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Grechka with Mushrooms

Name: Grechka with Mushrooms
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 2
Cuisine: Russia
Ingredients: 1 cup Buckwheat groats; 150g Mushrooms; 1/2 Onion; 2 tbsp Butter; 1 tsp Chicken bouillon; 2 cups Water

Side Dish

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 2

Difficulty ⭐

Fragrant toasted buckwheat simmered with mushrooms — the classic Russian table side.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Toasted buckwheat groats, called "grechka," appear on the Russian table as routinely as rice does elsewhere — a staple food in its own right. Braised with onion and mushroom is the classic preparation, valued for its nutrition and digestibility as a beloved home-cooking side.

🌆 Where it's eaten: A weekday dinner in Moscow, grechka always prepared as an accompaniment to meat dishes — a grandmother's wisdom passed down that "it's even better with mushrooms."

🥕 Ingredients (serves 2)

Buckwheat groats 1 cup
Mushrooms 150g
Onion 1/2
Butter 2 tbsp
Chicken bouillon 1 tsp
Water 2 cups

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Dry-toast the buckwheat groats to bring out their fragrance.
Heat butter in a pan and sauté the minced onion and mushroom.
Add the buckwheat and stir-fry briefly.
Add the water and chicken bouillon.
Cover and cook over low heat for 15 minutes until all the water is absorbed.
Toss everything together to finish.

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