What is "kasha"

n. A porridge made from boiled buckwheat groats, or sometimes from other cereal groats.

n. boiled or baked buckwheat

In the English language, kasha is a term for the pseudocereal buckwheat. In Central and Eastern Europe, especially in Russia, Ukraine and Poland, kasha is a dish made of any kind of grains boiled in water or milk, possibly with additives, i.e., a porridge.

The largest gross consumption per capita is in Russia, with per year, and Ukraine, with per year. The share of buckwheat in the total consumption of cereals in Russia is 20%.

This English-language usage probably originated with Jewish immigrants, as did the form kashi (technically plural, literally translated as "porridges").

The word generally refers to roasted whole-grain buckwheat or buckwheat groats. However, in Slavic Europe, it refers to porridge in general and can be made from buckwheat or any cereal wheat, barley, oats, millet and rye. At least 1,000 years old, kasha is one of the oldest known dishes in Central European and Eastern European cuisine.

In Russian, buckwheat is referred to formally as (grechikha) and buckwheat grain and buckwheat groats as (grechnevaya krupa). Informally buckwheat grain and buckwheat groats are called (grechka), and the porridge made from buckwheat groats is known as (grechnevaya kasha). In Polish, buckwheat porridge is referred to as . Annual (2013) per capita consumption of groats in Poland is approx. per year ( a month).

Kasha is a foodstuff.

Kasha may also refer to:

• Kasha Mann, American musician
• Kasha Rae, English musician
• Kasha area (Pakistan)
• Kasha (Pendragon series), a fictional character
• Kasha, Iran, a village in Gilan Province, Iran
• Kasha, a cat-like monster in Japanese Mythology
• the original Japanese title of the novel All She Was Worth
• Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, in New Mexico
• Michael Kasha (1920-2013), American chemist
• Kasha's rule
• Kasha Kropinski, actress

The kasha (火車, lit. "burning chariot" or "burning barouche" or 化車, "changed wheel") is a Japanese yōkai that steals the corpses of those who have died as a result of accumulating evil deeds.

Kashan ( Quechua kasha thorn or spine hispanicized spelling Gasha) is a mountain in the northern part of the Waywash mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is located in the Ancash Region, Bolognesi Province, Pacllón District, and in the Huánuco Region, Lauricocha Province, Queropalca District. Kasha lies northwest of Mit'uqucha and north of Parya and Chinkana.