Flour is the most sought-after cooking product that is always found in every home. However, wheat flour is more often preferred, despite the variety of different types of this product on store shelves. Some of them can be prepared on their own, for example buckwheat flour. This is even many times more useful than the store counterpart, and what delicious dishes are obtained from it!
Its negative and positive sides
Buckwheat flour is a leading dietary product. When using it in cooking, weight is significantly reduced, toxins are removed from the body, and in general, an improvement in the condition of the body is observed. And what girl does not want a beautiful and healthy body? Moreover, there are a lot of recipes from buckwheat flour.
It contains a large number of B vitamins, which help the normal functioning of the nervous system and brain. There is also vitamin PP, which affects good blood circulation and removes negative cholesterol from the body. But this is not all, according to nutritionists, buckwheat flour perfectly fills the body’s need for copper, without which cells can not grow and strengthen immunity. It contains a high content of manganese, necessary for the normal functioning of the thyroid gland, metabolism and stabilization of sugar levels.
Buckwheat flour fills the cells with energy, and they, in turn, have a positive effect on the healthy condition of the skin. Even the digestive tract benefits from it: getting rid of constipation and heartburn. This flour increases hemoglobin in the blood and is great as a component of masks or scrubs. And due to the fact that buckwheat is the only plant that is not processed by chemicals and is not genetically modified, it is impossible to find carcinogens or GMOs in it.
What are the negative aspects of using this type of flour? In rare cases, consumption of a buckwheat-based product can cause allergic reactions. There should be a measure in everything, and this case is no exception. Excessive use of this flour can cause dangerous diseases of the digestive tract, pain in the stomach and intestines.
Buckwheat cookies
To create this delicious sweet, we need:
- Sugar - 150 grams.
- Buckwheat and wheat flour - 200 grams each.
- Soda - ½ small spoon.
- Butter - 180 grams.
- Egg - 2 pieces.
- Honey - 2 tablespoons.
- Vanillin (to taste) - a pinch.
Cooking cookies from buckwheat flour. Sift both types of flour and combine them with butter and sugar, mix thoroughly. Add eggs, honey, salt and, if desired, vanillin to the mass. Knead the dough. If necessary, add some wheat flour so that it does not stick to your hands. We roll balls from the dough no more than a walnut. We put baking paper on a baking sheet and on top - the future cookies. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, put the dough there for 20 minutes. Enjoy your meal!
Another cookie option
For this recipe you will need:
- Butter - 100 grams.
- Brown sugar - 50 grams.
- Buckwheat flour - 150 grams.
- Walnuts and honey as a decoration.
Melt the butter and warm to room temperature, add sugar and flour to it. Roll the resulting mass into a ball, place it in the refrigerator for 20 minutes. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, roll out the dough and form cookies. Bake for 15-20 minutes without removing from the baking sheet, cool in an open oven.
Kefir fritters
To prepare this dish, you must:
- Whole grain wheat flour and buckwheat flour - each 150 grams.
- Egg - 3 pieces.
- Sunflower oil - 4 tablespoons.
- Baking powder - ½ teaspoon.
- Sugar - 4 tablespoons.
- Kefir of medium fat content - 300 milliliters.
- Water - 1 cup.
Cooking: combine two types of flour, add baking powder there. Beat kefir, eggs and butter. Then combine the flour and the resulting mixture and mix thoroughly, adding water to this. We heat the pan and cook like ordinary pancakes.
Gingerbread cookies
We will need the following ingredients for this delicious gingerbread recipe:
- Buckwheat flour - 200 grams.
- Sugar - 20 grams.
- Butter (butter) - 100 grams.
- Dark molasses - 100 grams.
- Light molasses - 100 grams.
- Spices (cloves and cinnamon) - together 1 teaspoon.
- Soda - 1 teaspoon.
- Egg - 1 piece.
- Milk - 150 milliliters.
- Ground ginger - 2 teaspoons.
Combine buckwheat flour with sugar, spices, soda and ground ginger, heat butter and molasses in a saucepan. Next, you need to mix all the ingredients. Heat the milk, whipping the future dough, pour it in, then add the egg to everything. Place the resulting mass on a baking sheet, pre-lubricating it with oil, and bake in the oven at 150 degrees an hour. After everything has cooled, divide into pieces. Done, bon appetit!
Delicious pancakes
Very unpretentious in cooking and delicious pancakes from buckwheat flour. The baking powder in this recipe will be baking soda. For cooking you need:
- Buckwheat flour - 220 grams.
- Wheat flour - 60 grams.
- Egg - 3 pieces.
- Salt - ½ teaspoon.
- Sugar - 1-2 teaspoons.
- Soda - ½ teaspoon.
- Oil (vegetable) - 3-4 tablespoons.
- Milk (kefir or yogurt) - half a liter.
Mix two types of flour. We take a deep plate, pour milk into it (kefir or yogurt), drive eggs into it, pour sugar, salt, soda and beat thoroughly. Mix the flour and shake the resulting mixture until all the lumps disappear. We fry like ordinary pancakes.
Bread
From buckwheat flour, you can cook not only cookies, pancakes, pancakes, but also healthy and tasty bread. To do this, you must:
- Wheat flour - 380 grams.
- Warm water - 120 milliliters.
- Rye flour - 70 grams.
- Serum - 130 milliliters.
- Buckwheat flour - 90 grams.
- Milk (preferably natural cow) - 100 milliliters.
- Yeast - 10 grams.
- Sugar - 15 grams.
- Salt is a pinch.
- Oil (olive) - 15 milliliters.
- Ground walnuts - 50 grams.
Cooking: put sugar and yeast in warm water for 6 minutes, after the time has passed, add serum to them and portionwise - 250 grams of wheat flour. Wrap it well with cling film so that no air can get there, leave it for 3 hours in a warm place without drafts.
The dough should bubble and double. It's time to knead the dough, add milk, butter, salt there and mix well, gradually adding buckwheat flour, then sift the rye. Pour nuts on top of the dough, stir and add another 130 grams of white flour, roll into a circle, cover with a towel and do not touch the hour. We raise the raised dough for half a minute and, according to the same principle, leave it for 45 minutes. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and place it for 50-55 minutes. Buckwheat flour bread is ready, just wait for it to cool.
And what else?
Buckwheat flour can help reduce weight, cleanse the body of harmful trace elements and just feel healthy and happy. Moreover, the recipe is extremely simple, and there are many benefits from it: cleansing blood vessels, lowering blood sugar, stabilizing the functioning of the digestive tract, and a positive effect on metabolism. Do not believe? But buckwheat flour with kefir will help you prove it. For a miracle recipe you need:
- Buckwheat groats - 1 tablespoon.
- Kefir - 1 glass.
The recommended cooking time is evening, because in the morning you will already have a healthy portion of medicinal kefir with buckwheat flour. Cooking buckwheat flour: put the grits in a coffee grinder and grind. We fill it in kefir, and leave the mixture in the refrigerator for the whole night. Kefir should be drunk 30 minutes before the first meal for 14 days every morning. Interrupt for 30 days and resume the course again.