Vegetable, Barley Soup: a Recipe
Soup Recipes
Barley Vegetable Soup
Soup is a meal onto itself, nourishing and tasty, especially on those cold, winter nights. Soup is also a great appetizer that awakens your taste buds before the main course arrives and stirs up your hunger.
Soup can be carried to work in a thermos and provides an inexpensive and healthy lunch. Soup is an ideal way to get one more meal from those ends and ends before they pass onto the garbage or recycle bin.
Vegetable, Barley Soup
You will need: (equipment)
Soup pot
Ladle
strainer
Ingredients:
3 medium sized carrots
½ small turnip
¼ cup pearl barley
1/3 cup white beans, pre-soaked and drained
Sea salt
3 leeks
1 rib celery
1 potato
3 quarts water
4 tbsp butter
Preparation:
Place all vegetables, the barley and the seasonings into water
Simmer slowly for 3-4 hours
Before serving, remove vegetable and barley and puree them though a strainer
Add butter, stir.
A Quick Version;
You will need (equipment):
Blender
Soup pot
Ingredients:
1 quart water
1 cup vegetable soup stock
¼ cup pearl barley
2 medium carrots sliced
2 leeks sliced
1 rib celery sliced
Sea salt and black pepper to taste
Hot sauce if desired.
Preparation;
Put water, leeks and soup stock in blender, blend
Place liquid in soup pot
Add barley
Cook 30 minutes
Add carrots and celery
Cook 20 minute
Season to taste.
Serve.
Barley's nutrition is much like wheat's. There are a few minor differences, however. Barley contains twice as many fatty acids as wheat which accounts for its 10% higher calorie count. And as great as wheat’s fiber content is, barley contains about 40% more, or over 17%. Barley contains vitamin E; wheat contains none. And barley contains 68% more thiamin, 250% more riboflavin and 38% more lysine than wheat, giving barley a more balanced protein.
Barely can be added to stews and soups, whenever, you want to increase their flavour and food value. Barley stores easily and I always keep some on hand and use it regularly, often just a small handful to make a richer meal.
Barley is a good dollar value as well and stores readily in my pantry. Buy it in bulk when you can but before you do, try a few recipes to determine if it is something that you will eat. There is no sense investing your money, even a little, in a food that only sits in the cupboard, taking up space.