Barley dishes in a slow cooker. Fragrant milk porridge

Pearl barley is a storehouse of vitamins and fiber. Barley porridge in the old days was considered a royal dish, Peter I loved it very much. Today it is not very popular. Many men have a dismissive attitude towards her after serving in the army, where she was jokingly called "shrapnel". For many, the expression "delicious pearl barley" sounds unusual. Today I'm cooking pearl barley porridge with stew in a slow cooker. Having tried it, you will be convinced that delicious barley porridge is not a myth, but a reality.

Ingredients:

• 2 multi cups pearl barley
• 5-6 multi glasses of water
• 400-500 g of delicious stew
• 1 bulb
• 1 carrot
• 1 tomato (optional)
• salt and spices to taste
• sunflower oil

How to cook barley porridge with stew in a slow cooker:

Rinse pearl barley well. Cut the onion and tomato, grate the carrot.

In a slow cooker in the “baking” mode, fry the onion, carrot and tomato in sunflower oil.

Add pearl barley and a can of good stew.

To fill with water. Salt, add seasoning, spices to taste.

Set the mode to "". Cook barley in a slow cooker until the signal.

After the signal, pearl barley porridge with stew in a slow cooker mix and serve.

How to cook barley porridge in a slow cooker? Very simple: cereal, water, salt, oil in the required proportions, and an hour of time. That's all you need. Water with cereal is usually in a ratio of two to one, like most cereals, but each recipe can have its own peculiarity, you need to keep an eye on this, because. barley porridge loves accuracy precisely in the proportions of the ingredients. The use of a multicooker makes it possible to diversify pearl barley dishes, look for new combinations and flavors for the rather simple taste of pearl barley itself. For example, they turn out well and tasty: barley porridge with meat in a slow cooker, pearl barley porridge with stew in a slow cooker, barley porridge with mushrooms in a slow cooker. Usually housewives prefer the variant of this porridge on the water. Barley porridge in a slow cooker on water is more common than on milk. This is due to the fact that pearl barley is more often used as side dishes for meat than in dietary and baby food.

What do novice cooks need to know so that they get delicious barley porridge in a slow cooker, so that fragrant and crumbly barley porridge comes out in a slow cooker? In addition to the recipes themselves, you need to know well the capabilities of your multicooker, the technique has many functions and various modes. Check them out before cooking! Only in this way barley porridge in a slow cooker-pressure cooker will turn out to be real, and both the cooking process and the finished product will give you real pleasure.

Any recipe for barley porridge in a slow cooker is not complicated. But still, it needs to be studied, just like looking carefully at the photos of ready-made dishes. Your pearl barley porridge in a slow cooker, the photo of which you took as a basis and cook, will turn out to be more palatable and more presentable for serving.

There are many tips in the culinary literature on how to cook barley porridge in a slow cooker so that it is tasty, fragrant and crumbly, how to cook barley porridge in a slow cooker so that it is not a shame to offer it not only to your family, but also to friends who came to visit. These recommendations must be adopted, but the main thing is to follow the recipes and know the capabilities of your multicooker. Take any recipe, for example, a recipe for barley porridge with meat in a slow cooker. Prepare a dish exactly according to it, and be sure that your loved ones will appreciate it.

And finally - a few tips specifically for making barley in a slow cooker:

Groats must be sorted out and cleaned of foreign inclusions;

Before cooking, barley should be thoroughly washed in several waters;

If there is time, it is also good to pre-soak the cereal, at least for an hour and a half;

Barley porridge can be cooked in the “pilaf” mode, but this way the porridge will turn out to be denser than in the “porridge” or “milk porridge” mode;

Salt, oil is added immediately to the cereal, cooked closed until the very end of the process;

Cooking barley porridge in a slow cooker involves careful observance of the proportions recommended in the recipes;

Barley porridge in a slow cooker, the recipe with the photo of which you liked, is cooked for about an hour.

Today the topic is devoted to how to cook barley in a slow cooker.

We will analyze several recipes for making porridge in this device. And also let's talk about the properties of porridge and some tricks of its preparation.

Groats are barley grain processed by a special technology. Such porridge is probably the richest of the other cereals in useful substances. Also, its high prevalence and affordable price make it a good option for a quick breakfast. Moreover, pearl barley is very nutritious and one portion of it will give a sufficient boost of strength and vigor until dinner.

It is also actively included in the diet of young children, adolescents, in a variety of weight loss diets and medical diets. For weight loss, it is great because of the content of complex carbohydrates, which are slowly absorbed by the body and maintain a feeling of satiety.

True, such porridge, despite all its advantages, is not widely popular due to the fact that its preparation is relatively long (40-90 minutes), and it tastes tasteless and tough.

But these problems can be easily solved. Firstly, we will cook this porridge using a slow cooker, which will greatly facilitate and speed up the cooking process (we will cook in a Polaris slow cooker).

Secondly, we will use several recipes (traditional, with meat, milk), which can give the dish a new incomparable taste.

Although we will cook the dish in the Polaris multicooker, the recipes are also applicable to other models, only on some you will need to make other settings.

We'll talk more about this below. The recipes presented here are quite famous and easy to perform with all the ingredients.

traditional recipe

So, how to cook pearl barley in a slow cooker? Everything is very easy and fast. To begin with, let's analyze the traditional, simplest recipe, namely barley on the water.

To prepare it, we need the following ingredients:

• pearl barley - 2 cups;
• filtered water - 4.5 l;
• butter - 50 g;
• salt and pepper to taste.

It is best to start the cooking process in the evening, as the cereal should stand for some time in the water.

Let's follow the recipe:

1. Pour the cereal into a bowl, and add clean water.
   Water should be 3 times more than cereals.
2. Leave the barley overnight.
   It should absorb some of the water and swell.
3. Next, the cereal must be washed under running water.
   It should be rinsed by stirring it until the flowing water runs clear.
4. Pour the swollen barley into the multicooker bowl and add water.
5. Vkinte 25 g of oil and add salt, pepper or other seasonings to taste.
6. Set the multicooker to the “Porridge” or “Buckwheat” cooking mode for one hour.
7. After the signal, turn off the multicooker, open the lid and wait until the porridge cools down a bit.
   Using special tongs or a towel, remove the bowl.

Serve the dish to the table, after throwing the rest of the oil into it. That's basically it - the porridge is ready. Bon appetit!

Barley with meat

Ingredients:

• pearl barley - 2 cups;
• filtered water - 4.5 l;
• chicken - 250 g;
• carrots and onions - 1 each;
• sunflower oil - 4 tbsp. spoons;
• salt and pepper to taste.

As in the first recipe, cooking begins in the evening - the cereal is poured with plenty of water for a long time.

We prepare vegetables. Cut the onion into cubes, and the carrot into strips. Pour oil into the multicooker and put vegetables on the bottom of the bowl. We set the mode "Frying" or "Baking" for 40 minutes. Close the lid and stir-fry the vegetables for 20 minutes.

To cook meat, you just need to wipe it with various seasonings to taste, cut into cubes and add to vegetables. Fry until the signal.

Soaked cereals must be washed under running water, as in the first recipe. Add the cereal to the slow cooker on top of the meat and vegetables. Now you can pour out the water and set the “Pilaf” mode for 60 minutes. If you poured a lot of water, then you need to cook until it evaporates.

After the signal, take out the porridge, add spices to taste and mix well.

Porridge is ready, you can have a delicious breakfast or a light dinner. Now you can finally appreciate how delicious this dish is cooked. It turns out that it is easy to please your loved ones with a healthy and tasty dish that will sink into their souls.

Other recipes and cooking features

Even according to the recipe below, you can cook a dessert variation of this porridge.

Barley in milk requires the following ingredients:

• pearl barley - 1 cup;
• butter - 20 g;
• sugar - 2 teaspoons;
• salt - 1/4 teaspoon;
• water - 2 multi-glasses;
• milk - 4 multi-glasses.

As usual, soak the cereal overnight. Then put it in the multicooker. Immediately add the rest of the ingredients and mix thoroughly. We set the “Porridge” mode for 60 minutes and wait for the signal. All is ready!

It is worth saying that raisins, dried fruits, nuts or some fruits (banana, apple) can still be added to such a porridge recipe.

A few tips for making barley:

1. It must be remembered that the finished porridge will greatly increase in volume. Therefore, cereals should not be poured more than 2 glasses.
2. One multi-glass is equal to 160 g of cereal.
3. If you do not have the modes indicated in the recipe on the multicooker, then use “Rice”, “Pilaf”.
4. It is better to choose small barley, as it boils faster.
5. How much barley to cook depends on the multicooker. But 60 minutes is considered the most optimal, unless a lot of water has been added: in this case, the time increases (tested on the Polaris multicooker).

A few words about different multicookers. They have different settings and modes, and therefore you need to experiment to highlight the most suitable ones.

The recipes described here can be prepared on any device in a suitable mode and are no less tasty. And, as you can see, there is nothing difficult to prepare.

And such porridge is quite possible to cook for a hearty dinner or lunch.

Few chefs prefer barley porridge, but in vain, because barley porridge on water in a slow cooker turns out juicy and crumbly, boiled right down to the core, while such a dish boiled in a cauldron or pan is often al dente. Cookbooks recommend soaking barley grits for 12 hours so that it absorbs water, but porridge cooks perfectly without soaking first. The only secret to reducing the time of its preparation is pouring boiling water over the cereal and its “rest” for 1–2 hours. This time is quite enough for the cereal to absorb the liquid to the core and swell a little. Ready barley porridge you can flavor with butter or vegetable oil, to taste - sugar or honey.

Ingredients

• 200 g pearl barley
• 700 ml hot water
• 0.5 tsp topless salt

Cooking

1. Pour the grits into a bowl with high sides, fill with cold water and rinse thoroughly several times, changing the water. It is desirable that in the last flush the liquid remains clean.

2. Pour the cereal into the bowl of the multicooker, carefully spread along the bottom with a spatula or spoon.

3. Add salt. If you plan to cook sweet barley porridge, for example for kutya, then at this stage add granulated sugar, a sweetener. Honey is added when serving, otherwise it will give the dish only sweetness, and not benefit.

4. Pour the cereal in the bowl with hot water. Barley is boiled 3.5–4 times, so do not trust those books and recipes in which they say that supposedly cereals are boiled twice. It is better to drain the remaining liquid after cooking than to get undercooked porridge with a hard core inside! Set the “Porridge” mode on the multicooker display for 1 hour and close the lid.

Did you know that pearl barley is an extremely healthy product? The composition of barley grains includes valuable vitamins and microelements, which contribute to the rejuvenation of body cells, improve the appearance of the skin, remove harmful toxins from the intestines. It helps to maintain immunity at a high level, prevents the development of allergies. No wonder this dietary product is the basis of the daily diet of soldiers. A long time ago, pearl barley was called "royal porridge", since only wealthy classes could afford it. On the basis of pearl barley, a variety of dishes were prepared, which were served for the holidays. And she got her name from the word "pearls" - the so-called river pearls, which look like barley grains.

For many, barley porridge has remained in memory as one of the most unwanted dishes in childhood. Well, who likes dry, fresh, poorly cooked cereals? But the success of a dish directly depends on the knowledge of the intricacies of its preparation. It’s not so easy to cook barley in a saucepan on the stove: you need to cook it for a long time, stir constantly, and make sure that the porridge does not burn. But barley in a slow cooker is a completely different matter. The dish in this wonderful saucepan turns out to be very tasty, nutritious, juicy and never burns.

It is also worth noting that pearl barley is one of the cheapest, and therefore easily fits into the family budget. If you have not tried to cook this amazing porridge in a slow cooker, I suggest you do it right now.

Recipe Information

Cooking method: in the multicooker Redmond RMC M-4502.

Total cooking time: 50 min.

Servings: 4-5 .

Ingredients:

• pearl barley - 2 multi-glasses
• water - 5 multi-glasses
• butter - to taste
• salt.

Cooking method

On a note:

• For best results, pearl barley should be pre-soaked in cold water for 8-12 hours. Then it will cook faster and will be softer and tastier. For soaking, use 1 liter of water per 1 glass of cereal.
• It is important to know that barley porridge in a slow cooker increases significantly in volume, namely five times. Therefore, immediately cook a lot of porridge is not worth it.
• This barley recipe in a multicooker can be supplemented with vegetables by cooking them separately in the “Stew” or “Frying” mode.
• Barley porridge is an excellent side dish that is rich in proteins, minerals and a number of vitamins. However, barley should not be abused if you are overweight or have intestinal problems.