How to cook friable barley in water🍚: a step-by-step recipe

Kitchen appliances and utensils: pan, stove, kitchen scale, colander, spoon.

Ingredients

Name	amount
Perlovka	200 g
Water	900 ml
Salt	taste

Step cooking

Pour 200 g of pearl barley into a colander or sieve, rinse it well under a stream of warm running water. Pour the washed barley into the pan in which you are going to cook it.
Boil 300 ml of water in a teapot; pour boiling water over boiling water for 30 minutes. This will then accelerate the cooking of pearl barley.
After 30 minutes, drain the water with which the cereal was poured. Pour 600 ml of water into a pan with pearl barley, put it on low heat and add salt to taste.
Cover the pan and watch for the water to boil.
After boiling the barley, constantly stir it so that the porridge does not burn. Cook for another half hour.

Did you know? In order for pearl barley to be friable and tasty, it is necessary that the water remaining in the pan is absorbed into the pearl barley. To do this, remove it from the fire, cover with a lid and wrap it on top with a towel. Leave the pan under the towel for 10-15 minutes.

Barley Ideas

Chicken Steak: Preheat the pan, pour a little vegetable oil, put your steak in the pan, salt and pepper when frying. Fry over high heat for 1-1.5 minutes on each side.

Meat sauce:Cut 200 g of meat (chicken, pork, beef) into small pieces, fry the meat with one finely chopped onion and one grated carrot, after frying, pour 50-70 ml of water into the pan, add 2 tablespoons of sour cream or tomato paste (optional), cover and simmer for 15-30 minutes (depending on meat). Salt and pepper to taste.

Vegetable salad:wash and chop one fresh tomato, one cucumber, one lettuce pepper, peel one small onion and chop finely. Sprinkle vegetables in a salad bowl, sprinkle with olive oil, salt to taste.

Also for taste, you can add to the porridge 15-20 g of butter, sprinkle with grated cheese and herbs.

Video recipe

After watching the video recipe, you will see how much pearl barley you get when the cereal breaks apart, and you can also see how much porridge you get after you cover it and the water evaporates from it.

You learned how to cook barley in a simple way. Having cooked pearl barley according to this recipe, you will spend a small amount of time, and letting the water soak in the right way, you will get a tasty, crumbly porridge.