Buckwheat with chicken is a great combination for a nutritious healthy dinner. It will be possible to make such a dish very quickly and simply, especially if buckwheat with chicken is cooked in a slow cooker.

Classic recipe in a slow cooker

Treats according to this recipe will turn out not only tasty, but also economical. It will include: 370 g of cereal and the same amount of chicken meat, 2 pcs. carrots and onions, a couple of cloves of garlic, salt, aromatic herbs.

  1. First, in a miracle - a pan of hot oil in the program "Frying" pieces of chicken are prepared. They should be covered with a light appetizing crust.
  2. The more vegetables used, the juicier the dish will be. You can increase onions and carrots to 3-4 pieces.
  3. Prepared chopped vegetables are sent to the meat. Together, the products are stewed in the Plov program for 12-15 minutes.
  4. Buckwheat is well washed and placed in a bowl to the rest of the components. Add salt and pepper to the mass.
  5. Pour in water so that the liquid covers all the ingredients.
  6. Under a closed lid, the dish is stewed in the same mode for another half hour.

Chopped garlic is added to the treat about 5 minutes before being cooked.

With mushrooms

It is tasty to cook buckwheat with chicken and with the addition of any mushrooms. If you want to save yourself from a long preliminary preparation of products, it is better to take fresh champignons (250 g), and, in addition to them: 280 g buckwheat, salt, half a liter of any broth, onion, 280 g chicken fillet, a mixture of peppers to taste.

  1. Mushrooms are washed, cleaned and finely cut with a sharp knife. They cook for 3-4 minutes on any fat in the program "Frying".
  2. Onion cubes pour out to the mushrooms, and cooking continues for another couple of minutes.
  3. After adding slices of meat, the ingredients need to be fried for another 10-12 minutes.
  4. It remains to thoroughly rinse the buckwheat and pour it into the bowl.
  5. The components are filled with broth, salted and peppered.
  6. The treat will be prepared in the “Cereals / Rice” mode until the end of the program.

Before serving, the dish is decorated with chopped herbs.

Merchant Buckwheat with Chicken

This option of refreshment was popular in wealthy noble houses in past centuries. It was served to dear guests and to the festive table. The composition of the dish includes the following products: 1 tbsp. cereals, 2 tbsp. hot drinking water, 420 g chicken fillet, large carrots, 4-5 garlic cloves, salt, 2 large tablespoons of ketchup, 40 g butter, any dry seasonings.

  1. Small pieces of fillet are fried until golden in the Baking program.
  2. Next, chopped vegetables are added to the meat. Carrots are grated, onions are cut into cubes, and garlic is passed through a press.
  3. Together, the components are fried for 3-4 minutes.
  4. Washed buckwheat, salt, seasonings are poured into the capacity of the multicooker.
  5. It remains to fill the components with water diluted with ketchup in it.
  6. In the "Pilaf" mode, buckwheat in a merchant style with chicken will be stewed until the end of the program.

It is interesting: buckwheat recipe for a merchant in a slow cooker

A treat is served with an assortment of pickled vegetables.

With vegetables

Vegetables with buckwheat are best combined with carrots, onions and sweet Bulgarian pepper. All these components are taken in 1 piece. Also will be used: 1, 5 tbsp. cereals, 3 large spoons of tomato paste without additives or a large juicy tomato, 310 g chicken fillet, salt, a pinch of Italian herbs and granulated garlic.

  1. In well-heated fat in the Baking program, all vegetables are fried in turn. First - chopped onions, then - grated carrots and chopped bell peppers.
  2. When the vegetables are ready, chicken fillet is sent to them, cut into large pieces. Together, the ingredients are cooked in the same program for another 5-6 minutes.
  3. It remains to add salt, spices, tomato paste or grated tomato without skin to the container.
  4. Components are poured 2.5 tbsp. hot water.
  5. In the "Extinguishing" mode, the treat will be prepared for 40-45 minutes.

Serve a dish with a salad of seasonal vegetables.

With tomato sauce in a slow cooker

If you cook the dish in question with aromatic gravy, it will turn out to be especially tender and tasty. The sauce is best made from vegetables and tomato juice (1 tbsp.). Also taken: sweet red pepper, carrot, salt, onion, 1 chicken fillet and 230 g of buckwheat.

  1. First of all, buckwheat is carefully selected and washed with running water, after which it is laid out in the multicooker bowl.
  2. On top of the buckwheat sent small slices of meat fillet.
  3. The ingredients are poured with water in the proportions of 1: 2.5 and salted to taste.
  4. In the Krupa program, the treat languishes under a closed lid for 40 minutes.
  5. For gravy, all vegetables and half of tomato juice with a special blender nozzle turn into a smoothie.
  6. Next, the sauce is diluted with the remaining juice.
  7. When almost all the moisture has evaporated from the porridge, it needs to be poured over the resulting gravy for a couple of minutes.

The dish is served hot with homemade bread.

Dietary buckwheat with chicken

Buckwheat porridge with meat can be made a diet low-calorie dish. In this case, it will be prepared from: chicken breast, 1 multi-glass of cereal and 2.5 multi-glasses of water, salt, 70 ml of soy sauce.

  1. Washed buckwheat is immediately laid out in the capacity of the device, filled with water and salted.
  2. The meat is cut into slices, poured with sauce and allowed to marinate for 10-12 minutes.
  3. Next, on top of buckwheat, a special stand for steaming is installed in multicookers, pieces of meat are placed on it.
  4. The dish will languish in the program "Steam cooking" for 45 minutes.

A treat is served without additional sauces.

Secrets of cooking in a slow cooker: Polaris, Redmond

Any multicooker, regardless of model, is suitable for making buckwheat porridge. You just need to be able to choose the right mode for the different stages of the process. For example, the majority of devices from Redmond and Polaris have the programs “Frying” and “Baking”. These modes are suitable for frying meat and vegetables.

For the next stage, the Polaris multicooker is perfect for the Krupa or Steaming program. You can use the "Extinguishing" mode.

For Redmond multicookers, buckwheat porridge is well suited for the Pilaf program as well as Rice / Grain. Most of them have the “Extinguishing” mode.

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