kasha
Sign in to saveIn English, kasha () is a porridge usually made from buckwheat, a pseudocereal. In the 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'.
Key facts
- Prepared food.name
- Kasha
- Prepared food.image
- Гречневая каша.jpg
- Prepared food.image_size
- 250px
- Prepared food.caption
- Buckwheat kasha
- Prepared food.region
- Eastern Europe
- Prepared food.type
- Porridge, oatmeal
- Prepared food.main_ingredient
- Cereal (buckwheat, wheat, barley, oats, millet or rye)
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- food
- Image
- Cooking rice porridge.jpg
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- Commons category
- Groats
- cuisine
- Slovenian cuisine
- indigenous to
- Europe
- different from
- buckwheat porridge
- topic's main category
- Category:Kasha
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Etymology
- In Ashkenazi Jewish culture
- In Poland
- In Russia
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
In English, kasha () is a porridge usually made from buckwheat, a pseudocereal. In the 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'.
==Etymology== The word kasha was borrowed from Russian kásha and first appears in English-language sources in 1808.
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