Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to make pearl barley with stew in a slow cooker? Prepare the ingredients. You can take any stew, give preference to homemade or stewed meat from a proven manufacturer. Before cooking, sort the pearl barley, rinse with warm water. Grits should be soaked in cold water before cooking to shorten the cooking time. The soaking time of pearl barley is 2-3 hours (2 - 2.5 liters of water are taken for 1 kg of cereals). The weight in cereals is indicated before soaking.
Step 2:
Turn on the slow cooker to the "Frying" mode. Carefully open the tin of stew and mash its contents with a fork. Put the stew in the bowl of a slow cooker. Fry the stew with the lid open, stirring constantly, for about five minutes.
Step 3:
Wash and peel carrots and onions. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater, cut the onion arbitrarily. Add the chopped vegetables to a slow cooker cup and fry them in a bowl with an open lid for 10 minutes. Do not forget to mix.
Step 4:
Put the washed pearl barley into the bowl of the slow cooker. Add salt, ground black pepper to taste and mix.
Step 5:
Pour 500 ml of hot water, close the lid and turn on the "Quenching" or "Porridge" mode for 1 hour. When the quenching time is over, disconnect the slow cooker from the main mode and leave the pearl barley in the bowl for another 10-15 minutes. You can turn on the "Heating" mode;
Step 6:
Serve the finished pearl barley with stewed meat hot, you can decorate it with fresh herbs. Offer a salad of fresh vegetables and bread to this hearty porridge.
According to this recipe, you can cook a simple but very satisfying dinner. Pearl barley itself is characterized by long-term heat treatment, but in the presence of a slow cooker, this can be slightly reduced. It is not worth excluding healthy cereals from your diet, and recipes that will delight your taste can always be easily found. This recipe is one of those where pearl barley for the second appears at its best. This pearl porridge with stew will also appeal to children, especially if they have always been sympathetic to it.
Important! To make pearl barley dishes always delicious, read the article about the subtleties of choice and secrets of cooking pearl barley .
Keep in mind that the cooking time and mode are indicated approximately in the recipe. All slow cookers work differently and even the same models of the same manufacturer may have their own characteristics. Before you start cooking a new dish for you in a slow cooker, carefully study the instructions for it, and then in practice try to cook dishes that are familiar to you first, and then new ones, choosing the mode and time individually for your own technique.
Calorie content of products possible in the dish
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Pearl barley - 340 kcal/100g
- Carrots - 33 kcal/100g
- Dried carrots - 275 kcal/100g
- Boiled carrots - 25 kcal/100g
- Ground black pepper - 255 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Pork stew - 349 kcal/100g
