Buckwheat in tomato sauce - a tasty and economical dish

Grechaniki are unique cutlets with buckwheat porridge inside. They can be cooked in a frying pan, but it is more interesting to make the dish in the oven. To make it juicy and satisfying with taste, there are many different tricks. All the secrets of the Greeks are revealed here and the best recipes are collected.

Buckwheat with minced meat in the oven - general cooking principles

The dish requires boiled buckwheat. You can specially prepare a little porridge or use the leftover side dish. It is only important that the cereal is crumbly; you should not use porridge or porridge mixed with sauces. Additionally you need minced meat or chicken. We buy it or twist it at home, the second option is much preferable. Homemade minced meat always turns out tastier, and the composition will not be in doubt.

What else do they put in buckwheat:

· egg;

· onions, garlic and other vegetables;

lard and other meat products;

· sour cream, tomato.

In fact, a cutlet mass is prepared from all these ingredients. You can change the types of spices, quantities, and add other components. Next, the minced meat is molded into round or elongated products and baked. All kinds of sauces and gravies are often added, the composition of which can also change. Since twisted meat and boiled cereals are used, cooking time in the oven rarely takes more than 45 minutes at 180 degrees.

Grechaniki with minced chicken

Cooking time: 65-70 minutes. We need: pots, frying pan, spatula, grater. Number of servings: 6.

Ingredients

Step-by-step preparation

1. We wash 155 grams of buckwheat in running water, put it in a saucepan, add 310 milliliters of water and boil until tender.

2. Combine boiled buckwheat with 485 grams of minced chicken.

3. Chop 90 grams of onion very finely and add it to the minced meat.

4. We also send two eggs there and mix the minced meat for the buckwheat with our hands.

5. Then we form the buckwheat cakes and roll them in flour.

6. Pour 85 milliliters of sunflower oil into a heated frying pan, add buckwheat and fry on both sides over medium heat until golden brown.

7. Place the fried buckwheat in layers in a pan.

8. Cut 105 grams of onion into small pieces, and grate 55 grams of carrots.

9. Heat 30 milliliters of sunflower oil in a frying pan, add chopped onion and fry for 2 minutes.

10. Add the prepared carrots to the onions and fry for another 2 minutes.
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11. To the fried onions and carrots, add 4 grams of salt, 15 grams of sugar and add 75 grams of ketchup. Mix everything and fry for 2 minutes.

12. Pour 415 milliliters of water into the resulting mass and bring to a boil.

13. Pour the prepared sauce into the buckwheat pancakes and simmer over moderate heat for 35 minutes.

14. Place the finished dish in a convenient bowl and serve.

Video recipe

You can see the entire recipe described above in detail in the next video.

In a slow cooker

Meat buckwheat cooked in a slow cooker will become a complete dinner or an addition to lunch. I used minced pork, but you can use chicken or mixed.

Ingredients:

• minced pork – 550 g;
• chicken eggs – 2 pcs.;
• carrots – 1 pc.;
• onion – 1 pc.;
• boiled buckwheat – 2 multi-cups;
• garlic – 2 cloves;
• refined oil – 2 tbsp. l.;
• salt - to taste;
• ground pepper - to taste;
• ground paprika - to taste.

Preparation:

1. First of all, we grind the meat in a meat grinder, I will miss this moment because I bought ready-made minced meat.
2. Boil the buckwheat in advance. I have some buckwheat porridge left over from breakfast, so that’s what I’ll use.
3. Grate half the onion on a fine grater or chop it with a knife.
4. In a deep bowl, combine buckwheat, chopped onion, minced meat, and add eggs. Mix everything with your hands, add salt, pepper, sprinkle a little paprika and stir again.
5. Next we will prepare the gravy. Finely chop the remaining half of the onion, grate the carrot root on a coarse grater, and pass the garlic through a garlic press.
6. Pour refined oil into the multicooker bowl. Fry onions and carrots on it. Add tomato paste and pour in 500 ml of water, add a little salt and pepper, and add spices to taste. Bring to a boil and turn off the multi-pot.
7. We make cutlets from the minced meat and place them in a tray for steaming. Turn on the “steam” mode and set the timer for 30 minutes.
8. Before use, pour tomato sauce over the buckwheat with minced meat. Bon appetit.

I also suggest watching the video recipe.

How to cook delicious cutlets

Tired of regular cutlets? Prepare delicious and simple buckwheat - a recipe with step-by-step photos and videos will help you easily make them in a frying pan or in the oven.

1 hour

166.5 kcal

5/5 (5)

Grechaniki is an amazing and probably somewhat forgotten tasty dish made from the most primitive ingredients. If you are going to cook cutlets and serve buckwheat porridge as a side dish, then why not make it all profitable and interesting by making buckwheat porridge? I suggest you familiarize yourself with a couple of recipes for this dish and prepare the most convenient option for you.

Classic buckwheat in the oven: recipe with step-by-step instructions

There are a lot of ways to prepare such cutlets - baking is considered more useful, but if you want to get a beautiful crust on buckwheat, you should still fry them in a frying pan first. Those who are watching their figure or do not eat fried foods for health reasons can simply immediately put the buckwheat in the oven, increasing the recommended baking time by 10 minutes.

Ingredients:

• beef – 400 g;
• buckwheat – 80 g;
• egg 1 cat.;
• small onion;
• vegetable oil – 1 tbsp. l.;
• flour – 2 tbsp. l.;
• ground paprika – 1 tsp;
• salt.

Cooking method:

1. Grind the beef cut into pieces in a meat grinder and add salt.

2. Rinse the buckwheat, pour into a saucepan with boiling water (1.5 cups). Simmer over medium heat under the lid. It is advisable to use a pan with thick walls to steam the porridge.

3. Chop the peeled onion very finely with a knife and add to the minced meat.

4. Add boiled buckwheat, egg and paprika. Mix the working mixture well until smooth.

5. Pour vegetable oil into the frying pan.
6. Form the buckwheat into a standard size for cutlets, roll in flour and place in a frying pan. Fry on each side until crusty over high heat.

7. Transfer the buckwheat cakes to a baking sheet and place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. Bake for 25-30 minutes until done.

Buckwheat without meat

If you doubt that cutlets can be tasty without meat, try cooking buckwheat with mushrooms. This amazing hearty dish can impress the most demanding gourmets. At the same time, it is ideal for dietary nutrition and those who fast.

Ingredients:

Preparation:

Cook, as in previous recipes, crumbly buckwheat in salted water.

Chop and fry mushrooms in oil. When the mushrooms are almost ready, add finely chopped onion and fry together until the mushrooms are ready.

Mix fried mushrooms and onions with chopped herbs. If desired, you can use a blender at this stage to ensure a smooth consistency.

Add the resulting mushroom mass to the cooled buckwheat porridge, mix and form buckwheat cakes.

Bread each cutlet in flour and fry in a frying pan in heated vegetable oil.

Another option for how to prepare lean buckwheat is presented in the video. Here potatoes are added to buckwheat, which makes the dish even more satisfying.

To diversify the taste of this dish, you can add garlic and different combinations of spices to the recipe. Imagine, try - and you will certainly get a dish that will become one of your family’s favorites.

The ease of preparation makes grechaniky a completely everyday dish. But in terms of their qualities, they are worthy of a festive table.

You can serve the buckwheat with a side dish of potatoes, fresh vegetables or pasta. They are also good as an independent dish. If desired, you can prepare them in advance so that at any time you can take out the “semi-finished product”, heat it up and get a flavorful, nutritious dish.

Grechaniki with minced meat in tomato sauce is a tasty and satisfying dish of Ukrainian cuisine. It is prepared from minced meat with the addition of boiled buckwheat. The proportions of meat and grains may vary depending on your taste preferences. But, in any case, it turns out to be a very tasty and aromatic dish.

Due to the fact that the buckwheat with minced meat is stewed or baked in sauce after frying, they turn out especially tender and juicy. To prepare them, you can use different types of meat: pork, or assorted. Personally, I prefer making them with chicken. It turns out to be a tasty and quite dietary dish.

Ingredients:

• 600 g chicken fillet
• 100 g buckwheat
• 2 onions
• 2-3 cloves of garlic
• 100 ml milk
• 1 egg
• 100 g wheat flour
• 100 ml vegetable oil
• 3 tbsp. l. tomato paste
• 0.5 tsp. ground black pepper
• 0.5 tsp. chicken seasonings
• salt to taste

How to cook buckwheat with minced meat:

Wash the buckwheat, add cold water in a ratio of 1:2, add salt. We will cook the cereal over low heat under the lid until completely cooked. Then cool the buckwheat to room temperature, following the recipe for buckwheat with minced meat in sauce.

Wash the chicken fillet, dry it and clean it. Cut the meat into pieces and place in a blender bowl. Peel the onions and garlic. Coarsely chop one onion and place it in a blender bowl. Let's add garlic. Using a blender, grind the ingredients into a homogeneous mixture.

Place the minced meat in a deep bowl, add salt and season it with spices. Add an egg so that the buckwheat with minced meat in the oven keeps its shape well.

Add the cooled buckwheat to the rest of the ingredients.

Knead the minced meat thoroughly so that the ingredients combine well with each other.

Using hands dipped in cold water, form oval buckwheat cakes with minced chicken. Bread them in wheat flour.

Pour vegetable oil into the frying pan. When it warms up, we’ll put our preparations into it. Fry the buckwheat with minced meat until golden brown on all sides over medium heat.

Cut the second onion into cubes. Fry it until transparent in vegetable oil in a separate frying pan or saucepan.

Dilute the tomato paste in 400 ml of hot water. Pour the mixture over the fried onions. Add salt to taste.

Place the fried preparations in tomato sauce, as required by the recipe for buckwheat with minced chicken.

Let's start with a simple recipe, I assure you that everything will work out.

Ingredients:

• minced meat - 400 g;
• onion – 1 head;
• buckwheat - a glass;
• chicken egg – 1 pc.;
• water – 2 glasses;
• garlic – 3 cloves;
• vegetable oil - for frying;
• spices - to taste.

1. Wash the buckwheat.

2. Fill with hot water (1:2), bring to a boil, add salt and cook the buckwheat until cooked.

3. Chop the onion.

4. Fry in oil.

5. Cool the finished buckwheat.

6. Transfer it to a cup with minced meat. Add frying, egg and spices.

7. Chop the garlic and add it to the minced meat.

8. Mix the buckwheat mixture well.

9. Form cutlets and bread them in flour.

10. Place in a frying pan. Just heat up the oil first.

11. Fry the buckwheat on all sides until cooked.