Pasta with buckwheat flour
How to prepare buckwheat flour at home?
To prepare buckwheat flour, you only need regular buckwheat.
1. Cereals must be sorted out from garbage. Buckwheat is not always very pure.
2. Then rinse the cereal thoroughly. I washed with tap water. You don't have to use cold water; warm water will work too. I poured the buckwheat into a fine sieve and washed it. You need to rinse until the water runs clear.
Shake the washed buckwheat well in a sieve to remove excess water.
3. Then you need to heat the buckwheat in a frying pan. In principle, this is not necessary. But if you are not lazy and heat the buckwheat, the taste will be more intense. As trivial as it may sound, it is after calcining the cereal that the buckwheat taste itself improves.
It’s easy to heat the cereal - fry the buckwheat in a dry hot frying pan, stirring occasionally. This will take about 5-7 minutes. You can finish when the buckwheat starts to crackle quietly.
4. Cool the cereal. You can leave it in the pan for a while, or you can put it on a towel.
5. When the cereal has cooled, grind it. You can use a coffee grinder for this.
Homemade buckwheat noodles
The noodles do not contain any oil or eggs. Just flour and water. Thanks to this, you can replace regular pasta with buckwheat noodles during Lent, while seasoning them with vegetable oil.
Cooking time: 90 minutes plus drying time.
Required ingredients:
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1.5 cups buckwheat flour
2.5 cups regular wheat flour
1-1.5 glasses of hot water.
Preparation
1. Sift buckwheat and wheat flour into one bowl. You must add wheat flour to buckwheat noodles. Without it, the noodles will fall apart. It is the addition of wheat flour that makes the dough elastic.
If you couldn’t find ready-made buckwheat flour in the store, you can prepare it yourself. To do this, you need to grind regular buckwheat in a coffee grinder or food processor, and then sift it so that large, uncrushed kernels do not get into the flour.
2.Pour hot water into the flour. The water should be very hot, about 80-90 degrees. This way you will boil the flour a little.
3. First stir in the water with a spoon.
4. Then start kneading the dough with your hands. It should be cool and elastic. Roll the dough into a ball and let it rest for 30 minutes. This will make the dough more elastic and easier to roll out.
5. Divide the dough into 8 lumps the size of a small apple. Cover the lumps with a towel or bag to prevent them from airing. Remove one piece of dough at a time.
6.Roll out the first piece into a layer (about 5 mm thick).
7.Fold it into quarters.
8.Now roll out the folded layer into a flat cake, 1-1.5 mm thick.
9.Dust the tortilla thickly with flour and set it aside, without covering it with anything - it should dry out. During this time, roll out other pieces of dough in the same way.
When all the pieces are rolled out, stack 4 flat cakes one on top of the other, sprinkling them generously with flour.
10.Roll the tortillas.
11. Using a sharp knife, cut the roll into strips 6-10 mm wide (optional).
12.Separate the dough strips and shake a little.
13. These buckwheat noodles can be cooked immediately or prepared for future use. To do this, place the dough strips on a floured surface and dry at room temperature. Buckwheat noodles take longer to dry than wheat noodles - they need about 9-10 hours. You can dry the noodles in the oven at 50-60 degrees for about 2 hours.
14. Store the finished noodles in a dry place to prevent them from getting damp. Cook homemade buckwheat noodles for 10-12 minutes.
Buckwheat pancakes.
For the recipe for buckwheat pancakes you will need the following ingredients:
Buckwheat flour – 200 g,
Wheat flour – 200 g,
3 eggs,
Sugar – 1 teaspoon,
Salt – 1 teaspoon,
Soda – 1/2 teaspoon,
Vegetable oil – 4 tablespoons,
Warm liquid (I took equal parts milk and water) - 5 glasses (regular),
How to cook buckwheat pancakes
Let's start preparing pancakes by sifting buckwheat and wheat flour.
Add salt, sugar, soda to a warm liquid (I took milk and water in equal proportions).
Beat the eggs separately with a whisk or fork until smooth, pour them into the milk and stir.
Gradually add mixed buckwheat and wheat flour to the liquid and knead the liquid pancake dough. At the end of kneading, add vegetable oil. Since I was baking pancakes using this recipe for the first time and it indicated 2.5 cups of milk or water,
Bake buckwheat pancakes in a hot frying pan, greased with vegetable oil or lard before the first pancake. My pancakes came out well, I baked them in two small-diameter frying pans,
