Buckwheat is one of the most popular among modern buyers. And this is not surprising, because it is inexpensive, and at the same time allows you to cook tasty, healthy and nutritious dishes. Buckwheat in a slow cooker does not take much time, the main thing is to choose the appropriate cooking method.

How to cook buckwheat in a slow cooker for a side dish?

Ingredients: 2 multi-cooked glasses of buckwheat, 3.5 cups of vegetable broth, a teaspoon of fine salt and sugar, a pinch of allspice and nutmeg, a piece of butter. How to cook buckwheat in a “smart pan” as a satisfying side dish is described below.

  1. Krupa gets over, washed to clean water and slightly dried.
  2. Butter is melted in a bowl. On it, in a suitable program, buckwheat is slightly fried. It must be constantly stirred with a special spatula. This will make the treat more aromatic.
  3. Broth is poured on top of the cereal, all remaining dry components are poured out. The composition of seasonings can be changed to your liking.

After mixing, the dish will be cooked in a program designed for buckwheat, 5-6 minutes.

Merchants with chicken

Ingredients: 550-650 g of pork pulp, carrot, sweet pepper, 4 tbsp. tomato paste, 3 cups of buckwheat, onion, a pinch of nutmeg, ground coriander, sweet paprika, 4.5 cups of filtered water, salt to taste.

  1. To prepare buckwheat in a merchant way, first of all, you need to cut the washed and dried meat into small pieces and fry in oil in a frying program. Pork is laid on a separate plate.
  2. In the remaining fat, onion cubes, thin buns of carrots and sweet pepper are passaged.
  3. The meat is returned to the container, salt, spices and tomato paste are added. Together, everything is roasted for a couple of minutes.
  4. It remains to pour the cereal into the bowl and pour out all the declared liquid.

In the "Pilaf" mode, buckwheat with chicken in a slow cooker according to this recipe is prepared for a little more than half an hour.

Mushroom recipe

Ingredients: buckwheat multi-bowl, 1.5 multi-cups of water, fragrant herbs, 180 g of mushrooms, carrot, onion.

  1. Chopped vegetables and mushrooms are well fried on any fat in a suitable appliance program. Aromatic herbs are immediately added to them.
  2. It remains to add the washed cereal, salt, pour water.

The dish will languish in the "Grains" program until completion.

With meat in a slow cooker

Ingredients: half a kilo of any meat, 3 multi-cups of buckwheat, 5 multi-cups of filtered water, 2 medium carrots, 3 tbsp. tomato paste without additives, onion, salt, a mixture of peppers.

  1. Small pieces are cooked in a baking program for 20-25 minutes with the lid open. The meat is transferred to a separate dish.
  2. Vegetables are chopped and fried in a suitable program with constant stirring. When the pieces of onion and carrot are a little gilded, you can add ground peppers and pasta to them. Together, the components take 5-6 minutes to cook.
  3. Buckwheat is washed and laid out on top. Water is poured into the container, fine salt is added.

Buckwheat with meat in a slow cooker languishes in a program designed for stewing, 45-50 minutes.

Buckwheat with minced meat

Ingredients: buckwheat multi-cup, 170 g mixed minced meat (best pork + chicken), carrot, large juicy tomato, onion, small salt, Italian herbs.

  1. Onion and carrot cubes are cooked in baking mode for 8-9 minutes.
  2. When the vegetables soften and become golden, minced meat is laid out to them. With a spatula you need to stretch its large pieces.
  3. Products are left in the same mode for another 10-12 minutes.
  4. Now large pieces of tomato are laid out in the bowl. If the home does not like the peel from the tomatoes in the finished dish, you can remove it beforehand.
  5. Washed cereal is laid out on top of prepared vegetables and minced meat.
  6. 2 times more filtered water is added.

In a program designed for stewing, the food languishes a little less than half an hour.

With gravy

Ingredients: red bell pepper, carrots, 1 tbsp. tomato juice, salt, chicken, 240 g buckwheat, onion.

  1. Pre-washed cereals are laid out in the bowl of a “smart pan”. Small pieces of chicken are distributed on top.
  2. It is necessary to fill the prepared products with salt water. Liquids are taken 2.5 times more than buckwheat.
  3. In the "Grains" mode, with a closed lid, the dish will cook for 40-45 minutes.
  4. For gravy, vegetables with tomato juice are crushed with a blender.

When all the water has evaporated from the cereal, and it will be almost completely ready, the porridge is poured with the resulting vegetable sauce and left to warm for a couple of minutes.

How to cook with stew

Ingredients: buckwheat multi-cup, onion, standard can of pork or beef stew, carrot, 2.5 multi-cups of water, salt, spices.

  1. From vegetables in a bowl, a suitable program prepares roasting. For this, you can use both butter and vegetable oil. In addition to these vegetables, tomatoes and / or bell peppers are also added to taste.
  2. Buckwheat is laid on top of the resulting roasting, which must be washed and sorted in advance.
  3. The stew is distributed on the cereal along with all the contents of the can. It is very important to choose a quality product prepared in accordance with GOST.
  4. Pouring purified water from above.

It remains to add salt, spices and cook the dish in the program designed for porridge, before it ends.

Nuances of cooking in a slow cooker: Redmond, Polaris

In the “smart pan” of any model there are many modes suitable for making porridge from buckwheat. "Frying" and "Baking" is always used for the initial passivation of vegetables and frying pieces of meat, if they are declared in the recipe.

Further cooking in the device from Redmond can take place in the "Cooking", "Grains / Rice" or "Stewing" modes. In devices from this brand there is also a very interesting program “languor”. It allows you to cook a very delicate flavorful porridge.

In Polaris devices, the appropriate modes include: Extinguishing, Croup, and Pilaf.

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