Buckwheat with chicken liver

Healthy, delicious and satisfying dish for lunch. It will appeal even to those who do not much like buckwheat, the benefits of which are already legends. Such a dish must be in the diet of every person at least sometimes. Chicken liver is no less useful - and it is also here. You can serve this dish with vegetables according to the season: fresh or canned cucumbers, tomatoes, bell peppers, etc. Fried zucchini or eggplant, fresh or pickled cabbage are also perfect for it.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 24 % 8 g
Fats 36 % 12 g
Carbohydrates 39 % 13 g
190 kcal
GI: 15 / 85 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 35 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make buckwheat with chicken liver? Pour the buckwheat into a deep bowl, pour running water and wash off the litter that floats to the surface. Similarly, rinse several times and drain the water. If you come across small black solid specks, then also remove them. Buckwheat should be taken of good quality, and it should not be buckwheat.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Peel and finely chop the onion. Peel the carrots and cut them into large pieces - you can just grate them on a coarse grater, but in a large form in the final dish it will look better.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Cut the liver into medium-sized pieces: about 4 pieces each. You also need to trim the excess veins and remove the remnants of the gallbladder, if any.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan, put the liver and fry on high heat on one side for 5 minutes and turn over.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Add onions and carrots to the liver and fry everything together for another 5 minutes also on high heat.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Pour buckwheat into the pan, add salt and mix everything well.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Pour in hot water, cover the pan with a lid and simmer the dish over moderate heat for 20 minutes until the buckwheat is completely swollen and ready.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    After the allotted time, turn off the heat, add the butter and mix the buckwheat well so that the butter melts - with butter it will be juicy and more delicious. After that, let the dish brew for a few minutes under a closed lid. The dish is ready - when serving, you can sprinkle it with chopped green onions or other herbs at your discretion.

This dish belongs to the category of one of the most budget-friendly, since a minimum of products is used for it (and they are inexpensive), and the output is a full lunch for 4 or 5 people.

All the secrets of cooking buckwheat and how to choose it correctly so that the dish is delicious, read the article "The usual buckwheat. Do we know everything about it?"

Important! An incorrectly selected frying pan can ruin even the best recipe. All the details on how to choose the perfect frying pan for different dishes read here .

Any oils are useful only until a certain temperature is reached - the point of smoking, at which the oil begins to burn and toxic substances, including carcinogens, are formed in it. How to determine the roasting temperature and choose the best oil for frying, and which is better not to use at all, read here .

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • 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
  • Butter 82% - 734   kcal/100g
  • Amateur unsalted butter - 709   kcal/100g
  • Unsalted peasant butter - 661   kcal/100g
  • Peasant salted butter - 652   kcal/100g
  • Melted butter - 869   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g
  • Chicken liver - 140   kcal/100g

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