From Cinderella to Princess - Buckwheat Casserole
You can make an original dish from simple buckwheat porridge. Family members will like the buckwheat casserole, which is supplemented with minced meat, poultry fillets, fermented milk products and fruits. In such "company" the dish will play in a completely different way.
Among the most useful cereals, buckwheat takes one of the first places. The biological substances contained in this cereal normalize the work of the cardiovascular system, as well as the liver.
Layering is back in fashion
A regular buckwheat casserole with minced meat can be made from several tiers. Thus, the hostess will not serve the first course on the table, but a pretty pie or cake. If you cut the resulting treat into portions, you get a museum piece worthy of admiration. White interlayer on a marble background bewitches and misleads even the most sophisticated gourmets. And only a sprig of dill will subtly hint to him that this is just an ordinary side dish. 
So, to make such an appetizing buckwheat casserole, you need:
- make minced meat, boil cereals (1.5 cups), and also wash / peel vegetables (onions, carrots and mushrooms);
- chop the onion (in rings or half rings) and fry until the shade changes;
- pour carrot shavings into a frying pan;
- cut into slices mushrooms and add to the rest of the vegetables, frying cooking time - no more than 7 minutes;
- Mix the finished porridge with the fried ingredients, add pepper and salt, and then continue to simmer for another 5 minutes;
- put ½ of the mixture in a ceramic baking dish;
- distribute the cooked minced meat on top;
- pour out the remaining buckwheat;
- prepare the gravy by mixing 200 g of sour cream, 100 g of cream and eggs (2 pcs.), while the sauce must be thoroughly whipped and seasoned with spices;
- pour the gravy into a mold with food;
- Put the buckwheat casserole in the oven for 40-45 minutes.
In this case, the oven must be preheated to 180 °. It can be enabled in advance. But so that each layer of the nested products is sufficiently saturated with the filling, pierce the raw dish in several places. For this, cooks use a wide knife or spatula.
For dieters, it is best to use chicken or beef. If the family wants to enjoy a juicy and nutritious meal, then pork tenderloin should be preferred.
If desired, minced meat can be cooked separately in a pan. Before that, you need to cut the onion into small pieces, as well as a few cloves of garlic and fry. When the vegetables are browned, you can add the ground meat. After the minced meat becomes crumbly, add broth, tomato sauce, herbs and other spices. Boil for five minutes and a layer for buckwheat casserole is ready. Then all the same technological processes follow: the formation of layers and impregnation with sour cream sauce. It should be noted that fresh toast in combination with orange juice will help you appreciate the whole range of flavors of the dish.
Note for a sweet tooth
From cereals, you can get quite a decent, and most importantly, sweet treat. One recipe for buckwheat casserole, which is prepared with the addition of cottage cheese, was lost in the cookbooks of our grandmothers. If you don't tell your friends what the unusual cake is made of, then very few people will guess about it themselves. To prepare such an amazing cake in the best way, the hostess needs:
- Boil buckwheat porridge.Pour 2 tbsp into one glass of cereal. cold water. Simmer over low heat until half of the liquid has boiled away.
- Prepare butter (60 g). It should soften, so you can put it on a plate and leave it to warm at room temperature.
- Soak 10 g raisins. After 15 minutes, drain the water and place the berries on a paper towel. Warm water will soften the fruit.
- Prepare curd (200 g). It should have a uniform consistency. To do this, grind it in blender or pass through a fine sieve.
- Grate apples. For buckwheat casserole in the oven, select only sweet varieties of fruits. Before you grate the fruits on a fine grater, you must peel them.
Now gently mix the cottage cheese and apple pulp. The ingredients must be mixed thoroughly in order to get a homogeneous mass in the end. Then the hostess follows:
- prepare sour cream sauce (3 tablespoons), 2 eggs, sugar, cinnamon and vanillin;
- when whipping with a whisk, add 1 tbsp. l. lemon or orange juice;
- grind buckwheat porridge in a blender;
- mix it with curd mass, as well as raisins;
- stir with pouring until a pasty consistency is obtained;
- beautifully put in a biscuit baking dish;
- place the container in an oven preheated to 200 ° for 20 minutes.
Cottage cheese should be chosen not too fat. It is desirable that he be a little wet. This will give it viscosity. If it is dry, then you can safely dilute 2 tbsp. l sour cream.
Grease the top layer of buckwheat casserole with butter or just put a few pieces on top. The fat promotes the formation of a golden crust. To make this unusual cake easy to remove from the mold, cover the bottom and walls with parchment paper. Some people cover it with flour, but this is not necessary.
Color illusion
Picky households are happy to sweep any meat dishes off the table. But there is simply no room for everything else in their stomach. Therefore, the hostess is faced with a choice whether or not to throw away the side dish left after dinner. The problem can be solved in no time. It is enough just to cook a casserole with buckwheat in the oven, and there will always be recipes. Moreover, the appearance of the treat will blow many away. Yellow (hard cheese), white (milk) and green (parsley) colors stand out exquisitely against the colorful background. Therefore, roll up your sleeves, you can get to work. First, boil the porridge and fry the onions. Next, you need to act in this order:
- pour half the buckwheat into the container and grind it with grated cheese;
- make the next layer from fried onions;
- cover the frying with herbs;
- put the remaining porridge on it, as well as cheese shavings;
- pour over the milk and egg sauce (beat 1/3 cup of milk and one egg);
- bake for about 25 minutes.
Instead of one type of cheese, you can use three at once. In this case, you should opt for varieties such as feta, mozzarella and parmesan.
Serve the casserole warm. Although many people like to use it as a cold snack. This amazing buckwheat casserole can be served tomato juice or thinly sliced bacon. At the same time, a salad of cabbage and cucumbers is an excellent solution for a spring meal.