Kasha

Template:Short description Template:About Template:Infobox prepared food In English, kasha usuallyTemplate:Efn Template:Efn Template:Efn refers to the pseudocereal buckwheat or its culinary preparations. In Slavic languages, "kasha" means porridge or puree. In some varieties of 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 ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), the Czech Republic ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), Lithuania ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), Poland ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), Romania and Moldova ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), Russia ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), Slovakia ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), Slovenia ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), Kazakhstan, and Ukraine ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}).

The English-language usage of kasha, which refers primarily to buckwheat, probably originated with Jewish immigrants, as did the form {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} kashi (literally translated as "porridges").<ref>Steinmetz, Sol. Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms. p. 42. Template:ISBN.</ref>

In Ashkenazi Jewish cultureEdit

As an Ashkenazi-Jewish comfort food, kasha is often served with onions and brown gravy on top of farfalle, known as kasha varnishkes.<ref name="soulandgone">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Kasha is a popular filling for knishes<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}. Retrieved May 30, 2007.</ref> and is sometimes included in matzah-ball soup.Template:Citation needed

In PolandEdit

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A woman grinding kasha, an 18th-century drawing by J.-P. Norblin

In Polish, cooked buckwheat groats are referred to as {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}. {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} can apply to many kinds of groats: millet ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), barley ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), pearl barley ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), oats ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), as well as porridge made from farina ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Bulgur can be also be referred to as a type of kasza in Polish ({{#invoke:Lang|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 Template:Convert per year in 2013.<ref>Biuletyn Informacyjny ARR 4/2013, Handel Wewnętrzny 4/2013 IBRKK</ref>

In RussiaEdit

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Buckwheat porridge made in oven

The largest gross buckwheat consumption per capita is in Russia, with Template:Convert per year, followed by Ukraine, with Template:Convert per year.<ref>No 8 [008] 26 жовтня, 2007; [www.agro-business.com.ua/.../1655-2013-06-25-11]</ref> Buckwheat comprises 20% of all cereal consumption in Russia.<ref>Russian Market of Buckwheat in 2009 - September 2010 Template:Webarchive</ref>

In Russian, buckwheat is referred to formally as {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (Template:Transliteration), or colloquially as {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (Template:Transliteration), 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, "{{#invoke:Lang|lang}}" (Template:Transliteration), which literally translates as "shchi and kasha are our food".<ref>ПОЧЕМУ ГОВОРЯТ «ЩИ ДА КАША — ПИЩА НАША»?</ref>

Butter is often eaten with most kasha recipes, hence another Russian saying: "{{#invoke:Lang|lang}}" (Template:Transliteration), which translates to "you won't ruin kasha with butter".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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