Step 1: Prepare the cereal.

In order for the cereal to boil and become soft, there are 2 ways: soak it in cold water overnight or at least a few hours, or heat in a frying pan. The second method is much faster, which is what we use in this recipe. Take a clean frying pan and a spatula. Pour the cereal into a frying pan and fry without

oil, stirring constantly so that the cereal is evenly heated on all sides. You need to heat the cereal for 10-15 minutes, then pour it into a separate plate, because we will still need a frying pan.

Step 2: Prepare the ingredients.
First, a few words about meat. If you like a leaner taste, buy fillet, it is very easy to work with, and white meat suits this taste. If you like it juicier, take the drumsticks, cut off the skin and separate the meat. There is little meat in the wings, so they are not suitable.

The meat needs to be cut into medium-sized cubes; a little later we will fry it.

We wash the onions and carrots under running water and remove the husks and peels. The onion needs to be finely chopped on a cutting board, and the carrots should be cut into small strips or grated on a coarse grater. Now everything is ready for cooking. Step 3: Prepare pearl barley with chicken. .

We return to the frying pan again, grease it with vegetable oil and fry the chopped onions and carrots for 5-7 minutes, stirring constantly. Then add chicken pieces to them, salt and pepper to taste. Add spices. When the meat is ready, after about 10 minutes, add the cereal to the pan.

Place the finished barley with chicken in portions on plates and serve. This porridge, like any other, should be hot or warm. You can decorate the dish with a sprig of herbs. A healthy and tasty dish is on your table, and therefore - Bon appetit!

There are other ways to prepare pearl barley with chicken - in pots, cooked separately, or in the form of pilaf.

If you don't like carrots, you can omit them from the recipe.

To give the chicken a more flavorful taste, you can marinate it for several hours in any of the marinades.

Sesame goes well with this dish, so you can add it before serving the dish.

Pearl barley is not only an affordable cereal, but also a real storehouse of vitamins and minerals. Despite the fact that in the old days it was called “rice for men,” it still remained a dish for kings. By the way, the cereal came to the royal table only after it had been soaked in water for 12 hours, boiled in full-fat milk for an hour and simmered in a Russian oven for 2 hours, seasoned with cream.

During the war, pearl barley was included in the soldier's diet, but was considered a hard and tasteless cereal. At that time, no one prepared it in the traditional way. royal recipe, did not insist, did not torment. But if you cook pearl barley with chicken in the oven correctly, according to the classic Russian recipe for the oven, then you can actually feel like a king or queen after tasting the dish.

List of required ingredients

To prepare you will need:

• 260 g pearl barley;
• 250 ml water;
• 6 pieces of chicken drumsticks;
• salt;
• pinch ground pepper;
• 80 g lard.

The ingredient composition is simple, but this does not take away from the excellent taste of the dish.

To prepare the marinade, take:

• two tablespoons of mild adjika;
• a couple of cloves of garlic;
• two large heads of onions;
• ground black pepper;
• 4 spoons of mayonnaise.

Recipe for barley with chicken in the oven

A modern housewife is no worse than the royal cooks, so she knows for sure that before cooking, barley should be soaked for 3-4 hours, covered with cold water. After this, put the pan with the cereal on the fire, bring to a boil, reduce the gas and cook for 15 minutes. Add a pinch of salt, add ground black pepper to taste, cover the dish with a lid, wrap it in a towel and leave it like that until the morning.

The next day we cook barley with chicken in the oven. First, wash and dry chicken drumsticks. Combine all the ingredients for the marinade in a separate container. Chop the garlic and onion very finely using a knife.

Let's marinate the chicken for a couple of hours. Place pearl barley steamed overnight into pots. Add chicken there too. Pour boiling water over it. The water should be level with the cereal. Add finely chopped lard cubes to the pot. Pour in a few tablespoons of the marinade that recently contained the meat.

Prepare pearl barley with chicken in a pot in the oven at 200 °C. Time - 50 minutes. After the “royal porridge” is ready, wrap it up and leave it to simmer for an hour. Serve the dish with plenty of herbs, fresh vegetables and homemade sour cream.

Features of preparing pearl barley

There are several basic rules for preparing this cereal. Knowledge of these will allow a novice and inexperienced housewife to properly prepare barley with chicken in the oven, with stew in a frying pan, porridge with vegetables in a slow cooker, and so on.

This type of cereal requires pre-soaking. For pearl barley, 9-12 hours is ideal. Before soaking, it is recommended to sort the grains, removing dark particles. When the cereal has absorbed almost all the liquid, it is ready for cooking.

The cereal takes a long time to cook and does not like to be rushed. As soon as the side dish acquires a grayish tint, you can add butter, stir and turn off the heat.

Related Ingredients

Pearl barley porridge turns out to be very tasty not only in combination with chicken meat. In addition to chicken, you can also put mushrooms in the pot. It's better if they are Forest mushrooms, which are famous for their richer and brighter aroma. You can also take regular store-bought champignons if you can’t go to the nearest forest for a quiet hunt.

If we talk about meat, duck, lamb, tender beef and classic version- pork. If you need to prepare a dietary, lean and low-calorie version of barley, we recommend putting vegetables instead of meat. For example, with pearl barley zucchini, sweet would go well bell pepper, eggplants.

Barley in the oven It turns out soft and crumbly. If you cook pearl barley porridge together with the chicken, it will be soaked in chicken juice and it will turn out very delicious side dish. This dish is two in one, very convenient for those who do not like to stand at the stove for a long time. Rosy chicken and delicious, mouth-watering pearl barley are ready at the same time.

Barley in the oven with chicken recipe

It is believed that you need to tinker with the preparation of pearl barley, since this grain takes a very long time to reach a soft state. I think that there is no hassle with her. If you plan to cook pearl barley in the oven for lunch or dinner, soak the barley in regular cold water in advance. Leave it to stand like this for four hours. This action does not take any strength, soak it and let it stand. If this is not done, then cooking pearl barley can really take a long time. Therefore, to be on the safe side and to properly plan the cooking time, I recommend performing this simple action - soaking. Read on to learn how to cook pearl barley porridge in the oven that is tasty and crumbly.

Recipe Ingredients

• pearl barley - 2 cups;
• chicken pieces (drumstick, thigh, wings) - 0.5 kg;
• onion - 1 piece;
• vegetable oil - 4 tbsp. spoons;
• butter - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• salt, pepper, garlic, chicken seasonings - to taste.

What are the very first thoughts that pop into your head when you hear the word pearl barley? Of course, this is the most tasteless porridge in the world. Actually there is simple recipes, where pearl barley is the main ingredient, after cooking according to which, the opinion about this cereal will radically change.

Ingredients:

• pearl barley – 0.5 kg;
• chicken – 0.5 kg;
• carrots – 1 pc.;
• celery – 200 g;
• parsnip – 1 pc.;
• vegetable oil – 3 tbsp. l.;
• meat broth - 1 l.

Cooking method:

1. Wash the vegetables, peel and cut into cubes.
2. Dredge the chicken in flour, seasoning it with salt and pepper first.
3. Pour oil into the wok and lightly brown the vegetables without frying them too much.
4. In the same container where the vegetables were prepared, fry the chicken without bringing it to full readiness.
5. Having put the meat in a separate bowl, pour the broth into the frying pan where the vegetables and meat were fried. Pour in the previously prepared pearl barley, vegetables and chicken. Cover with a lid and bring to a boil. Then reduce the heat and simmer for 45 minutes.

The barley with chicken is ready and can be served.

Cooking in a slow cooker

This recipe for making pearl barley with chicken in a slow cooker will use drumsticks, but you can use other parts of it.

Ingredients:

• pearl barley – 270 g;
• drumsticks – 700 g;
• onion – 1 pc.;
• carrots – 1 pc.;
• pepper – 0.5 tsp;
• turmeric – 0.5 tsp;
• sweet paprika – 1 tsp;
• sunflower oil – 5 tbsp. l.;
• salt;
• water.

Cooking method:

1. First, prepare the cereal: soak it in water and leave for an hour. This is the minimum soaking time.
2. Marinate chicken drumsticks in pepper, turmeric, sweet paprika and salt. Mix everything, rubbing the seasonings into the semi-finished product with your hands.
3. Cut the onion into cubes. Three carrots on a large grater.
4. Turn on the frying mode, after pouring oil into the bowl. Wait until it warms up, add onions and carrots.
5. At the end of frying, add the soaked cereal to the vegetables. Mix everything, add salt and add water so that it completely covers the pearl barley with vegetables.
6. Place the drumsticks on top and close the lid. Set the extinguishing mode. If the multicooker has a program for selecting the type of meat, select “Chicken”.

The porridge should turn out crumbly. If necessary, after finishing cooking, you can let the dish sit for an hour.

Delicious pearl barley porridge in the oven

Ingredients:

• pearl barley – 400 g;
• chicken – 500 g;
• onion – 150 g;
• carrots – 150 g;
• tomato juice– 100 ml;
• refined oil – 2 tbsp. l.;
• garlic – 4 cloves;
• salt pepper
• water – 1.2 l.

Execution technology:

1. Soak pearl barley for 2 hours.
2. Prepare the vegetables: cut the onion into cubes, carrots into strips.
3. Cut the meat into pieces up to 5 cm thick.
4. Pour in the oil and wait until it heats up well in the pan.
5. Fry the meat over high heat.
6. Add onions to the chicken. Wait a few minutes and add carrots. Mix well and simmer under a closed lid for 7 minutes.
7. Then add tomato juice, salt, pepper and let all the products simmer for another 5 minutes.
8. Meanwhile, prepare the cereal: fry in a heated frying pan until a nutty taste appears.
9. Preheat the oven to 200 C and place the pots with all the prepared ingredients in it for 15 minutes. Then reduce the temperature to 180 C and keep the porridge with meat in the oven until fully cooked.

We place the prepared products in the pots in the following order:

1. Meat with vegetables.
2. Pearl barley.
3. Fill with water.
4. Sprinkle garlic on top, passed through a garlic press.

The pearl barley should be soft and crumbly.

Barley with added vegetables

In this recipe, you can change the composition at your discretion.

Ingredients:

• pearl barley – 2 tbsp;
• onion – 1 pc.;
• carrots – 1 pc.;
• sweet red or orange pepper – 1 pc.;
• cherry tomatoes – 0.5 kg;
• garlic arrows – 300 g;
• green beans – 100 g;
• salt pepper;
• odorless oil to taste.

Execution technology:

1. Boil the pearl barley until fully cooked, making sure to soak it first.
2. Cut the onion into half rings, carrots and Bell pepper cut into strips.
3. Garlic arrows and asparagus - into small pieces.
4. Cut the tomatoes into 4 parts.

If you fry everything first, the dish will turn out tastier, but you can skip this step.

5.In a bowl, mix vegetables with ready-made pearl barley. Salt and pepper everything to taste, add vegetable oil.

6. We put the products in a baking sleeve and place them in the oven at a temperature of 180 C for 40 minutes.

When serving the dish, you can sprinkle with any herbs you wish.

Recipe with mushrooms

For this recipe, you can use any mushrooms, depending on your own taste. The best choice is champignons or porcini mushrooms, which can be bought not only fresh, but also frozen.

Ingredients:

• pearl barley – 0.5 kg;
• mushrooms – 0.7 kg;
• onion – 1 pc.;
• butter – 50 g;
• sunflower oil – 3 tbsp. l;
• salt pepper.

Execution steps:

1. Pre-boil the pearl barley.
2. Cut the onion into cubes and fry on vegetable oil. L Do not fry it too much, it should caramelize.
3. Place mushrooms on top of the onion, having previously chopped them in a chaotic order. Be sure to take into account that when frying, the mushrooms will decrease in size, so it is better to chop them coarsely.
4. Fry the mushrooms and onions until tender and at the end add butter and a couple of tablespoons of water. Stew the mushrooms a little more cream sauce. Salt and pepper to taste.
5. Add the prepared mushrooms and onions to the pearl barley and mix everything.

Ingredients:

• pearl barley – 0.5 kg;
• chicken – 0.4 kg;
• carrots – 2 pcs.;
• onions – 2 pcs.;
• spices for pilaf;
• head of garlic;
• red sweet pepper – ½ fruit;
• any vegetable oil – 100 g.
• salt.

Cooking method:

1. Peel onions, peppers and carrots and cut into cubes.
2. Cut the chicken into large pieces.
3. Pre-soak the cereal for 1.5 hours.
4. Fry the vegetables in oil until half cooked, add meat, spices, salt, and cook for another 10 minutes.
5. We thoroughly wash the pearl barley and add it to the vegetables and meat.
6. In the middle we make a depression where we place the head of garlic, having first washed it well and cleared it of excess husk.
7. Fill with water so that the liquid is about 2 fingers higher than the cereal.
8. Cook the pilaf over low heat until done.

After cooking, let it sit for at least 30 minutes, then stir the dish.

Preparing delicious pearl barley porridge will take no more than 1 – 2 hours. Moreover, half of this time will be spent on boiling the cereal. All dishes turn out delicious, and most importantly, healthy. With pearl barley porridge prepared according to one of these recipes, you can not only feed your family tasty and satisfying, but also surprise unexpected guests.

Pearl barley is a cereal that is not everyone’s favorite, but very useful. Men who served in the army remember it as “tarpaulin” grits or “shrapnel.” Nevertheless, this cereal helps get rid of cholesterol in the body, contains vitamin A, silicic acid, which dissolves kidney stones, as well as the beneficial amino acid lysine, which allows us to strengthen our heart, restore damaged tissue, protect the lens of the eye and much more.

Pearl barley is useful for everyone, you just need to prepare it correctly, and you will be happy! A prerequisite for delicious porridge is soaking the cereal in cold water.

As for meat, today we are preparing barley pilaf with chicken or chicken fillet.

To prepare this dish we will take the following products.

Rinse the pearl barley well and soak in cold water for a couple of hours. This is usually done in advance.

Cut the carrots into thin strips, the onion into half rings. I used yellow and orange carrots, they differ in taste. The yellow one does not have a pronounced carrot smell and is much sweeter than the orange one.

Cut the chicken or fillet into pieces.

Heat the cauldron over the fire, pour oil into it and warm it well again. Fry chicken pieces or fillet until lightly golden. Lightly salt it.

Add onions and fry for 3 minutes.

Then add carrots, fry until carrots are soft.

Add spices to taste and salt. I don’t really like spices that clog the taste of the dish and change its color, so I add coriander, cumin and black allspice. It's enough. You can add garlic hot peppers who loves it, but the taste will change. When the frying looks like in the photo, add cereal. If beef or pork is used instead of chicken, then at this stage the zirvak is filled with water and cooked until the meat is cooked.

Add soaked pearl barley to the cauldron.

Fill with water to about the thickness of a finger. Salt well. Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce the heat, and without waiting for the water to boil, cover the cauldron with a lid. Yes, yes, pearl barley pilaf is cooked under a closed lid until fully cooked.

We check periodically. If the water has boiled away from the surface, but still remains at the bottom, then collect the pearl barley in a mound towards the middle, cover again with a lid and cook until the water has completely boiled away and the cereal is ready. Again, if it seems to you that the cereal is not ready yet, and the water has already boiled away, then add a little boiling water and cook until the softness you need.

The finished pearl barley pilaf with chicken has a crumbly appearance and does not stick together or smudge. The aroma is like real pilaf.

TO ready-made dish It would be nice to serve pickles or salads.