballs are prepared on the basis of eggs, onions, minced meat and long loaf. But besides these components, cereals can also be added to them. Buckwheat goes well with any kind of meat.
Therefore, in the form of a meat component, pork, chicken or beef is often used, depending on personal preferences. For example, cereal perfectly dilutes dry chicken fillet, making the meatballs juicy, and also give them a special consistency and taste. Some interesting recipes for chicken cutlets with buckwheat are discussed below.
Homemade cutlets
These chicken meatballs with buckwheat are more like simple meatballs than Greek ones. Buckwheat makes them healthier and more satisfying. At the same time, they are cheaper, since porridge replaces meat by 50%. It should be noted that due to the presence of buckwheat, the loaf is not added to the minced meat. With such a composition, the dish can rightly be considered dietary. So, we take:
- three cloves of garlic;
- chicken fillet - 400 g;
- one egg;
- one onion;
- boiled buckwheat porridge - 200 g;
- pepper;
- salt;
- vegetable oil (for frying);
- breadcrumbs - three tbsp. l
How to cook
Build these chicken cutlets with buckwheat like this:
- Rinse the chicken, dry with a napkin, chop into small pieces. Combine them with cold prepared buckwheat porridge in a separate bowl.
- Peel the onions and garlic, wash. Cut the onion into bars, leave the garlic in its original form, add to the base composition.
- All prepared components, alternating, pass through a meat grinder, getting a single mass.
- Beat the egg into the minced meat. Stir the mass intensively, pepper and salt.
- Moisten your hands with water and form small little balls of identical parameters. Bread in each breadcrumbs.
- Heat a large frying pan on the stove, pour oil on it, then lower the meatballs. Cook over medium heat until golden brown on the surface.
- Transfer the finished meatballs to a plate covered with paper cloth. As a result, you will save them from excess oil.
With buckwheat and vegetables in the oven
How to make chicken meatballs with buckwheat in the oven? According to this recipe, the meal turns out to be juicy, tender and very appetizing. Moreover, such cutlets are very useful, as they are baked, not fried. They can be served as an independent meal, because they have both cereals and meat. Vegetables give cutlets added benefit and juiciness. You can also add other vegetables that you like. A perfect addition can be crushed Bulgarian pepper of different colors, as well as dill and parsley.
In minced meat, you can put crushed clove of garlic. Such cutlets are good to serve with a side dish of fresh vegetables, for example, with tomatoes or cucumbers, or with any kind of salad. Take:
- 200 g boiled buckwheat;
- 300 g minced chicken;
- sweet paprika (to taste);
- one onion;
- one carrot;
- 100 g frozen green peas;
- salt;
- dry dill;
- lean oil (to lubricate the mold);
- ground black pepper.
This recipe with photos of chicken cutlets with buckwheat stipulates the following steps:
- Prepare the minced chicken. To do this, scroll through the meat grinder chicken fillet with chopped onion. If you have minced meat, add chopped onion or grated onion.
- Peel the carrots and grate on a medium grater.
- Send the chopped carrots to the minced chicken with onions, stir.
- Boil buckwheat in advance and cool. Send it to the minced meat as well.
- Add icy green peas. It is not necessary to defrost it in advance. It will unfreeze in the dish and give it additional juiciness.
- Put spices, dry dill, sweet ground paprika, pepper and salt to taste. If desired, you can add any seasonings, as well as fresh herbs.
- Stir the minced meat with buckwheat and vegetables well so that all the components are joined together.
- Grease a baking dish with lean butter. Form the cutlets and lay them out in a mold.
- Send the blanks to the oven, heated to 180 ° C, for 40 minutes.
Serve cooked cutlets hot with salad or vegetables.
In milk
Few people know how to cook cutlets of minced meat and buckwheat. Consider an attractive recipe from the book of L. Gayevskaya “The Best Ukrainian Food”. You will need:
- head of garlic;
- 500 g of minced chicken;
- ½ tbsp buckwheat;
- one onion;
- salt;
- one egg;
- ground black pepper.
This recipe for buckwheat and chicken mince is as follows:
- Pour boiling water with buckwheat steep for 10 minutes.
- Stir the crumbled onions, minced chicken, crushed garlic, beaten egg, salt and spices (you can add a little sweet paprika) and steamed buckwheat.
- Form the meatballs and fry in a small amount of lean or fat oil.
- Pour into a pan 0.5 tbsp. water, sour cream, diluted with milk, or milk, boil, lay the meatballs in layers.
- Cook for 25 minutes. over low heat until cereal is fully cooked.
Tip. These cutlets are good to serve with herbs. Use buckwheat as a side dish. You can fill it all with honey mustard sauce, which is perfect for any meat.
With zucchini
Have you ever eaten buckwheat with chicken meatballs cooked in the oven? You will need:
- buckwheat groats "Mistral" or "Yadrita" in bags;
- salt (to taste);
- one egg;
- 400 g chicken fillet;
- 200 g chicken liver;
- three cloves of garlic;
- one onion;
- one small zucchini;
- 1 tbsp. l chopped parsley;
- ground pepper black;
- nutmeg pinch;
- 1 tsp olive oil;
- 5 tbsp. l wheat flour;
- a couple of sprigs of parsley (for decoration).
The process of making buckwheat with juicy meatballs of chicken, liver and zucchini, baked in the oven:
- Buckets with buckwheat dip in salted water and cook for 20 minutes. over low heat.
- Pass the chicken fillet, onion and chicken liver through a meat grinder.
- Add minced garlic, egg, zucchini, grated on medium grater, nutmeg, ground black pepper and salt to taste, chopped parsley to the minced meat.
- Pour in whole wheat flour and knead the minced meat well.
- Cover the baking sheet with parchment, spread with olive oil. Form cutlets with wet hands, put on parchment. Usually 14 blanks are obtained.
- Bake the patties in the oven, heated to 200 ° C, for half an hour.
- Remove the finished buckwheat in sachets from the pan, drain to water.
- Serve buckwheat with cutlets, garnishing with parsley. Pour the porridge with melted butter or serve with your favorite sauce.
Steamed cutlets
Steamed chicken cutlets with buckwheat are a diet dish. Add a little salt to the minced meat. Spices are not needed here at all! Buckwheat can be boiled in advance. Cutlets to any size. So you need to have:
- three tbsp. l boiled buckwheat;
- a pinch of salt;
- 500 g minced chicken.
Prepare this dish as follows:
- Minced chicken salt and stir.
- Boil buckwheat in advance.
- Send boiled buckwheat to the minced meat and knead it well.
- Wet cutlets with wet hands and place the steamers on the pallet. Turn on the device for 20 minutes. The food is ready!
Such cutlets can be served with any garnish or boiled vegetables.
Grechaniki
Many lovers of delicious food call chicken cutlets with buckwheat Greek. But here the name is not so important as the amazing taste and satiety of the dish. If you ever try to make it, you will return to this recipe again and again. Take:
- 150 g buckwheat;
- chicken fillet - 500 g;
- two chicken eggs;
- vegetable oil (for frying);
- two onions;
- pepper, salt (to taste);
- tomato sauce - 1 tbsp. (200 ml).
Cooking Greek
Cook this dish like this:
- Cook viscous buckwheat porridge in advance.
- Mix boiled buckwheat, raw minced meat, twisted with onions in a meat grinder, chicken eggs. Stir the cutlet mass, pepper and salt it.
- Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan until sprayed. Please note: for frying cutlets, oil is poured generously, otherwise the products will not be fried, but burnt.
- Wet hands form oval or round buckwheat, put them on a frying pan and fry under the lid. Once one side is gold-plated, turn over and fry on the other.
- Slightly dilute the sauce with water, put the patties in a saucepan, fill with tomato and simmer over low heat under a lid. After about 15 minutes after boiling the sauce, the dish will be completely ready for use.
You can also replace tomato sauce with sour cream, bechamel sauce or vegetable gravy. And you can also bake the Greek, wrapped in foil - it also turns out very tasty.