For years I have had uneven results with buckwheat groats, or kasha, as the dry-roasted grains are called. I have tried different methods, both stovetop and oven, and usually mixed the grains with an egg before cooking. Sometimes my grains cooked up to a mush, other times they held their shape but still seemed rather soft and indistinct. I sort of gave up on kasha for a while, opting for more predictable grains and pseudo-grains like quinoa and spelt. But I love the flavor of buckwheat, so this week I took another stab at buckwheat groats with a box of medium-grain kasha I bought at the supermarket – and everything changed. These grains were cracked, like bulgur, something I hadn’t seen before. I followed the directions on the box, and they turned out perfect -- dry and fluffy, with the wonderful nutty/earthy buckwheat flavor I find so appealing. To see if it was the cut of the grain only or the combination of the cut of the grain and the cooking method that gave me such good results, I used the exact same cooking method using whole toasted buckwheat groats. The whole groats turned out better than any I had made before, but they took three times as long to cook than the cracked groats, yielded a little less, and because all of the egg is not absorbed by the whole grains the way it is by the cracked grains, which have more cut surfaces to absorb the egg, you get some egg flakes floating on the top of the cooked kasha, which is not very attractive (though it’s easy to remove them). Featured in: Not Your Bubbe’s Kasha.

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Name: Kasha
Prep time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 0
Cuisine: not set
Ingredients: 2 cups water; Salt to taste (I used 3/4 teaspoon); 1 tablespoon unsalted butter; 1 cup toasted buckwheat groats (kasha ) preferably medium-cut (cracked); 1 egg

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INGREDIENTS

2 cups water
Salt to taste (I used 3/4 teaspoon)
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
1 cup toasted buckwheat groats (kasha ) ; preferably medium-cut (cracked)
1 egg

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Serving Size: 1 recipe (488g)
Recipe Makes: 1

Calories: 102
Calories from Fat: 102 (100%)

Amt Per Serving		% DV

	Total Fat 11.5g	15 %
	Saturated Fat 7.3g	36 %
	Monounsaturated Fat 3g
	Polyunsanturated Fat 0.4g
Cholesterol 30.5mg		9 %
Sodium 20.5mg		1 %
Potassium 3.4mg		0 %
Total Carbohydrate 0g		0 %
	Dietary Fiber 0g	0 %
	Sugars, other 0g
Protein 0.1g		0 %
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