Step-by-step recipe for cooking buckwheat with minced meat in tomato sauce

Cutlets are a lifesaver for any housewife. They are not too expensive, they turn out tasty and satisfying, and besides, they can be fried in advance and then simply reheated, which will save a lot of effort and allow you to prepare dinner in a matter of minutes. An even more useful dish in all respects is buckwheat. These are the same cutlets, but with the addition of buckwheat. They are often prepared in Ukraine and Belarus, as well as in their neighboring countries. The recipe for this wonderful dish is good for any housewife to adopt.

Cooking features

Making buckwheat is no more difficult than making regular cutlets. But they will turn out much tastier and healthier. The main thing is to know the features of preparing this dish.

Buckwheat can be prepared with or without minced meat. In the latter case, for satiety, it’s a good idea to add mushrooms instead of minced meat. There are also sweet buckwheat ones; for them, buckwheat can be boiled in milk, although this is not necessary.
Buckwheat will be tasty only if high-quality minced meat was used for it. It is best to make it yourself, in this case you can be sure that it does not include low-grade meat products. When buying ready-made minced meat in a store, you can hardly be sure of its excellent quality.
Buckwheat for buckwheat must be boiled in advance until ready. If you have buckwheat left over from the side dish, you can use it - the buckwheat won’t get any worse, and you will gain the reputation of being an economical housewife.
The fastening element of the minced meat when preparing buckwheat is the egg. If your cutlets are falling apart, add another egg, even if the recipe calls for less.
The buckwheat can be completely fried in a frying pan, like regular cutlets, or you can just brown it and then bring it to readiness by simmering it in sauce. In this case, they will be more tender and healthier. Another option for preparing buckwheat is baking in the oven. You can bake them with or without sauce.

Grechaniki can be served with or without a side dish, because they contain everything necessary for this dish to be considered complete.

Buckwheat with meat

beef – 0.3 kg;
pork – 0.2 kg;
onions – 150 g;
buckwheat – 150 g;
chicken egg – 2 pcs.;
tomato paste – 100 ml;
water – 0.25 l;
flour for breading - how much will be needed;
salt, seasonings - to taste.

Cooking method:

Sort the buckwheat and rinse. Fill with water and boil until tender, not forgetting to salt it.
Wash the meat, dry with paper napkins. Cut into pieces and grind through a meat grinder, alternating pork and beef.
Add eggs, salt and spices to the minced meat. Mix thoroughly.
Peel the onion and cut into small pieces. Fry them in vegetable oil until golden brown.
Mix the minced meat with buckwheat and form it into small cutlets, shaped like meatballs, only slightly flatter.
Heat the oil in a clean frying pan and fry the cutlets in it until they are golden brown on both sides.
Dilute the tomato paste with water and pour the resulting mixture over the buckwheat.
Cover the pan with a lid and reduce the heat underneath. Cook the buckwheat for another 15 minutes.

When serving the buckwheat, you can pour the sauce in which they were stewed and sprinkle with chopped herbs.

Classic recipe for buckwheat with minced meat

In the authentic Ukrainian version, grechaniky are prepared from minced pork or pork-beef. This choice makes the dish nourishing, dense, juicy. Cooking method: frying in vegetable oil.

Required Ingredients

To prepare four servings:

a glass of dry cereal;
500 g minced meat;
200 ml water;
bulb;
2 eggs;
pepper, salt - to taste;
flour for breading - 5 tbsp. l.;
150 g lean oil - for frying.

The dish takes 45 minutes to prepare.

Step-by-step recipe with photos

Coarsely chop the onion and fry in oil until golden brown.
Boil the buckwheat, cool, grind (in a blender, through a meat grinder with a fine mesh, or a potato masher). The onion is chopped together with buckwheat.
Add eggs, salt and pepper to the minced meat to taste. Mix.
Combine with buckwheat porridge, stir and beat the cutlet mince.
By scooping about a tablespoon of minced meat into your palm, you form the buckwheat. Trim the top and sides, placing it on a cutting board.
Buckwheat with minced meat is breaded in flour. Fry on both sides over low heat for 6 minutes.
The dish is served with sour cream. Recommended side dishes include mashed potatoes, pasta, and stewed vegetables.

The nutritional value

Nutritional value 100 g:

proteins, g – 10.28;
fat, g – 22.71;
carbohydrates, g – 11.26;
calorie content, kcal – 293.56.

Grechaniki with chicken fillet

chicken breast fillet – 0.5 kg;
buckwheat – 150 g;
chicken egg – 3 pcs.;
onions – 150 g;
vegetable oil - how much will be needed;
breadcrumbs - how much will be needed;
salt, spices - to taste.

Cooking method:

Wash the chicken fillet, pat dry with a towel and finely chop with a knife or grind with a meat grinder.
Peel and finely chop the onion. Fry it in oil over low heat until it becomes soft and translucent.
Place the onion in the meat, add salt and spices, and stir.
Beat the eggs into the minced meat one at a time.
Boil washed and well-sorted buckwheat in salted water until soft. Mix buckwheat porridge with minced meat.
Form small cutlets from the resulting mixture, roll them in breadcrumbs and fry on both sides until golden brown.
Reduce heat and simmer covered for another 5-10 minutes.

You can serve chicken buckwheat with sweet and sour sauce, curry, sour cream or mushroom sauce.

Grechaniki from minced chicken with filling

Minced chicken - 400 g
Buckwheat – 100 g
Onion - 1 pc.
Chicken egg - 1 pc.
Ground black pepper - to taste
Flour or breadcrumbs
Salt - to taste
Vegetable oil

For filling

Chicken eggs - 2-3 pcs.
Sour cream - 2 tbsp. l.
Fresh parsley - a few sprigs
Salt - to taste

Boil buckwheat in lightly salted water until tender. Peel the onion, finely chop and fry in vegetable oil.

Beat a raw egg into the minced chicken, add fried onions and cooled buckwheat. Salt, pepper and add spices to taste. To stir thoroughly.

Let's prepare the filling. Boil 3 hard-boiled eggs. Peel and grate. Add sour cream and chopped herbs to the eggs, add salt and mix well.

Buckwheat recipes / photo delo-vcusa.ru

Take some of the minced meat with a spoon and make a flat cake out of it. Place the filling in the middle of each flatbread. Form a small patty so that the filling is inside. Roll buckwheat in flour.

Fry the buckwheat on both sides in vegetable oil. Serve hot.

Buckwheat with mushrooms

buckwheat – 100 g;
fresh champignons – 0.2 kg;
onions – 100 g;
chicken egg – 2 pcs.;
vegetable oil - how much will be needed;
fresh parsley – 50 g;
fresh dill – 50 g;
salt, seasonings - to taste.

Cooking method:

Sort and rinse the buckwheat. Boil it until soft in salted water and leave to simmer under the lid for another 15 minutes so that the buckwheat becomes even softer.
Peel and finely chop the onion.
Wash and dry the champignons with napkins. Cut them into small pieces.
Heat oil in a frying pan, add onion to it.
After 3 minutes, add the champignons to the onions. Fry the mushrooms until the juice released from them has completely evaporated from the pan.
Cool the mushrooms and buckwheat a little, mix them and add eggs, salt and spices.
Form small oblong cutlets from the resulting mass, bread them in flour and fry in a clean frying pan in boiling oil.

Buckwheat with mushrooms is prepared without meat from almost completely finished products. Therefore, they do not need to be stewed and fried for a long time; it is enough to brown them well on all sides so that the eggs in the minced meat have time to fry and the buckwheat mushrooms have time to look appetizing. Mushroom sauce will be the best addition to the dish prepared according to this recipe. This sauce can be made from 50 g of champignons, a small onion, a spoon of butter and the same amount of flour, a glass of sour cream. Prepare mushrooms and onions in the same way as for buckwheat. After you fry them in a frying pan, add flour, fry with it for a couple of minutes, then add sour cream, whisk and simmer for a few minutes until the sauce thickens.

Buckwheat with champignons, without meat

These buckwheat cookies not only have an interesting taste, but are also very nutritious. Because they contain mushrooms. Replacing meat, mushrooms add a special taste and aroma. Even those who don’t particularly like buckwheat in their diet will be happy to eat these buckwheat with mushrooms.

Ingredients:

Buckwheat - 1 glass;
Onion - 1 pc.;
Mushrooms - 500 g;
Flour - 2 tbsp;
Salt - optional;
Sunflower oil - for frying.

Cooking method:

Cook and cool the buckwheat porridge. During cooking, add salt to your taste.
Chop the peeled onion and fry.
Wash the mushrooms, cut them and add them to the pan with the onions. Fry together until the mushrooms are ready.
Place all the products in one bowl, add salt and mix everything until smooth.
Add flour to the mixture and mix again.
Form into cutlets, dip in flour and fry until cooked on both sides.

Serve hot, add sauce and garnish with herbs.

Sweet buckwheat with cottage cheese

buckwheat – 100 g;
water – 0.2 l;
milk – 100 ml;
cottage cheese – 0.2 kg;
sugar – 50 g;
walnut kernels - 50 g;
apples – 0.4 kg;
chicken egg – 2 pcs.;
wheat flour - how much will be needed;
vegetable oil - how much will be needed.

Cooking method:

After sorting and washing the buckwheat, fill it with water and boil until soft. There is no need to salt the water.
Rub the cottage cheese through a sieve, mix with sugar and milk.
Mix cottage cheese with buckwheat, add two eggs to this mixture and stir until the consistency is homogeneous.
Wash the apples. Cut out the cores. Clean. Grate on a coarse grater and mix with the rest of the ingredients.
Crush the nuts, add to the rest of the products, mix.
If the mixture is too liquid, thicken it with flour. But keep in mind that the workpiece should not be too dense.
Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan. Form cutlets from the buckwheat-curd mass and roll them in flour. Place in a frying pan with boiling oil, fry on both sides until cooked. To do this, it is enough to devote 5 minutes to each side.

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.

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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.

Grechaniki with minced pork in a frying pan

Cooking can be speeded up if you already have ready-made buckwheat porridge and minced meat. What a great idea to use up leftovers and still feed the whole family!

Ingredients:

buckwheat boiled until tender - 300 gr.;
minced meat (pork, amount of fat to your taste) – 350 gr.;
onion – 2 small heads;
eggs – 2 pcs.;
salt and spices - to taste;
fat for frying.

For breading:

crackers or ready-made coating for cutlets - 5 tbsp;
egg – 1 pc.

Preparation:

Chop the onion and fry it until transparent with a light golden hue. Combine with pre-cooked buckwheat.
Add minced pork into the resulting mass and break the eggs. Add salt and seasonings. We carefully knead everything and beat it to expel the air - this way the buckwheat will not fall apart when frying.
We form cutlets from the prepared buckwheat and minced meat.

Actually, the preparatory process is completed. Now you can choose how to cook buckwheat that will be best for you. You can fry them in a frying pan, in a slow cooker, in the oven or in a steamer.

If you prefer fried cutlets with a crispy golden crust, then the buckwheat should be breaded:

Roll each cutlet on all sides in breadcrumbs or a special mixture for breading cutlets.
Dip into lightly beaten egg.
Roll in breadcrumbs again and place in the pan.

Now, when you dip the cutlets into the heated oil, they will get a surprisingly appetizing crust. You can be sure that the magical aroma of buckwheat will not leave anyone indifferent! Even those who think they don’t like buckwheat will eat them with pleasure.

Recipe for buckwheat with minced chicken in a frying pan

Kitchen appliances:

kitchen stove.

Ingredients

How to choose the right ingredients

The recipe for Greek cutlets uses any minced meat to taste, but, as a rule, minced chicken is often a little thinner than pork or pork-beef mince. In this case, you should regulate the amount of buckwheat porridge added to the minced meat, namely, increase it slightly so that cutlets can be formed in the future.

For dressing, you can use the tomato that you have on hand - paste or sauce, or even something from winter preparations (for example, tomato juice or lecho), just keep in mind that the preservation already contains salt and other vegetables.

Rinse the buckwheat and put it on the fire to cook, adding a little salt after boiling.
While the porridge is cooking, peel the onions and carrots, wash them, then cut one onion into small cubes.
Place the minced meat in a deep bowl, add chopped onion, beat in the egg, salt and pepper the minced meat, add spices to taste and mix everything thoroughly.
Give the finished buckwheat a little time to cool, if necessary, draining excess water from it. For now, let's prepare the remaining vegetables for dressing: cut the second onion into cubes or half rings and grate the carrots.
After this, add buckwheat to the minced meat, mix and form cutlets.
Place the cutlets in a preheated frying pan with a small amount of vegetable oil and fry on both sides.
Remove the fried cutlets from the frying pan and prepare the gravy: put onions and carrots in a frying pan with oil, sauté a little, then add the tomato and simmer for a few minutes. Add a little water to the gravy if needed.
Then place the cutlets in a frying pan with the gravy and simmer for about 15 minutes under the lid.
Serve the finished buckwheat bread sprinkled with a small amount of finely chopped greens on top.

Buckwheat in tomato sauce in a frying pan

Cooking time: 75-85 min.
Number of servings: 6-7 pcs.

Kitchen utensils and equipment

Ingredients

Minced pork	400 g
Buckwheat	120 g
Eggs	1 PC.
Onions (large heads)	2 pcs.
Spices	10 g
Salt	10 g
Tomatoes in their own juice	300 g
Vegetable oil	25 ml
Sour cream	25 g
Carrot	1 PC.
Breadcrumbs	90 g
Greenery	50 g

Cooking sequence

Preparation

First of all, rinse the buckwheat well and send it to cook.
Peel and wash the onions and carrots. Cut one onion into small cubes and the second into quarters, grate the carrots on a coarse grater and finely chop the greens.
Add the diced onion, egg, spices, salt, pepper to the minced meat and mix.
After the buckwheat is cooked, add it to the minced meat and mix well.
At the final stage of preparing minced meat for buckwheat, add sour cream and stir so that the sour cream is evenly distributed in the minced meat.
We form cutlets and roll each of them in breadcrumbs.

Preparation

Place the frying pan on the stove and pour in vegetable oil.
When the oil is hot, add the buckwheat and fry well for 5-7 minutes on each side.
Then take a larger frying pan and add vegetable oil. When it is hot, add quartered onions and carrots and fry until golden brown.
Season with pepper and add tomatoes in their own juice.
Having warmed up the sauce a little, put the buckwheat into it, pour in a little water and cover with a lid.
Simmer for 15-20 minutes and serve, garnished with herbs.

Video recipe

In the video below you can watch the step-by-step recipe for preparing buckwheat cutlets.

What is it served with?

Grechaniki themselves are a combination of a side dish - buckwheat - with a minced meat dish. Therefore, they turn out to be quite filling. But to enhance their taste, you can serve them with sour cream.

Buckwheat also goes well with any vegetable salad. Or you can replace the fresh salad with your favorite pickles.

Recipe for buckwheat with meat in the oven (with photo)

Cooking time:

1 hour.
Number of servings:
8-10.
Kitchen appliances:
stove, oven.

Ingredients

pork – 400 g;
beef – 300 g;
buckwheat – 1 cup;
chicken eggs – 1-2 pcs.;
onions – 2 pcs.;

tomato sauce – 1 glass;
salt, pepper and other spices - to taste;
vegetable oil;
greens - to taste.

Cooking sequence

What to serve this dish with?

Since grechaniks already have a side dish, they can be considered an independent dish. The finished dish is sprinkled with finely chopped herbs or decorated with a sprig, for example, parsley. Served hot.

For tomato dressing, you can also use fresh tomatoes in their own juice, which before adding should be chopped into small pieces, thus releasing the juice, or crushed using a meat grinder or blender.
Buckwheat can be prepared without gravy. Cheese-garlic (grated processed cheese and garlic) or mayonnaise-garlic mixture, as well as regular sour cream, are perfect for the finished dish.

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If you have a third of a saucepan of buckwheat porridge left from yesterday, and there is a piece of meat in the refrigerator, then this is an excellent set of circumstances for preparing buckwheat with minced meat. The recipe is with a photo, so even if you have never heard of this dish before, you will cope with the task the first time, because every step is clearly illustrated. I personally like buckwheat meatballs more than regular cutlets with bread or meatballs with rice - buckwheat miraculously affects the taste of the cutlets, making them rich and very satisfying. I’m a bit of a fan of using large amounts of butter, so I have my own secret on how to achieve special juiciness and tenderness of buckwheat. I stew them in tomato sauce, to which I add fried onions and bell peppers. The aromatic gravy will make the taste of buckwheat cutlets even brighter and richer.

So, to prepare buckwheat you will need:

500-600 g minced meat;
150 g buckwheat;
egg;
two heads of onions;
one bell pepper;
2 tbsp. l. tomato paste;
flour;
refined oil;
garlic, salt and pepper.

Grechaniki with minced chicken in a slow cooker

Using this simple recipe, you can immediately cook buckwheat with minced meat in gravy and steam. Very convenient if you are trying to please all family members.

Required Ingredients

For 5 servings:

500 g minced chicken;
half a multi-cup of cereal;
carrot;
2 onions;
egg;
2 tbsp. l. tomato paste;
400 ml water;
2 cloves of garlic;
1 tsp. paprika;
20 g vegetable oil;
pepper, spices, salt.

The dish takes 45 minutes to prepare.

The nutritional value

Nutritional value 100 g:

proteins, g – 9.01;
fat, g – 30.95;
carbohydrates, g – 5.92;
calorie content, kcal – 338.25.

Step-by-step recipe with photos

Buckwheat is boiled in the “Stew” mode. Pour out of the multi-pan and cool.
Minced meat is mixed with buckwheat porridge, egg, and raw chopped onion. Salt, season, pepper. Knead the thick minced meat.
Fry the carrots (shaved) and the second onion (diced) in vegetable oil for 2 minutes in a multicooker, setting the “Frying” program.
Add chopped garlic, tomato paste and water (to make the dish even tastier, you can use meat or vegetable broth instead of water).
The sauce is salted and spices are added. Wait until it boils and stop the process by pressing the “Stop” button.
Small buckwheat formations form. Place on a greased steaming rack. The remaining cutlets are immersed in tomato sauce.
Cook the buckwheat in a slow cooker for 30 minutes in the “Steam” mode.

Method for preparing buckwheat with minced meat

1. Carefully sort out the buckwheat groats, wash them and cook them in the most usual way. Do not overcook, the buckwheat should retain its crispness.

2. You can use any minced meat for buckwheat. It is better, of course, if the minced meat is homemade and not purchased. Add to it a head of onion ground in a meat grinder (we leave the second one for the sauce), cooled buckwheat, egg, salt and pepper and a chopped clove of garlic. Stir until smooth.

3. From the resulting mass we form buckwheat balls, each of which is thoroughly breaded in flour.

4. Fry the buckwheat until golden brown.

5. Cut the second onion into thin half rings, chop the sweet pepper into short strips, and chop the garlic (a couple of cloves) very finely.

6. We start frying with onions, fry until the onion rings are transparent. Then add sweet pepper strips to the onion. Fry, stirring, for another 2-3 minutes. The pepper should soften slightly.

7. Pour in tomato paste diluted in a glass of water, throw in the garlic, add some salt, sprinkle pepper. Can be seasoned with spices. Keep the tomato sauce on low heat for about 3 minutes.

9. Lay out the buckwheat, cover with a lid and simmer for at least half an hour over low heat. If the tomato sauce turns out to be thick, then slightly dilute it with water.

10. Ready-made buckwheat can be sprinkled with chopped herbs. This will add bright colors to the dish.

11. Buckwheat mushrooms turn out soft and unusually juicy. The ideal side dish for these buckwheat cutlets would be mashed potatoes or just boiled potatoes.

Grechaniki is a well-known and one of the most delicious authentic dishes of Ukrainian cuisine, which is nothing more than buckwheat cutlets. Do you know how to cook buckwheat?

? In ancient times, our ancestors prepared them not only from boiled buckwheat porridge, but also from buckwheat flour, milk and yeast. This dish, of course, is more similar to cutlets than to cutlets.

Today, such buckwheat pancakes are called buckwheat flour pancakes. All buckwheat recipes can be divided into two large categories - meat and lean. From the name it becomes clear that the former contain meat, the latter do not. During Lent, our ancestors cooked buckwheat with mushrooms, beans, cottage cheese, pumpkin, and potatoes. On other days, finely chopped meat was added.

As for the methods of preparing them, you can cook them, like cutlets, in a frying pan or bake in the oven. Like meatballs or they can be cooked together with sauce. Delicious in tomato sauce

and in sour cream. Today we will cook meat buckwheat in a frying pan.

Ingredients:

Minced meat – 400 gr.,
Buckwheat – 100 gr. (half a glass)
Eggs – 1 pc.,
Onion – 1 pc.,
Salt,
Spices,
Parsley
Refined sunflower oil

Grechaniki recipe with minced meat step by step with photos

How to cook buckwheat with minced meat in tomato sauce

Wash the cereal thoroughly and place it in a saucepan. Pour in water (the liquid should be 2 times more than buckwheat), bring to a boil, then turn the heat to low and cover the pan with a lid. Cook the cereal until the liquid has completely evaporated. The weight of the finished buckwheat will increase by about 2.5 times.
Mix the minced meat with half a finely chopped onion and garlic passed through a press. Beat in the egg and mix thoroughly.
Add buckwheat porridge to the minced meat. Knead the mixture very carefully so that the cereal and meat are distributed evenly. Salt and add spices to taste.
From the resulting mixture of minced meat and buckwheat, we form small oblong cutlets, roll each piece in flour on all sides.

Heat a saucepan or deep frying pan with oil, lay out our semi-finished products and fry over medium heat on all sides. Transfer the almost finished buckwheat into another bowl. Cut the remaining half of the onion into thin “feathers” and fry until soft on the free surface of the frying pan. Place the buckwheat onto the golden onion slices. We dilute the tomato paste with water, add salt to taste and pour it onto the buckwheat cutlets. Cover the container with a lid and simmer the buckwheat with minced meat for 20-25 minutes over low heat. If necessary, you can add a little more water during the stewing process. Serve the prepared buckwheat with minced meat hot, sprinkled with herbs.

Grechaniki are cutlets made from minced meat and boiled buckwheat. Buckwheat prepared according to this recipe turns out tasty, juicy and without excess fat. Paired with a green salad, this is the perfect dish for a light but satisfying lunch or dinner.

buckwheat (boiled) - 300 gr.
minced meat (pork + beef) - 500 gr.
stale loaf - 50 gr.
onion - 1 pc.
egg - 1 pc.
garlic - 3 cloves
salt, ground black pepper - to taste
sour cream - 3 tbsp. l.
hops-suneli - 0.5 tsp.
Provençal herbs - 0.5 tsp.
water or broth - 250 ml
sunflower oil - for greasing the pan

Buckwheat with minced meat - recipe

Boil buckwheat until cooked. Let it cool. Peel and grate the onion on the finest grater. If you prepare minced meat at home, you can mince and onion along with the meat.

Beat an egg into a bowl with minced meat and onions.

Add spices and salt.

Add buckwheat.

Lastly, add fresh herbs for flavor.

Knead the buckwheat mixture with your hands. It should turn out homogeneous, with an even distribution of meat and buckwheat. And a mandatory condition is that its consistency should not be liquid, otherwise it will never be possible to form cutlets from it. If you see that the minced meat is liquid, add 1-2 teaspoons of potato starch. with it they will keep their shape perfectly and will not fall apart.

Place the frying pan on the stove. Pour in vegetable oil and heat. Wet your hands with water or vegetable oil, whichever is more convenient for you. Take a small amount of minced meat in your hands and roll into cutlets. If desired, they can be additionally rolled in flour. Place them in the pan. Fry as you would regular cutlets, on each side.

Buckwheat with minced meat

Serve with salads and mashed potatoes. Enjoy your meal. Alternatively, you may want to prepare them a little differently. Roll this minced meat into balls. Place them in a mold greased with sunflower oil. Top with fried onions and carrots in tomato sauce. Bake buckwheat with meat for 30 minutes at 180C.

Buckwheat cutlets (grechaniky) are an ancient, undeservedly forgotten dish that is at the same time tasty, satisfying, and capable of surprising guests. We invite you to familiarize yourself with several options for healthy dishes and choose a buckwheat recipe to suit your taste.

Step-by-step recipe with photos

How it happened that cutlets made from buckwheat and minced meat began to be called greeks is still a mystery to me.

I look at the culinary certificate and what do I see? Grechaniki are not cutlets, but yeast sausages made from buckwheat flour with milk and eggs. One can only wonder at the past chefs. With what ease they managed to turn a flour dish into such an appetizing hot dish.

Today we are preparing a second course for lunch – oven-baked buckwheat in tomato sauce. We will use boiled buckwheat and minced beef in almost equal proportions. Let's form the minced meat into cutlets, which turn out very juicy and tender in tomato sauce. You can choose a side dish for our Greeks according to your wishes.

Let's prepare the products according to the list. Buckwheat must be boiled in advance. Meat ingredient: beef. You will also need onions, garlic, a chicken egg and salt, breadcrumbs for coating the cutlets, and vegetable oil for greasing the pan for the buckwheat cakes. For the sauce, take tomato paste.

We pass the beef through a meat grinder. For convenience, you can freeze it slightly and then chop it into small pieces. Stir in buckwheat porridge, onions and garlic.

Break a chicken egg into a bowl with minced meat. Add salt to taste.

Mix the minced meat until smooth. Lightly beat with your hands.

With wet hands, form mini-patties. Grechaniki should be slightly elongated, but not as large as classic cutlets.

Roll the buckwheat cakes in breading. Put it into shape. Pre-lubricate the bottom of the mold with vegetable oil. Place in the oven for 30 minutes. Oven heating temperature – 220°C.

When the buckwheat is slightly browned, add tomato sauce. Prepare tomato sauce from tomato paste diluted in water. Add a little salt to the sauce to taste. There is no need to drown the cutlets in the sauce. It is enough to cover most of them with sauce. Place the pan with buckwheat in tomato sauce in the oven for another 15 minutes. Heating mode – maximum.

Buckwheat in the sauce turns out especially juicy and so aromatic.

A hearty and tasty lunch is guaranteed! The side dish can be anything.

Buckwheat with minced meat in tomato sauce

The recipe for buckwheat with minced meat in tomato sauce consists of the following ingredients:

buckwheat – 1 glass;
700 g minced meat;
1 egg;
2 onions;
carrot;
pasta or tomato sauce - 1 cup;
spices and herbs;
vegetable oil in which we will fry the buckwheat.

Prepare buckwheat in the usual way. Finely chop one onion and pour it into a bowl, add the egg, minced meat, salt, season with spices and mix. Pour buckwheat (cooled) into the minced meat. Mix everything well. We make cutlets and fry them in a greased frying pan. For tomato sauce, cut the second onion a little larger, maybe into half rings, and chop the carrots on a grater. We achieve transparency of the onion, add tomato paste. Add a little water, simmer for a couple of minutes. Place the finished cutlets in the gravy and leave for a quarter of an hour under a closed lid over low heat. When serving, it is recommended to sprinkle the buckwheat with herbs.

On a note! Buckwheat with minced meat goes well not only with tomato sauce, but also with other gravies - sour cream, mayonnaise, mustard.

Buckwheat with tomato sauce in the oven

Kitchen utensils and equipment

Ingredients

Ground meat	1 kg
Buckwheat	300 g
Eggs	2 pcs.
Onions (large heads)	2 pcs.
Spices	10 g
Salt	10 g
Tomato paste or sauce	1 stack
Vegetable oil	25 ml
Water	up to 1 l

How to choose the right ingredients

Grechaniki are usually prepared from any type of meat. Grechaniki with minced chicken are less fatty than with minced beef or pork. If you have time, make the minced meat yourself, then it will turn out juicier and fresher. But store-bought will also work well.
To prepare tomato sauce, you can use tomato paste, tomato juice, tomatoes in their own juice and even ketchup, but, of course, it will be better if you prepare it at home.

Cooking sequence

Making tomato sauce

Peel one onion, wash and cut into small cubes.
Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan and after heating it, add chopped onion.
Fry the onion until golden brown and turn off.
We dilute tomato paste with water or take ready-made sauce.

Cooking buckwheat

Let the buckwheat groats cook.
Turn on the oven at 180 degrees Celsius.
Add the eggs to the minced meat, beating them a little before doing so.
We peel one onion, grind it in a meat grinder, or grate it on a fine grater and also add it to the minced meat.
Add salt, spices and mix well.
When the buckwheat is cooked, add it to the minced meat and mix everything thoroughly again.
We form cutlets from our mixture and place them in a baking dish.
Place fried onion on each cutlet and pour tomato sauce over it.
Place the baking dish in the preheated oven, after covering it with foil.
Cook our buckwheat for 40-50 minutes and serve garnished with herbs.

Video recipe

I invite you to watch the video on how to cook buckwheat with minced meat in the oven.

With chicken fillet - step by step

Prepare buckwheat with minced meat using chicken fillet. The minced chicken, while tender and juicy, may be a little runny. Then you will need more buckwheat or flour.

Required Products:

buckwheat porridge – 200 g;
chicken fillet – 0.2 kg;
breadcrumbs;
1 onion;
vegetable oil – 0.5 cups;
1 egg;
1 clove of garlic;
spices to your taste.

The fillet should be washed and minced in a meat grinder. Process garlic and onions in the same way. Mix everything with the addition of eggs, buckwheat, salt and season with spices. Mix well. We form cutlets, roll them in breadcrumbs and place them in a heated frying pan with oil to fry until a crust forms.

With mushrooms

The usual but tasty dish of Greek mushrooms can be varied by replacing the meat with mushrooms.

Let's prepare the necessary products:

buckwheat – 100 g;
0.2 kg – fresh champignons;
250 ml water;
1 onion;
salt, spices;
a bunch of greenery;
0.5 cups flour.

Sauté the chopped onion until golden brown. Mushrooms should be cut into strips or plastics. Place in a frying pan with onions, salt and pepper 2 minutes before readiness. Place the chopped greens in a blender and grind together with the already cooled mushrooms. Add the mushroom mixture to the prepared buckwheat and mix well. Form cutlets and roll in flour to form a crispy crust. You need to fry in a heated frying pan greased with vegetable oil.

Buckwheat with turkey

Buckwheat cutlets combined with poultry are tasty, satisfying and easy to prepare.

We offer the following recipe:

150 grams of buckwheat porridge;
eggs – 2 units;
salt, spices, pepper;
0.3 kg turkey fillet;
onion – 2 units;
tomato paste – 200 gr;
a little flour;
vegetable oil for frying.

The turkey meat needs to be chopped together with the onion using a meat grinder. Add spices, eggs, salt, pepper to the minced meat. Mix well. Add buckwheat and mix again. We make cutlets, roll in flour and fry in a heated frying pan. For the sauce, you need to sauté the second onion, cut into half rings. Add tomato paste to the onion. If necessary, add water to make the paste less thick. Place the buckwheat into the sauce and leave to simmer for 15-20 minutes over low heat under a closed lid.

Grechaniki with minced meat in tomato sauce in the oven

Very juicy, tasty buckwheat cutlets with meat. For the gravy, you can use not only the products indicated in the recipe, but also add carrots, sweet peppers, sour cream, and mayonnaise if desired.

Required Ingredients

a glass of cereal;
500 g fresh minced beef;
2 onions;
2 eggs;
a couple of cloves of garlic;
flour breading;
vegetable oil for frying;
tomato sauce;
pepper, salt, spices (to taste).

The dish takes 50 minutes to prepare.

Step by step recipe

One raw onion is passed through a meat grinder.
Mix with ground beef, eggs, chopped garlic. Season with spices, pepper and salt. Mix thoroughly.
Boiled, cooled buckwheat is added to the minced meat. Stir until smooth.
Round balls are formed from the finished product. Fry on both sides until golden brown. Place in a deep baking tray.
The second onion (diced) is fried in oil. Pour in tomato sauce. Simmer for 2 minutes.

In the oven

Buckwheat cutlets can be baked in the oven. They taste especially good with the addition of white sauce.

We will need:

minced meat – 1 kg;
buckwheat – 0.6 kg;
serving of white loaf – 100 g;
2 eggs;
2 medium sized onions;
0.5 heads of garlic (4-5 cloves);
sour cream – 2 tablespoons;
1 tbsp. spoon of salt;
granulated sugar – 1 teaspoon;
1 tsp. – ground pepper (black);
water (broth) – 300 ml;
spice “Khmeli-suneli” - 1 teaspoon. spoon;
4 tbsp. spoons of mayonnaise.

It is better to choose minced meat from different types of meat - beef plus pork, for example. The minced meat is mixed with the eggs. Grind the loaf in a blender (no need to soak). We also chop the garlic and onion. Add the resulting mixture to the minced meat. Add half the salt, mayonnaise, and all the pepper. We use unsalted buckwheat, since we add salt to the sauce and minced meat. Pour the cooled buckwheat into the minced meat. Mix everything well until smooth. We make small cutlets and place them on a baking sheet, previously greased with oil. For the sauce, dilute the remaining salt, Khmeli-Suneli, sugar, 2 tbsp in water (broth). spoons of mayonnaise, sour cream. Pour the resulting sauce over the products and place them in a preheated oven for 40-45 minutes. Buckwheat baked well in the oven, it turns out nourishing and aromatic.

Sweet buckwheat with cottage cheese

This dish will appeal to every child who refuses to eat such a healthy product as cottage cheese.

Ingredients you will need:

ready buckwheat – 200 g;
200 g cottage cheese;
dried fruits, candied fruits;
2 eggs;
raisin;
date fruit;
sour cream;
sugar;

For sweet products, it is recommended to cook buckwheat in water or milk. Raisins should be soaked to swell. Finely chop the date. Place all the ingredients in one bowl, mix and add a tablespoon of sugar. Fill the greased muffin pan with the resulting mixture and place it in the oven for 20 minutes at 200 C. To form a crust, grease the buckwheat with sour cream and leave for a few more minutes.

Multicooker option

Cooking in a slow cooker is increasingly gaining popularity.

Let's make buckwheat in a slow cooker:

1 cup prepared buckwheat;
2 eggs;
500 grams of minced meat;
onion – 1-2 heads;
a couple of spoons post. oils;
salt, pepper, herbs, spices.

Buckwheat can also be cooked in a slow cooker. While the porridge is cooking, let's make the minced meat. Mix all the products - minced meat, pepper, eggs, onions, salt, herbs. When the buckwheat has cooled, add it to the minced meat. Place the formed cutlets on the bottom of the multicooker bowl, previously greased with oil. Select the “Frying” program and set the cooking time to 15 minutes. After this time, the products must be turned over and the program repeated. Different types of devices have their own characteristics, so you need to monitor the preparation.

Lenten buckwheat recipe

Let's try to cook them:

potatoes – 3 units;
buckwheat – 1 glass;
carrots – 1 unit;
1 onion;
water – 2 glasses.

Prepare buckwheat in the standard way, add a little salt. Three raw potatoes on a fine grater. Remove excess moisture, add salt, spices, pepper, cooled buckwheat - mix everything well. This minced meat produces dense products, which we place on a heated frying pan. The onion should be cut into half rings, and the carrots should be grated and fried separately. Place the prepared buckwheat into a saucepan in layers with vegetables and fill with water. Simmer for 20 minutes over low heat with the lid closed.