Гречка по-монастырски - это блюдо, которое давно known in Russia. It was usually prepared during the period of various fasting, when, according to the rules, believers were allowed to eat only fast food. The first people began to cook this porridge in monasteries, which was the main reason why it received such an unusual name. Until now, this dish is very popular, which explains the huge number of recipes and methods of its preparation.
Traditional
The secret of this dish is that it containsa huge amount of vitamins and other nutrients that are essential for the normal functioning of the human body. In addition, monastic-style buckwheat is very easy to prepare and requires for this a minimal set of basic ingredients: for half a cup of buckwheat 1 onion, 150 grams of any forest mushrooms, ground black pepper, 200 milliliters of boiling water, salt and some vegetable oil.
In accordance with the traditional recipe, the entire procedure takes no more than half an hour. To get a real monastic buckwheat, you need:
- Rinse the mushrooms, peel them, and then fold them into a regular saucepan, pour over cold water and boil for about 20 minutes.
- After that, the liquid can be drained, and the products cool and carefully cut into thin straws.
- Peel the onions, crumble into cubes and fry it a little in vegetable oil.
- After that, you need to add to it prepared mushrooms. In the process of frying, they should acquire a pleasant golden hue.
- Then it is necessary to fill the buckwheat in the pan and fry the products together for no more than 3 minutes.
- Next, fill the contents with water, cover tightly with a lid and cook until the cereal is fully prepared.
For complete certainty, you need to let the dish stand for another 3-4 minutes, and after that you can safely call everyone to the table.
Microwave Porridge
Nowadays, almost every kitchen hasvarious appliances that help housewives to solve all the problems associated with cooking. So, the usual monastic-style buckwheat can be on the table in just a few minutes if there is a microwave in the house. For work you will need: 100 grams of buckwheat and the same amount of fresh (or frozen) mushrooms, a pinch of salt, ½ onions and 90 grams of vegetable oil.
The process will consist of several successive stages:
- Mushrooms, if necessary, must first be defrosted.
- After they, along with peeled onions need to cut into cubes.
- The buckwheat should be carefully picked, rinsed and wetted with water for 15 minutes.
- First, fry the onion in a microwave oven at maximum power for three minutes.
- Then add mushrooms to it and repeat the procedure with the same parameters.
- Fill the buckwheat and pour all the water in so that it is half a centimeter above the contents.
- Set the power of the device by 80 percent and keep the products under such conditions for 5 minutes. After all this, they should just stand for 10 minutes.
- Repeat the heating procedure.
- Add salt, mix and warm the food again. This time only takes minutes.
Now porridge is really ready to eat.
Recipe for Multivariate
Monastery-style buckwheat is no less tasty.in the slow cooker. In recent years, this unit is very popular. The main ingredients, in principle, remain the same: 300 grams of buckwheat, 1 large onion, 200 grams of fresh champignons, salt, 100 milliliters of vegetable oil and 2 cups of water.
The process technology is simple:
- Onion cut into 4 parts, and then finely crumble.
- Oil pour into the bowl multicooker. Pour onions and whole mushrooms there.
- Set the mode "Frying" and wait 10 minutes, not forgetting to constantly stir the products.
- Wash buckwheat and add to bowl.
- Add water, salt, and then cover the lid and set the mode "Cereals" for 35 minutes.
The timer signal will alert you when the dish is ready. This recipe is described for the Redmond Multivarki. The remaining models work similarly. True, some changed the name of the operations.
Non-standard option
When the post is over, you can no longerstick to the restrictions. Now every believer can afford any dish. Especially good in this case is monastic buckwheat with meat. For its preparation you will need: ½ cup buckwheat, 150 grams of beef, carrots, salt, 50 grams of fresh green peas, onions, bay leaf and 300 milliliters of beef broth.
The dish is prepared in a rather original way:
- Beef pour cold water and boil until fully cooked. The first broth is better to drain to avoid ingress of harmful substances into it. For 15-20 minutes add salt, bay leaf and onion.
- Chop the boiled beef in a meat grinder and place the minced meat in an even layer on the bottom of the clay pot.
- Top grated carrot, peas and washed buckwheat.
- All this pour broth and put in the oven for about 1 hour. The temperature inside by this time should be 180 degrees.
- As soon as all the water disappears, you need to wait 10 minutes, and then mix the contents of the pot and serve it to the table, spreading it on plates.
Children like these porridges. They are very fragrant, tasty and quickly eaten without much effort.
