How to diversify the daily diet and make the table more interesting? Soup is an incredibly healthy dish for digestion, and pearl barley helps to improve the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract. Therefore, it is quite reasonable that it occurred to many to combine these two useful products together. It only remains to choose the right recipe and make soup with pearl barley. What do we mean when we say “suitable”? More about this later.
Many oppose pearl barley, as 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, which contains a large amount of trace elements and vitamins that the body needs for normal life.
So, first of all, your personal wishes are important. Do you want the soup to be meat or vegetarian? What time of day are you going to eat it: in the morning or at lunch? What calorie content do you expect?
As a rule, it is customary in our country to eat soups for lunch, as a first course. If you adhere to this tradition, you should use the following recipe to make nutritious pearl barley soup.
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 spine, herbs to taste, salt, pepper similarly, carrots - 1 piece, parsley 1 bunch.
Preparation of soup with wheat groats is necessary in stages. Pre-soak pearl barley for three hours in boiled water, then cook. If you do not soak the pearl barley, then it will be solid. This is the mistake of many novice cooks, try to avoid it. Before soaking, pearl barley must be washed.
Cut the beef into small pieces, fry in sunflower oil, and then add the finished meat to the barley and continue cooking.
While this mixture is boiling, you need to add 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 dish is ready. Salt, pepper and other seasonings are also added immediately before cooking. Then the taste will be felt sharper.
If you want the pearl barley soup that you have prepared to be completely considered a dish from the list of healthy foods, then you will have to limit the amount of seasonings and salt. And meat is better to take fat-free.
Abroad, many eat breakfast or porridge or soup. The breakfast dish should be light, because the stomach has not yet woken up. Therefore, in this case, it is better not to add meat to the dish. Pearl barley soup, which you can eat in the mornings, can be prepared according to the recipe that we presented above. Use all ingredients except meat.
Pearl barley soup , which can also be eaten by vegetarians, is made from pearl barley and mushrooms. Mushrooms are heavy food, so this soup is also better to eat for lunch.
To make pearl barley and mushroom soup you will need products such as 2 liters of vegetable broth, 100 g of dried porcini mushrooms, 2 cups of sour cream, 1 cup of pearl barley, salt and pepper to taste, herbs for decoration, 3.5 cups of hot water , 2 tablespoons of flour.
Pre-soak the mushrooms in hot water for an hour. Soak pearl barley for several hours. Put the pearl barley cook, stir for an hour. Cut large mushrooms.
We mix flour, sour cream and broth, then carefully pour the mixture into the mass with pearl barley and cook, add mushrooms there. Bring to a boil and add seasoning.
Enjoy your meal!