Buckwheat has many useful elements with a small number of calories. Tasty porridge can be used both as an independent breakfast dish and as a side dish for lunch. We will figure out how to cook buckwheat in a slow cooker.

Buckwheat in a slow cooker

In a slow cooker, a side dish to cutlets or meat turns out to be very tender and crumbly. Such a dish will enhance the taste of the main ingredient and give vitality and strength for the whole day.

Basic ingredients:

  • buckwheat groats - 340 gr;
  • pure water - 700 ml;
  • granulated sugar - 8 g;
  • salt - 10 g;
  • butter - 30 gr;
  • any spices to your taste.

Subtleties of cooking:

  1. Grains need to be sorted and washed under the tap.
  2. Put a piece of butter in the multicooker bowl. In the "Frying" mode, it is necessary to melt it.
  3. Put buckwheat there and fry it for 10 minutes.
  4. Pour water, pour salt with sugar.
  5. Put the buckwheat program and cook for 30-40 minutes. Before shutting down the multicooker, add spices for flavor.
  6. Take out the prepared porridge, sprinkle with herbs for decoration.

How to cook with pork?

If you do not know what to serve for lunch, put out the buckwheat with pork. All men will be delighted.

Grocery list:

  • pork - 0.5 kg;
  • one clove of garlic;
  • one onion;
  • mustard - 4 gr;
  • buckwheat - 230 gr;
  • vegetable oil - 30 gr;
  • spices and salt to taste.

How to cook buckwheat:

  1. Peel the vegetables, cut into small cubes.
  2. Chop the washed meat into portions.
  3. In a slow cooker, lay vegetables, meat, pour vegetable oil and add mustard. Stir the ingredients.
  4. Fry them in the Baking program for half an hour.
  5. After that, put buckwheat, pour salt, spices, pour water so that its level is 1-2 cm higher than the level of future porridge.
  6. Cook in buckwheat mode.

Buckwheat with chicken in a slow cooker

Buckwheat with chicken - a combination of dietary products. This dish is perfect for the whole family, as well as for women who monitor their weight.

You will need:

  • water - 0.4 l;
  • chicken fillet - 300 gr;
  • one carrot;
  • one onion;
  • buckwheat - 170 gr;
  • salt - 20 gr;
  • two bay leaves;
  • seasonings for chicken;
  • sour cream - 60 gr.

How to cook buckwheat with chicken:

  1. Chop the chicken into small pieces.
  2. Process onions and carrots according to the standard method.
  3. In a slow cooker, put the fillet slices, vegetables and pour vegetable oil.
  4. The ingredients must be fried in the Baking program for about 15 minutes.
  5. Add spices, lavrushka, salt and sour cream to the preparing mass.
  6. Pour buckwheat and pour hot water over everything.
  7. Put the kitchen appliances in the "Buckwheat" or "Krupa" mode. Cooks 40 minutes.

With stew

Stew allows you to cook simple and tasty dishes very quickly. There is no need to waste time preparing meat. This porridge can be taken with you on hikes or fishing.

Ingredients:

  • buckwheat groats - 200 gr;
  • one onion;
  • water - 400 ml;
  • one carrot;
  • one can of stew;
  • two cloves of garlic;
  • some butter;
  • olive oil - 18 ml.

How to cook buckwheat with stew:

  1. Pour oil into the multicooker bowl, throw finely chopped onions and carrots.
  2. We fry in the “Baking” mode. Manually set the time - 20 minutes.
  3. Add the stew and chopped garlic to the vegetables.
  4. After 10 minutes, pour the required amount of buckwheat and fill all the products with water.
  5. Cook by turning on the Buckwheat program for 40 minutes.
  6. After the oven informs about the completion of cooking, put the butter in the porridge, pour spices to taste, and simmer for 7 minutes in the “Heating” mode.

Merchant recipe

This is a very old recipe, which turned out to be amazing in taste, due to the fact that buckwheat was languished in the oven. Now this can be done with a multicooker.

Grocery list:

  • buckwheat - 0.2 kg;
  • pork meat - 0.3 kg;
  • one onion;
  • one carrot;
  • olive oil - 60 ml;
  • nutmeg - 5 g;
  • a mixture of peppers - 5 gr;
  • iodized salt to taste.

Buckwheat is prepared in a merchant way as follows:

  1. We peel the vegetables from the skin, cut the carrots into thin strips, and finely chop the onion.
  2. Fry prepared foods with olive oil in the "Frying" mode for no more than 10 minutes.
  3. Pork cut into portions.
  4. We continue to fry, but already with the meat for 10 minutes.
  5. We add buckwheat to the prepared products, pour water.
  6. Sprinkle all the necessary spices, including salt.
  7. Change the multicooker program to the "Extinguishing" mode and cook for 50 minutes.

With mushrooms

You will need:

  • champignons - 0.25 kg;
  • sour cream - 50 gr;
  • vegetable oil - 40 ml;
  • buckwheat - 250 gr;
  • salt and spices to taste;
  • one onion.

Cooking method:

  1. Defrost the mushrooms, rinse and cut into strips or squares.
  2. Process the onion and chop finely.
  3. Strain onions and mushrooms in oil. Do not forget to choose the program “Baking”. Cook for 10 minutes.
  4. Pour buckwheat, pour water, add sour cream, salt and spices.
  5. Cook in “Pilaf” mode until the program ends.
  6. Ready porridge can be decorated with a portion of green peas.

Features of cooking in a slow cooker: Polaris, Redmond.

Basically, these two multicooker models are similar. The only difference is the availability of programs. Redmond has the Express mode. This means that if you are in a hurry somewhere, you can put this program on, and the food will be cooked faster without loss of taste. Both brands have the function "Multipovar", which itself chooses the time and temperature for cooking. After cooking is completed, the “Preheat” mode is automatically activated. So the dish will remain hot for a long time.

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