Meatless cutlets from buckwheat

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make buckwheat cutlets? Prepare the ingredients. For these cutlets, not only specially boiled cereals are suitable, but also ready-made buckwheat left over from lunch or dinner, cooked as a side dish. You can add a variety of spices and herbs, focusing on your taste. Boil the buckwheat. How to cook buckwheat? Rinse the cereal thoroughly, changing the water several times. Put it in a saucepan, pour clean water in a ratio of 1:2 and put it on a small fire.

2. Step 2:

   

   After boiling the water, add salt, turn down the heat. Cook the buckwheat over low heat for about 20 minutes. At the end of cooking, all the water should be absorbed into the cereal. When this happens, turn off the fire and leave the buckwheat to cool. There is another way to prepare grits — buckwheat can be poured with hot water in the evening and left overnight to swell. In the morning, buckwheat will be ready without cooking. With this method, more useful substances are stored in it than in boiled.

3. Step 3:

   

   Wash the carrots, peel and cut into large pieces. Peel the onion from the husk and also chop it coarsely.

4. Step 4:

   

   Put the carrots and onions in the blender bowl (if there is no such device at hand, you can use a conventional meat grinder). Chop the vegetables as small as possible.

5. Step 5:

   

   Send the finished buckwheat into the bowl of the blender with vegetables. Scroll them together again so that the mass becomes more homogeneous, similar to minced meat.

6. Step 6:

   

   Drive a chicken egg into the buckwheat minced meat, add salt and ground black pepper to taste, a garlic clove passed through the press, if desired, any other spices, herbs.

8. Step 7:

   

   Punch the ingredients again with a blender so that the ingredients completely disperse in the minced meat.

9. Step 8:

   

   Pour wheat flour on a plate (you can replace it with breadcrumbs, then the cutlets will turn out with a crispy crust). With your hands soaked in cold water, form cutlets from buckwheat minced meat and roll them in flour from all sides.

10. Step 9:

    

    Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan, heat it up. Fry the buckwheat patties on medium heat under the lid for 5-7 minutes on each side.

11. Step 10:

    

    Then remove the lid, let the cutlets turn brown.

12. Step 11:

    

    Serve the cutlets to the table as a side dish or an independent dish, with sour cream or other sauce. They are delicious both hot and cold. Bon appetit!