Buckwheat - one of the most popular cereals for cooking a variety of dishes. Used buckwheat and for first courses, and for side dishes, and for baking. But, probably, the most popular dish from this groats is porridge.
In ancient Slavs buckwheat porridge was considered "food of the heroes", and brought it to Russia from Greece. The motherland of buckwheat is the highlands of the Himalayas, where its wild species still grow. In Russia the name "buckwheat" came from the "supplier country" - Greece, but in Western Europe (Portugal, Spain and France) it was called Arabian or Saracen grains.
Buckwheat - one of the most popular cereals for cooking a variety of dishes. Used buckwheat and for first courses, and for side dishes, and for baking. But, probably, the most popular dish from this groats is porridge.