Buckwheat with stew: recipe with photo

Buckwheat with stew is a simple, satisfying, quite economical and quick to prepare dish. It will always come to the aid of the hostess if it is necessary to quickly feed her beloved, family, or unexpectedly guests. It is also a great option for food in camping conditions. Cooking options can be varied. For example, with the addition of vegetables, spices, herbs and other ingredients. Also, buckwheat porridge with meat stew can be cooked in a slow cooker, pressure cooker, pan, frying pan, oven, at the stake. Step-by-step recipes and photos of buckwheat with stew are described in this article.

Important Tips

For a dish, you can use a ready-made store stew or cooked at home (which will make the dish even more tasty and rich). A stew of poultry, pork, beef, rabbit, lamb is suitable. It is recommended that there is a layer of fat in canned food, since it is good to pass the vegetables on it. When preparing buckwheat cereal with meat, it is important to consider that the stew already has salt, so you need to add it very carefully. It is also recommended not only to sort, rinse the grits themselves before cooking, but also fry them for no more than 2 minutes in a dry frying pan. Then the taste of buckwheat will be more vivid.

The dish will be an excellent breakfast or dinner option for family, students or tourists on a hike.

How to cook buckwheat with stew? How useful is cereal, including in combination with meat and vegetables? Read the answers to these questions below.

With carrots and onions

According to this recipe, the dish is cooked in a slow cooker, which today is the best assistant to the modern housewife. Here, buckwheat is steamed, saturated with the juice of vegetables and stews, which makes the dish very tasty and fragrant.

Description of the cooking process and the necessary ingredients:

1. Finely chop the carrots (100 g) and onions (100 g), sauté for 10 minutes, after pouring 20 ml of vegetable oil into the multicooker bowl (program “Frying”).
2. Pour canned meat (200 g) into vegetables, mix, simmer for 10 minutes.
3. Pour 0.5 liters of drinking water into the food bowl, pour out previously prepared buckwheat groats (250 g).
4. Add salt (10 g) and bay leaf (2 g), mix thoroughly.
5. Cooking buckwheat with stew 40 minutes (program "Krupa" or "Buckwheat").

Serve on the table, decorating the dish with sprigs of fresh herbs.

Simple recipe

The basic recipe for cooking in a cast-iron pan, which in addition to buckwheat with stew includes garlic, onions and spices.

Process description:

1. Pre-prepare 200 g of cereals, rinse.
2. Pour 400 ml of drinking water into a cooking container, bring to a boil.
3. Pour buckwheat, cook until the liquid has completely evaporated.
4. Chop onion (100 g) finely and sauté in vegetable oil (20 ml).
5. Add chopped garlic (10 g) and softened stew, mix, cook for 2 minutes.
6. Put boiled buckwheat in the mixture, pour salt and spices (to taste), stew.
7. After 15 minutes, the dish will be ready.

For buckwheat with stew, you can serve a vegetable salad and slices of fresh baguette.

In a slow cooker with vegetables and spices

Another option for cooking in a slow cooker, the taste of which is emphasized by curry spices, suneli hops, a mixture of red and black peppers and any others to your taste.

Description of the cooking process and ingredients:

1. Finely chop vegetables (carrots and onions - 100 g each), put in a bowl and sauté in olive oil (20 ml) until soft ("Frying" program).
2. Buckwheat (200 g) to clean from litter, wash and add to the bowl, mix.
3. Put the stew (200 g) to the ingredients, stir the mixture, soften the meat.
4. Pour 400 ml of boiled drinking water into the bowl, add hot spices and salt (to taste), mix.
5. Cook the dish for 40 minutes in the program "Cooking" (or "Buckwheat", "Krupa").

Such bright-tasting buckwheat porridge will especially appeal to all lovers of spicy food.

Buckwheat in the oven

This dish will be even more fragrant, tasty and tender, if you cook it in clay pots in the oven.

Description of the process and ingredients:

1. Sauté in a pan in vegetable oil carrots (150 g) and onions (150 g).
2. Put canned meat (400 g) to vegetables, mix.
3. Pour pre-prepared buckwheat groats (200 g) to the products, add salt and spices, mix.
4. Put the mixture in ceramic pots, pour with drinking water (completely covering the contents).
5. Preheat the oven to 160 degrees and put the pots with buckwheat and stew.
6. Cook the dish for 35 minutes.

Mushroom recipe

A tasty and satisfying version of cooking buckwheat with stew, in which fresh mushrooms are also added. The dish can be prepared for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The food will be nutritious and aromatic, which men will especially enjoy.

Description of the process and ingredients:

1. Boil buckwheat (200 g) until cooked.
2. Chop onions (100 g), as well as carrots (150 g), put vegetables in a pan, sauté in vegetable oil (20 ml).
3. Pour mushrooms chopped with medium pieces (250 g).
4. Add 200 g of beef stew (pork, chicken), mix and fry for several minutes.
5. Add ready-made buckwheat, salt and spices to the products, mix.

Buckwheat with stew on a fire

An appetizing and aromatic dish that can be prepared on campus or just being in nature with family, relatives and friends. Such porridge with meat, exuding the unique aroma of a fire, will certainly make dinner especially tasty and rich.

Process description:

1. Kindle a fire so that the temperature of the fire is acceptable for cooking.
2. In a metal container (boiler), put the fatty component of the meat stew (total component 400 g), melt to a liquid consistency.
3. Grind vegetables (carrots and onions - 150 g each, you can only onion), put in a pot.
4. Mash canned meat and put in vegetables, cook for 4 minutes.
5. Put washed buckwheat (400 g) to the rest of the products, pour in drinking water (0.8-1 l).
6. Cook until soft buckwheat.

When serving, you can flavor the dish with salt and ground black pepper.

In the pan

Beautiful buckwheat with stew is obtained, cooked even in a pan. Moreover, the wider the container itself, the better porridge with meat is steamed. Therefore, the dish is prepared quickly enough.

Process description:

1. Put the fatty part of the canned meat in a pan (just take 400 g of stew), melt.
2. Finely chop the prepared onions and carrots (100 g each), pour into fat and sauté until tender.
3. Add the stew, salt and spices.
4. Buckwheat (200 g) to clean from litter and rinse, put in a pan, mix.
5. Pour 400 ml of drinking water, cover, bring to a boil.
6. Simmer for 30 minutes.

With tomatoes

This delicious cooking option is sure to replenish the collection of your favorite homemade recipes. Buckwheat with stew in a pan with the addition of fresh tomatoes, onions, carrots and spices is an incredibly tasty dish cooked in haste.

And if you can cook canned meat yourself (from pork, beef, poultry), then the finished dish will be even more delicious.

Process description:

1. Sauté chopped onions and carrots (150 g each) in vegetable oil (directly in a cast-iron pan).
2. Prepare fresh tomatoes (300 g), peeling them from the skin and chopping into cubes, pour into vegetables.
3. Canned meat (400 g) with a fork and put in a container, mix thoroughly.
4. Rinse buckwheat (400 g) and lay out to the remaining components, pour 800 ml of drinking water.
5. Add salt (15 g) and cook for 40 minutes.
   

About the usefulness of buckwheat porridge

Thanks to the dish prepared (according to the recipes described above), each person will receive, along with tasty and aromatic food, a boost of energy necessary for life, as well as a number of useful vitamins and minerals. Buckwheat is considered the queen among the remaining cereals. She deserved this title for her vitamin-rich composition and beneficial properties. In addition, it is one of the oldest cultures. Buckwheat was first grown about 5 thousand years ago. The birthplace of cereals is India. In those parts, it is called "black rice" and grown on the slopes of the Himalayas.

According to legend, buckwheat came to the Slavic territories only in the 7th century AD. She "traveled" through China, Japan, Korea, and the Caucasus. History says that the name of the cereal came from the word "Greek", since it was they who first brought it to Kievan Rus.

What elements and substances are contained in buckwheat? First of all, such chemical elements as iodine, calcium, cobalt, potassium, iron, fluorine, zinc, molybdenum, zinc. The vitamins contained in this cereal are group B (B1, B2, folic acid), E and PP. As well as the most useful amino acids - methionine and lysine, which allows us to consider it an alternative to meat (which is especially important for vegetarians). In addition, it is absorbed by the body faster than meat. And therefore, combining buckwheat porridge with meat stew, as well as vegetables, we get a dish full of proteins, vitamins and minerals.