Buckwheat with minced meat. Recipe in the oven, slow cooker, in a frying pan in sour cream, tomato, mushroom sauce

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Prepared by: Bestpovar

10/30/2014 Cooking time: 2 hours 0 minutes

Grechaniki is a very tasty dish made from buckwheat and minced meat. It's very easy to prepare. If you want to try something new and unusual, I advise you to cook it.

Features of Greeks you need to know about

If you are preparing meatball-based cutlets with minced meat, then buy only a proven product or prepare it yourself. Usually they use equal parts pork and beef for minced meat. If the base is poultry, then when you grind it through a meat grinder, add lard.

• When fried, onions give juiciness. Don't neglect it.

• To keep the cutlets in a beautiful shape, add an egg to the mixture of buckwheat and minced meat.

• The dish uses only boiled cereal. Therefore, the idea of ​​making buckwheat porridge most often arises when there are leftover buckwheat porridge lying around in the refrigerator.

• Cooking buckwheat is not difficult. They can be fried, stewed, or steamed.

Interesting: buckwheat comes not only with meat products. They are prepared with pumpkin, cabbage, and mushrooms. Sometimes sweet balls are formed by boiling buckwheat in milk.

Buckwheat with minced meat in tomato sauce

Consider the classic recipe for preparing buckwheat with minced meat and juicy tomato sauce. This dish does not require a side dish as it tastes great with gravy. The kids will definitely love this dinner. Let's start cooking by preparing the necessary ingredients:

• 300 g beef;
• 200 g pork;
• 150 g onion;
• 150 g buckwheat;
• 2 pcs chicken eggs;
• 100 ml tomato paste;
• vegetable oil;
• breadcrumbs;
• salt, pepper, seasonings to taste.

Let's divide the process of preparing buckwheat with minced meat into two components: boil the buckwheat separately, and prepare the minced meat separately.

To cook the cereal, pour 450 grams of cold water into it and place on low heat. It will be ready in 20 minutes.

Grind the meat and onions through a meat grinder. Combine with minced meat. Add the necessary seasonings to taste. Mix well. It's better to do it by hand. Form balls of arbitrary size.

While you are preparing semi-finished products, put the frying pan on the fire. Heat and pour oil. You do not need to completely fry the cutlets, and just give them a little golden crust, because then you will need to simmer them.

Dissolve tomato paste in a small amount of water. Let the buckwheat stew in this sauce under the lid for 15 minutes. After this, arrange in portions and serve.

How to cook “Buckwheat with minced meat”

Let's start cooking with minced meat. Pass the chicken fillet through a meat grinder along with one onion. Salt the minced meat, season with spices, add squeezed garlic. Boil the buckwheat, cool and mix with the minced meat.

Form the minced meat into cutlets, bread in flour and fry on both sides.

Finely chop the second onion and fry in oil. Pour in tomato sauce and season with dry oregano. Place buckwheat in a saucepan or deep baking dish. Pour in the prepared sauce. Then place in the oven under foil for 15-20 minutes or heat over low heat under the lid for the same time.

In 15-20 minutes, the fragrant buckwheat is ready!

Cooking in the oven

The oven has unique properties. She turns simple dishes into delicious dinners. Buckwheat in the oven will have a beautiful golden baked crust.

Ingredients:

• 300 g minced meat (pork + beef);
• ½ cup buckwheat (1.2 cups ready-boiled);
• 1 egg;
• 2 tbsp. flour;
• salt pepper.

For the sauce, take:

• 1 onion;
• 1 carrot;
• 2 bell peppers;
• 1 tbsp water;
• 50 grams of tomato paste.

We prepare classic buckwheat cakes from minced meat and core. It doesn’t hurt to knead the mixture with your hands like dough. This technology helps to achieve better bonding and the cutlets do not fall apart when frying.

Once the round meat balls are golden brown, it’s time to prepare the sauce. All vegetables are prepared, chopped and placed in a baking dish. Place the meatballs there and add water and tomato sauce. Bake at 180° C for 25 minutes.

Interesting: V.V. Pokhlebkin is a scientist, researcher of Ukrainian cuisine, in his works he described Greek dishes of the early 19th century. They were prepared with yeast, from buckwheat flour with milk and egg. They were baked like buns in the oven.

Buckwheat with carrots

Buckwheat with minced meat (the recipe with carrots and onions is a little more complicated than the traditional one) is prepared similarly to the classic recipe. The dish turns out very tender due to ground buckwheat. You can take any meat: poultry, beef, pork and more.

Composition of ingredients

The following products are used to make buckwheat cutlets:

Step-by-step cooking process

To make cutlets, you must follow the recipe:

1. The cereal must be washed and boiled.
2. The onion should be peeled and chopped into cubes.
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3. The carrots need to be peeled and chopped in a vegetable grinder.
4. Pour sunflower oil into a frying pan, heat it, add chopped onions and carrots. It is recommended to fry vegetables until golden brown.
5. Minced meat, vegetables and buckwheat should be combined, mixed thoroughly, add salt, spices, egg, mix again.
6. After this you need to form the cutlets. To prevent the minced meat from sticking to your hands, you need to wet your hands with water.
7. The cutlets should be fried in a frying pan until a crust appears (on both sides).

After frying, it is recommended to place all the buckwheat on a baking sheet and bake for half an hour at a temperature of 180 ᵒC.

What can I add?

You can add cheese, mushrooms, beef, pork and other products to the ground meat. The cutlets can be stewed in tomato or topped with creamy sauce.

How to serve a dish

It is recommended to serve the cutlets with sour cream or mayonnaise on a lettuce leaf. A side dish is added to the product: fresh, stewed, canned vegetables, pasta, fried, boiled potatoes, mashed potatoes. The dish must be eaten hot.

How to cook buckwheat with minced meat in a slow cooker

When you have to save not only on products, but also on time, a multicooker comes to the rescue. You can make buckwheat in it from the very beginning to the end. Let's look at the process in more detail.

For eight servings you will need:

• 200 g cereal;
• 550 g filtered water;
• 500 g minced meat (ready purchased or made by hand);
• 1 onion;
• 1 egg;
• a few pinches of salt and pepper;
• bay leaf;
• 3 tbsp. tomato paste.

First of all, you need to boil the porridge in a multicooker bowl. To do this, use the “cooking” and “porridge” modes, depending on the type of kitchen appliance. Chop the onion very finely, or grind in a meat grinder.

Mix the porridge with minced meat and onions. Add one egg. Place the formed balls into the multicooker bowl and fry on the appropriate setting. When the second side acquires a golden hue, add a bay leaf, add a tomato and set the “stew” mode for 25 minutes. Serve with fresh vegetables.

How to cook buckwheat with minced meat in a frying pan

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.

Next, if you wish, you can transfer them to a saucepan, add a little water and simmer for 5-7 minutes.

Grechaniki with steamed minced chicken

Nutritionists have calculated that 100 grams of Greek dishes with minced chicken contain only 178 kcal. This means that you have found the most dietary and healthy recipe for cutlets, especially since they are steamed. For three servings you will need:

• half a glass of buckwheat;
• 500 g chicken;
• 1 large onion;
• fresh herbs;
• 1 egg;
• salt pepper.

At the same time, cook the buckwheat and make the minced meat. Add onion, salt and pepper to the twisted meat. When the cereal is ready, combine with meat ingredients and egg. Mix the buckwheat base and then form the cutlets.

With minced chicken in the oven

Watch your figure? So, this recipe for dietary buckwheat is especially for you.

Ingredients:

• chicken fillet – 850 g;
• buckwheat – 270 g;
• onions – 1 pc.;
• eggs – 4 pcs.;
• spicy spices - to taste;
• salt - to taste;
• tomato paste – 5 tbsp. l.

Preparation:

1. We sort out the buckwheat, rinse under running water, and cook in salted water until ready.
2. We pass the chicken fillet with peeled onions through a meat grinder. Salt, add your favorite spices and stir well.
3. Gradually add buckwheat porridge to the bowl with the meat component.
4. Following the cereal, we send eggs. Mix.
5. Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil, form and place buckwheat cutlets with minced chicken on it.
6. Pour half a liter of water into a deep bowl and dilute the tomato in it. Add a little salt and pour the resulting sauce over the buckwheat.
7. Bake the cutlets in a preheated oven at 180 degrees, about 45 minutes.
8. Grechaniki with minced chicken are ready in the oven. Now they can be decorated with fresh herbs and served.

Dietary buckwheat with turkey mince

If you have children, be sure to take note of the recipe for buckwheat with minced turkey. Turkey meat is considered the healthiest among all meat birds. It is not as dry as chicken and at the same time, very nutritious. It can be given to children from one year old, so the dish may well be considered dietary. For dinner you will need:

• 150 g buckwheat core;
• 1 egg;
• 2 onions;
• 2 carrots;
• salt pepper;
• 500 g minced turkey.

We prepare cutlets from boiled buckwheat porridge and twisted turkey fillet. It is also better to grind one onion and one carrot through a meat grinder. Chop the remaining vegetables; they will become the base of the sauce.

Roll into balls from well-kneaded minced meat with buckwheat. Fry a little in a frying pan so that the cutlets hold their shape tightly. Place diced onion and grated carrots in a deep frying pan. Add salt and place the buckwheat in it. Pour water up to the edge of the cutlets and cover with a lid. Simmer for 30 minutes.

Important: turkey contains virtually no fat. Therefore, it is considered a dietary product. Unlike chicken, it does not contain microelements that cause allergies, so turkey is suitable for first feeding for children under one year of age.

Classic recipe

Grechaniki with minced meat (the classic recipe is presented below in the article) is prepared from ground beef and pork at the same time. Minced pork helps make the cutlets softer and juicier.

Pork also increases the calorie content of the dish, so this product is suitable for people engaged in heavy physical labor.

Composition of ingredients

To make a dish you need:

Step-by-step cooking process

The product is prepared step by step:

1. The onion should be peeled, chopped finely, and fried in a frying pan until golden brown.
2. The cereal needs to be boiled, wait until it cools, and grind with a blender. If a meat grinder is used for grinding, the mesh should be fine-mesh. You can grind buckwheat using a masher to make mashed potatoes.
3. Onions fried in a frying pan must be ground with cereal.
4. Add eggs, salt, spices to the minced meat and mix everything thoroughly. After this, the meat is combined with cereal, the mixture is thoroughly mixed, and beaten.
5. Next, you need to make cutlets by scooping 1 tablespoon of minced meat into your hand and breading them in flour.
6. The formed cutlets need to be fried for 6 minutes. The fire should be low so that the cutlets are baked from the inside, but not burned from the outside.

The dish is ready.

What can I add?

You can add creamy mushroom sauce to the dish. The dish is also prepared in tomato sauce. You can add beef liver, fried champignons or porcini mushrooms, cheese, carrots and other vegetables to the minced meat.

How to serve a dish

It is recommended to serve the product with sour cream on a plate, garnished with herbs and lettuce. You can serve the cutlets with a side dish: potatoes, mashed potatoes, pasta, fresh and stewed vegetables. Canned cucumbers, corn, peas, and beans are also suitable.

Recipe with mushrooms

At the height of the autumn season, I want to diversify my diet with dishes with mushrooms. If you replace minced meat with them, you will get no less tasty and juicy buckwheat. The classic recipe uses champignons. But if you have boletus or obabka on hand, they will also go very well with buckwheat. Required Products:

• 200 grams of boiled buckwheat;
• 300 grams of mushrooms;
• half a large onion;
• 1 egg;
• herbs and spices.

The first step has already become traditional - cook the cereal. If you use champignons, you should simply fry them. If there is any other type of mushroom, then first boil it and then bring it to readiness in a frying pan, adding onion.

The finished mushrooms need to be chopped with a knife, or twisted in a meat grinder along with the porridge. Add aromatic herbs and spices. Add an egg to seal.

Form buckwheat pancakes, which should then be either fried or baked. The finished dish does not require a side dish, which means it can be combined with any vegetables.

How to cook “Grechaniki with minced chicken”

Boil a glass of buckwheat until fully cooked. At the same time, make sure that the water from the pan evaporates completely. Leave the porridge to cool.

Scroll the chicken fillet through a meat grinder along with onions and garlic. Mix with buckwheat porridge, beat in an egg, add salt, pepper and spices to taste. Mix well.

Place a frying pan with vegetable oil on the stove to heat up. Form the minced meat into cutlets, roll in breadcrumbs and place in a frying pan.

Fry the buckwheat on both sides over medium heat until golden brown. Place the finished buckwheat in a separate bowl.

Buckwheat for children in sour cream sauce

Did you know that this is the recipe for these buckwheat cookies that are used in kindergartens? As you know, many preschoolers refuse to eat outside the home, but they gobble up these tender cutlets at a time. Their specialty is a rare yushka made from sour cream sauce. It makes dishes tender and juicy.

Buckwheat for children consists of:

• boiled buckwheat porridge - 300 g;
• minced chicken + turkey - 200 g;
• 1 onion;
• 1 carrot;
• 250 sour cream 15% fat;
• salt, sugar, bay leaf.

I will not describe in detail the technology for preparing buckwheat porridge and minced meat, but let’s immediately proceed to the most important part - the formation of buckwheat. The rolled balls need to be held in a hot frying pan for a while and turned over.

In a separate form, which will be placed in the oven, place chopped onions and grated carrots on the bottom. They don't need to be fried since we are cooking for children. Place the buckwheat balls on the vegetable layer and pour sour cream mixed with a few tablespoons of water over everything. Add a gram of sugar, salt and put a small bay leaf.

Set the temperature to 180° in the oven. Wait until it heats up and place the mold there. While the buckwheat cakes are baking, start preparing cabbage salad, versions of which can be found on the pages of our website. In 30 minutes, a delicious and juicy dinner is ready.

Buckwheat in tomato sauce

In this recipe, in addition to the buckwheat, tomato sauce is prepared. Cutlets are stewed in it.

Buckwheat with minced meat. Recipe for stewing in tomato sauce.

This makes the dish even tastier and juicier.

Composition of ingredients

For the manufacture of the product the following is used:

Step-by-step cooking process

Prepare the dish step by step:

1. Buckwheat must be cleaned of dark particles, washed, and boiled in water. The buckwheat must be cooled so that the eggs (they are added later) do not curdle from the high temperature ahead of time.
2. The meat and 1 onion must be ground in a meat grinder.
3. Pour an egg into the ground meat, add salt and spices. All ingredients must be mixed.
4. The chopped meat should be combined with boiled cereal, then mix everything again.
5. Make cutlets from the buckwheat-meat mixture and roll them in flour. Buckwheat should be fried on both sides to form a crust. In this state, the cutlets will not fall apart when stewing.
6. The second onion must be chopped into half rings and fried with oil. A golden crust should appear.
7. Tomato sauce should be poured into a frying pan with onions and heated. To make the sauce, you need to mix tomato paste with water and add salt. The proportions of water and paste are 1:1.

It is recommended to place the buckwheat in a frying pan with the sauce and simmer with the lid closed for a quarter of an hour.

What can I add?

You can add dry herbs and carrots to the chopped meat. These ingredients will make the cutlets even tastier.

How to serve a dish

The product is served hot or warm on an individual plate. It is recommended to sprinkle the dish with fresh parsley or dill. You can serve a side dish (pasta, potatoes, vegetables).

Buckwheat with minced meat and cabbage

This recipe was borrowed from lazy cabbage rolls. Only in our case, instead of rice, buckwheat is used. And if you cook really lazy Greek pancakes with minced meat and cabbage, then instead of making balls, you can simply put everything in a baking dish (round or for bread) and bake in the oven, greasing the top with sour cream.

So, open the refrigerator and take out:

• 300 g minced meat (any kind);
• 200 g buckwheat (if you have it boiled, that’s good, if you don’t, we cook it);
• 1 egg;
• 250 g cabbage;
• 100 g onion;
• 100 g tomato paste;
• seasonings and herbs.

According to the familiar scheme, mix minced meat, buckwheat and egg in one large plate. Season to taste. Knead very well and roll into balls in small portions. Separately, fry the onion a little.

For the next step, we will need a wide pan with thick walls and the same bottom. Place onions and shredded cabbage on the bottom. Next are the Greeks. You need to place them so that there is space between the cutlets, otherwise they may stick together and turn into porridge.

Dilute the tomato with half a glass of water. Season with salt and pepper again, and you can add a pinch of sugar. Pour in the cutlets and leave to simmer covered. We take it out in 25 minutes.

Buckwheat in the oven

We need: a meat grinder, a bowl, a baking dish, a frying pan.

Ingredients

Step-by-step preparation

1. We pass 985 grams of meat through a meat grinder. Separately, grind 80 grams of onion through a meat grinder.

2. Combine minced meat, two beaten eggs, onion minced through a meat grinder, 4 grams of salt in a bowl and mix everything.

3. Add boiled buckwheat to the minced meat and mix vigorously. You can lightly beat the minced meat so that the buckwheat sticks together better.

4. Using the prepared minced meat, we form buckwheat pancakes with our hands and place them in a baking dish.

5. Heat the frying pan over medium heat, pour in 10-15 milliliters of sunflower oil, add 105 grams of finely chopped onion and fry for 2-3 minutes.

6. Place the fried onions on top of the buckwheat.

7. At the end of cooking, pour tomato sauce into the mold.

8. Heat the oven to 180 degrees and place the dish in it to cook for 45-50 minutes.

9. Place the finished buckwheat into a convenient bowl and serve.

Video recipe

So that you don’t have any problems with cooking, I recommend watching the video and observing how to cook buckwheat with minced meat.