PEARLY IS A PORridge OF BEAUTY. USING IT YOU CAN EASILY LOSE WEIGHT
We offer 4 recipes for TASTY and HEALTHY barley dishes
PEARLOVKA can simply claim the title of “beauty porridge” since it contains a substance such as lysine (an amino acid), which is actively involved in the formation of collagen. It is known that it makes the skin elastic and elastic, slows down the process of wrinkles. Nutritionists advise eating pearl barley for those who want to lose extra pounds, because the hearty porridge contains substances that prevent fat deposition and a large amount of fiber, which removes toxins and waste from the body. 100g of pearl barley porridge contains 3.1g of protein, 109 calories.
1. Barley cutlets
Ingredients:
Boiled pearl barley - 2 cups
Onion - 1 piece (large or 2 small)
Salt - 1-2 pinches
Ground black pepper - 1 pinch
Flour - 2-3 tbsp. spoons (for breading)
Vegetable oil - 3-4 tbsp. spoons (for frying)
Number of servings: 3-4
Preparation:
1. To prepare barley cutlets, you need to pre-cook the cereal in a 1:2 ratio with water and cool slightly. Yesterday's porridge is perfect.
2. Place the onion in the blender bowl. Grind.
3. Don't mince the onion too much. It should look like in the photo.
4. Add pearl barley porridge to the onion. Grind.
5. Done. The structure is viscous, so eggs are not needed for binding.
6. Transfer to a convenient container, pepper, salt, and mix.
7. With wet hands, take a tablespoon of minced meat and roll into balls. Roll in flour. Shape into cutlets.
8. Fry over high heat in oil until golden brown.
9. Fry on both sides, 4-5 minutes on each.
10. Barley cutlets are ready.
2.Barley salad
Ingredients:
Boiled pearl barley - 100 grams
Boiled beets - 50 grams
Onion - 1 piece (small or third large)
Olive oil - 2 tbsp. spoons
Table vinegar - 1 teaspoon (preferably rice vinegar)
Garlic - 1 clove
Mustard - 1/2 teaspoon
Salt, black pepper - To taste
Greens - To taste
Number of servings: 2
Preparation:
1. Boil pearl barley and beets in advance until tender. You can buy beets already boiled in a store or market.
2. Prepare salad dressing. Combine oil, mustard, pressed garlic, salt, ground black pepper, chopped herbs, vinegar. Stir.
3. Cut the onion thinly. Pour boiling water over it so that it loses its bitterness, strain.
4. Cut the beets into pieces.
5. Place pearl barley on serving plates.
6. Then lay out the beets.
7. For beets - onions, greens.
8. And the final touch - generously pour dressing over the salad. Let it soak for 5 minutes. Salad ready!
3.Barley with mushrooms in a pot
Ingredients:
Pearl barley - 1 Cup
Champignons - 150 grams
Salt - To taste
Vegetable oil - To taste (for frying)
Water - To taste
Number of servings: 2
Preparation:
1. Wash pearl barley thoroughly until the water is clear.
2.Then lightly fry in vegetable oil so that the pearl barley browns a little.
3.Chop the champignons coarsely and add them to the frying pan with the pearl barley. Continue frying for 6-8 minutes.
4. Place the fried barley with champignons in a pot(s) and pour boiling water so that the water is 2 fingers above the level of the barley. Salt and add bay leaf.
5.Cover the pots with lids and place in the oven. Bake barley with mushrooms at a temperature of 200-220 degrees until boiling, then reduce the heat to 180 degrees and leave for 60-80 minutes. The pearl barley should become soft and absorb all the liquid.
4.Barley with vegetables
Ingredients:
Pearl barley - 2 cups
Carrots - 2 pieces
Onions - 2 pieces
Canned green peas - 300 grams
Salt, pepper, spices - To taste
Vegetable oil - 30 grams
Number of servings: 6-8
Preparation:
Rinse the pearl barley until the water runs clear. Soak in warm water for half an hour. After this, you will need to take a dry frying pan and fry the pearl barley until it smells nutty, stirring with a spatula.
While the pearl barley is soaking, you can do the vegetables. Peel the carrots and onions. Grate three carrots and finely chop the onion. Fry everything in a frying pan with sunflower oil until softened. Then open the can of peas. Pour the peas along with the liquid into the frying pan. Simmer for 5 minutes.
Then add the fried pearl barley, evenly distributing it among the vegetables. Pour raw water into the pan. It needs to completely cover the vegetables and cereals. Simmer over low heat for an hour.
When the water begins to evaporate and you see that the pearl barley has swelled, cover the frying pan with a lid. Add water as needed to make the pearl barley soft.
10 minutes before cooking, add salt and pepper. Add seasonings to your taste. Serve pearl barley with vegetables and herbs as an independent dish, or as a side dish to the main dish.
Bon appetit!
Many people underestimate pearl barley, considering it tasteless. It only turns out this way when cooked incorrectly. To make this cereal crumbly and tasty, it must be cooked for a long time - from one to two hours, and sometimes even more. It all depends on the quality of the cereal and the method of preparation. The degree of readiness is determined by the type and consistency of the pearl barley - the finished cereal turns out soft, swollen, grain to grain.
To reduce the cooking time for barley, you need to pre-soak it in water. First, rinse the cereal well until the water is as clear as possible. Fill it with water in the following proportion: per glass of pearl barley – one liter of water. Soaking time is 10-12 hours. However, it can be reduced to 3-4 hours.
Barley will turn out much tastier if soak it in whey or sour milk. If you cook it for dietary nutrition, cook the cereal only in water.
How to cook pearl barley after soaking
You can cook pearl barley in different ways. The most common is cooking in a saucepan. To do this, rinse the swollen cereal and fill it with water at the rate of 2 liters of liquid per glass of pearl barley. An important nuance is that the water should be cold, even ice-cold. Bring the cereal to a boil and simmer over low heat for 45-60 minutes. Remove the pan from the stove, wrap it well with a warm blanket or towel and leave it like that for half an hour. During this time, the cereal will harden well and become more tender.
Do not forget to take into account that the volume of pearl barley increases approximately 5-6 times during cooking. That is why cook the cereal in a spacious pan. Add butter and salt at the very end of cooking.
How to cook dry pearl barley
You can cook pearl barley without pre-soaking. To do this, rinse the pearl barley thoroughly, add water at the rate of 4 cups of liquid per cup of cereal, place over high heat and bring to a boil. Then reduce the heat to low and cook the cereal under a closed lid for two hours. Check the pearl barley periodically to ensure that all the water has not boiled away. Let the finished cereal simmer under the lid for half an hour.
There is another way to prepare pearl barley. Bring the cereal to a boil, as in the previous method, and then set it to finish cooking in a water bath. At the same time, always keep the lid of the pan with barley closed.
Crumbly pearl barley will become An excellent side dish for fish or meat. In addition, it can be used in appetizers and salads, as well as in soups - mushroom, fish, meat. The most popular barley soup is rassolnik. However, it must be remembered that you should not add raw pearl barley to soups - the dish may acquire an unappetizing bluish tint. It’s better to pre-cook it until half cooked and add it to the soup halfway through cooking.
It is recommended to use pearl barley hot. In this case, it is not only tasty, but also more beneficial for the body. Nutritionists say that cooled pearl barley is less beneficial and is less easily absorbed by the body.
What picture opens up to your eyes when you hear the words “barley porridge”? Army canteen? A box of bait for fishing? A plate of semi-edible cereal that takes a long, long time to chew?
If yes, this means that you have never tried pearl barley porridge prepared in accordance with technology.
History of use and benefits of pearl barley
Barley is one of the oldest agricultural crops. Growing wild, it was eaten almost twenty thousand years ago, and began to be cultivated 10,000 years ago. The unpretentious and healthy grain was used for food, it was fed to livestock, drinks were made from it, it also served as a standard of weight, length, a measure of wealth, and a unit of calculation.
Nowadays, barley has lost its importance in cooking, giving way to easier-to-prepare dishes; however, pearl barley is always on sale and is an excellent choice for preparing budget-friendly and very healthy dishes.
Pearl barley is whole grains of barley, peeled from the outer shell in which they are located in the spikelet. These grains are simply an incredible storehouse of valuable substances necessary for the human body (among them, it is worth mentioning phosphorus, a mineral extremely important for the functioning of muscle fibers and for the absorption of calcium, as well as lysine, which is involved in the formation of collagen).
The nutritional value of pearl barley porridge and its benefits increase with proper heat treatment, which facilitates the digestion process.
How to cook pearl barley porridge
Depending on the cooking method, from the same grain you can get either “poor man’s pilaf” or the most delicate, caramel, royal porridge. However, in both forms, pearl barley finds its admirers, and it is definitely worth striving for a soft, boiled mass only for reasons of its better digestibility.
The canonical method of preparing pearl barley can be considered a long but extremely “effective” process described in Pokhlebkin’s book “The Great Encyclopedia of Culinary Art.” In it, the author not only describes the technology, but sings an ode to pearl barley porridge, in particular, explaining how this simple and unpretentious dish could have been the favorite food of the great monarch Peter I.
So, according to Pokhlebkin, pearl barley should be treated like legumes and thoroughly boiled, and for this, first soaked in cold water for 12 hours.
Pearl barley porridge with milk. The perfect recipe
Ingredients:
1 tbsp. pearl barley
1 liter of water for pre-soaking
2 liters of milk
Bad grains and impurities are removed from cereals intended for cooking and soaked in cold water. It is better to plan soaking overnight, so it should last at least 10 hours (ideally 12), and after that the porridge will slowly cook for another 6 hours.
After 10-12 hours, the water that the cereal did not take is drained and the barley is filled with milk. Bring the porridge to a boil and simmer without a lid for 5 minutes, and then remove the saucepan from the heat and transfer it to a water bath. In a water bath with water slowly boiling, pearl barley porridge should be cooked for 6 hours.
The water bath itself is not a special cooking condition. In modern realities, it can be completely replaced by slow simmering in a multicooker or simmering over low heat in a saucepan with a non-stick coating or double bottom. The original recipe suggests a water bath as a cooking method in which the milk and cereal do not burn at the bottom, and the milk has no chance of “escaping.”
The cooking process, although very long, is not labor-intensive, and the end result is a very delicate dish in the form of a soft paste with a subtle caramel taste.
By the way, pearl barley porridge is not only tasty, but also a balanced dish. Cereals are rich in protein, but vegetable protein has an incomplete set of amino acids, so adding milk (and with it the missing amino acids) restores their balance, making them better absorbed and better used by the body. Also, the calcium present in milk is well absorbed due to the large amount of phosphorus contained in pearl barley.
Pearl barley porridge with meat
Meat, like milk, perfectly complements the vegetable protein contained in barley and increases the protein value of the dish.
Pearl barley porridge with meat can be prepared either soft or crumbly. In the first case, the cereal must be soaked, just like for the milk porridge described above.
Recipe for soft pearl barley porridge with meat
Ingredients:
1 tbsp. cereals
1 liter of water for soaking
0.5 kg meat
1 onion
1 carrot
1 bay leaf
hot and sweet peppers, salt, dried garlic and herbs to taste
The washed cereal is soaked overnight in a liter of water. After 12 hours, the water is drained, the cereal is washed again and boiled in water over very low heat for 50 minutes.
While the cereal is cooking, prepare the meat part separately. For it, pieces of meat are fried until well crusted, chopped onions and grated carrots are added to the frying pan and everything is fried together for a few minutes.
Place boiled cereal without water in a frying pan with meat and vegetables, level the mass in the frying pan and add enough water to cover the contents of the frying pan by 2 cm. Immediately add spices, cover the frying pan with a lid and simmer the dish over low heat until the free liquid disappears completely (approximately 40 minutes).
With this method of preparation, the finished pearl barley porridge turns out soft and tender.
Friable pearl barley porridge with meat
To get crumbly porridge, you need to reduce the time for soaking the cereal (but not eliminate soaking completely) and reduce the cooking or stewing time.
Ingredients:
1 tbsp. cereals
0.5 l water for soaking
0.5 kg meat
1 onion
1 carrot
1 tbsp. l. tomato paste
salt and spices to taste
The cereal is soaked for 2-3 hours in cold water, then the water is drained.
The meat is fried with carrots and onions and simmered until cooked, adding a little water, tomato paste, salt and spices.
The water in which the pearl barley was soaked is drained, the barley is transferred to a saucepan or cauldron, mixed with the meat part, and water is added in such an amount that it exceeds the level of the barley by 1 cm. Salt for the barley is added. Simmer over low heat until the liquid has completely evaporated.
Pearl barley porridge in a slow cooker
The multicooker makes it very easy to prepare pearl barley porridge, since the cereal does not stick to the bottom and does not burn, and the presence of special modes for cooking cereals among its functions allows the cook to “eliminate” from participating in the process.
However, pearl barley still needs to be soaked before cooking.
The simplest recipe for pearl barley porridge in a slow cooker
Pearl barley porridge can be prepared in a slow cooker as the simplest side dish for hot meat, mushroom and fish dishes.
Ingredients:
2 tbsp. cereals
4.5 Art. water (for cooking)
50 g butter
salt
The washed cereal is soaked overnight. The specified amount of pearl barley must be poured into at least three glasses of water.
In the morning, wash the cereal again, transfer it to a slow cooker, add water and half the oil.
To make pearl barley porridge in a multicooker soft, but with separate grains, it needs to be cooked for about an hour on the “Porridge”, “Pilaf” or “Grains” mode (depending on the model of the multicooker).
At the end of cooking, add the remaining oil.
Compatibility of pearl barley porridge with other products. Pearl barley diet
Barley contains a lot of plant fiber, which is useful for normal digestion, but is almost not absorbed by the body and irritates the intestines. Taking this into account, pearl barley porridge should not be consumed together with raw vegetables and fruits, which also contain coarse fiber, so as not to increase the load on the intestines and its irritation.
Products that should not be combined with pearl barley porridge:
white and red cabbage, raw carrots, radishes, radishes, pears, apple peels, juices with pulp, bran, dried fruits, black bread, “live” kefir and yogurt.
Useful combinations with pearl barley:
boiled lean sea fish, boiled beets, cauliflower and broccoli, tomatoes, cucumbers, peeled fruits, pureed.
Pearl barley diet
Based on pearl barley porridge, you can arrange a short mono-diet or use it for a fasting day. To do this, you need to divide a liter of cooked pearl barley or barley into 6 servings and eat it throughout the day, washing it down with unsweetened drinks (do not add salt and sugar to the porridge either).
What else to cook with pearl barley
Pearl barley is good not only for side dishes or main courses, but also for preparing various soups. Pearl barley soups with mushrooms, chicken, and tomatoes are very tasty.
Well-known dishes to which pearl barley is added include rassolniki and kutya. Lesser known ones include mushrooms and tomatoes stuffed with pearl barley, solyanka, and pearl barley risotto.
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It’s also worth trying vegetable salads with the addition of a small amount of hard-cooked pearl barley grains - they not only enrich the taste of the salads, but also give you a feeling of fullness after a light breakfast.
Finally…
Pearl barley porridge is a healthy dietary dish that should appear in the diet from time to time. It normalizes digestion and stool, is a valuable source of protein, and thanks to low glycemic index (total 22) Carbohydrates absorbed from food are immediately consumed and do not turn into fat.
The abundance of dietary fiber in pearl barley makes it a porridge a kind of brush that passes through the intestinal tract, mechanically collecting and removing toxic substances and harmful deposits from the body.
People who do not like pearl barley dishes should change their attitude towards them by choosing other recipes so as not to miss out on one of the most accessible food sources of vigor and well-being.
This aromatic and tasty dish is of great value for the body, because the cereal contains a huge amount of microelements, vitamins, and antioxidants.
It is useful for young housewives to know how to cook pearl barley porridge in water, which can serve as a dietary food if you do not add oil to it.
Regular use of this product has a positive effect on the digestive and urinary system.
But preparing such porridge is a long process that requires compliance with certain rules.
Recipes for cooking pearl barley porridge with water
Experienced housewives in Russia have known how to cook pearl barley with vegetables, chicken, beef, lamb or pork since ancient times. Barley groats even got their name due to their popularity among nobles (pearl in translation meant pearl).
It was valued for its satiety, taste and health benefits.
If you cook porridge with the addition of different products, you get original and healthy dishes for every day. This process is very long, so you should soak the cereal in water in advance (about 10 hours before starting to prepare the porridge).
After this, the grains are washed several times.
During cooking, pearl barley swells, so it is recommended to choose spacious containers for preparing side dishes and porridges from this grain. There are many recipes for this dish with the addition of meat, stewed vegetables, chicken fillet or minced meat to suit every taste.
In a slow cooker
Some housewives do not know how to cook pearl barley in a slow cooker. Manufacturers offer many additional functions for cooking, for example, a multicooker-pressure cooker helps to speed up the process somewhat. The most popular manufacturers are Panasonic, Redmond, Marta and others.
How long to cook pearl barley in a slow cooker will depend on the selected mode. It can be pilaf, side dish or milk porridge.
You will need the following:
- cereal 200 g;
- butter 30 g;
- water 0.4 l;
- salt to taste.
How to cook pearl barley porridge:
The pearl barley is soaked for several hours in advance.
Wash the cereal and place it in a cooking vessel. Add the remaining ingredients to the container.
Select the cooking mode on the device and turn it on.
With meat
Today, the question of how to cook pearl barley porridge with the addition of meat is no less relevant, because the food is so satisfying, with a rich flavor.
Barley with pork and garlic will be an excellent dish that you can regularly prepare for a family lunch or dinner.
Everyone will definitely like the porridge, and if you prepare it correctly, your household will constantly ask you to repeat it.
To prepare you will need:
- onion 50 g;
- garlic 20 g;
- cereal 250 g;
- pork fillet 200 g;
- vegetable oil 40 g;
- salt.
Cooking process:
The pearl barley is rinsed well and filled with water overnight at the rate of one part of cereal to four parts of water. Add water and pearl barley to the cooking container, at the rate of 2-3 cups per 200 g of cereal.
Cook for 45-50 minutes. While the pearl barley is cooking, cut the pork into cubes.
Peel and finely chop the onion and garlic.
Heat a frying pan with oil and fry the meat. Add vegetables.
After the pork is cooked, the contents of the frying pan are added to the barley.
Mix everything and leave until ripe.
With minced meat
Many people deny themselves the pleasure of eating this healthy porridge regularly because of the length of the preparation process (soaking lasts a couple of hours), but eating dishes containing it regularly helps cleanse the body, improves the functioning of the stomach and intestines, removes toxins, and this is very useful for modern urban residents.
If you supplement the barley with minced meat and vegetable dressing, you will get a very tasty, satisfying and healthy dish.
To prepare porridge with minced meat you will need:
- cereal 250 g;
- onion 70 g;
- carrots 100 g;
- minced meat 200 g;
- sunflower oil 40 g.
How to cook:
The washed cereals are boiled for 40 minutes.
Peel the vegetables and chop finely.
Prepare the frying pan.
Fry the onions and carrots a little. Add minced meat.
Simmer all the ingredients for a while. Pour the boiled cereal and the contents of the pan onto a baking sheet.
Mix everything, add seasonings and salt.
Bake in the oven for half an hour. With vegetables The calorie content of the dish is very low, because there will be no meat in this porridge.
How to cook delicious pearl barley porridge in water, and even with an interesting filling?
Add vegetables to the cereal, which will make the taste rich and piquant.
At the same time, it is worth remembering how nourishing and healthy it is: it contains many valuable vitamins PP, D, natural antibiotics, fiber, phosphorus, and amino acids. With vegetables, the dish is prepared like pilaf, but to preserve the nutrients, it is recommended to make the dressing separately.
What you will need for the dish:
- cereal 300 g;
- onion 80 g;
- carrots 100 g;
- tomatoes 150 g;
- sunflower oil 40 g;
- tomato paste 90 g;
- salt.
Cooking steps:
Prepare the cereal and place it in a saucepan. Cook for about 30 minutes until the grains have tripled in size.
Chop all vegetables.
Prepare a frying pan and fry the ingredients, starting with the onion.
Add dressing.
Stir and leave on the fire for a while.
With Chiken
Nutritionists advise including this dish in your diet, because pearl barley porridge contains a huge amount of valuable complex carbohydrates that can saturate the body for a long time.
Fiber, which is part of pearl barley, cleanses the intestines well, stabilizes its functioning, and removes toxins from the body. It is important to note that the product does not cause allergies; it can be consumed after food poisoning to alleviate the condition.
Meat, vegetables or chicken fillet are added to the cereal.
What products will be needed:
- cereal 200 g;
- sunflower oil 40 g;
- skinless chicken fillet 150 g;
- onion 80 g;
- carrots 90 g;
- salt and pepper to taste.
Cooking steps:
Prepare the cereal and soak it for 6 hours.
Chicken fillet is washed, dried and cut.
Add salt and spices to the meat. Wash and peel vegetables.
Cut the onion into small cubes, carrots into strips. Prepare the frying pan (heat the oil).
Add marinated chicken. When the chicken is slightly browned, add vegetables to the pan.
The mixture is fried, stirring constantly. Drain the water from the pearl barley and pour the cereal into the chicken.
Add water 3 levels above the food.
When the water boils, you need to reduce the heat, then cook for 45 minutes.
How to cook pearl barley for soup
This wonderful cereal is used not only for preparing independent porridges and side dishes, but is also included in first courses. How long to cook pearl barley for pickle depends on the cooking method you choose.
Some housewives cook it by pre-soaking it for 12 hours, others do without this step. In addition, the cooking time is influenced by the size of the barley grains.
The duration varies from a few minutes to two hours.
Cooking algorithm:
Sort through and rinse the pearl barley.
Fill with clean cold water overnight.
Drain the liquid and rinse the product.
Place in a large saucepan and put on fire.
As soon as the water boils, it is drained and the cereal is rinsed cold.
Decant the liquid. Pour boiling water over the barley.
Boil for half an hour, pour into pickle.
How long to cook pearl barley in soup?
After adding it to the pan it will take no more than 5 minutes, it is already soft, but it is very easy to boil it.
Add it to the pickle, wait a little until the cereal is saturated with the taste of the soup, and then turn it off and cover with a lid so that the first dish is thoroughly infused.
The classic way to prepare this soup is barley with half and half rice.
How to cook crumbly pearl barley porridge
This valuable product is attractive due to its low calorie content and medicinal properties, but not everyone will like the thick porridge. How to quickly cook pearl barley so that it becomes a crumbly side dish and not a viscous mass.
Following simple rules will allow you to prepare a delicious side dish that the whole family will enjoy.
How to cook crumbly pearl barley porridge in water?
You need to add more water to the pan and butter.
After cooking, it is advisable to cover the container with a warm towel and let the dish ripen.
It is very strange that such a valuable and tasty product is prepared very rarely in our kitchens. Probably the problem is that in childhood everyone was forced to eat this porridge, and the cooks in kindergartens did not know how to cook it at all.
Crumbly, the recipe for which will be discussed below, is an excellent side dish for meat, goulash or regular mushroom gravy. There is nothing difficult in preparing such a dish. However, it should be noted that in order to get the most delicious dish, you must follow all the requirements of the recipe.
Crumbled pearl barley porridge: recipe for step-by-step cooking on the stove
Most people don't like barley porridge. This is due, first of all, to the fact that it almost always turns out fresh. But if you prepare this dish correctly, you will forever change your opinion about it.
So, a step-by-step recipe for crumbly pearl barley porridge requires the purchase of the following components:
- pearl barley - 1 cup;
- cold drinking water - 3 glasses;
- butter - 2-3 large spoons;
- sea salt - to taste.
Cooking process
How to prepare crumbly pearl barley porridge? The recipe for this dish does not recommend using grits, as they often contain pebbles and other debris. Therefore, to prepare such a side dish, it is better to use pearl barley in a package. It should be washed thoroughly in warm water, after placing it in a sieve.
Having achieved transparency of the liquid, the product is placed in a large saucepan and filled with cold drinking water. In this form, place the dishes on the stove and bring the contents to a boil. After 5 minutes the water is replaced. To do this, the old liquid is drained using the same sieve.
Carry out this process 3 or 4 times. It is necessary in order to remove mucus as much as possible.
Finally, clean water is poured into the product again, brought to a boil, salt is added and cooked for an hour (it may take a little longer).
After the grains have significantly increased in size and become soft, they are thrown into a sieve and washed thoroughly with cold water. Then the pearl barley is shaken vigorously and scalded with boiling water.
Serving the dish to the table
After the described steps, you should have delicious pearl barley porridge (crumbly). The recipe for this side dish calls for adding it to barley scalded with boiling water and mixing well. In this form, the dish is served to the table along with a glass of milk and a piece of bread with cheese.
Step-by-step recipe for crumbly pearl barley porridge in a slow cooker
If you have a multicooker, then you can cook pearl barley porridge using it. For this you will need:
- pearl barley - 1 cup;
- Cold drinking water - 3 glasses;
- butter - 4 large spoons;
- onions and carrots - 1 piece each;
- sea salt - to taste.
Preparing the Components
Crumbly pearl barley porridge, cooked in a slow cooker, turns out very tasty if you make it together with frying. To do this, take onions and carrots, peel them and cut them into small cubes. Then the ingredients are placed in a multicooker bowl, seasoned with oil and fried in baking mode for 20 minutes.
As for pearl barley, it is prepared exactly as described above. The cereals are thoroughly washed and then de-mucilaged by draining the water several times.
Cooking method
After preparing all the components, immediately begin cooking the dish. To do this, the processed cereal is placed in the container of the device, and then drinking water and sea salt are added to it. In this composition, barley is cooked in porridge mode for 50 minutes. If your multicooker does not have such a program, then you can use “Stewing”. However, in this case, the timer must be set 10 minutes longer.
After the pearl barley becomes soft, add previously fried vegetables to it, mix well and leave to heat.
The prepared porridge is ideal for quality or sausages.
Making porridge in the oven
How to prepare crumbly pearl barley porridge in the oven? You will find the answer to this difficult culinary question in the following sections of the article.
So, to implement the presented recipe we will need:
Preparing the components
Crumbled pearl barley porridge in a pot turns out tender and nutritious. This dish will serve as an excellent lunch or dinner not only for adults, but also for children.
Before you start preparing pearl barley porridge, the cereal must be properly processed. To do this, wash it thoroughly in warm water (until the liquid becomes clear), and then put it in a deep bowl. If you want to cook pearl barley in the shortest possible time, it is recommended to pre-soak it. This is done using ordinary drinking water. It is better to keep the cereal in it for half a day. During this time, it should absorb as much liquid as possible.
After this, it is recommended to process the pearl barley exactly as described in the first recipe. In other words, the product must be boiled, drained, refilled, boiled, drained, etc. This process will allow the cereal to lose mucus as much as possible.
Heat treatment
After processing the cereal, it is laid out and salted. Then the pearl barley is poured with whole cow's milk and mixed thoroughly. Finally, throw a piece of butter into the pot, cover with a lid and place in a preheated oven. Cook in this way for 80 minutes (at a temperature of 200 degrees). If necessary, periodically stir the pearl barley with a large spoon so that it does not burn to the bottom of the dish.
After the cereal becomes soft and absorbs the milk drink, the pots are removed and, without opening, wrapped in a towel. In this form, the porridge is left aside for ¼ hour.
Serve for lunch
Having prepared a delicious crumbly one, it is distributed on plates and served to the table (you can directly in pots). In addition to this tasty and nutritious dish, you are presented with a sandwich with bread, butter and cheese, as well as a glass of berry jelly or sweet tea. Bon appetit!