Buckwheat in the merchant style is a tasty and satisfying dish for the whole family. Few people can deny the benefits of buckwheat, and when combined with meat, it makes an excellent side dish for dinner. Today we will prepare buckwheat with minced meat, and you can serve this dish with any vegetables and salads. For the recipe, in addition to buckwheat, you will need minced meat. Minced meat can be pork, pork-beef or chicken. Ground turkey is also suitable, which is not only tasty, but also dietary. Cooking a delicious dish in a frying pan is quite possible, use this recipe.
Ingredients:
- buckwheat – 1 tbsp.;
- minced meat – 300 g;
- water – 2 tbsp.;
- carrot – 1 pc.;
- onion – 1 pc.;
- vegetable oil – 2 tbsp. l.;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
How to prepare merchant-style buckwheat with minced meat in a frying pan
Chop vegetables for recipe. Grate the carrots so they cook faster. And chop the onion into cubes.
Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan, add vegetables, saute until soft for 3-4 minutes, stirring occasionally with a spoon or spatula. Add minced meat and fry everything together. If juice comes out from the vegetables and minced meat, it’s okay; it will evaporate during the frying process.
Fry the minced meat with vegetables for about 15 minutes, add salt and pepper to taste at the end. You can use any spices you like.
Pour the washed buckwheat into the frying pan, add water and turn on low heat. Simmer the buckwheat with minced meat under the lid for 25 minutes.
All the liquid should be absorbed into the buckwheat, the porridge will increase two to three times, now you can stir the dish. The buckwheat was slightly boiled and turned out very juicy and aromatic. The minced meat and vegetables did their job. Now you can remove the frying pan from the heat, cover with a lid and let it steam under the lid for another 10-15 minutes.
Now we can serve our almost festive dish to the table. Merchant-style buckwheat is truly unusual and colorful, your family will be pleased.
Just listen to the name of the recipe! It sounds like a merchant! A bright room immediately appears, the table is full of dishes, pickles and the main dish - buckwheat porridge. Such a large core, generously poured with meat gravy, the aroma is so breathtaking. Where's my big spoon? These are, of course, my fantasies, but they really used to give preference to cereals, grains and vegetables. There were no such delights and delicacies, but it was simple and satisfying. Try to save your strength by eating a leaf of lettuce or an apple. And the cereal is rich in vitamins and microelements. The usefulness of this core has always been known. Therefore she was held in high esteem. And as a second dish, buckwheat is one of the top three. The main thing is to combine vegetables and various additives, meat and mushrooms, spices to diversify the dish. For your attention, there are several recipe options for merchant buckwheat, all with detailed step-by-step photos, so that any beginner can handle the preparation.
Ahead of events and questions, I want to explain a little how, in my opinion, buckwheat in a merchant’s style differs from buckwheat with meat. Our recipe will include one stage, in which we will roast the cereal in a dry frying pan. This procedure will dry the core, harden it and then, in the dish, you will see how crumbly, neat and at the same time tender and soft it turns out.
Merchant-style buckwheat with pork: recipe with photos
During my childhood, this cereal was in short supply; it was only given out to people with coupons and diabetics. And when we had buckwheat, my mother always prepared a delicious crumbly porridge with meat. “And what’s delicious about it? you ask. Nothing special." And I’ll answer you - you just never prepared it like a merchant. Do it at least once and check.
Ingredients:
- pork – 400g;
- buckwheat – 250g;
- tomato paste – 1 tbsp;
- onion – 1 piece;
- carrots – 1 piece;
- vegetable oil – 2 tbsp;
- fresh herbs (parsley, dill) - optional;
- salt, ground black pepper - to taste.
How to cook merchant buckwheat with pork
Pickles are perfect for this dish. Cucumbers and tomatoes, cabbage and even mushrooms. It will be very merchant-like!
Merchant style buckwheat with chicken
A light, not heavy dish. Chicken cooks quickly and is eaten even faster. Nourishing, but not heavy on the stomach. You can use thighs for cooking, but chicken fillet is just perfect.
What we need:
- chicken (you can fillet, you can have thighs) – 250-300g;
- buckwheat – 200g;
- carrots – 1 piece;
- onion – 1 piece;
- sunflower oil – 2-3 tbsp;
- salt and spices - to taste;
- tomato paste – 1 tsp.
How to cook merchant-style buckwheat with chicken
Buckwheat merchant style: recipe with minced meat
If in previous recipes we used whole meat, then in this recipe we will make our life easier and use minced meat. When I decided to cook this version of buckwheat the merchant way, I was overcome by doubts about what would come out of the experiment. Oddly enough, we liked everything and the minced meat dish became part of our family menu. You can take ready-made, store-bought ones, but I always have homemade, assorted ones in the freezer. It’s not difficult for me to turn on the meat grinder and get ready-ground meat. All that remains is to defrost it and sort out the cereal.
Grocery list:
- minced meat (pork, beef, mixed) – 400g;
- buckwheat – 200g;
- carrots and onions – 1 pc.;
- tomatoes – 1-2 pcs;
- garlic – 1 clove;
- salt - to taste;
- spices - to choose from;
- tomato sauce (ketchup) – 1 tbsp;
- vegetable oil – 3 tbsp.
How to make buckwheat with minced meat
Merchant style buckwheat with beef and mushrooms
With beef and mushrooms - a dish that is ideal for a Sunday family dinner. It will be prepared in several stages, since we will add the ingredients one by one. Beef takes the longest to cook, so we fry it right away. Then we will take mushrooms (champignons) and, finally, our heroine of today’s selection of recipes - buckwheat. Buckwheat cooks quickly, so at this stage you can start setting the table. In the meantime, look at everything step by step and with photos.
List of ingredients:
- beef – 300 gr;
- buckwheat – 300 gr;
- champignons – 200 gr;
- onions – 100 g;
- carrots – 100 g;
- vegetable oil – 40 g;
- water – 600 g;
- salt and black pepper - to taste.
Cooking process
Serve the buckwheat merchant-style to the table hot. We think that no one will go hungry.
There are countless ways to prepare such porridge. Various additives, fresh vegetables or marinated, grilled, will only add piquancy to this dish. If you don't like pasta, replace it with tomato juice. The dish will only benefit from such a replacement. And with mushrooms, both fresh and salted, you will forget that you don’t like buckwheat. In addition to in a frying pan, you can cook the merchant style in a cauldron, pots in the oven, or in a slow cooker. And with sour cream and rabbit, with bacon...what am I telling you. Prepare and enjoy!
Prepare all the necessary ingredients according to the list. Choose large vegetables. Peel the onion, rinse and dry. Cut the onion into cubes and immediately place in a frying pan greased with vegetable oil.
Peel, wash and dry the carrots. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater and add to the pan with the onions. Carrots can be cut into medium-sized cubes if desired.
Next add minced meat to the pan, in my version I use minced turkey fillet, you can take pork or beef, chicken.
Fry the minced meat and vegetables for 7-10 minutes over low heat, constantly breaking up the minced meat with a spatula.
After a while, add buckwheat, previously washed and dried, to the pan.
Add a spoonful of tomato paste or a few spoons of tomato sauce.
Pour two glasses of warm water or any broth into the pan.
Add salt and pepper to taste. Mix everything well, cover with a lid and put on low heat. Cook the buckwheat for 25-30 minutes, then let the porridge brew for a couple more minutes and serve.
Calories: Not specified
Cooking time: Not indicated
Buckwheat in a merchant's style is an old recipe of Russian cuisine, and it received such an unusual name because, in addition to cereals and vegetables, it contains meat. Previously, meat products were available only to the wealthy class: merchants, landowners, shopkeepers, and poor peasant families prepared meat only on major holidays. Nowadays it is more of an economical dish than a festive one: at a relatively low cost you get an impressive amount of delicious food that can feed a large family. Merchant-style buckwheat with minced meat will cost even less, and will help out when there is very little meat, but you need to prepare a hearty dinner or a main course for lunch.
You can cook buckwheat with minced meat in a frying pan on the stove or in a cauldron in the oven. It turns out very tasty if you add a little tomato sauce to the fried vegetables and minced meat, a piquant sourness appears, the taste of merchant-style buckwheat with minced meat becomes more contrasting and bright. Prepare this dish using our recipe with photos, you will see for yourself how delicious it is!
Ingredients:
- buckwheat – 1 glass;
- minced meat or lean pork – 300-350 g;
- onion – 1 large onion;
- carrots – 1 piece;
- tomato sauce – 3 tbsp. l;
- salt - to taste;
- vegetable oil – 4 tbsp. l;
- black pepper – 2 pinches (optional);
- water (boiling water) – 2 glasses.
Recipe with photos step by step:
Cut a large onion into cubes or chop into thin quarter rings. Heat refined vegetable oil in a deep frying pan or cauldron and add onion.
We make the heat not very strong, a little stronger than medium, and fry the onion until a beautiful golden hue appears. While the onion is frying, cut the carrots into strips. Add to the onion, stir, fry for about another five minutes, soaking the vegetables in oil.
If you don’t have ready-made minced meat, before frying the vegetables, grind the lean meat through a meat grinder. We move the vegetables to the side and place the minced meat in the frying pan. We increase the fire to almost maximum.
Mix the minced meat quickly, breaking up any lumps with a fork or spatula. Then lightly fry and mix with carrots and onions.
Season with salt and ground pepper. For taste, add tomato sauce (optional, this is an optional ingredient). Fry the tomato for several minutes, reduce the heat to low.
We wash the buckwheat, changing the water several times. We choose specks and nigella. Pour buckwheat into vegetables with minced meat. You can first fry the cereal in another frying pan without adding oil, then mix with vegetables and minced meat.
Pour in two glasses of water. Add salt to taste immediately before the cereal has absorbed all the water. Cover tightly and cook for 30-35 minutes without opening the lid.
Buckwheat should absorb all the water and steam well. After turning off, leave the buckwheat to brew under the lid, and stir gently before serving. There is no need to stir the buckwheat during cooking; it will not turn out crumbly.
We cut the green onions into rings, take out pickled or pickled tomatoes and cucumbers. Place on plates, sprinkle buckwheat with minced meat with green onions and serve. Bon appetit! 
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Prepare a delicious side dish: merchant-style buckwheat with minced meat
Many people love buckwheat. A very useful product that is easy and quick to prepare. I'm tired of cooking it in the form of regular porridge with milk, besides, milk is not always available in the refrigerator, and without it, buckwheat porridge is a little dry.
I offer the following very tasty dish to the attention of those who like to cook quickly and those who are on a diet. Everyone will definitely like this dish of merchant-style buckwheat with minced meat.
Ingredients for merchant-style buckwheat:
- Buckwheat – 300 g
- Minced meat (I make it from beef) – 300 g
- Eggs – 1-2 pcs
- Onions – 2-3 pieces of medium size.
- Salt - to taste
- Ground pepper - to taste
- Any greens - a bunch
Merchant-style buckwheat with minced meat - step-by-step cooking recipe
Clean buckwheat from debris and rinse with water.
Chop the onion as finely as possible, but you can also grind it through a meat grinder. You can add more onion than the specified amount - it does not spoil the taste at all.
In a convenient bowl with high sides, lightly beat the eggs.
Then add minced beef into the beaten eggs. If you want a more dietary merchant-style buckwheat with minced meat, use skinless chicken breast, it has less fat.
Add chopped onion.
Add salt and, if you like, pepper. A little seasoning will give the minced meat a delicious aroma. But if you are on a diet due to stomach problems, do not add seasonings.
Mix all ingredients into a homogeneous mass.
Place the buckwheat in a saucepan, pour water 2 cm higher and place the buckwheat on high heat. When the porridge boils, reduce the heat to low and cover with a lid.
While the buckwheat is boiling, you can make small meatballs. For those who are not in a hurry and want to give the meatballs a perfectly round shape and the same size, special tongs were invented back in Soviet times. True, it is much more convenient to roll minced meat balls with your hands. We immerse the meatballs in buckwheat without waiting for it to be ready.
If you don’t have much time and desire to make meatballs, you can put the minced meat in the dish you are preparing without making “balls” out of it, but simply mixing it with buckwheat.
Cook for 20-30 minutes over low heat, stirring occasionally.
After making sure that the minced meat is ready, remove the buckwheat from the heat like a merchant.
Serve to the table, garnished with greens. Goes great with green onions and dill. And lastly, be sure to put a piece of butter there, and then you will discover all the wonderful taste of the hearty and very healthy dish you have prepared! You don't have to add butter if you used fairly fatty meat.
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