Barley porridge in the multicooker: 4 recipes and subtleties of preparation

A slow cooker always helps the hostess when you need to cook poorly digestible foods. This includes pearl barley. Children do not like her for her rough consistency and stiffness. But these shortcomings are not inherent in properly cooked cereal! In Russia, he was languishing for a long time in a water bath, as a result of which pearl barley became so tender that it literally melted in his mouth. Our culinary assistant Philips or Polaris allows you to revive the old cooking technique, but significantly reduce the time to bring cereals to readiness. In a slow cooker you can cook barley so delicious that even children will eat it with pleasure.

Cooking features

To get the perfect soft consistency, grits should be properly prepared. There are several secrets of porridge with a rich, delicate taste.

• Choose small grits. Such barley is digested faster than large. And the number of useful elements in it is no less.
• Rinse before cooking. Pour barley with cold water, drain several times. So you remove the dust deposited on the grains during storage, transportation.
• Soak for 12 hours. Ideally leave the cereal all night. Grain grains swell, it will be possible to cook it faster. If you miss the soaking process, barley does not reach readiness during the standard multicooker mode. Cooking pearl barley in a slow cooker for a longer time can make it stiff.
• Use 1: 5 aspect ratio for soaking. Pour a glass of dry grain with five glasses of cold water.
• Proportions for boiling 1: 3. Measure the number of glasses of already soaked and swollen cereal! And for each use 3 cups of water, milk, so that the porridge turns out to be friable.
• Tomite in porridge mode. It perfectly matches the classic technology of cooking barley in a water bath. In this mode, in the Redmond, Panasonic multicookers, the mass does not boil, but evenly warms up to 90 °. Due to the lack of boiling, the protein in the cereal does not collapse, and the grains remain soft and tender.
• Cook 50 minutes. This is the standard period in the "Porridge" mode. If the crock-pot offers 1 hour of cooking, you do not need to change the period. For 50 minutes, the mass will languish at 90 °, then the multicooker will turn off the ten, and allow the mass to reach readiness under steam.
• Suitable modes "Rice", "Pilaf". They maintain the same cooking temperature.

The perfect side dish recipe

The side dish is to cook porridge in the water. A minimum of ingredients is used for it. And you can serve the dish with chicken, beef, any vegetable salad, with gravy.

You will need:

• pearl barley - 2 multi-glasses;
• water - 6 multi-glasses;
• butter - 50 g.

Cooking

1. Soak the cereal, drain the water.
2. Put in a slow cooker, add oil.
3. Pour in cold water.
4. Set the "Porridge" mode.

The porridge will cook in 1 hour. The porridge will turn out friable, very soft. If there is not enough salt to taste, you can simply salt the product in plates.And next time add a pinch to the grits before boiling.

Original recipes

A dish can be prepared for breakfast, always with milk. Or with meat products, which will make it a great option for dinner. A pressure cooker significantly reduces the time to bring cereals to readiness compared to classical technology, but the result is always tasty.

With milk

Preparing pearl barley porridge in a slow cooker is much simpler than on a stove. She does not require control and regular participation of the hostess to add water to the water bath. Less milk is needed, because it does not evaporate from the bowl. But to make the porridge consistency more liquid, add more milk than for friable porridge.

You will need:

• pearl barley - 1 multi-glass;
• butter - 20 g;
• sugar - 2 tsp;
• salt - ¼ teaspoon;
• water - 2 multi-glasses;
• milk - 4 multi-cups.

Cooking

1. Put the soaked groats into the bowl.
2. Pour in water, milk, pour sugar, salt. Put the butter, mix.
3. Select the "Porridge" mode.
4. Beep after the signal, hot.

If you soaked the cereal all night, one hour for its softness will be enough. But if you didn’t succeed in soaking it, in an hour open the multicooker lid, mix the mass and leave it in the “Extinguishing” mode. It maintains a minimum warming temperature at which the mass will reach steam in 2 hours.

With meat

It’s convenient to cook barley with meat. You can use any: chicken, pork, rabbit. Moreover, pre-stewing meat pieces is not required, even if it is stiff beef. During the preparation of porridge and it will reach readiness.

You will need:

• meat (pulp) - 400 g;
• onions and carrots - 2 large heads;
• pearl barley - 2 multi-glasses;
• water - 6 multi-glasses;
• salt, pepper, bay leaf.

Cooking

1. Chop the meat.
2. Peel, chop carrots, onions.
3. Fry the meat in a bowl for 10 minutes (the modes are "Frying", "Baking").
4. Put the vegetables, fry for 10 minutes.
5. Put the soaked groats, pour in the water.
6. Add spices.
7. Set the mode "Pilaf", cook before the signal.

This recipe is good for the winter diet, and in the summer you can safely add any vegetables to the dish. Sweet pepper, zucchini, tomatoes - everything will do! Put them to the meat when it is stewed with onions and carrots.

With stew

Barley porridge with stew turns out to be very satisfying. But it takes a minimum of time to cook it. A good option for a quick dinner, which, by the way, can be prepared in the delayed start mode.

You will need:

• pearl barley - 2 multi-glasses;
• water - 6 multi-glasses;
• beef stew - 1 can;
• onions, carrots - 1 head each;
• tomato - 2 pcs.;
• salt pepper.

Cooking

1. Peel, chop onions, tomatoes, carrots.
2. Fry onions, carrots in a bowl, add tomatoes, stew.
3. Put the soaked pearl barley, add the stew.
4. Put the spices.
5. Pour in water, cook in Pilaf mode.

Before serving, porridge just need to mix. To saturate the taste of tomato, you can add tomato paste to the mass.

As you can see, barley porridge in a slow cooker is easy to prepare. But it always turns out delicious, since it is impossible to spoil it with the appropriate boiling mode. Get acquainted with the new taste of healthy cereals and delight loved ones with hearty dishes with meat, stew.

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