Such a familiar dish from childhood and a favorite dish, like pickle with pearl barley, is often used in baby food. The first time the baby tries such a soup in kindergarten. We do not part with him at school. School chefs often cook pickle with barley. And this is not surprising. After all, it contains all the products necessary for the child: meat, vegetables and cereals.
Cooking such a soup at home is easy. You just need to know a few tricks that will make it tastier. Preparation of pickle with pearl barley begins with the selection of all necessary components. We need a few potatoes, an onion, two medium-sized pickles, carrots, several leaves of parsley and peas of black and allspice, fresh herbs, salt, half a glass of pearl barley and chicken offal in the amount of half a kilogram. Rinse the giblets, and chopping them into small pieces, pour two liters of water, lightly salt and cook diet broth. Add steamed barley to the finished broth.
We peel our vegetables, after washing them under running water. Cut the potatoes into medium-sized cubes, carrots and onions - into strips. It is convenient to use for grinding a grater for Korean salads. With its help, all components are obtained into sliced pieces of the same size. Put the potatoes in the broth and continue cooking. Cucumbers are cut into thin strips and squeezed from excess brine. We heat the pan, grease it with vegetable oil. Fry carrots, cucumbers and onions. Add the steamed vegetables, spices to the broth and bring to readiness. Fresh herbs, finely chop and put in a small bowl. Pour the finished pickle with pearl barley on plates. Serve with fresh herbs and sour cream.
To quickly cook dinner, you need to know how to cook pickle with barley. If you plan to include it in tomorrow's menu, then soak pearl barley for the night. By morning, it absorbs water well and doubles. Then you will spend only twenty minutes cooking it. This will be enough, putting the cereal in the broth with the very first ingredient.
But, if you decide to cook a pickle with pearl barley at the last moment, then you should use another method. Having put the broth on one burner to cook, set on the second cook a saucepan with barley. At the time of preparation of the broth, the cereal is already cooked until half cooked. It is enough to drain water from it and add to the soup to cook further. Such a little trick will help get rid of the peculiar taste of cereals and not spend too much time on cooking the soup.
A healthy dish is not only for children, but also for adults. Having a brackish-sour flavor, it is great for lunch on a hot day. Pickle can be served cold. Chicken offal broth makes it a diet dish. And after a variety of festive feasts with plentiful libations, such a soup is simply irreplaceable. It will help restore the water-salt balance in the body and greatly alleviate the symptoms of a hangover.
Of course, it is not necessary to use offal for its preparation. No less tasty broth is obtained from pork ribs or beef. Use the meat you have. You can cook such a soup on a vegetable broth, but not meat. In this case, you will get a fasting dish, perfect for fasting. To do this, you also need to soak pearl barley for the night, and to the main vegetables you must add parsley root, garlic, tomato paste and, preferably, turnips. Get the dish that our grandmothers often cooked during Lent.
Many people do not like this or that dish, just because they tried a not very successful version of its preparation. But having cooked pickle according to our recipe, you will become his fan forever. When you cook with love, then everything succeeds.