How to learn how to cook delicious pearl barley with chicken 🍲

Kitchen appliances and implements: bowl, spoon, pan with a lid, a frying pan with a lid, knife, cutting board, stove.

Ingredients

Step cooking

Cooking cereals

1. We rinse 0.5 cups of pearl barley under running water several times until the water becomes clear when draining. Pour into the pan 2 cups of water in a ratio of 1: 4 (1 part cereal and 4 parts water). We put the pot with water on the fire, bring to a boil.
   
2. Pour washed pearl barley into it, cover with a lid not tightly.
   
3. Add 0.5 tsp. salt. Cook the cereal on very low heat until half cooked.
   

Cooking chicken with vegetables

1. Pour 50 ml of water into the pan. Spread 2 chicken thighs.
   
2. Salt on one side and on the other hand (about 1 tsp. Salt on 2 thighs). Periodically turn the meat so that it is evenly stewed from 2 sides. Cover the pan with a lid, turn down the heat to a minimum.
   
3. Stew for 10 minutes. During this time, the chicken will empty its juice. We cut 2 onions not very finely, it is possible in half rings, it is possible less. Put it in the pan to the chicken.
   
4. Stew the onions while we chop the carrots. Do not cover with a lid. Cut 1 carrot into cubes or straws. We send to the chicken, distribute between pieces of meat so that it also stews in broth. If necessary, add salt. Add a little dried herbs, about 0.5 tsp. Cover, simmer for 3 minutes.
   

Collect the dish

1. We remove from the fire undercooked groats. We transfer the pearl barley with water to the pan, distributing it evenly between pieces of meat. In order for the meat not to be digested, we begin to cook it later than cereals. Or you can pre-cook chicken, onions and carrots without having to touch them slightly. Add 1/3 tsp. ground black pepper.
   
2. Cover, simmer over very low heat for 15 to 20 minutes. Open the lid and add 20 g of butter.
   
3. Again, cover the pan with a lid, leave to insist 10 - 15 minutes.
   barley

Did you know? Barley recipes appeared long before our times. Treats from this cereal were the first to be tasted once by the Russian nobility. The food was served at the ceremonial table, and it had the name "Royal". Its grains outwardly resembled pearls - these were the emperors' favorite jewelry. Later, pearl barley became a constant food of field army men and received the name "peasant rice". Soldiers who did not finish the porridge acted as grief cooks, they turned out to be tough on them. Hence the unfair, biased attitude towards a truly nutritious product.

Video recipe

In the video you can see in what proportion to cook pearl barley, how to stew chicken with vegetables, how to collect half-prepared ingredients in one piece.

According to this recipe, barley is very tasty. Even the next day, if you still have it, the barley remains friable and does not become thick, like ordinary cooked porridge.

Having tasted this dish at least once, you will forever change your opinion about pearl barley for the better, especially since using this recipe to cook it is simple and quick.

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