Buckwheat soup is not particularly widespread in the CIS countries. In Europe, this soup is not popular at all. The fact is that many Europeans do not eat buckwheat at all. A similar situation occurs with Americans. These peoples do not perceive buckwheat as a separate product to eat.
However, buckwheat is important for the diet. For this reason, buckwheat soup is in Belarusian cuisine. Often soup is cooked with the addition of pork and beef fat and meat. Traditionally, milk is added to the soup and is called “whitewheat soup”.
Let’s try to prepare buckwheat soup on our own.
Ingredients for buckwheat soup:
- Water – 3 liters;
- Potatoes – 500 g;
- Buckwheat groats – 100 g;
- Onion – 150 g;
- Carrots – 100 g;
- Vegetable oil – 25 g;
- Salt – 25 g;
- Ground black pepper – 5 g;
- Laurel leaf – 1 pc.
Ingredients for meatballs:
- Stuffing – 500 g;
- Egg – 1 pc;
- Garlic – 5 g;
- Salt – 7 g;
- Ground black pepper – 3 g.
Preparation of buckwheat soup:
For meatballs rub garlic on a fine grater and mix with minced meat, pour salt and black pepper to it.
For the soup, peel onions, carrots and potatoes and cut the vegetables into small cubes
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Form small meatballs with hands soaked in water.
Heat water in a pan. Fry onions and carrots in a frying pan with vegetable oil. Wash buckwheat and pour into boiling water.
After 5-7 minutes of cooking buckwheat, put potatoes in the water, cook over medium heat. Salt and pepper the soup, add bay leaf and cook for 5-7 minutes.
Put in the soup fried onions and carrots, as well as meatballs, cook for 5 minutes.
As a result, we have a simple to prepare buckwheat soup.
To serve the soup you can add greens – parsley and dill.
