Sprouted buckwheat: cooking recipes

Buckwheat groats are very popular in the nutrition culture of almost all Slavic peoples. Some consider her "queen of croup", others treat her with some coolness. But here adherents of a healthy food, in particular raw-food and razdelschiki, prefer such product as the germinated buckwheat.

What is this product?

Many cereals are germinated for healthy eating, for example the same wheat, lentils or peas. Everyone knows that it is in the state of the first tender sprouts that grain is able to give all its most useful ingredients: vitamins and trace elements. This is due to the fact that germination gives a boost to the awakening of energy, through which the future plant begins to develop. In this case, the complex substances enclosed in the grain break down into simple proteins, carbohydrates, fats and amino acids, which are much more easily absorbed by our body.

Buckwheat sprouts are no exception, they also significantly increase the value of cereals in nutritional terms.

For germination is used the so-called green buckwheat - croup, which unlike brown is not treated with hot steam. That is why it does not lose germination and grain with sufficient moisture can produce excellent germs.

By the way! Choose for germination is green croup. You can find it in pharmacies, health food stores or on the World Wide Web portals.

Benefits and Harms

On many Internet portals, the headline above is very popular. Let's try and describe the properties of today's product, based on these messages. What are the benefits and harms of germinating buckwheat?

The use of

In order to evaluate the usefulness of the product, first of all, we turn to its chemical composition. Buckwheat contains eighteen amino acids and a lot of both macro- and microelements, useful for our body. This combination increases resistance to diseases of the human immune system, improves the structure of the skeleton and reduces the risk of atherosclerosis.

It is also important that the germinated green buckwheat in fresh form is an excellent cleansing product. When it is used, slags and toxins are eliminated from the body, which is undoubtedly a very important factor. This is especially important for people who are overweight or who have problems with digestion.

Help! A hundred grams of green cereal contains:

• proteins - 12.6 grams;
• fats - 3,3;
• carbohydrates - 62;
• water - 14;
• of dietary fiber - 1,3.

The big benefit of the germinated buckwheat in the contained in it such popular today, at least, so many advertisements, phospholipids, claim. These substances are able to rejuvenate the body and reduce the level of cholesterol in the blood. This is also promoted by unsaturated acids, such as "Omega-3", the content of which in the green croup is also high.

Organic acids in buckwheat sprouts, remember again the advertisement( !), Regulate the acid-base balance.

You can still bring a lot of advantages buckwheat, but we limit ourselves to today's data.

Harm

Always surprised that it turns out, no matter how useful this or that product, your own fly-fly will always be found. With regard to germinated buckwheat, these are just three factors:

• is an individual intolerance;
• increased blood clotting;
• excess of the dose.

We will not talk about the first case, as it is already so clearly, but the high content of green buckwheat routine does make this product enhance the effect of blood coagulation, which is important for some people.

Frequent and increased consumption of green buckwheat can cause gas formation and other problems with the severity of the stomach, so using popular cereal, you need to remember the sense of proportion.

Germination

We turn to the conversation about how to germinate buckwheat. In fact, this process is quite simple, but still, some rules will have to be observed.

Buy

Let's start with a trip to the store. In order for the product to be useful and really alive, you need to choose the groats carefully. Transparent packaging will visually show you the composition of the grains contained in it. They should be aligned, the same color, do not have extraneous impregnations.

Shelf life of cereals should not exceed one year, that is, it should be from a new crop. After opening the package, make sure that the odor of buckwheat is natural vegetable without foreign flavors and mustiness.

Warning! Only fresh product can be useful!

Soaking

Before growing green buckwheat, it must be washed thoroughly on a sieve or colander. And it needs to be done with more thoroughness than with the usual steamed brown croup. This naturally follows from the characteristics of processing products - the steam further cleans the grain from dirt dust.

Germination of buckwheat, by the way, can be carried out directly in the same sieve or a colander under a damp clean cloth. The result of this action is clearly visible in the following photo.

Many copies are broken in the question of the timing of germination. Some argue that the process lasts 10-12 hours, others say more than a day. It seems to us that everything depends on the condition of the cereal and the temperature in the room, so it's better to focus not on time, but on the size of seedlings. The strongest energy is observed in freshly penetrated grains, when the sprouts do not exceed half a centimeter in length.

Of course, at the same time they can not reach this length, but they should not exceed ten millimeters. In general, the picture of the optimal size of germs is shown in the photo below.

Let's summarize the conversation about germination by painting all the steps in detail:

1. Carefully rinse buckwheat in several waters.
2. We distribute the grains in a thin layer, 10-15 millimeters on a plate or in a sieve.
3. Fill buckwheat with water, so that it covers the grain by a centimeter, we sieve the sieve in a pan with water at the desired depth.
4. Top with damp cloth.
5. After 5-6 hours the water should be drained, and the rump should be rinsed from the unpleasant mucus that has appeared.however, some raw food lovers like it and eat it.
6. Swollen washed rump again covered with gauze and leave to sprout.
7. When the sprouts reach the right size, you can prepare the most useful dishes or eat them in the form of cereals.

Recipes with green buckwheat

Yes, supporters of healthy food will forgive me, but porridge from green buckwheat is very tasty and to some extent useful for health, so let's start describing the recipes of sprouted buckwheat with cooking kasha. Then we turn to more useful dishes.

Simple buckwheat porridge

There are two ways to cook this mess. They differ in the time of soaking the grains. In the first, more simple variant, it is necessary to sustain croup in the water for at least half an hour. The second method involves cooking already sprouted grains. On a glass of cereals you need to take three glasses of water.

Whichever option you choose, proceed as follows:

1. Put the pan on the stove and bring the water to a boil.
2. Pour the grains into the water and wait again for the water to boil. At this time, remove the foam and pour the porridge.
3. After the water boils again, turn off the heat and insist the seeds under the lid for 15-25 minutes.
4. When the water is absorbed into the cereals - buckwheat is ready.

With this preparation, useful substances are stored in the maximum amount. Even more useful porridge will be when steaming the cereals in the thermos for 4-6 hours.

You can add additional ingredients to the prepared porridge according to your taste, for example:

• butter;
• honey;Dried apricots or prunes;
• raisins;
• cardamom;
• any berries;
• fennel.

Pumpkin porridge

Pumpkin is very useful in itself, therefore it can enrich buckwheat porridge. To prepare this dish you will need:

• green buckwheat - 80 grams;
• milk, whole or melted - 250 milliliters;
• flesh of sweet pumpkin - 100 grams;
• prunes or dried apricots;
• honey - 10-20 grams;
• cardamom, fennel, nutmeg to taste.

The preparation is as follows:

1. Prepare buckwheat, soak in a quick or long way.
2. Cut the pumpkin into pieces in 1 centimeter.
3. Add the pumpkin slices to the warmed milk.
4. Bring to a boil and cook the pumpkin in the milk for about five minutes.
5. Add the washed buckwheat to the pan.
6. After boiling, turn off the heat and let it brew for 15-30 minutes.
7. Put the porridge on a plate and add the rest of the ingredients.

Live sweet breakfast

This and subsequent recipes will use the germinated buckwheat groats. Dishes from such a product are most useful. For a "live" breakfast we will need:

• buckwheat - 100 grams;
• nuts any - 50 grams;
• honey - 50 grams;
• any fruit: apples, pears, plums, pineapple - if desired.

This is very easy to prepare - take and mix the ingredients.

Serious breakfast

The seriousness of this salad is that it unlike the previous one does not contain sweet ingredients.

Ingredients:

• germinated buckwheat - 150 grams;
• olive oil - 1 tablespoon;
• salt, dill, sesame.

This breakfast is also very easy. Groats are added to taste and dressed with oil, ground with sesame seeds and finely chopped dill.

Non-Greek salad

Sprouted buckwheat grains can be used in the preparation of various vegetable salads. The composition of one of the interesting recipes is given below:

• "live" buckwheat - 200 grams;
• sweet pepper - 2 pieces;
• small zucchini - 2 pieces;
• anchovies or sprats - 2-4 pieces;
• salt and pepper to taste.

All ingredients must be cut into small pieces and mixed with the sprouted grains of buckwheat. Salad put on a dish, decorated with leaves of arugula or other salad plant.

Strawberry dessert

Finally, we will please the lovers of sweet dessert from strawberries with sprouted buckwheat. For its preparation you need to take such products:

• germinated buckwheat - 200 grams;
• raw almonds - 1 glass;
• strawberries - 1 glass;
• dates - 1 glass;
• cocoa powder - 2 teaspoons;
• melted coconut oil or honey - 50 grams.

Prepare yummy in this order

1. Dates pre-soak for half an hour to make them softer.
2. All the ingredients are ground in a combine or blender.
3. At the end add oil or honey.
4. Form small cakes.
5. Put the cakes on a baking tray, previously oiled.
6. Dry in the oven with the door open for half an hour at a temperature of 35-40 degrees.

This preparation will not reduce the usefulness of the foods that make up the dish.

Finish the article with a video recipe from green buckwheat: