How to boil barley in water 🥣

Kitchen appliances and utensils: stewpan or pan, sieve, hob.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. Pour one measuring cup of pearl barley into a sieve and rinse under running water until the liquid becomes clear.
   
2. The washed pearl barley is moved to a saucepan or a small saucepan, pour 3 cups of water. It is important that pearl barley is evenly distributed along the bottom of the vessel.
   
3. We place the pan with the grits on a strong fire and bring to a boil.
   
4. When the liquid begins to boil, reduce the heat to medium, cook for several minutes under a closed lid.
   
5. After we lower the fire a little more so that the liquid barely boils and becomes covered with bubbles. Thus, you need to select the necessary minimum temperature for boiling, at which porridge will not leak out over the edges and stick to the pan. On low heat, cook pearl barley for 40-50 minutes with a closed lid. The duration of the cooking will also depend on the desired cereal structure. If you want to get pearl barley just soft and elastic, you need to cook it for about 40 minutes. If you like more boiled groats, then hold it on the fire a little longer (50-55 minutes). Then the cereal absorbs all the water and becomes softer and more tender.
   
6. After turning off the fire, the porridge should stand for a while in the pan under a closed lid. Salt the prepared porridge to taste, add a tablespoon of butter or use to prepare another dish.
   

Feed options

Boiled pearl barley porridge alone is not to everyone's taste. It acquires a completely different flavor when served with various sauces and additives. Consider what is best to use pearl barley porridge in the water.

• Vegetable Braised vegetables sauce gives the dish a juicy and spicy aroma. To do this, in a preheated frying pan with butter, you need to fry one chopped onion and grated carrots, pour vegetables with tomato juice and stew for several minutes. Before serving, add chopped fresh herbs to the sauce and mix. Pepper and salt to taste. Combine the vegetable sauce with boiled pearl barley, let stand for a couple of minutes, and can be served.
• Mushroom. If desired, champignon mushrooms can be added to the sauce with stewed vegetables. To do this, they need to be fried in a separate pan and mixed with frying from onions and carrots. At this stage, you can add the desired spices, salt to taste. Pour a portion of boiled barley on the dish and sprinkle with mushrooms with vegetable frying on top.
• Meat. Barley porridge goes well with any kind of meat: pork, chicken, beef. You can use chopped and fried meat pieces with vegetables, and minced meat. Emphasize the taste of the dish sliced ​​fresh herbs.

Video recipe

The video shows a simple way of cooking pearl barley porridge in water, which will help to avoid boiling and burning cereals.