Oddly enough, the preparation of pearl barley porridge is now not held in high esteem, all because many? not knowing how to cook it, consider it tasteless and suitable only for feeding fish. In fact, this is not so, pearl barley is very tasty and healthy, its properties were already known in Russia, by the way, at that time it was very popular.
Beneficial features
Pearl barley is made from barley. Barley is a very tasty and satisfying porridge. Fiber in barley has a beneficial effect on the body and helps to reduce inflammation that occurs in the stomach and intestines. Barley also contains elements such as polysaccharide and glucan, which reduce blood sugar.
Perlovka perfectly saturates the body and is a dietary product that contains calcium, vitamin A, phosphorus, B vitamins, as well as iodine, lysine,
silicic acid and many other elements that support our body in shape and give it youth and freshness.
Cooking porridge
How to cook delicious barley ? Very simple. There are two ways. One is fast, and the second is long, in both cases the porridge turns out to be tasty and crumbly.
How to cook barley in the second way? To begin with, the cereals are washed and soaked in cold water for 3 hours, it turns out that you need to take a glass of porridge, for example, and fill it with water so that it covers the cereal a little.
Next, you need to drain the water and rinse the porridge several times. Put it in a pan with a thick bottom (the thicker the better) and pour again with cold water, but twice as much as the amount of porridge (for example, if you took a glass of pearl barley, add 2 cups of water to it). Next, put the pan on a big fire and wait for it to boil, then add a piece of oil, do not forget to salt and leave it to simmer over a small fire under the lid.
Now you know how to cook pearl barley. After the porridge boils a little, the water, accordingly, has evaporated and the cereal needs additional liquid, you need to pour a quarter of the original volume (in this case, a quarter glass).
Now the liquid should boil again, reduce the heat to medium and leave to simmer for an hour. After the specified time has passed, you need to taste the porridge, you can add salt and (if necessary) leave to cook. In general, if the cereal is not previously soaked, it can cook for two hours.
Next, we consider the option of how to cook barley in a quick way, a similar method involves reducing the heat treatment by about half.
So, we take the right amount of cereal (in our case a glass) and fill it with a double volume of water, soaking in this case is not necessary. As soon as the porridge boils over high heat, the water needs to be drained and pure added in the same amount.
Porridge in new water should boil again, now you can introduce oil and salt, and leave to simmer until fully cooked.
This, in fact, is the quick way to cook barley at home.
Naturally, modern technical devices will save time in the preparation of pearl barley, for example, you can use a slow cooker or microwave, but some people like pearl barley cooked in a saucepan, as in childhood.