Buckwheat is a simple dish for every day that can be prepared in many ways. It goes well with vegetables and any meat (pork, chicken, beef). This cereal is always a good option, no matter how it is cooked: on the stove, in the slow cooker, in the oven, in pots, with or without meat. It is an excellent base for both vegetarian and meat dishes.
Buckwheat stewed with vegetables is an excellent diet dish. It is well saturated with the aroma of vegetables, acquiring a new taste.
Buckwheat with vegetables
Buckwheat stewed with vegetables according to this recipe is very crumbly. This is an excellent light dinner for the whole family.
Ingredients:
- half a glass of buckwheat;
- half zucchini;
- glass of water;
- half a large sweet pepper;
- celery stalk;
- two tablespoons of vegetable oil;
- a mixture of peppers;
- cumin;
- a mixture of oregano and rosemary;
- parsley;
- grated Adyghe cheese to taste;
- salt.
Procedure:
- Sort buckwheat, free from garbage, rinse, soak in water.
- Cut bell pepper into strips, celery stalk into thin slices, zucchini into cubes.
- Heat vegetable oil in a pan. Crush cumin seeds in a mortar, dip in oil, fry until dark.
- Then put zucchini in a pan, sweet pepper, celery and fry for about three minutes.
- Drain the water from the dishes with buckwheat, and pour the groats into vegetables. Cook for another three minutes, stirring constantly.
- Pour water into the pan (hot, but not boiling), a mixture of herbs, a mixture of peppers and salt.
- After boiling, reduce the gas, cover and simmer until the cereals are completely absorbed (about 15-20 minutes).
- Pour grated cheese and chopped parsley into the prepared buckwheat, stewed with vegetables, mix, put on plates.
To get a lean dish, you don’t need to add Adyghe cheese to it. But buckwheat will not lose anything from this. If desired, dried tomatoes can be put in the dish, they are added immediately after frying the cumin seeds.
With chicken
Buckwheat stewed with vegetables and chicken is a quick lunch or dinner, while healthy and light. Both cereals and meat belong to the category of dietary products.
Ingredients:
- 250 g chicken fillet;
- one onion;
- one eggplant;
- one bell pepper;
- one zucchini;
- three cloves of garlic;
- 150 buckwheat;
- one carrot;
- 30 ml of hot tomato sauce;
- refined sunflower oil;
- salt;
- allspice;
- fresh parsley;
- coriander.
Cooking:
- Cut onions and carrots into small cubes and put in a pan with hot vegetable oil.
- Two minutes later, send pieces of chicken fillet to the pan (it must be cut into small, even, approximately equal portions).
- Peel zucchini, eggplant and peppers (remove stalks and seeds, peel skin from zucchini and eggplant). Cut into small identical cubes. Put in a pan and mix.
- Add hot tomato sauce, crushed garlic, salt, allspice, coriander, set the smallest fire and simmer until the liquid boils completely.
- Pour water into buckwheat, salt, put on fire and boil until half cooked. Transfer the cereals into a pan with chicken and vegetables and simmer another 10-15 minutes.
Serve the finished dish hot with chopped fresh parsley.
In a slow cooker
Without a slow cooker today is nowhere. Buckwheat stewed with vegetables in a slow cooker is delicious with and without meat.
Ingredients:
- one multi-glass of buckwheat;
- 300 g boneless beef;
- Bell pepper;
- carrot;
- eggplant;
- a tomato;
- bulb;
- vegetable oil;
- one multi-glass of water (or broth) and tomato juice;
- salt;
- pepper.
Cooking:
- Cut the meat into pieces.
- Pour vegetable oil into the bowl of the multicooker, send beef there, then add pepper, salt and cook in the “Baking” mode for about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Process vegetables and cut into cubes, put in a slow cooker, add salt, if necessary.
- Pour buckwheat into the multicooker bowl, then pour tomato juice, water (or broth) and mix.
- Install the Extinguishing program for three hours.
Buckwheat stewed with vegetables and meat is served immediately, while hot and fresh.
Conclusion
Connoisseurs believe that buckwheat does not need to be soaked with the aroma of vegetables and spices — it should “sound” itself. During the preparation of buckwheat stewed with vegetables, in order to preserve its delicate noble taste, you need to put it on top and do not mix or boil separately until half-cooked and only then, add to vegetables and meat and slightly darken under the lid.