Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to make buckwheat merchant-style with chicken? Prepare the products. It is better to take the chicken without bones, thigh fillet or breast, since then they will have to be selected in a ready-made dish during meals. Breast fillet turns out to be dryish. So I decided to cook chicken thigh fillet. We will cook everything at once in a frying pan. Therefore, take a deep and spacious frying pan.
Step 2:
Prepare the vegetables — peel the onions and carrots and rinse in water. Go through the buckwheat, removing garbage and unpeeled grains. Rinse it several times in cold water.
Step 3:
Wash the chicken meat and dry it well. Cut it into small pieces. Pour a little vegetable oil into a hot frying pan and put the pieces of chopped chicken meat. Fry it on high heat for 7-10 minutes so that it browns a little. During the frying process, juice will be released from the meat, but after a few minutes the juice will evaporate, and the meat will begin to fry. That's what a strong fire is for.
Step 4:
While the chicken is being fried, chop the onion and grate the carrots on a coarse grater. If you like carrots to feel, then you can just finely chop them with a knife.
Step 5:
Then add the onion and carrot to the pan to the meat. Stir and fry everything together for another 3-4 minutes.
Step 6:
Put the washed buckwheat in the pan. Boil the water. Stir the tomato paste in hot water and pour it over the buckwheat. Add a little salt and spices to taste. Stir and bring to a boil. Cover the pan with a lid and cook over low heat for 13-15 minutes.
Step 7:
During stewing, buckwheat will absorb water. Taste the buckwheat. It should be soft. I like this dish to be juicy, so I add a little more hot water and remove it from the heat. Buckwheat already stops cooking, so it will not boil. But there will be a small amount of broth in the dish itself, which will make the dish juicy.
Step 8:
Arrange the buckwheat merchant-style on plates and serve to the table. Bon appetit!
If desired, during stewing, you can add some mushrooms, bell peppers or tomatoes.
Wash the meat, be sure to dry it with a paper towel, otherwise excessive moisture will not allow it to fry - it will stew.
Read all the secrets of cooking buckwheat and how to choose it correctly so that the dish is delicious in the article "The usual buckwheat. Do we know everything about it?"
For cooking, it is better to use filtered or bottled water that is neutral in taste. If you use tap water, keep in mind that it can give the dish an unpleasant characteristic taste.
Calorie content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Category I chicken - 238 kcal/100g
- Chicken of the II category - 159 kcal/100g
- Chicken, flesh without skin - 241 kcal/100g
- Chickens - 140 kcal/100g
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Carrots - 33 kcal/100g
- Dried carrots - 275 kcal/100g
- Boiled carrots - 25 kcal/100g
- Buckwheat (whole grain) - 335 kcal/100g
- Dark buckwheat flour - 333 kcal/100g
- Light buckwheat flour - 347 kcal/100g
- Boiled buckwheat - 163 kcal/100g
- Buckwheat - 313 kcal/100g
- Vegetable oil - 873 kcal/100g
- Tomato paste - 28 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Water - 0 kcal/100g
- Spices dry - 240 kcal/100g