19.03.2018
Pearl barley is not popular, because the process of its preparation takes a long time, and the porridge does not always turn out crumbly. To avoid these difficulties, barley can be cooked in the Redmond multicooker. The variety of recipes for this dish is amazing.
Learning to cook crumbly porridge
How to cook pearl barley in the Redmond slow cooker so that the porridge is crumbly and tender? This is not difficult, because the smart kitchen appliance will take on the bulk of the work. Nutritionists strongly recommend including barley in the family menu, as it is rich in vitamin complexes and useful components.
Compound:
- 1 st. barley;
- 2.5 st. filtered water;
- salt;
- granulated sugar;
- 25 g soft butter.
On a note! Barley must be soaked in cold water for at least 5-6 hours, and it is better to leave it overnight. If you need to quickly cook porridge, pour boiling water over the cereal for an hour.
Cooking:
- We wash the pearl barley well.
- We pour it into a multi-bowl.
- Enter filtered water. We leave the cereal for the night.
- In the morning, add granulated sugar, salt and oil to barley. If you are preparing porridge for a side dish for meat or fish, do not add sugar.
- We turn on the "Porridge" mode and cook barley for 65-75 minutes.
- Then leave it in the automatic heating mode for 25 minutes. Ready!
Tired of the usual plov? Prepare it on the basis of pearl barley. Such pilaf turns out to be hearty, healthy and surprisingly tasty!
Compound:
- 1 st. barley;
- 2.5 st. filtered water;
- 250 g meat pulp;
- carrot;
- 50 g of soft butter;
- salt;
- spices.
Advice! For cooking barley porridge with meat, it is better to choose pork.
Cooking:
On a note! Barley with chicken is prepared in the same way in the Redmond slow cooker. Such a dish will be less high-calorie than with pork.
Cooking a hearty meal without much hassle
Barley with stew in the Redmond slow cooker turns out incredibly tasty. Cooking it is simple and fast enough. Shall we try?
Compound:
- 2 tbsp. barley;
- 5 st. filtered water;
- carrot root;
- can of stew;
- a blend of spices;
- salt.
Cooking:
Barley porridge with mushrooms is ideal for a lean and vegetarian diet. It is tasty, healthy and fragrant! Even the pickiest gourmet will not refuse such a dish.
Compound:
- 2 tbsp. barley;
- 5 st. filtered water;
- 0.5 kg of mushrooms;
- unflavored vegetable oil;
- freshly ground pepper;
- salt.
Cooking:
Festive dish
Try to cook barley porridge with lamb ribs. They can also be replaced with pork. Cedar nuts will add a special taste to the dish.
Compound:
- 3 rosemary sprigs;
- 2 tbsp. barley;
- 0.7 kg lamb ribs;
- unflavored vegetable oil;
- basil;
- freshly ground pepper;
- 3 garlic cloves;
- salt;
- 80 g of cedar nuts, peeled;
- 0.1 kg of cheese;
- 100 ml olive oil.
Cooking:
- Put them in a pile and chop them finely.
- Put the basil in a mortar, add salt.
- Combine basil with olive oil, stir.
- Peel the garlic cloves. One grind with salt in a mortar.
- Mix the garlic mass with basil.
- Turn on the "Baking" mode.
- Put peeled nuts in a multi-bowl. Stirring, fry them until golden brown.
- Fry the rest until they turn golden brown.
- Combine grated nuts with basil and garlic, stir.
- Let's add some olive oil.
- We stir. We should get a sauce that is similar in structure to sour cream.
- Add toasted nuts to it, stir.
- We wash the ribs. Rub them with salt and pepper.
- Add oil to a multi-bowl, lay out the ribs.
- Let's turn on the "Frying" mode.
- Peel the onion, chop it and the remaining garlic cloves.
- Let's add them to the ribs.
- Fry the ribs until golden.
- Put the barley washed and soaked in water in advance into a steaming container.
- Lay the rosemary sprigs on top of the meat.
- Install a container with barley in the device.
- Turn on the program "Baking". Cooking for an hour.
- Then season the porridge with the prepared sauce, stir.
- Put the porridge in the center of the dish, distribute the ribs around. Ready!
Dear friends, today I bring to your attention a very tasty and healthy dish - chicken with pearl barley in a slow cooker.
About the benefits and taste of chicken, I think, it is not necessary to talk for a long time. Many people have an ambiguous attitude towards pearl barley. Some people love her, some people can't stand her. However, when cooked properly, barley porridge turns out tasty and tender, and it will not be necessary to force it to be swallowed, as some of us were forced by our mother once in childhood. And the multicooker will become an indispensable assistant to us in this.
If cooking barley porridge with chicken, then the dish acquires completely new shades of taste. Barley is saturated with the aroma and juice of the chicken, and, boiled in a slow cooker in chicken fat, it becomes soft and tender.
The chicken for cooking this dish can be taken as a whole, naturally gutted, or any part of it. I used chicken legs today. This is a fairly fatty part of the chicken, and barley with them turns out to be hearty and high-calorie. If you take chicken breast, especially without skin, or chicken fillet, then the dish will turn out to be more dietary, but a little less tasty.
What you need to take to cook barley chicken in a slow cooker:
- chicken legs - two pieces
- 1 multi glass barley
- 3 multi glasses of water
- 1 teaspoon salt
- spices for chicken
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
How to cook barley with chicken in a slow cooker:
Wash the barley under running water. Pearl barley can not even be soaked, but I soaked it in cold water for 15 minutes, while the chicken is fried in a slow cooker. It won't get any worse.
Rub chicken or chicken legs with spices and salt. Pour vegetable oil into the slow cooker and fry the chicken for 15 minutes in the "baking" mode on one side.
As soon as the signal sounds, turn the chicken or chicken legs over.
Pour the washed barley, add salt.
We pour hot water. Barley should be cooked in a slow cooker with a ratio of 1: 3, that is, three glasses of water are used for 1 glass of cereal.
We translate the multicooker into the "pilaf" mode. In this mode, barley with chicken will be cooked until the liquid evaporates. I did not wait for the signal and exactly an hour later I turned it off myself.
We open the lid. already got ready.
Delicious food is on the table! Both the chicken and barley in the slow cooker turned out to be very soft and tender. Bon appetit!
Pilaf in a slow cooker is one of the most popular and favorite dishes among the owners of this most useful household appliance. And if you try to replace traditional rice with pearl barley, it will turn out no less tasty! And in some ways barley pilaf will be even more interesting and unusual. This option of cooking barley with chicken in a slow cooker will appeal even to those who do not really like this cereal, despite all its usefulness.
Ingredients
- 800 g chicken thighs or legs
- 300 g carrots
- 1 bulb
- 3 garlic cloves
- 300 g barley (2 multi-glasses)
- 6 multi-glasses of hot boiled water
- salt (about 1.5 teaspoons)
- black pepper to taste
How to cook barley pilaf in a slow cooker
Rinse chicken legs in cold water, dry them with paper towels, cut into large pieces. Place in multicooker bowl skin side down. Select the FRY mode and set the cooking time to 45 minutes, press the START button.
After 20 minutes, turn the thighs over, they should be fried, while a lot of fat will be rendered from them. Fry them for another 15 minutes on all sides.
Peel the onion and garlic, finely chop and add to the multicooker bowl to the chicken 10 minutes before the end of the selected mode.
Peel the carrots and grate on a coarse grater. Transfer the grated carrots to the slow cooker at the same time as the onion and garlic. Mix everything and cook the remaining time until the signal together.
Add barley to fried meat with vegetables. You can pre-wash it and scald it with boiling water, as in normal cooking, but this is not necessary. With this method of preparation, it still turns out crumbly, without a hint of viscosity or bitterness.
Pour hot boiled water into the multicooker bowl, salt and pepper the pilaf to taste. Mix everything well and cover with a lid (the lid valve must be open). Select the PLOV mode and press the START button.
Cooking method
1. Pour a little sunflower oil into the multi-pan, set the “Baking” mode and fry the pre-washed and diced chicken fillet. This step will take you 10-15 minutes. If you want to create a richer taste of chicken, dip it in sour cream with mustard and salt before frying. Then the pieces turn out more fragrant and tender. While the chicken is fried, you can prepare the onions and carrots. Finely chop the onion. For a few minutes, it can be lowered into a weak vinegar solution. Carrots need to be peeled and grated on a medium grater. 2. After roasting the chicken for 15 minutes, add the prepared vegetables to the bowl. Continue frying on the same mode for 10 minutes. 3. In the meantime, prepare barley - rinse it thoroughly. Pour the washed cereal into the multicooker bowl, add salt and spices. 4. Pour purified water into the multicooker. Change the "Baking" mode to the "Pilaf" mode and cook with the lid closed. 5. After the signal about the end of cooking, mix the resulting porridge, add butter and you can serve. 6. If you want to cook a simple barley porridge without other ingredients, you will need a glass of cereal and three glasses of purified water. The "Pilaf" mode is perfect for this case.
Perlovka is peeled and processed by a special technology barley grain.
The amount of vitamins, mineral complexes, proteins and fiber allows this cereal to take a leading position among a very large number of competitors. An important advantage of pearl barley is its low cost and widespread availability.
Pearl barley porridge is the most famous, it is often found in a variety of diets (especially medicinal ones), is used in the nutrition of young children, and is valuable as a component of adolescent nutrition. The main characteristics of barley porridge are its healing properties, high nutritional value, and relatively low calorie content. Breakfast, which includes pearl barley porridge, will give you a boost of energy and add strength that will last until dinner.
So, let's move on to cooking our dish - barley porridge with chicken in a slow cooker. If you want to replace chicken with mushrooms, then here is the recipe for you.
Cooking progress
2. We clean and finely chop the onion. We clean the carrots and three through a coarse grater. If desired, you can cut the carrots into cubes or strips.
3. Pour vegetable oil into the bottom of the multicooker pan, switch to the “Baking” mode (minimum time is 40 minutes). We fall asleep chopped vegetables, close the lid and fry for about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
4. Wash the chicken, cut into pieces of the same size, rub with spices and salt. Add chicken fillet to vegetables and fry until the signal.
5. Rinse pearl barley under running water, put on top of the fried meat and vegetables in a slow cooker. Pour in water so that it covers the cereal. Barley perfectly absorbs liquid, so do not spare water. In addition, the “Pilaf” mode, on which our porridge will be cooked, is characterized by the fact that it evaporates a lot of water. Therefore, use a ratio of 1: 4 - so the porridge will turn out tastier. In the Redmond multicooker, the Plov program is one of the manual ones, so set the time to at least 60 minutes.
6. I have a Panasonic multicooker and I poured a lot of water, so the cooking time was 1 hour.
Delicious and satisfying barley with chicken in a slow cooker is ready!
Video recipe
To make barley tastier, you can add various ingredients to it. It can be meat, vegetables, herbs, spices. You can also use all kinds of sauces to add flavor.
Like oatmeal, barley contains a large number of important vitamins and mineral complexes. The cereal is famous for the leading amount of phosphorus among other cereals, which helps to improve metabolism and activate the brain. For those who are on a diet, pearl barley is useful for the presence of complex carbohydrates, which maintain a feeling of satiety in the body for a long time. This porridge is suitable for cleansing the body of toxins due to the presence of fiber, which is responsible for setting up the proper functioning of the intestines. The product is hypoallergenic. They can treat a hangover syndrome, as well as the consequences of poisoning.
There are many tricks that allow you to cook delicious friable barley porridge. Requires preliminary preparation of cereals. In order to get well-boiled cereals, you should pre-fill it with water for up to 12 hours. The proportions for soaking pearl barley in water are approximately as follows: one glass of grains (250 ml) is poured with a liter of water. After the right time has passed, the cereal can be cooked like ordinary porridge. You can also roast barley grains before boiling.
If you cook porridge on a conventional stove, the cooking process will take about 50 minutes. You can reduce this time to half an hour, but in this case, be sure to wrap the pan with porridge with a warm towel for about twenty minutes. Some recipes suggest cooking barley using a water bath. This cooking method will take about 6 hours. At the same time, the porridge turns out to be incredibly tasty.
Now multicookers (as in the recipe) are becoming very popular, allowing you to save time and cook healthy meals. Any recipe can be adapted for cooking in. This cooking method allows you to do other household chores while cooking. You only need to prepare the ingredients, load them into the multicooker bowl and turn on the appropriate mode. The advantage of this miracle technique is also that it allows you to save most of the useful elements in the ingredients after heat treatment.
Cook with pleasure and pamper your household with delicious and healthy food. Bon appetit!
We also want to bring to your attention a similar recipe - but without a slow cooker.
