Barley with mushrooms and onions

Ingredients

Barley – 150 g

Oyster mushrooms – 350 g

Onions – 1 pc.

Vegetable oil – 4 tbsp.

Soy sauce – 2 tbsp.

Khmeli-suneli - to taste

107 kcal
1 hour 10 minutes
1 hour 10 minutes

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Step-by-step recipe with photos

I won’t be mistaken if I say that there are not many pearl barley lovers. It is also called “shrapnel”, remembering the viscous army porridge or hospital food. And pearl barley takes a long time to cook, somehow sticks together and has a gray appearance, not very appetizing. But this grain is irreplaceable in pickle soup and can be added to stuffing for cabbage rolls.

Now we will prepare an appetizing, crumbly pearl barley porridge with mushrooms, onions, carrots and butter. It does not stick together at all, is constantly crumbly and tasty. Even the next day, the porridge retains all its flavor notes; it only needs to be heated using a method that is comfortable for you. And if you combine it with hot sauce, adjika or homemade marinades, you won’t be disappointed)).

To make pearl barley with mushrooms and onions, take the following products.

Wash the pearl barley well and add cool water. Leave to swell for 20-30 minutes. If you have time, you can quit for a couple of hours. Keep in mind that when cooking, its quantity increases 4 times.

Clean the mushrooms from debris, wash and cut. There is no need to peel the oyster mushrooms.

Cut the onions into comfortable pieces, the carrots into strips, or you can grate them on a Korean grater.

Drain the water from the swollen pearl barley, add fresh water in large quantities and cook. Later we will drain the water, like with pasta, so it is necessary that there is enough of it. When boiling, remove the foam, it usually appears on the surface, and cook the barley for 25 minutes. After this, drain the water and the cereal can be washed.

Place the chopped mushrooms in a suitable saucepan or cauldron. Note that we are not adding oil yet. The bottom of the saucepan or saucepan must be dry and heated over the fire. While stirring the mushrooms, you need to ensure that all the liquid leaves them. And only later add vegetable oil. Now nothing prevents the mushrooms from frying. At this particular time, salt the mushrooms, sprinkle with pepper and hops-suneli. All spices are immediately absorbed like a sponge. Fry until nicely browned.

Then add onions and carrots. Stirring, fry everything together for 5-10 minutes.

When the mushrooms, carrots and onions reduce in volume, they will look like this.

While the vegetables and mushrooms were being fried, the pearl barley was half cooked. Drain the water completely.

Combine pearl barley with mushrooms and onions. Add about half a glass of water, soy sauce, salt and simmer under the lid with the vegetables until cooked, checking the cereal from time to time for softness. If necessary, add more water.

This is what ready-made pearl barley porridge with mushrooms and onions looks like. It is not grayish at all, but a colorful carrot-mushroom color)))

Recipe for making pearl barley porridge with mushrooms

The basis of a healthy human diet is various cereals. They are consumed as a savory side dish and a hearty main course. If you learn how to cook them correctly and experiment with the initial recipe, you will understand that porridge is the healthiest, tastiest and fastest dish to make. One of these is pearl barley, which not many people like or know how to cook.

Almost everyone associates pearl barley with a dry taste and lack of any special features. Usually it is cooked without any additional ingredients and in water. It is important to remember that pearl barley is very beneficial for the health of the human body. And if you cook it correctly, according to an excellent recipe, you will find it indescribably tasty and nutritious. It is best to cook it with additives. It can be: vegetable sauté, mushrooms, meat, fish. Barley with mushrooms is a special dish that deserves space on your dinner table.

The most important step in production is the selection of pearl barley (find more here). It is sold packaged or by weight. Pay attention to its color. The cereal must be golden in color. The main thing is that there are no dark spots or inclusions. Look at its general condition; the grains should not stick together. At the moment, you can find a large number of recipes for making it. A recipe tested over the years will be presented to you. Specifically, pearl barley porridge with mushrooms. Divine taste, smell, appearance - that's what you get from this recipe.

Ingredients

Pearl barley	2 glasses
Onion	2 pcs.
Carrot	1 PC.
Mushrooms (champignons)	300 gr
Butter	40 gr
Vegetable oil	2 tablespoons
Salt, pepper, spices	taste
Greens, fresh vegetables	for decoration

Manufacturing

1. The most important step is to choose good, good-quality cereals. You pour it onto the table, sort through it, and get rid of spoiled grains and debris.

2. The next important step is to rinse it under running water using a sieve.

3. Transfer the pearl barley into a bowl and fill it with clean water at room temperature. Leave for 40 minutes, according to the recipe. Then drain the liquid using a sieve. After this, pour 4 glasses of water into the pan (ratio 1:2). Place on the stove, turn the heat to medium, add salt and vegetable oil. When the water boils, add the cereal. Turn down the heat. After 20 minutes, the fragrant pearl barley is ready. Remove from heat and add butter, which will enrich the porridge.

4. Start refueling. Peel the carrots and rinse in water. Rub on a small grater.

5. Peel the onion. Cut into half rings. Transfer to a plate and scald with boiling water.

6. It’s great to wash the mushrooms in water. Cut them into slices and slices.

7. Pour vegetable oil into a hot frying pan and heat it up. Fry the onion for 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Add carrots and fry for 5 minutes. Take the mushrooms, add them to the vegetables, add salt and pepper. Fry until all the liquid has evaporated. It will take 8 minutes. Then add pearl barley to the vegetables and mix. Close the lid and simmer for 10 minutes.

8. Porridge with mushrooms is ready. You can serve this dish for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Place on plates. Decorate with the freshest herbs and vegetables and enjoy the special smell and taste of porridge. Barley with mushrooms will become an indispensable dish in your family’s diet. A healthy, satisfying, tasty dish - what could be better!

Follow the manufacturing technology described in the recipe, and detailed photos will help you with this. Your household will appreciate this porridge.

Video recipe

Useful Features

Barley is rich in vitamins, minerals, and beneficial substances that play an important role in the health of the human body.

Cereals are rich in vitamins: A, E, B, PP, D. Contains carbohydrates, fiber, proteins, and essential amino acids. It contains: iodine, bromine, nickel, calcium, iron, potassium.
It is a valuable dietary product. Excellent help in the fight against excess weight. Barley is useful for obesity and diabetes. Calorie content is 320 kilocalories per 100 grams of finished product.
Helps improve the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, cleanses the body, enriches the blood (the internal environment of the body, formed by liquid connective tissue. Consists of plasma and formed elements: leukocyte cells and post-cellular structures: erythrocytes and platelets) with oxygen and removes it from cholesterol plaques.
Strengthens the immune system, improves complexion and skin, and rejuvenates. Strengthens nails and hair, making them smooth and silky.

Harmful characteristics

There are contraindications to eating pearl barley porridge. This product must not be abused. It is not recommended to introduce it into the diet more than 2-3 times a week.

This cereal is considered difficult for digestion, so you need to know when to stop and not overuse it, as it may cause complications.
Children should be introduced to their diet no earlier than 3 years of age.
Contraindicated for use during pregnancy.

Barley with white mushrooms

Measure out and thoroughly wash 300 grams of pearl barley.

Pour cool water over pearl barley in a bowl and leave for 15 minutes.

Place the pearl barley in a saucepan, add 1 liter of water and cook; after boiling, reduce the heat and cook, stirring, for 15-20 minutes until soft.

Sort out 600 grams of white mushrooms, wash well and dry.

Boil the pearl barley until half cooked, do not overcook it.

Place the almost finished pearl barley in a colander and wash.

Pour 4-5 tablespoons of vegetable oil into a saucepan.

Add finely chopped onion and diced carrots.

Barley with mushrooms, onions and carrots

Much to our chagrin, in the diet of a city dweller you can rarely find dishes made from cereals obtained from barley. Despite the fact that most of us have heard about the enormous benefits of this cereal. And now we’ll talk about pearl barley, Friends!

I understand that not many people like it. But the problem, in my opinion, is completely different - we don’t know how to cook it. In Rus' they called this cereal “royal”, meaning not only its beneficial properties, but also its taste. And our forefathers knew a lot about natural nutrition and knew how to cook superbly delicious dishes from pearl barley! Just like buckwheat. I am now offering a most delicious dish that will amaze with its taste not only those who are fasting, but will also be a beautiful recipe for contrast for lovers of meat meals.

Nowadays, this cereal is very undervalued. I don't really understand why. After all, you can cook a lot of different and delicious things from it. Very necessary, tasty and economical, it actually has no contraindications. Why have other newfangled cereals replaced it from our diet? Guys, in all respects, as they say, they can’t hold a candle to her.

This offensive misunderstanding urgently needs to be corrected. Now let’s prepare pearl barley with champignons, oh, what a delicious thing it is! A dish that has been tested for centuries. Well, of course in those days, it was cooked in the oven, and there were forest mushrooms... But what can we create, we don’t have ovens in our apartments, the only mushrooms in stores are champignons... But there is good, tasty and necessary cereal, which is unlikely to be available since then has changed. She is now the main character of our dish.

Barley with mushrooms - recipe for making

Ingredients:

mushrooms (I have champignons) - 250 gr
pearl barley - 1 cup
carrots - 1 piece
onion - 1 head
olive oil - to taste
salt, dark ground pepper - to taste
spices (optional) - to taste

Did you know that the word “pearl” itself comes from the Latin “pearl”, which means pearl. In their raw form, the grains of the cereal are covered with a pearlescent coating and really look like pearls.

Step by step recipe:

Step 1.

Before all this, you need to boil the pearl barley until tender. Before you fill it with water and put it on the stove, the cereal must be thoroughly washed. As soon as completely clean and clear water begins to drain during the washing process, you can fill the cereal with water and cook over medium heat.

I didn’t soak the grains in advance, but you can do this, then the manufacturing process will become even shorter. You can soak it overnight (that is, in the dark) or in the morning if you are going to cook it for an evening meal.

Fill the pearl barley with water a centimeter above the grain itself. Cook with the lid closed over medium heat until the grains have completely absorbed all the water. After this, reduce the heat to a minimum and leave the porridge to simmer until fully cooked. The entire manufacturing procedure after boiling takes approximately 30 minutes.

While the cereal is cooking, there is time to prepare the remaining ingredients.

Step 2.

Finely chop the onion. The smaller the pieces, the faster it will cook, keep this in mind. We immediately send the onion to sauté in the frying pan. Immediately take the frying pan in which you will fry cereals and vegetables.

Grate the carrots on a medium grater. You can naturally chop it into strips, this is a matter of taste, do it as you like.

Barley with mushrooms, onions and carrots

We got a crumbly, tasty, juicy and fragrant porridge. For those who are fasting, this is naturally an independent dish; you can add some kind of vegetable salad to it and you will get a real feast for the stomach.

Well, for convinced meat eaters, this dish can be a good side dish, put a juicy cutlet next to it and enjoy your appetite!

And in the end I would like to say a few more tender words addressed to the cereal:

Barley in its own composition contains substances that help increase burgundy blood cells, that is, the more cereal you eat, the better your hemoglobin becomes
The cereal contains microelements such as selenium, silicon, calcium, magnesium, potassium and much more. I listed only those that 98% of city residents lack.
In addition, pearl barley contains many different amino acids, which makes it simply irreplaceable for vegetable eaters and those who fast.

There are still a lot of good things that can be written about this cereal, but this is only briefly.

Friends, I hope you like the dish, and super-needed cereals will appear in your family’s diet from time to time.