Green buckwheat can be eaten raw by simply soaking in water – then it will take about 7-8 hours. To cook it, after boiling water, you need to keep the pan with green buckwheat for 15 minutes.
How to cook green buckwheat
You will need – buckwheat, water
1. Before cooking, the cereals must be carefully sorted out, choosing vegetable debris.
2. Under running cold water, rinse the groats several times. This will make it crumbly after cooking.
3. Pour green buckwheat into a saucepan.
4. Pour water into a container with cereals so that it disappears by 2-3 centimeters.
5. Add salt, per 1 cup of green buckwheat – half a teaspoon of salt.
6. Put a saucepan with cereals over low heat and bring to a boil.
7. Cook cereals for 15 minutes.
Green buckwheat recipe with vegetables
Products
Green buckwheat – 1 cup (170 grams)
Tomato – 2 fruits
Bulgarian pepper – 1 piece
Zucchini – 1 piece
Carrots – 1 medium root
Bow – 1 head
Vegetable oil – 3 tablespoons
Water – 2 glasses
Basil and parsley – 3 sprigs each
Salt – half a teaspoon
How to cook green buckwheat with vegetables
1. Pour 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil into a deep frying pan and heat over low heat.
2. Add washed green buckwheat, chopped tomatoes, bell peppers, zucchini, carrots, onions to the container and mix well.
3. Fry for 5-7 minutes over high heat, stirring occasionally.
4. Pour 2 cups of water into a frying pan so that cereals and vegetables disappear by 2-3 centimeters, and bring to a boil.
5. Pour half a teaspoon of salt into the pan, stir, cover and cook for 25 minutes.
6. When the time has elapsed, open the lid and pour the chopped greens into the frying pan.
7. Stir well and can already be served.
Delicious facts
– Green buckwheat – it buckwheat kernel, not subject to heat treatment – steaming or roasting. Due to the lack of thermal effects, green buckwheat contains a greater amount of nutrients, but is stored less. These are its main differences from ordinary buckwheat.
– Calorie value green buckwheat – 335 kcal / 100 grams of cereals.
– The composition of cereals contains many minerals and elements. Due to its high energy value, it is considered a dietary product. There are components that replace meat protein, so cereals are included in the diet of a vegetarian diet, and sprouted green buckwheat is a real treat for raw foodists. Green buckwheat has a beneficial effect on blood pressure, increases the elasticity of capillary walls, strengthens blood vessels, positively affects the functioning of the thyroid gland and heart, improves the functioning of the digestive tract, helps to eliminate toxins and cholesterol from the body.
– Buckwheat as a cultivated plant, started using for food more than 3 thousand years ago in Asian countries. And only several centuries later, it was brought to Europe, and from there to Russia. They began to fry it during the reign of Nikita Khrushchev, according to the recipe for frying it was brought from the United States.
– If a compare cereals – parboiled rice and green buckwheat, then the second product is in many ways superior to rice. Green buckwheat has 76 times more antioxidant levels than parboiled rice.
– Green buckwheat can be germinate… It will be useful and will retain all its vitamins and nutrients.
– Groats can be consumed both boiled and raw. Unlike brown buckwheat, green buckwheat has a mild taste, reminiscent of the taste of hazelnuts. Raw grits quickly get wet in the mouth, but do not stick to the teeth.
– When choosing the product must be drawn to the color. If the groats are fresh, they will have a light green color. Over time, it will darken, but at the fault it will remain light. If the cereal was stored incorrectly, it will have a moldy smell.
– Best before cereals 6-12 months.
– Cost green buckwheat – 90 rubles for 450 grams (on average in Moscow for June 2020).