Soup with pearl barley

How to diversify the daily diet and make the table more interesting? Soup is an incredibly useful dish for digestion, and pearl barley helps improve the performance of the gastrointestinal tract. Therefore it is quite reasonable that it occurred to many people to combine these two useful products together. That's just left to pick up a suitable recipe and make soup with pearl barley. What do we mean when we say "suitable"? About this a little later.

Many are against pearl barley, because it is not very convenient to prepare. The fact is that it must first be soaked in water. Many regret this time and thereby deprive themselves of one of the most useful cereals, containing a large number of trace elements and vitamins, which are necessary for the body for normal life.

So, first of all your personal wishes are important. Do you want soup to be meat or vegetarian? At what time of the day are you going to eat it: in the morning or at lunch? What caloric value do you expect?

As a rule, in our country it is customary to have soups for lunch, as the first dish. If you follow this tradition, you should use the following recipe to prepare a nutritious soup with pearl barley.

For its preparation you will need a certain set of products, namely: pearl barley - 2 tablespoons, beef - 300 grams, onions - 3 pieces, celery - 1 small root, greens to taste, salt, pepper, carrots - 1 piece, parsley 1 bundle.

Cooking soup with wheat is necessary by stages. Pre-soak the pearl barley for three hours in boiled water, then cook. If you do not soak the pearl barley, it will be firm. This is the mistake of many novice chefs, try to avoid it. Before soaking, pearl barley should be rinsed.

Beef sliced in small pieces, fry in sunflower oil, and then add the finished meat to the pearl barley and continue to cook.

While this mixture is brewed, you need to add there the same grated carrots, finely chopped parsley, grated celery. Onions must be fried in sunflower or olive oil and added to the soup with pearl barley a few minutes before the meal is ready. Salt, pepper and other seasonings are added, too, just before cooking. Then the taste will be felt sharper.

If you want a soup with pearl barley, which you cooked, completely and completely considered a dish from the list of healthy food, then you will have to limit the amount of seasonings and salt. And meat is better to take skim.

Abroad, many people eat breakfast for either porridge or soup. Dish for breakfast should be easy, because the stomach has not yet woken up. Therefore, in this case, it is better not to add meat to the dish. The soup made from pearl barley, which you can eat in the morning, can be prepared according to the recipe that we gave above. Use all ingredients except meat.

Soup with pearl barley, which can be eaten and vegetarians, is prepared from pearl barley and mushrooms. Mushrooms are heavy food, so this soup is also better to eat for lunch.

To prepare soup from pearl barley and mushrooms, you will need products such as 2 liters of vegetable broth, 100 g of dried white mushrooms, 2 cups of sour cream, 1 glass of pearl barley, salt and pepper to taste, greens for decoration, 3.5 cups of hot water , 2 tablespoons of flour.

Mushrooms pre-soak in hot water for an hour. Soak the pearl barley for several hours. Put the pearl barley cook, stir for an hour. Chop large mushrooms.

We mix flour, sour cream and broth, then gently pour the mixture into the mass with pearl barley and cook, we also add mushrooms there. Bring to a boil and add seasoning.

Bon Appetit!