Delicious barley with meat is a classic breakfast for a tourist or summer resident. Cooking pearl barley with meat is very simple, I advise you to cook it in a Dutch oven, since this grain likes to burn, and you cannot open the lid and stir the dish during the cooking process. In the recipe I used lean pork, which can be replaced with lean beef, it will also be tasty. You can cook barley with fatty meat, but, for my taste, it will be too high in calories.
Delicious barley with meat
Pearl barley turns out crumbly, pork is tender and breaks down into fibers itself, and carrots with onions and tomatoes perfectly complement meat and porridge. Barley with meat is a hearty, healthy and nutritious dish for the whole family made from affordable, inexpensive products.
- Cooking time: 1 hour 30 minutes
- Number of servings: 4
A method for preparing delicious pearl barley with meat
We measure out the pearl barley; one large mug is enough for four servings; it holds approximately 230-250 g. The dish should be prepared in a roasting pan with a lid or in a saucepan with thick walls and a thick bottom.
Measure out the required amount of pearl barley
Soak the cereal in cold water for several minutes, drain the water, and rinse under the tap with cold water. Pour two mugs of water into the frying pan, pour in the pearl barley, put the frying pan on the fire, and heat to a boil.
By the way, I advise you to sort through the pearl barley so that there are no surprises in the form of small pebbles in the finished dish.
Wash and boil the pearl barley
Fry the coarsely chopped onion in heated refined vegetable or olive oil.
Fry onions
We also add coarsely chopped carrots to the onions, you can add a little more celery if you like this vegetable.
Coarsely chop carrots and fry with onions
When the vegetables are soft, add the pork, cut into cubes, into the pan. Fry the meat and vegetables for a few minutes until the pork sets just a little.
Fry pork with vegetables
Place meat and vegetables in a roasting pan with boiling pearl barley.
Add fried meat and vegetables to boiling barley
Then add fresh chili peppers, bay leaves, chopped garlic and tomatoes. Instead of tomatoes, you can add 2-3 tablespoons of tomato puree.
Add chili pepper, bay leaf, garlic and tomatoes
Add salt to taste, suneli hops and roughly ground coriander seeds in a mortar. Instead of these spices, you can use curry powder for meat or ground red paprika.
Adding spices
Close the roasting pan tightly, turn the heat to low, and cook for 1 hour. Then remove the porridge from the stove, wrap it in a towel, and leave for 15-20 minutes to steam.
Close the lid and cook over low heat
Serve the barley with meat hot, bon appetit! Fresh vegetable salad and homemade ketchup will complement the dish well.
Delicious barley with meat
Barley with meat can be preserved. You need to put the hot porridge with meat and vegetables into sterilized half-liter jars, cover with lids, and place in a large pan on a towel. Pour hot water so that it reaches the hangers, sterilize for 30 minutes, and roll up. Cool the canned food and store in the refrigerator for no more than 1 month.
Pearl barley porridge with meat, recipe with photo
1. First of all, thoroughly rinse the pearl barley until the water becomes clear. Transfer the washed grains to a deep bowl and fill with cold water. Leave at room temperature for 5-8 hours. After 2-3 hours, drain the water and add fresh water.
2. Peel large onions and carrots. Rinse and dry with a towel. Grind the carrots on a grater with large holes or cut into thin short strips. Cut the onion into arbitrary small pieces.
3. Rinse the pork pulp. Dry with a napkin to remove excess moisture. Cut into small cubes.
4. For cooking, select thick-walled, deep dishes. Heat the vegetable oil. Add onions and carrots. Mix. Cook over moderate heat for 5-8 minutes, stirring with a spatula.
5. Add pieces of meat to the fried onions and carrots. Mix. Fry over low heat for 8-10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
6. Add washed, swollen cereal, salt, Italian herbs, dried paprika, and curry. Mix.
7. Pour boiling water. Mix. Let it boil over moderate heat. We taste for salt and spices, if necessary, add what is missing. Then cover with a lid, turn on low heat and cook the pearl barley porridge with meat for 40-50 minutes, until all the ingredients are ready. There is no need to stir during the cooking process.
8. Pearl barley porridge with meat is ready. The cereal absorbed most of the liquid, but the dish turned out juicy, not dry.
9. Serve for lunch or dinner with fresh vegetables and herbs. Bon appetit!
Recommendations for the recipe for pearl barley porridge with meat:
- Pearl barley does not boil over, the grains remain whole and elastic. If you prefer boiled porridge, you can replace pearl barley with barley or opt for round rice.
- It is better to choose meat that is not very tough; pork pulp with layers of fat, young beef or broiler chicken are perfect. There should be at least 70-100 g of fat per 500 g of meat to make the dish more juicy.
- To prepare porridge, it is not necessary to use a saucepan; you can cook it in a deep frying pan, cauldron or saucepan. It is advisable that the dishes have a thick bottom or non-stick coating. You can also prepare the second course in pots in the oven, as in this recipe for pea porridge.
- When adding cereal, it is important to monitor the water level so that the pearl barley does not absorb all the liquid and the porridge does not burn or dry out.
- If you think that the dish is not very fatty and juicy, you can add a piece of butter to the finished hot porridge.
That’s the whole recipe with photos; pearl barley porridge turns out to be a fairly satisfying and not very expensive meat dish. The above ingredients make a complete dinner for 3 people.
How to cook pearl barley porridge with meat in a pot in the oven
Pearl barley porridge cooked in pots in the oven turns out incredibly tender and crumbly. This is due to the fact that it is not boiled, but simmers, enveloped in heat from all sides, and absorbs all the juices of meat and vegetables.
To prepare barley stewed in the oven you will need:
- 200 g pearl barley;
- 250 g of meat (beef or pork);
- 100 g onions;
- 100 g carrots;
- 50 ml tomato juice;
- 40 ml vegetable oil;
- 25 g garlic;
- salt and spices to taste.
The time required for this option for preparing pearl barley porridge will be in the range of 90-120 minutes.
The calorie content of 100 grams of food from a pot is 104 kilocalories.
Operating procedure:
- Dry the pre-soaked cereal well and fry in a dry frying pan until a beautiful golden color;
- In another frying pan, fry the meat in hot oil, then fry the onion along with it, and after the onion, add the third ingredient - carrots, chopped using a coarse grater. It takes 5-7 minutes to fry each product;
- 15-20 minutes after the start of frying the meat, pour tomato juice into the frying pan, add salt, spices and garlic passed through a press. Simmer everything under a closed lid for another 5 minutes;
- Place fried pearl barley and meat and vegetables from the frying pan into ceramic pots. Each pot should be a little more than half full;
- Add water to each pot so that it does not reach 2-3 cm to the top. Mix the contents with a spoon and place in the oven;
- First, the porridge should spend half an hour in the oven at a temperature of 200 degrees, and then the temperature should be reduced to 180 degrees and simmer the pots for another 1 hour;
- After the specified time, the porridge will be ready, but if time permits, it can be left for a while in the turned off oven. This way it will absorb all the flavors of meat and vegetables.
How to cook a dish in a slow cooker
The two previous recipes told how to cook delicious crumbly pearl barley porridge with meat in the usual way on the stove and in ceramic pots in the oven. But there is another way - cooking pearl barley in a slow cooker. Below you will find detailed step-by-step instructions for the Redmond multicooker.
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To cook this dish using the capabilities of a modern kitchen gadget, you need to take:
- 200 g pearl barley;
- 200 g pork tenderloin;
- 150 g onions;
- 150 g carrots;
- 150 g red bell pepper;
- 65-70 ml vegetable oil;
- salt and spices to taste.
Cooking time is about 3.5 hours.
The calorie content of 100 g of the finished dish is 237.4 kcal.
How to cook pearl barley porridge with meat in a slow cooker:
- Pour vegetable oil into the bottom of the multicooker bowl, place chopped onions, carrots and peppers on it. Turn on the “Frying” mode. For the Redmond multicooker, its duration is 18 minutes. This must be taken into account when preparing dishes in other devices class=”aligncenter” width=”450″ height=”283″[/img]
- After half the cycle of the established program, add meat cut into small pieces to the vegetables, mix everything well with a multicooker spatula or an ordinary wooden one;
- Rinse the pearl barley under running water until it is completely transparent, and as soon as the “Frying” mode ends, transfer the pearl barley to the multicooker and add 300 ml of water;
- Further preparation of the dish will take place in the “Delayed Start” mode. This mode will replace soaking cereals and will help reduce the cooking time of porridge. Duration of delayed start – 2 hours;
- In the control panel menu, you need to select the “Rice/cereals” program and manually set its duration to 1 hour, since the time determined by the program is not enough to prepare pearl barley. If there is no such program, it can be replaced by the “Extinguishing” program;
- In the middle of the cooking cycle, you can carefully open the lid of the multicooker, stir its contents and, if necessary, add water (50-100 ml). After the final beep, the porridge will be ready.
