Customer Reviews

Bob's Red Mill Organic Buckwheat Toasted Kasha, 18-Ounce Packages (Pack of 4)

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This is NOT your European buckweat kasha that we love and used to cook it for years with an absolute consistency: wash, add water, and boil until it's absorbed. My wife experimented several times with this buckweat, but always ended up with not edible mess of variable consistency.

Better than Wolff's Kasha. I grew up eating Kasha and it is an easy to prepare healthy meal. Bob's Red Mill has a great selection of all things GRAIN. If you are ever in the Portland area you should check out the store/restaurant. Great vegetarian selections as well as meat eater stuff.

This buckwheat is very flavorful while uncooked. However, it is dried/roasted in such way that if you cook it the standard way you will end up with mush. You have to follow the recipe on the bag (or some variation of it) in order to get the grainy consistency. To me, this method of cooking is more complicated than what I am used to and to a certain degree compromises the flavor. I am used to the kind of buckwheat that you can cook in a rice steamer and it does not turn to mush.
I know in non-organic world there are better products. Not sure if there is any organic buckwheat that is better than this.
I absolutely love the cracked buckwheat variety by this company -- that kind is usually cooked to be mushy and there the drying/roasting method used by this company puts it well above anything else I tried.

If you are Russian and looking for good buckwheat kasha - don't buy that one, it's totally different thing. It smells like medicine and tastes weird, not like regular simple buckwheat. If you are the person who decided to try a buckwheat first time - don't buy that one, you will be disappointed and never know what a tasty meal it should be.

Great, high quality. The best that I have tried so far. I am ordering almost everything from Bob's Red Mill now. I have never been dissatisfied with anything.

i got real disappointed when i saw how unripe the thing is. Supposed to be dark brown, and that stuff is light green!!!!! smells funny too, like glue. american version of buckwheat, presumably

My family likes this product as a side dish with fish or chicken. Good, nutty flavor, great Bob's organic quality as always. We use a lot of Bob's products, and it's much cheaper to purchase them in bulk at Amazon than at our local grocery store. I've also used this combined with chickpeas to make my own falafel from time to time.

I love to make kasha stuffed cabbage rolls and was having trouble finding kasha in the store so I bought this. Excellent quality, price and best of all delivered to my door!

This Kasha tastes good,it cooks great in my rice cooker,it's great with milk as morning cereal(AND BETTER FOR YOU) and I feed it to my son who loves it.
Great product.

I am from Ukraine, so I grew up on buckwheat, and I know how "Kasha" is supposed to taste and look like. This is not it. Once you cook it, this Kasha looks like goo, not like Russian Kasha is supposed to be - very flaky, with each piece of wheat separated. It tastes pretty bad too, like it got burnt or something. No matter how much butter or salt you put in, it still tastes bad. The only reason I bought this product because it was organic and I did not want to buy it on Russian website (was afraid of them stealing my credit card), but now I have to, because THIS is not good.