How to learn how to cook delicious barley with mushrooms 🍲

Kitchen appliances and utensils:

• containers for ingredients;
• knife;
• cauldron or pan with a deep bottom;
• scapula;
• colander;
• a bowl;
• board;
• plate;
• pan.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. We prepare the ingredients. To start, we wash the barley to clear water. Leave the pearl barley in cold water to soak for about 1-1.5 hours.
   
2. When the cereal swells, rinse it again and drain the water. We put a pot with a deep bottom on the stove. You can use a cauldron. Pour barley in a saucepan and stir over medium heat to dry for about 3-5 minutes, until it is completely dry and browned.
   
3. We take water and fill it with barley. Leave the cereals to cook for 30 minutes. Do not forget to salt the water and cover the pan with a lid.
   
4. At this time, we wash the mushrooms, dry them and cut into half rings.
   
5. When the water with the cereal boils, cook it until tender over low heat. We peel the onion and cut into small cubes or half rings. We put the pan and heat it. Add vegetable oil and let it warm.
   
6. Put the onion in the pan and fry it until transparent, stirring occasionally. Do not forget to periodically stir the pearl barley.
   
7. Then add the mushrooms to the pan and fry everything together, mix well. Salt and pepper mushrooms with onions to taste. Add thyme and nutmeg, mix well. Pour the cream of mushrooms and onions, leave for 5 minutes to stew under the lid.
   
8. Remove the lid from the pan - the mushrooms are ready. Immediately check the barley. If the barley is ready, we send the mushrooms with cream to it. Mix all the ingredients well. You can serve it to the table! Enjoy your meal!
   

Cooking variations

Barley with mushrooms and onions is a very simple dish, but this does not make it less tasty than "risotto", for example. However, you can diversify this recipe and add to it anything you want - from meat and vegetables to various seasonings and dry herbs. To make barley with mushrooms even tastier, you can use the following filling options:

• sliced ​​chicken;
• pork;
• beef;
• bell pepper;
• chilli;
• corn;
• Tomatoes
• chopped greens;
• garlic;
• legumes;
• asparagus
• Beans

And these are far from all the options! Add any ingredients you like to barley, and then the dish will become even more delicious. Do not be afraid to experiment with seasonings and spices - with them any dish turns out even more intense and aromatic.

Video recipe

Watch this video to learn in more detail each step in the preparation of pearl barley with mushrooms. To make the dish just as tasty, follow the instructions above, and watch the video to fix the material - then you can definitely cook delicious barley with mushrooms and onions in a creamy sauce. Enjoy watching!

Now you know how to cook pearl barley with mushrooms. This simple dish will definitely not leave you indifferent! It turns out to be very tasty not only due to juicy mushrooms with onions and cream sauce, but also due to thyme with nutmeg - they give the dish a special charm.

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