Kasha
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "about". Template:Infobox prepared food In English, kasha usuallyTemplate:EfnTemplate:EfnTemplate:Efn refers to the pseudocereal buckwheat or its culinary preparations. In Slavic languages, "kasha" means porridge. In some varieties of Central and Eastern European cuisine, kasha can apply to any kind of cooked grain. It can be baked but most often is boiled, either in water or milk, but the word can also refer to the grain before preparation, which corresponds to the definition of 'groats'. The word "kasha" is used in Belarus (Script error: No such module "Lang".), the Czech Republic (Script error: No such module "Lang".), Lithuania (Script error: No such module "Lang".), Poland (Script error: No such module "Lang".), Romania and Moldova (Script error: No such module "Lang".), Russia (Script error: No such module "Lang".), Slovakia (Script error: No such module "Lang".), Slovenia (Script error: No such module "Lang".), Kazakhstan, and Ukraine (Script error: No such module "Lang".).
The English-language usage of kasha, which refers primarily to buckwheat, probably originated with Jewish immigrants, as did the form Script error: No such module "Lang". kashi (literally translated as "porridges").[1]
In Ashkenazi Jewish culture
As an Ashkenazi-Jewish comfort food, kasha is often served with onions and brown gravy on top of farfalle, known as kasha varnishkes.[2] Kasha is a popular filling for knishes[3] and is sometimes included in matzah-ball soup.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
In Poland
In Polish, cooked buckwheat groats are referred to as Script error: No such module "Lang".. Script error: No such module "Lang". can apply to many kinds of groats: millet (Script error: No such module "Lang".), barley (Script error: No such module "Lang".), pearl barley (Script error: No such module "Lang".), oats (Script error: No such module "Lang".), as well as porridge made from farina (Script error: No such module "Lang".).[4] Bulgur can also be referred to as a type of kasza in Polish (Script error: No such module "Lang".).
As Polish blood sausage is prepared with buckwheat, barley or rice, it is called kaszanka (kasha sausage).
Annual per capita consumption of groats in Poland was approximately Script error: No such module "convert". per year in 2013.[5]
In Russia
The largest gross buckwheat consumption per capita is in Russia, with Script error: No such module "convert". per year, followed by Ukraine, with Script error: No such module "convert". per year.[6] Buckwheat comprises 20% of all cereal consumption in Russia.[7]
In Russian, buckwheat is referred to formally as Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "lang".), or colloquially as Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "lang".), which gave rise to the Yiddish words gretshkes/greytshkelach and retshkes/reytshkelach.
Kasha is one of the Russian traditional dishes. Together with shchi it used to constitute staple foods for poorer people. This fact is commemorated in the Russian saying, "Script error: No such module "Lang"." (Script error: No such module "lang".), which literally translates as "shchi and kasha are our food".[8]
Butter is often eaten with most kasha recipes, hence another Russian saying: "Script error: No such module "Lang"." (Script error: No such module "lang".), which translates to "you cannot spoil kasha with butter".[9][10]
See also
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- ↑ Steinmetz, Sol. Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms. p. 42. Template:ISBN.
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- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".. Retrieved May 30, 2007.
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- ↑ Biuletyn Informacyjny ARR 4/2013, Handel Wewnętrzny 4/2013 IBRKK
- ↑ No 8 [008] 26 жовтня Template:Webarchive, 2007; [www.agro-business.com.ua/.../1655-2013-06-25-11]
- ↑ Russian Market of Buckwheat in 2009 - September 2010 Template:Webarchive
- ↑ ПОЧЕМУ ГОВОРЯТ «ЩИ ДА КАША — ПИЩА НАША»?
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