Rinse the buckwheat and add to boiling salted water. Cook until soft for 15 minutes, drain off excess water and cool the cereal. This is easy to do by pouring the buckwheat into a sieve. If the cereal is slightly undercooked, it’s okay; it will cook through the stewing process.
Cut chicken meat and 1 onion into medium pieces and place in a blender or meat grinder bowl. Twist the meat and onions into minced meat. For today's recipe we used fillet - it is skinless and boneless, so it is ideal for minced meat.
Add cooked cooled buckwheat to the minced meat.
Mix the minced meat and add spices to taste: salt and pepper. Spices can be used as desired and as varied as you like.
To ensure that the minced meat is not too liquid, add only the egg yolk. Mix thoroughly again.
With hands slightly moistened in water, form round buckwheat cookies and roll in flour.
Pour some vegetable oil into the frying pan and heat it up. Add the buckwheat so they immediately begin to sizzle and fry.
When the bottom side is browned, turn over and cook the buckwheat for a few more seconds to get a golden brown crust. The main thing is to quickly fry the buckwheat, and we will simmer and bring them to full readiness later.
Fry the pieces of sweet pepper and the remaining onion in a frying pan, fry for a short time, adding vegetable oil.
Add tomato paste to the pan - this will be the sauce for the buckwheat.
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Pour in water and simmer the sauce over low heat for 10 minutes.
Place the fried buckwheat into the hot sauce and simmer all together for another 15 minutes. You can cover it with a lid so that the buckwheat is steamed.
Serve the finished dish with the sauce immediately to the table - this is both a side dish and a second course at the same time.
Enjoy your meal! 
Grechaniki - recipe with minced meat tomato sauce:
If you don’t have some ready-made buckwheat porridge left from dinner, then let’s start preparing the buckwheat porridge by preparing the cereal. We sort through the buckwheat, removing all the debris from it, rinse it thoroughly and put it in a saucepan. Pour boiling water (so the porridge will cook faster) in a ratio of 1:2, add a pinch of salt, place the saucepan on moderate heat and cook the porridge for about 10-15 minutes or until the cereal has absorbed all the water.
Let the finished buckwheat porridge cool completely.
In the meantime, prepare the minced meat. Cut one medium onion into small cubes (the smaller the better) or grate until pureed.
To the minced meat we add chopped onion, as well as dried herbs (any to your taste, in this case we used a mixture of parsley and dill), salt, pepper and ground garlic (it can be replaced with a couple of fresh cloves, which must be passed through a press). Mix the minced meat thoroughly.
Add the whole egg and mix again.
Add the cooled buckwheat to the prepared minced meat.
Mix thoroughly again so that the buckwheat is evenly distributed in the minced meat. When everything is thoroughly mixed, check our buckwheat base for salt and pepper. To do this, we form a small meatball out of it and send it to the microwave until fully cooked. We taste and, if necessary, add the missing seasonings to the minced meat.
From the prepared mixture of minced meat and buckwheat porridge, we form buckwheat cakes of the desired size. Roll each cutlet in flour on all sides.
And fry the buckwheat in batches until golden brown in a small amount of oil. Cook the buckwheat with minced meat in a frying pan until half cooked. Remove the finished buckwheat from the pan and set it aside for now.
Cut the remaining onion into medium cubes and send it to the frying pan in which the buckwheat with minced meat was fried. If necessary, add a little vegetable oil. Fry the onion over medium heat for several minutes.
Add to the onion tomato juice(if you don’t have juice on hand, then you can replace it with a mixture of tomato paste and water). Add a pinch of salt and pepper to it, as well as a little sugar and, if desired, dried herbs. Bring tomato sauce to a boil.
Dip the fried buckwheat into the boiling sauce and simmer over moderate heat for 15-20 minutes until fully cooked.
Buckwheat with minced meat in tomato sauce is ready!
Serve the dish with any side dish of your choice.
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.
1 hour
166.5 kcal
5/5 (6)
Grechaniki (Grechanki, buckwheat) 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? Besides, making them is not at all difficult... I suggest you familiarize yourself with a couple of recipes for this dish and prepare the most convenient option for you.
Recipe 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 necessary.
- 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.
Video recipe for buckwheat in a frying pan
I suggest you see how you can cook buckwheat with minced meat in a frying pan in the video below. As shown in it, you can fry the buckwheat in breadcrumbs just before stewing.
Recipe for buckwheat with meat in the oven (with photo)
Cooking time: 1 hour.
Number of servings: 8-10.
Kitchen appliances: kitchen 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
Video recipe for buckwheat with meat in the oven
The video clearly shows how to prepare buckwheat for stewing in the oven. In this cooking method, the baking sheet with buckwheat is not covered with foil.
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.
Did you like today's recipe? Share your impressions with everyone, as well as tips on how to make the dish even better or simplify the cooking process, in the comments!
Ingredients
- Minced meat - 0.4 kg;
- Buckwheat - 1 tbsp.;
- Onion - 1 pc.;
- Carrots - 2 pcs.;
- Egg - 2 pcs.;
- Salt;
- Ground black pepper;
- Sunflower oil (for frying);
- Flour (for breading).
How to cook buckwheat with minced meat
Preparing the main ingredients is the most important point. Buckwheat is the main product in this dish, so you need to carefully sort it out, remove excess debris and low-quality grains. Then rinse the cereal well, add two glasses of cold water and cook over medium heat until tender. Then remove the lid from the pan and leave the porridge to cool.
Step-by-step video recipe
Heat up the frying pan. Pour a few tablespoons of sunflower oil on it and fry the buckwheat with meat over medium heat on both sides.
Recipe No. 2. Buckwheat in tomato sauce with minced meat
Buckwheat is a universal product. She can become the “main character” of many dishes, both salty and sweet. And it is undoubtedly good as a side dish. If you love buckwheat, but you’ve already gotten tired of it just as a side dish, we suggest you prepare delicious buckwheat cakes with minced meat in sauce. This aromatic dish will certainly please both children and adults. Buckwheat cutlets turn out tender and juicy, and tomato sauce with herbs adds richness to the taste of the dish. Let's cook quickly!
There are a great many recipes for preparing this dish of Ukrainian cuisine. Buckwheat mushrooms are fried in breadcrumbs, baked in a slow cooker and combined with a variety of sauces. And if you have never surprised your household with Greeks, rest assured, they will go crazy!
Ingredients:
- Buckwheat - 140 g;
- Minced pork - 500 g;
- Onion - 2 medium heads;
- Egg - 1 piece;
- Tomato sauce - 0.5 l;
- Green onions and dill - 1 bunch;
- Salt, pepper - to taste;
- Vegetable oil for frying buckwheat
Step by step recipe with photo
To prepare the dish, you can use any minced meat: beef, turkey or chicken. Our recipe uses tomatoes that are blanched and then crushed into paste as the tomato sauce. You can also use plain tomato juice. As a last resort, you can use tomato paste mixed with water.
To make the cutlets easier to form, the buckwheat must first be boiled and then chopped. You can use a meat grinder to grind the porridge. This is convenient if you make the minced meat yourself. Or you can use a food processor.
Calories: Not specified
Cooking time: Not indicated
Buckwheat with minced meat in tomato sauce is a very favorite recipe for me, because it is the most desired dish in our family. If you have never cooked them, then I am ready to tell you everything in detail. This dish is very satisfying, tasty and even economical. If some people don’t want to eat buckwheat in its pure form, then you can deceive them a little. Grechaniki are prepared from minced meat with the addition of boiled buckwheat. This dish is considered meat, despite the presence of cereals. I usually cook buckwheat on Sunday and then I forget about the kitchen for several days, because you can feed your family with delicious buckwheat for more than one day. Just reheat them and they will be like freshly cooked again. I immediately make more buckwheat and simmer them in a large frying pan. I hope that you will cook buckwheat cakes according to my recipe more than once. By the way, they also turn out delicious.
- 400 grams of minced meat,
- 100 grams of buckwheat,
- 1 carrot,
- 2 onions,
- 400 grams of tomato,
- 150 grams of flour,
- 200 grams of water,
- 50 grams of vegetable oil,
- 1 chicken egg,
- salt and pepper to your taste,
- 1 pinch of curry seasoning.
Recipe with photos step by step:
Rinse the buckwheat and cook. When the water boils, add the cereal there and cook over low heat for about 20 minutes. Buckwheat can be lightly salted. 
Take one onion and carrot. We will use them for the sauce. Chop the onion into cubes and grate the carrots. 
Pour some oil into a frying pan, heat it up, and then add the vegetables there. Fry them until soft. 
Pass the tomatoes through a meat grinder and add to the frying pan. Pour in water and simmer the sauce for 15 minutes. 
While the sauce is simmering, prepare the buckwheat cakes. Add finely chopped remaining onion to the minced meat. 
Add all the spices to the minced meat: salt, pepper, curry. 
Beat in a chicken egg, it will help hold the buckwheat together. 
Add slightly cooled cooked buckwheat to the minced meat and mix. 
Form dough balls and roll them in flour. 
We form the buckwheat cakes and make slightly elongated cutlets out of them. I immediately make large buckwheat cakes so that I can feed my family well. One buckwheat is enough for one adult. 
I fry the buckwheat pancakes in the remaining oil. The main thing is to give them a golden brown crust and for them to set. During the roasting process, the buckwheat will take the correct shape and will not fall apart. 
Place the buckwheat into the frying pan with the tomato sauce and simmer for another 30 minutes. 
Serve ready, tasty and satisfying buckwheat to the table. Bon Appetite!
They still turn out very tasty