Most often, pearl barley is a part of soups, but it is not cooked as a separate porridge. Mistresses should not forget that this healthy product makes tasty nutritious and budget side dishes. If you add meat or mushrooms to the cereal, then you can even cook a full, hearty meal with pearl barley. How to cook the cereals under discussion, and with what additives it goes well, is described below.

How to cook barley?

 

In order for the planned dish to end up being really tasty, you need to know a few secrets of cooking it, and also choose the right cereal. Dutch porridge is ideal for cereals. It boils quickly, it turns soft and delicate. And classic varieties of the product are best left for soups.

Approximate proportions

In order for the dish to have a pleasant crumbly structure, you need to carefully monitor the proportions of cereals and liquids. If the product has been soaked for a long time, then 1 tbsp. bulk ingredient is taken 1 liter of liquid. When cooking without soaking, the amount of water must be increased by 1.5 times.

How much time to cook?

The exact cooking time of the porridge will also depend on whether the cereal was left in the water before the culinary experiment. If the hostess chose an approach with prolonged soaking (at least 6-7 hours), then porridge will cook for only half an hour. After that, she only needs to insist a little.

With short-term soaking (2-3 hours), the dish will languish under the lid for 45-55 minutes. In this case, the heating plate should be minimal.

Pearl barley garnish

A low-calorie dish will turn out if you cook it in plain filtered water. Fluids will need to use 630 ml. The remaining ingredients: 1 tbsp.pearl barley, salt to taste, a slice of oil.

  1. Barley is washed to clean water and left to swell overnight.
  2. The prepared product is poured with fresh liquid and cooked for 35 minutes. Salt and oil are immediately added to the container.

Tasty to complement the side dish of assorted cucumbers, bell peppers and tomatoes.

With meat

A more nutritious and nutritious treat will be the addition of meat. For example, pulp of pork. Ingredients: 650 g of meat, 1.5 tbsp. pearl barley, onion, sour apple, carrot, salt, pork seasoning mix.

  1. Pieces of meat with layers of fat are fried in a pan without oil. Enough fat. When a golden crust appears on the slices, you can transfer them to the coop.
  2. Chopped onions and thin carrot sticks are passaged on the fat that has become. Last of all, small apple cubes are added to the indicated products. The mass is salted, sprinkled with spices.
  3. Vegetables are transferred to meat. Croup spills out from above. Products are poured with water so that it turns out about 1 cm above.
  4. Barley porridge with meat will languish until cooked (without lid) for 60-70 minutes.

To make the treat even tastier, after a lapse of time it is worth covering the ducklings and sending it for another half hour to the hot oven.

Stew Recipe

Instead of fresh meat, pork stew can also be used for the dish under discussion. It will be enough one standard banks. The remaining ingredients: 1 tbsp. cereals, 2 onions, 2.5 tbsp. filtered water, a pair of garlic cloves, 2 medium carrots, salt, a mixture of peppers.

  1. Barley is soaked in water for 8-10 hours.
  2. In a deep cast-iron skillet, a stew is heated with all the contents of the can. Finely chopped onions, garlic and carrots go there. Together, the ingredients are fried for 7-8 minutes.
  3. Soaked cereals are boiled for 10-15 minutes in salt water. Then it, along with part of the water, is poured into a frying pan for frying. You can add a dish.
  4. The treat is languishing for half an hour under a closed lid.

Before serving, porridge should be infused for 15-20 minutes.

Barley with mushrooms

This version of the dish can be a side dish and an independent lunch. Ingredients: 830 ml of filtered water, 230 g of cereal, 230 g of fresh champignons, carrots, salt, onion, mushroom seasoning.

  1. Washed cereal is soaked for half an hour, after which it goes off to boil in salted water. It will take about an hour to prepare. The liquid should completely evaporate during this time.
  2. Chopped onions and carrots are passaged until golden. It is best to cook them in butter.
  3. Mushrooms and seasoning are added to the finished frying. Together, the ingredients cook for another 7-8 minutes.
  4. The contents of the pan are laid out in a pan with porridge. The treat is well mixed, salted and left to infuse for half an hour.

You can improve this recipe pearl barley. For example, add red Bulgarian pepper and / or tomatoes to the frying.

Milk pearl barley porridge

It is definitely worth cooking your own favorite dish of Peter I. It was barley in cow's milk. Ingredients: 1 tbsp. cereals, 2 large tablespoons of butter, a pinch of salt, a large spoon of granulated sugar, 900 ml of milk.

  1. Barley is soaked in cold water all night. In the morning, it is washed well and boiled for 12-14 minutes in salt water.
  2. Next, the slightly boiled product is reclined in a colander and sent to boiling milk.
  3. Porridge salted, sprinkled with sugar.
  4. After another 15 minutes, the container with refreshments is rearranged in a water bath and languish on it for 2.5-3 hours.

If the hostess has a margin of time, you can increase the cooking time to 6-7 hours.

With chicken

It goes well with porridge from pearl barley and chicken. Ingredients: 280 g cereals, 1-2 onions, 320 g chicken, 2 carrots, salt, broth, garlic to taste and spices for pilaf.

  1. Washed barley is soaked in cold water for a couple of hours.
  2. Small pieces of chicken are well fried along with chopped onions, carrots and garlic in oil. The mass immediately salts and sprinkles with seasonings.
  3. The resulting frying of poultry and vegetables is transferred to the ducklings.The prepared cereal is distributed from above.
  4. Products need to be filled with broth so that it turns out to be approximately 1 cm higher.
  5. The porridge will cook under the lid until the broth is completely evaporated.

Ready barley is salted to taste.

It is interesting:the benefits and harms of barley

Barley with pumpkin

It is best to take fresh vegetables - without peels and seeds. Ingredients: 1 tbsp. cereals, 1.5 tbsp. filtered water, 320 g pumpkin pulp, salt, onion, sweet pepper, 2 tomatoes.

  1. The cereal is soaked in water for 4 hours.
  2. First, onions and carrots (chopped) are fried in a pan, then they are cooked already with cubes of pumpkin, pepper and tomatoes.
  3. Vegetables are stewed to softness over low heat.
  4. Barley is boiled in salt water until fully cooked.
  5. It remains only to shift the porridge into a pan to vegetables, mix and simmer the ingredients together for another 7-8 minutes.

To taste, crushed garlic can be added to the dish.

How to cook in a slow cooker?

The “smart pot” will simplify the process of preparing the discussed “moody” porridge a little. Ingredients: 1 tbsp. cereals and 2 times more broth, salt to taste.

More materials:barley porridge in a slow cooker

  1. Barley is soaked in water for a couple of hours, after which it is transferred to the bowl of the device and poured with any broth.
  2. Salt is immediately added to the cereal. You can put to taste and butter.
  3. Preparing a dish in milk porridge mode.

 

With the indicated proportions of liquid and dry components, the treat is friable.

Similar:More from the author: