Buckwheat is usually used to make a very nutritious, but quickly bored porridge. Meanwhile, there are many cooking options for this appetizing and simple meal. For example, buckwheat with mushrooms in a slow cooker is a masterpiece of taste that every housewife can create in her own kitchen.

The basic recipe for a delicious dish

To prepare the dish you need the following ingredients:

  • buckwheat groats - 1 cup (200 g);
  • mushrooms –250-300 g;
  • carrots - 1 piece;
  • odorless oil - 40 ml (3 tbsp. l.);
  • onion - 1 pc.;
  • pure water - 200 ml;
  • seasoning and salt to taste.

To make the taste more delicate, add a little butter (about 40 g).

Cooking method:

  1. Mushrooms for this dish can be used both forest and bought in the store. If you take fresh champignons, then you do not need to boil them first. But boletus, chanterelles and boletus collected in the forest, it is necessary to boil 60 minutes or a little longer. After that, the mushrooms are cut into small pieces.
  2. On the slow cooker, select the "Baking" or "Frying" mode. Sunflower or olive oil is poured into the bowl. Then rub the carrots on a grater with large holes, and finely chop the onion. Prepared vegetables are placed in a bowl, mixed thoroughly with a kitchen spatula.
  3. Roasting will take a couple of minutes. Then the mushrooms are placed in the container, and, having mixed, fried for another 12-15 minutes, without changing the mode.
  4. Buckwheat groats, pre-cleaned of impurities and washed, also poured into the bowl. It remains to fill in the water and add your favorite seasonings.

Water can be replaced with meat broth. From this buckwheat with mushrooms and onions will only taste better.

The cooking mode changes to "Buckwheat", "Rice" or "Pilaf" (the name depends on the model of the device).

When the slow cooker announces the completion of cooking, you can put a little butter in a hot dish. Buckwheat is served with porcini mushrooms or hot mushrooms, optionally adding greens and combining with different salads.

Buckwheat with mushrooms and meat in a slow cooker

This option for cooking buckwheat porridge in a slow cooker also does not require special cooking skills and high financial costs.

Dish ingredients:

  • buckwheat - 400 g (2 cups);
  • meat (pork, beef) - 400 g;
  • mushrooms - 300 g;
  • carrots - 1 pc.;
  • any vegetable oil - 30 ml;
  • onions - 1 pc.;
  • tomato paste - 30 g;
  • water - 700 ml;
  • seasonings and salt - according to taste preferences.

Cooking method:

  1. Washed and dried using napkins meat is cut into small pieces. Oil is poured into the multicooker bowl, having previously selected the "Frying" mode.
  2. When the oil is heated, meat is added to it. Fry it until golden brown, that is, about 25 minutes. While periodically mixing.
  3. At this time, vegetables are prepared: chopped onion into small pieces, and rub the carrots on a coarse grater. If desired, it can also be cut into cubes. Ready vegetables are added to the meat.
  4. The next stage is mushrooms. They are cut into slices and sent to the bowl of the multicooker along with tomato paste. Everything is carefully mixed and fried for 3-5 minutes, without changing the mode.
  5. Then washed buckwheat, spices and salt are added to the remaining ingredients. After filling the contents with water, mix thoroughly again. After that, the cooking mode is changed to "Buckwheat" or "Krupa".

The owners of the pressure cookers will receive the finished dish after 9 minutes. The rest will have to wait about half an hour, and buckwheat with mushrooms and meat in a slow cooker is ready.

Cooking with vegetables

This option of cooking buckwheat combines the nutritional value of cereals and the benefits of vegetables.

 

For cooking you will need:

  • buckwheat - 400 g;
  • water - 750 ml;
  • tomato - 1 pc.;
  • Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc.;
  • carrots - 1 pc.;
  • cloves of garlic - 5 pcs.;
  • turnip onions - 1 pc.;
  • odorless oil - 45 ml;
  • fresh greens, salt, seasonings - to taste.

Cooking method:

  1. Pre-washed vegetables are finely chopped.
  2. Pour oil into the multicooker bowl, and set the “Baking” mode. Further, all the ingredients are laid down in turn: onions, carrots, garlic, tomato, pepper.
  3. Following the vegetables, seasonings are added. At the same stage, the dish is salted.
  4. Buckwheat is added last. After the container with all contents is filled with the necessary amount of water, the buckwheat mode is selected on the kitchen unit.

About 40 minutes will have to wait until the dishes are ready. It remains only to arrange it on plates and sprinkle it with plenty of fresh herbs.

How to make chicken

Buckwheat with chicken is a peculiar version of pilaf, the taste is not inferior to the original.

To cook it you will need:

  • buckwheat - 400 g;
  • chicken meat - 400 g;
  • onions - 2 pcs.;
  • carrots - 2 pcs.;
  • head of garlic - 1 pc.;
  • non-aromatic oil - 40 ml;
  • seasonings and salt - according to taste preferences.

Which of the chicken parts to take for cooking depends on individual preferences. Both fillet, and legs and hips are suitable. Of course, the bones are previously removed.

Cooking method:

  1. The meat can be cut into small pieces as well as large ones. It is quite soft and does not require long cooking.
  2. Oil is poured into the bowl, and at the same time, the chicken is laid. Set the "Frying" mode. To make the meat brown, enough for 10 minutes.
  3. Next, you need to do the preparation of vegetables. Onion is cut into cubes, carrots are chopped with cubes. If desired, you can rub it on a coarse grater. If you want to get a juicy dish with a rich taste, you should take more vegetables than indicated in the recipe.
  4. Carrots and onions should be lowered by switching the slow cooker to “Pilaf” mode. This process will take about 10 minutes. The contents of the bowl must be mixed periodically.
  5. While the meat and vegetables are cooked, it is worth doing buckwheat. She will have to be washed repeatedly, if necessary - to sort out. Then pour the groats into the multicooker bowl, immediately laying spices and salt there. Mix all.
  6. At the same stage, water is added to the rest of the ingredients. Not to be mistaken with the quantity, a proven rule will help: water should cover the cereal with two fingers.
  7. Next, select the "Pilaf" mode, setting it to 40 minutes. After about half an hour, you will need to open the lid and lay on top of the buckwheat base the head of garlic without removing the husk from it.

Another 10 minutes and you can enjoy the taste and smell of the dish.

Buckwheat porridge with mushrooms and stew

It is difficult to come up with an easier to prepare and tasty dish than buckwheat porridge with stew. And if you add more mushrooms, it’s just a merger.

The ingredients are taken as follows:

  • buckwheat - 250 g;
  • mushrooms (ceps, champignons, oyster mushrooms) - 250 g;
  • pork stew - 400 g;
  • sunflower oil - 20 ml;
  • carrots - 1 pc.;
  • turnip onions - 1 pc.;
  • water - 450 ml;
  • salt and spices to taste.

Cooking method:

  1. The washed and peeled carrots are rubbed on a coarse grater. Peel the onion, cut into small cubes.
  2. Vegetables are fried with the addition of oil in an ordinary pan, on the stove. When the onion gets a golden hue (this will happen in 10 minutes), you can turn off the burner. Vegetables are transferred to the multicooker bowl.
  3. Now you need to do mushrooms. They are cleaned, washed and cut into plates or cubes - as it suits anyone. Then they are laid out in a slow cooker.
  4. There they lay the cereal, cleaned of impurities and thoroughly washed. Pour the ingredients with water, add spices and salt. On the slow cooker, select the “Extinguishing” mode, the cooking time is 40 minutes.

When the porridge is ready, it remains to add the stew to it and turn on the kitchen unit for another 10 minutes, in the same mode.

With string beans

Ideal for a lean menu is buckwheat with green beans cooked in a slow cooker.

Ingredients:

  • buckwheat - 150 g;
  • green beans - 150 g;
  • turnip onions - 1 pc.;
  • water - 400 ml;
  • spices (thyme, coriander) and salt - to taste.

Cooking method:

  1. Peel the onion, cut into small pieces and send into the multicooker bowl.
  2. If frozen beans are used, defrosting will be required, if fresh, then it is immediately sent after the onion.
  3. Washed buckwheat, salt and spices pour out there.
  4. Everything is filled with clean water.
  5. The extinguishing mode is set on the device for 30 minutes.

Fresh greens are added to the prepared porridge if desired.

Appetizing buckwheat in a slow cooker will be able to cook even an inexperienced hostess. By choosing additional ingredients, you can turn ordinary porridge into a delicious dish that will not leave anyone indifferent.

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