Not only in Russia, but also in our time, buckwheat porridge is considered one of the most common dishes for everyday nutrition. And to give it a unique taste and aroma, various dressings and gravy are often used with the addition of meat, vegetables, aromatic spices and seasonings. There are so many of them that every housewife can choose the sauce for buckwheat porridge to her taste. How to cook gravy for buckwheat?
Cooking Gravy: A Little About the General Principles of the Process
- To prepare gravy with meat, only tender flesh without fat and tendons is used, which must be cut into thin strips and stewed until soft.
- Mushroom sauce for buckwheat, as a rule, is prepared from mushrooms, but in the season of forest mushrooms, you can use them. Mushrooms are fried with onions and garlic, seasoned with spices, poured with sour cream or cream.
- For the preparation of vegetable gravy , onions and garlic, carrots, bell peppers, tomatoes or tomato paste are used, spices and seasonings are added.
- Flour in gravy is an integral ingredient, with its help you can thicken any sauce, make it enveloping and delicate in taste.
- On the basis of cream or milk with the addition of flour and onions, you can prepare a creamy sauce, seasoning it with a small amount of cheese that is easy to melt, fresh or dry herbs, coarsely ground black pepper.
Fragrant buckwheat with gravy, the recipe of which you choose, will appeal to you and family members. After all, the dish will have a different taste and aroma, so it diversifies everyday nutrition.
How to cook gravy for buckwheat?
In Russia, buckwheat was called bread. After all, a variety of dishes were prepared from it, and cereals were crushed and even pancakes baked. But porridge is still the most popular dish. And so that it is not dry when serving, delicious and aromatic gravy is attached to it. How to make buckwheat gravy?
Mushroom, for example, is prepared simply. To give an additional taste of mushroom sauce to buckwheat, a handful of dried porcini mushrooms can be added to fresh mushrooms or oyster mushrooms.
Products for cooking:
- Champignons - 300 g.
- Sweet onion - 2 pcs.
- Young garlic - 3-4 cloves.
- Vegetable oil - 50 ml.
- A pinch of salt and sugar.
- A handful of dried porcini mushrooms.
- Soy sauce - 65 ml.
- Ground black pepper.
- Some fresh greens.
How to cook mushroom sauce?
Soak dry porcini mushrooms in hot water. After the mushrooms swell, do not drain, but let it settle and pour without residue into clean dishes.
Peel onions and garlic. Grind them very finely. Sauté the garlic and onion until tender in warmed oil.
Cut the soaked mushrooms into small cubes, add to the onion. Warm in oil for 5-7 minutes. Grind champignons by cutting them into thin slices. Add them to the pan, pour in soy sauce and a little mushroom broth, add salt and sugar, pepper and simmer mushrooms for 10-12 minutes until cooked.
Remove the pan from the heat, season the gravy with ground black pepper and add chopped fresh herbs.
Buckwheat Gravy with Beef
You can give the porridge additional satiety with the help of gravy, as well as give the dish an aroma and additional taste. Thanks to the meat sauce for buckwheat, the nutritional value of the dish increases. This allows you to serve buckwheat as an independent dish, accompanied by a salad.
Products for making gravy:
- 500 g of beef pulp.
- Mashed Tomatoes - 250 g.
- Onions - 4 pcs.
- Spices and seasonings to taste.
- 0.5 teaspoon of salt.
- Ground black pepper.
- 80 ml of vegetable oil.
- Some greens for serving.
How to cook meat sauce?
Strip off a piece of meat from grease and films, rinse in running water, dry with kitchen paper towels and cut into thin strips or small cubes.
Fry the beef from all sides to a golden crust, "sealing" the meat juice inside the slices.
Chop the onion by cutting it into thin, almost transparent half rings. Add to the meat and continue to fry for 12-15 minutes.
Pour the tinned canned tomatoes into the pan, add salt and spices and, having covered the lid, simmer the meat in the sauce for about 45 minutes, adding water if necessary.
Arrange the hot buckwheat on plates, pour the gravy and garnish with sprigs of fresh herbs. Do not forget to write down the recipe for buckwheat gravy in a culinary notebook.
Buckwheat porridge vegetable sauce
If you follow your diet or follow a diet, you can treat yourself to gravy for buckwheat made from vegetables, which is distinguished by its dietary properties. For cooking, it is recommended to use sour cream of normal fat content so that the sauce does not turn out watery.
Products for the preparation of vegetable gravy:
- 3-4 tbsp. spoons of sour cream;
- 3 small carrots;
- 2 sweet onions;
- 50 g of tomato paste;
- Bay leaf;
- a bunch of fresh herbs;
- some salt and black pepper;
- vegetable oil.
How to cook vegetable sauce?
Peel vegetables, cut onions into very small cubes, grate the carrots on a fine grater. Sauté onions until golden.
As soon as the onion is browned, add the carrots to the pan and fry the vegetables until cooked. Season with spices and salt, put a bay leaf and, if desired, a little fine sugar to balance the acid in the gravy.
Transfer tomato paste to vegetables and warm it well, then add sour cream, a little water, vegetable or chicken broth. Extinguish the gravy for 7-8 minutes, try on salt and spices, add chopped fresh herbs and a little more sour cream.
Turn off the fire, rearrange the pan and you can lay the gravy on plates.