Buckwheat Groat Squares




 

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 cups buckwheat groats
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 cup chocolate chips
Instructions:
  1. Preheat oven to 350 F, line baking sheet with parchment paper
  2. Blend 2 cups buckwheat groats until turned into a sort of flour. I used the pulse setting on a food processor
  3. Brown 1/4 cup butter by cooking in a frying pan at a low heat, stirring consistently
  4. While butter is browning, in a mixing bow stir together buckwheat flour, 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 1 tsp salt, and 1 tsp baking soda
  5. Add browned butter to mixture. Melt the other 1/4 cup butter and add as well. I just used the same heated pan without waiting long enough for it to brown. stir together until blended
  6. Mix some of the chocolate chips into the batter but reserve most of it. Maybe 1/3 of the cup
  7. Spread batter onto parchment paper lined baking sheet using the back of a fork
  8. Sprinkle the rest of the chocolate chips onto the batter
  9. Bake for 18 min
  10. Divide into squares
Yield: Full baking tray

Source: A buckwheat farmer in Northern Ontario

Description:

My grandparents live in rural Northern Ontario and they neighbour a family of buckwheat farmers. We got to meet one of them and he gave us a couple bags of groats. I hadn't heard the term before, but apparently they are the hulled kernals of cereal grains.  Typically they come from oats, wheat, rye, and barley. Buckwheat isn't unheard of but apparently it counts as a "pseudo-cereal".

Oats are a distinct grain, but we use the term colloquially to mean groats that have been further processed, cut into smaller pieces with steel. I suppose using a food processor to turn them into flour is sort of taking that to the extreme.

This Buckwheat farmer also made us these groat squares, as well as a recipe. I'm pretty sure this is his invention. Having made them, they seem pretty true to what he gave us. They're a little crumbly. Lee-Anne said they would probably be good on ice cream.

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