How to make flour from buckwheat

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Buckwheat - a truly unique product, with a wide range of useful properties. Buckwheat increases resistance to adverse external effects, strengthens blood vessels, normalizes metabolism and regulates bowel function.

Buckwheat often referred to as "the queen of cereals". It is rich in iron, calcium, phosphorus, zinc, iodine, vitamins E, PP, B6, rutin. This product includes a large number of plant proteins (its content several times higher than in other grains) and complex carbohydrates. Recent digested long and give a person the necessary energy for a few hours. Buckwheat undoubted advantage is that it is grown without the use of herbicides (weeds do not interfere with the growth of the culture). In addition, it has never been subjected to genetic modification. Buckwheat grains can be eaten whole, but you can grind them into a powder and used for the preparation of useful dietary dishes.

Before grinding buckwheat, it is necessary to sort out. Remove excess litter and black flakes of cereals. Rinse beans under running cool running water. Put it on a kitchen towel, giving a little dry. Put the pan on the fire with a thick bottom and wait until it warms up well. Pour buckwheat on its pan and calcined for 5-10 minutes (until until it starts to crackle). This procedure is necessary for rich flavor of buckwheat flour. Cool beans, laying them on a platter. Now we can proceed to the milling process. This can be done in the home mill. They come in electric and manual. If you regularly cook a large amount of buckwheat flour, make better use of the first device. For the treatment of 1-2 kg of buckwheat is fine hand mill. Grind buckwheat grains can be in a coffee grinder. However, for this purpose it is better to use the device not with knives (he quickly goes down), and with millstones. A small amount of buckwheat can be crushed using a blender. If the hand did not have these devices, use the old method of grinding. Pour a little cereal in high bowl (mortar) and thoroughly crush it and pestle. This is a fairly time-consuming and lengthy process, so it is not recommended to use it for large volumes of buckwheat.

The resulting need to pour buckwheat flour in an airtight container dry and tightly close the lid. From it you can cook porridge, pancakes, pies and pancakes, and can be used as a medicine to cleanse the body of toxins. Buckwheat flour regulates the pancreas, contributes to the normalization of metabolism, cleanses the bowel, lowers blood glucose. For the preparation of a drug spoon, mix a tablespoon of powder with a glass of low-fat yogurt and leave the mixture in the refrigerator overnight. In the morning, drink yogurt with buckwheat 30-40 minutes before breakfast. The course of treatment - 2-3 weeks.