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Boiled Buckwheat
I think buckwheat grain is one of the most nutritious and healthy foods one can ever eat: it is very rich on iron, zink, other minerals and vitamins which makes it perfect food for kids and women during pregnancy.
It is also low on carbohydrates comparing to other grains (and for those which it does have body needs long time to digest);for me that makes boiled buckwheat (straight or with a bit of milk) perfect food for days when I want to eat a bit less and exercise a bit more: it makes you feel full longer without eating too much.
Boiled buckwheat is a perfect side for any kind of beef dishes: I personally prefer to serve it with beef stroganoff or minced beef cutlets; however it can be served as a stand alone dish. Boiled buckwheat grain with milk is very popular breakfast food for children and adults in countries of East Europe.
Ingredients:
- 2 cups of whole buckwheat grain
- Salt to taste
- Butter to taste
- 4 cups of water
How to prepare, step by step:
- Prepare roast buckwheat, you don’t need to rinse it; you will also need a cooking pot with good fitting lid (if you have one with thick bottom – that would be a good choice, also glass lid makes it easy to supervise the process without opening a lid):
Boiled Buckwheat Recipe: Step 1
- Even if grain looks clean it is still good idea to take a look at it more close and remove seed shells or weed which sometimes can happen in the grains. For that pour a bit of buckwheat on the table so you can arrange it in a thin layer and then remove everything which doesn’t look like a buckwheat with your finger, collect cleaned grain back to the bowl:
Boiled Buckwheat Recipe: Step 2
- Pour buckwheat grain into it the cooking pot:
Boiled Buckwheat Recipe: Step 3
- Add water with exactly twice volume of the grain (that is important!), so for 2 cups of buckwheat I used 4 cups of water, season with salt:
Boiled Buckwheat Recipe: Step 4
- Cover pot with a lid, put on high heat and bring to boil. From this moment and on it is important to not open the lid. Boil buckwheat for about 5 minutes:
Boiled Buckwheat Recipe: Step 5
- Then reduce heat in half and continue cooking of 15 minutes, amount of water should decrease 2 times by now. Then reduce heat to very low and keep cooking until the water is gone completely (5-10 mins).
- After that remove cooking pot from the burner, carefully wrap it up with several layers of towel or blanket and leave aside for 15-30 mins:
Boiled Buckwheat Recipe: Step 7
- Add butter:
Boiled Buckwheat Recipe: Step 8
- Once butter gets soft stir it in:
Boiled Buckwheat Recipe: Step 9
- Then boiled buckwheat is ready. It goes perfectly with any kind of beef main course as a side dish:
Boiled Buckwheat
Or add a bit of warm milk to boiled buckwheat and serve it for breakfast (about cup of milk for a cup of buckwheat, add 1/2 of tea spoon of sugar if you like, I usually don’t, but kids may like it):
Buckwheat with Milk for Breakfast
Enjoy!
Hi, thank you for posting this recipe! I had buckwheat for breakfast when I visited Ukraine and have been wanting to cook it myself. However, I can’t remember exactly how it was cooked. Can you tell me, should I just add milk to the (cooled) boiled buckwheat to make the breakfast dish? Thanks!
Yep, just add 1 cup of milk for 1 cup of boiled buckwheat (already cooked) and that will do it: you may also add a bit of sugar if you feel like it
Great thank you so much!!!
You are welcome
I also like to have a warm milk for it, tastes better 
You are right, I think it was served to me in warm milk. I will try to make it that way first, thank you!
I’ve added a picture of buckwheat with milk I just had for my breakfast to the article
Wow, thank you so much for adding the extra picture! I MUST get to our local Euro store to pick up some buckwheat!
You are welcome
. When you buy the buckwheat make sure it is roast (it will have brown color, just like on the pictures); for example in Austria they were selling no-roast buckwheat – it was green and had different taste.
Total disaster for me.
When it started to boil the water started to spill out of the pot. I had to continue boiling without the lid..
Also, on the package it sais that we should put the buckwheat in water for about 5 hours before cooking (i don’t know the english word for this) so it will become “soft”. Should we?
If water boiling hard then reduce heat, it doesn’t need to spill out of the pot and it is important to keep lid on.
I never soak buckwheat in water before boiling.
Buckwheat, perhaps the best food on earth (cabbage is also up there). Boil buckwheat like rice (make sure its boiling and it has enough water to absorb). You can try it for doneness along the way, if not done, just add more water and boil. Eat it warm with milk (nothing is even close) or with meat in gravy. You got it right Julia.