Buckwheat flour

Buckwheat dishes enjoy incredible popularity among the Slavs. In national cuisines, you can often find buckwheat porridge, which different peoples will do in their own way, in a special way. In contrast to the regularly used buckwheat, buckwheat flour is not deservedly deprived of our attention.

We are somehow immediately accustomed to wheat flour and do not at all use the rich culinary traditions of our great-grandfathers to prepare healthy and tasty buckwheat dishes. The benefits of buckwheat flour were known thousands of years ago. The content of useful elements, minerals and vitamins in buckwheat is simply off scale and does not compare with scarce wheat flour.

The benefits of buckwheat flour

Buckwheat flour can be easily used when baking all the same pies, pancakes, pancakes, buns and pies with fillings, which are usually made from wheat flour. Based on buckwheat flour, you can make delicious dietary dumplings.

Buckwheat flour can be made independently at home, this is a completely simple process. You will need to wash the buckwheat and then grind it in a food processor to a characteristic flour concentration. In the industrial method of production, buckwheat is first cleaned from husks and only then ground into flour.

The benefits of buckwheat flour, which you will make at home and dishes from it, are invaluable. Since you will miss the process of cleaning buckwheat grains from husks, you will end up with a healthier flour with bran than a cleaned store flour. Remember that homemade buckwheat flour will differ from store flour not only in a darker color, but also in its culinary qualities. Homemade buckwheat flour will be heavier when cooked than the same peeled flour.

But this will not affect the benefits and calories of buckwheat flour. Buckwheat flour is an inexhaustible source of vegetable protein. Such a protein containing all the necessary amino acids (lysine, threonini, etc. ) is considered the most useful food for our body. The low fat content and increased fiber content makes buckwheat flour an indispensable product for a healthy balanced diet.

Buckwheat flour is very low in sugar and carbohydrates, frequent consumption of buckwheat contributes to the rapid purification of the body from slags and other harmful substances. With an average calorie content of (353 Kcal), buckwheat flour is a frequent ingredient in preparing diet meals for people who have diabetes. Buckwheat flour contains zinc, magnesium, potassium and iron, B, E vitamins, antioxidants and rutin. Ordinary wheat flour cannot boast of even half the beneficial properties that buckwheat flour has.