List of buckwheat dishes facts for kids

Memil-muk is a Korean jelly dish made from buckwheat starch.

This article is all about different dishes made with buckwheat. Buckwheat is a special plant grown for its seeds, which look a bit like grains. People use these seeds to make all sorts of yummy foods! There's also another type of buckwheat, a bit more bitter, that's popular in Asia.

Buckwheat Dishes from Around the World

Galette-saucisse is a French street food.

Buckwheat grechka with butter.

Takato Soba noodles from Japan.

• Ajdovi žganci – This dish is from Slovenia and means "buckwheat spoonbread". It's a national dish there!
• Broeder – A traditional Dutch dish. It's a batter made with buckwheat flour and yeast, then boiled in a cotton bag.
• Buckwheat Pancakes – Many cultures make pancakes from buckwheat flour:
  • Blini – These are thin pancakes from Eastern Europe.
  • Kaletez – A type of pancake from Brittany, France.
  • Memil-buchimgae – A Korean pancake made with buckwheat flour.
  • Ploye – A pancake popular in parts of Canada and the United States. It's made with buckwheat and wheat flour.
• Crêpe bretonne – These are traditional pancakes from Brittany, France. They can be sweet (made with wheat) or savory (made with buckwheat). The savory ones are often called galettes.
• Crozets de Savoie – Small, flat, square-shaped pasta from the Savoie region in France. They were traditionally made at home using buckwheat or wheat flour.
• Galette-saucisse – A popular French street food! It's a hot sausage wrapped in a cold buckwheat pancake (a galette). It comes from Upper Brittany in France.
• Grechka – This is toasted buckwheat, often served with butter. It's a common and popular dish in Russia and Eastern Europe.
• Jat-guksu – A Korean noodle dish. It features buckwheat or wheat noodles in a cold soup made from ground pine nuts. It's a special food from Gapyeong, South Korea.
• Kasha varnishkes – A traditional Jewish dish. It mixes grechka (buckwheat groats) with noodles, usually bow-tie pasta.
• Kig ha farz – A cooked dish from Brittany, France. It has different meats simmered in a broth with a pudding made from buckwheat flour.
• Mak-guksu – A Korean buckwheat noodle dish. It's served in a chilled broth, sometimes with sugar, mustard, or sesame oil.
• Memil-muk – A Korean dish that's a light gray-brown jelly made from buckwheat starch. It's often served as a side dish with rice or with alcoholic drinks.
• Mezzelune – These are half-moon shaped stuffed pasta, similar to ravioli. The dough is often made with white or buckwheat flour, eggs, and olive oil.
• Naengmyeon – A Korean noodle dish with long, thin handmade noodles. They are made from the flour and starch of various ingredients, including buckwheat.
• Oyaki – A Japanese dumpling. It's made from a fermented buckwheat dough wrapped around fillings like vegetables or sweet bean paste, then roasted.
• Pizzoccheri – An Italian pasta from the Valtellina region in Lombardy. It's often made with buckwheat flour.
• Poffert – A traditional Dutch dish from Groningen. It's a batter with buckwheat flour cooked in a special tin.
• Poffertjes – These are small, fluffy Dutch pancakes. They are made with yeast and buckwheat flour, giving them a light, spongy texture.
• Scrapple – A dish from Pennsylvania Dutch cooking. It's a mush made from pork scraps, flour (which can be buckwheat), and spices. People often eat it for breakfast.
• Soba – This is the Japanese name for buckwheat. It usually refers to thin noodles made from buckwheat flour, or a mix of buckwheat and wheat flours.
• Stip – A regional dish in the Netherlands. It's a buckwheat porridge served with a hole in the middle filled with fried bacon and syrup.
• Buchweizentorte – A traditional cake from the South Tyrol region of Italy, made with buckwheat flour.

Buckwheat Drinks

Memil-cha, a type of buckwheat tea.

• Buckwheat tea – A warm drink made by steeping roasted buckwheat.
• Buckwheat whisky – An alcoholic drink made mostly or entirely from buckwheat.

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