Buckwheat groats

Kasha

What it is

Toasted, it becomes kasha, the grain of the Russian and Ashkenazi table, and the toasting is not optional — raw groats cook to a grey mush while toasted ones stay separate and smell of hazelnut.

In the kitchen

Coat the groats in beaten egg and dry them in the pan before adding liquid. That is the classic trick to keep every grain separate.

Goes with

Button mushroom Onion Butter Egg Parsley Duck fat Black pepper Thyme

Same species

Buckwheat flour Buckwheat honey Buckwheat tea Soba noodles

Also used with

Maple butter Maple sugar Orange oak bolete Salted butter Buttermilk

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