Pearl barley is very useful, and, if cooked correctly, it is surprisingly tasty (for example, in the form of a gentle hearty porridge). Of course, the advantages of such a product include its cheapness. Pearl barley porridge in a slow cooker is especially tasty.

Barley porridge garnished in a multicooker

A dish prepared according to this recipe can be used as a side dish for meat and fish dishes. Ingredients: 1.5 multi-cooker glasses of pearl barley, onion, 3.5 multi-cooker glasses of filtered water, carrot, salt.

  1. First, barley is soaked for half an hour in hot water.
  2. While it is possible to pass the vegetables in frying mode in butter. First, only onions, and then - in combination with grated carrots.
  3. Washed cereal is laid out in a "smart pan".
  4. It remains to add salt to taste and pour water.
  5. In the pilaf or cooking mode, the treat is prepared for 40-45 minutes.

After the signal, the side dish will insist on heating for another 12-15 minutes.

With meat

Any meat is suitable (pork, beef). Ingredients: 370 g of meat, carrot, salt, onion, 5 multi-cooked glasses of water and 2 glasses of pearl barley, a pinch of a mixture of peppers and special seasoning for pilaf, a couple of bay leaves.

  1. First, meat cut into slices is fried in any oil in the oven bowl. It is immediately salted and sprinkled with spices.
  2. Further, in the frying mode, the meat is cooked already with chopped vegetables for 8-9 minutes.
  3. Washed cereal spills out from above.
  4. Heated water is poured into the container, and bay leaves are added.
  5. Under a closed lid, treats can be prepared even in baking mode.

Barley with meat in a slow cooker takes 45-55 minutes.

Stew Recipe

For such a dish, cereal should be soaked in cold water for the whole night. Ingredients: 2 multi-cooked glasses of barley and 2 cups of filtered water, 1 can of any meat stew, carrots, any aromatic herbs, onion, salt.

  1. In the frying program, vegetables chopped in a convenient way are fried until golden brown.
  2. Next, onion and carrot are laid out the entire contents of the can with stew. Together, the components languish in a similar mode for 8-9 minutes.
  3. Washed cereal spills over the frying pan, water pours out. The mass is salted and sprinkled with aromatic herbs.
  4. The dish is prepared for 80-90 minutes in pilaf mode or in the “Stewing” program.

A hot treat is served, sprinkled with fresh herbs.

Barley with mushrooms

You can cook barley with forest mushrooms, and with fresh champignons, which are used most often by housewives. Ingredients: 1 multi-cooked glass of cereal and 2.5 tbsp. filtered water, onion, 320-340 g of mushrooms, 3-5 garlic cloves, salt.

  1. Porridge is poured with cold water and “rests” while the rest of the food is being prepared.
  2. Onions and champignons are arbitrarily chopped. First, only vegetable is fried in vegetable oil, and then - along with mushrooms. The total cooking time is 8-9 minutes.
  3. The cereal is washed until the water stops darkening, after which it is shifted to frying.
  4. Crushed garlic is bred in water. Liquid is poured over all products.
  5. You need to cook the barley in the program "Buckwheat", "Porridge", "Rice" or another suitable one. Time - 35-45 minutes.

Instead of ordinary water, you can fill the components with meat or vegetable broth.

Milk pearl barley porridge

Pearl barley cereal made with milk has a particularly rich taste. Ingredients: 2 multi-glasses of barley, 3 cups of filtered water and fat milk, 2-2.5 large spoons of sugar, a pinch of salt.

  1. The groats should be soaked in cold water for about an hour. Next, the product is washed and sent to the bowl of “smart pot”.
  2. Both types of liquid pour out from above.
  3. The mass is salted and sugar.
  4. Products are thoroughly mixed. The dish is prepared in the "Milk Porridge" mode.

A treat is served with a slice of butter.

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With chicken

You can use any parts of the chicken in this dish. Ingredients: 600 g chicken, 1 multicooking glass of pearl barley t 3 tbsp. filtered water, 2 onions, salt, carrot, a pinch of ground pepper, 3-4 garlic cloves.

  1. Groats are poured with cold water.
  2. Chunks of chicken are laid in the oiled bowl of the device, which are fried in hot oil.
  3. Next, chopped vegetables are sent to the meat. Together, the products are cooked for 8-9 minutes in frying mode. Onions and carrots, languishing in chicken fat, are especially soft and aromatic.
  4. Well-washed pearl barley spills out during frying.
  5. Not cold water pours from above. Products are salted and pepper.
  6. It is necessary to prepare refreshments in the program "Pilaf" before it ends.

Approximately 15 minutes before the completion of cooking, crushed garlic is added to it.

With pumpkin

The finished dish is not only tasty and healthy, but also very appetizing due to the bright orange vegetable blotches. Ingredients: 170 g of barley, 380 g of pumpkin pulp, 380 ml of filtered water, salt, dried aromatic herbs.

  1. The cereal is soaked overnight. In the morning, the product is washed and poured into the appliance bowl.
  2. Cubes of pumpkin pulp are poured to the barley.
  3. You can immediately salt the dish, add a pinch of dried aromatic herbs to it.
  4. In the Buckwheat program, a treat is prepared before its completion.

It is tasty to eat a hot porridge with sunflower oil.

Nuances of cooking in a slow cooker: Redmond, Polaris

For cooking porridge "smart pots" are used most often. In general, any device model is suitable for this.

In multicookers from the Redmond brand, for cooking barley, you should choose the program "Milk Porridge", "Pilaf" or "Stewing". It remains only to set the right time.

In the Polaris ovens there are modes “Buckwheat”, “Rice”, “Porridge”, as well as those noted above. Any of them will do after adjusting the time.

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For the initial preparation of vegetables and meat, they usually need to be fried. You can use the universal modes "Frying" or "Baking", which are the devices of both brands.

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