It is very easy to prepare barley in a slow cooker. This is a great option for a wholesome breakfast or hearty meal. Especially if you diversify the dish by adding vegetables or meat.

Barley porridge garnished in a multicooker

Ingredients: 2 multi-cups of pearl barley, 2 times more filtered water, vegetable oil, carrot, salt, onion. How to cook barley in a slow cooker for a side dish is described below.

  1. The cereal is soaked for 40-45 minutes in very hot water.
  2. First, the onion is fried in vegetable oil in a bowl of the pan, then the vegetable is already with the carrots.
  3. The slightly soaked barley is washed and laid out over the fry.
  4. Not cold water pours from above. At this point, you can immediately add salt.
  5. In the program for cooking pilaf, the dish will languish for 40-45 minutes.

In a sealed container, the finished meal should be left to infuse for another 20-25 minutes.

With meat

Ingredients: a pound of pork, 1 bowl of pearl barley, onion and carrot, a pinch of salt, a mixture of peppers.

  1. In the program of frying or baking to a golden hue, thin half rings of onion are fried. Further, they are prepared already with miniature carrot sticks.
  2. The meat is washed, dried with a paper towel and cut into small pieces. When the vegetables are completely ready, slices of pork are laid out for them and the ingredients are cooked together until a crust appears on the meat.
  3. Groats thoroughly washed with hot water. Continue this process until the flowing liquid becomes completely transparent.
  4. Washed barley goes to fry meat and vegetables. Hot water spills from above. The amount of liquid is determined according to the standard scheme - 1 tbsp. cereals - 2 cups of pure water.

Next, barley in a slow cooker with meat is cooked for about an hour in the "Pilaf" mode.

Stew Recipe

Ingredients: 2 multi-cups of pearl barley, 5 - filtered water, a standard can of stewed pork or beef, medium onion, salt, carrot, aromatic herbs.

  1. It is advisable to soak the cereal all night in cold water. If there is not so much time, then at least for 3 hours.
  2. Shredded vegetables are fried in a bowl of a smart pan. For this, you can choose both vegetable and butter. From the modes suitable, for example, “Baking”.
  3. To prepared vegetables, the stew is laid out with fat.
  4. On top of the cereal, previously scalded with boiling water. This will save her from bitterness.
  5. Products are salted, sprinkled with aromatic herbs.

Next, barley with stew is cooked in the Buckwheat program for 80 minutes.

With mushrooms

Ingredients: 1 multi-bowl of pearl barley, 320 g of fresh champignons, onion, salt, dry garlic, pepper.

  1. Onion cubes and thin mushroom slices are fried in a baking program.
  2. On top of the frying of vegetables and mushrooms laid out pre-soaked in cold water pearl barley.
  3. The dish will be cooked in a program designed to cook rice before it ends.

You can decorate the treat with fresh herbs.

Milk pearl barley porridge

Ingredients: 1 multi-bowl of pearl barley, 3 multi-cups of filtered water and the same amount of fresh milk, 3 tsp. granulated sugar, 1 tsp table salt.

  1. Barley is washed several times with cold water. This will save her from plaque. As a result, the water should become transparent.
  2. Groats are poured with a new portion of liquid and left for a couple of hours. It remains to rinse it again with hot water and transfer to a bowl.
  3. A mixture of non-cold milk and water is poured on top of the barley. The mass is sweetened and salted.

Preparing a dish in the program "Milk porridge" 60-65 minutes.

With chicken

Ingredients: 620-690 g of chicken (legs, thighs, wings can be used), 2 multi-cups of pearl barley, 5 multi-cups of filtered water, a large spoon of refined oil, 2-3 heads of onion, 2 carrots, a pinch of spices for pilaf, table salt to taste .

  1. Chicken is cut into large portions. You can immediately put the meat into the bowl of the device, sprinkle with salt, pour it with refined oil and fry in the baking program on all sides.
  2. While the chicken is cooking, you can do vegetables. Onions are cut into thin rings or half rings. Carrots are cut with thin sticks. You can just rub it on a coarse grater.
  3. As soon as the meat is ready, chopped vegetables are sprinkled to it. You need to wait until the onions and carrots are lightly browned.
  4. It remains to pour washed barley, salt, special seasonings for pilaf over all prepared foods.
  5. The contents of the bowl is poured with hot boiled water.
  6. "Smart pan" is switched to the "Pilaf" mode and turns on for 60-65 minutes.

The finished dish is left to be heated, for about half an hour.

Barley with pumpkin

Ingredients: 420 g of fresh pumpkin pulp, 1 multi-bowl of pearl barley, carrots, a couple of bay leaves, onion, salt and ground zira to taste.

  1. In the evening, the indicated amount of barley is poured with water at room temperature and left overnight.
  2. In the morning in a bowl on any oil, first fry the onion cubes and small pieces of pumpkin. When these vegetables are softened, carrot sticks are added to them. Together, the ingredients cook for another 8-9 minutes.
  3. A couple of minutes before the end of frying, pearl barley is placed in the container. From it, you must first drain all the water and rinse the product.
  4. Warm water is poured on top of the components. The liquid should be so much that its level is higher than all used products by about 2-2.5 cm. They are laid out in the container and bay leaves.
  5. In the program for cooking pilaf, the treat will languish until its completion. About 5-6 minutes before readiness, the dish needs to be salted and sprinkled with zira.

The finished treat is left for a short time on heating, and then laid out on plates.

With vegetables

Ingredients: 1 multi-bowl of pearl barley, large eggplant, tomato, bell pepper, 3-4 garlic cloves, table salt to taste.

  1. Groats are pre-filled with cold water and left overnight.
  2. All vegetables are thoroughly washed, if necessary, peeled and finely chopped. The eggplant cubes are filled with salt and left for 12-14 minutes to get bitterness. Next, the slices of the vegetable are well washed with cold water.
  3. In the frying mode, all chopped vegetables are cooked together in the bowl of the device. Finely chopped garlic is added to them.
  4. Prepared cereals are laid on top of vegetables.
  5. The contents of the tank is filled with hot water. It remains to add salt and mix all the components.

In the program "Pilaf" the dish will be cooked for 60-65 minutes.

How to cook pilaf from pearl barley?

Ingredients: half a poultry of chicken, carrot, 2 multi-cups of pearl barley, 5 multi-cups of filtered water, onion, garlic to taste, salt, seasoning for pilaf.

  1. Onions, carrots and garlic are chopped in any way and passivated in butter or vegetable oil. When the vegetables are ready, pieces of chicken are laid out for them.
  2. Together, the products are cooked until the meat becomes rosy.
  3. Pearl barley is well washed and laid out for frying chicken and vegetables. The mass is salted and sprinkled with spices for pilaf.
  4. Ingredients are poured with water.

 

A dish is prepared for 65 minutes in the "Rice / Croup" mode.

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