Not necessary to boil: the chef named different ways to cook buckwheat. Exclusive

Buckwheat is the most popular and sought-after cereal in Ukraine. It can be cooked in many ways, with meat, vegetables, mushrooms, gravy, and just butter.

Alex Yakutov, an expert of the reality TV show On Knives, told FoodOboz exclusively how to cook buckwheat and which variety is better.

No need to boil

"We boil brown buckwheat, but you don't need to do that. It's dried, so you just need to cover it with water. If you boil buckwheat, all the useful trace elements and vitamins that remain after frying are killed," the chef explained.

How to cook it correctly?

"At night, cover the cereal with clean, cold water in a ratio of one to two. Cover it with a lid, and in the morning you'll have ready-to-eat buckwheat for breakfast," Alex advises.

Which buckwheat is better, green or brown?

"Green buckwheat is better than brown buckwheat from a nutritional point of view. But from a culinary point of view, it is better to cook brown buckwheat," said Yakutov.

The chef noted that buckwheat is used not only for porridge but also for noodles and desserts.