Cold Kasha Salad Recipes

Nutty, earthy grains of kasha go beautifully with crunchy, juicy apples and bitter endive, long a favorite salad combo. Cut the apple into small dice - 1/4 to 1/2 inch - to maximize this marriage of grain, fruit, nut and bitter salad green. The acid to oil quotient in the dressing is on the low side; I use lemon juice only and sweeten the mix with a little honey. You could also use agave nectar, and leave out the Gruyère in the salad for a vegan version; though I love the Gruyère here because it, too, has a nutty flavor. This salad holds up well on a buffet.

Provided by Martha Rose Shulman

Categories     dinner, lunch, salads and dressings, vegetables, side dish

Time 20m

Yield Serves 6

Number Of Ingredients 14

Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 274, UnsaturatedFat 13 grams, Carbohydrate 29 grams, Fat 17 grams, Fiber 5 grams, Protein 5 grams, SaturatedFat 3 grams, Sodium 289 milligrams, Sugar 5 grams, TransFat 0 grams

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This is a recipe I've been making forever! Its VERY simple and healthy and it's good hot or cold! Don't be tempted to skip the step with the egg.

Provided by Oregongirl45420

Categories     Grains

Time 15m

Yield 4 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 9

Nutrition Facts : Calories 180.2, Fat 12.6, SaturatedFat 2.3, Cholesterol 39.1, Sodium 448.6, Carbohydrate 14.8, Fiber 2, Sugar 3.1, Protein 3.5

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Kasha generally refers to buckwheat groats, but in Slavic countries, kasha refers to porridge in general and can be made from any cereal, especially buckwheat, wheat, barley, oats, millet, and rye. At least a thousand years old, kasha is one of the oldest known dishes in Eastern European Slavic cuisine. Whatever grain you use,

Provided by Ambervim

Categories     < 30 Mins

Time 20m

Yield 8 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 11

Nutrition Facts : Calories 115.8, Fat 5, SaturatedFat 2.3, Cholesterol 30.9, Sodium 292.5, Carbohydrate 13.2, Fiber 3.8, Sugar 4.6, Protein 5.9

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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).

Provided by Martha Rose Shulman

Categories     breakfast, dinner, lunch, vegetables, main course, side dish

Time 30m

Yield 4 servings

Number Of Ingredients 5

Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 183, UnsaturatedFat 2 grams, Carbohydrate 31 grams, Fat 5 grams, Fiber 4 grams, Protein 6 grams, SaturatedFat 2 grams, Sodium 404 milligrams, Sugar 0 grams, TransFat 0 grams

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