Pearl barley, undeservedly forgotten today, is a real storehouse of useful substances. Macro- and microelements, vitamins of groups: A, B, D, E, K are present in this cereal. You can prepare pearl barley with milk, water or broth, with vegetables or meat. I offer a recipe for making pearl barley porridge in a slow cooker. Barley cooked with milk is an excellent breakfast dish. Shall we start cooking?
We will prepare the ingredients for preparing pearl barley porridge with milk in a slow cooker according to the list.
Wash the pearl barley well, fill it with cold water and leave overnight.
In the morning, place the cereal on a sieve, rinse and pour into a multicooker bowl.
Add sugar and salt.
Pour in the milk (if you want the porridge to be less high in calories, replace a third of the milk with water). Put in the oil. To prevent the milk from running away, it is advisable to grease the edges of the bowl with butter. We set the “Porridge” program, set the time - two hours. In any case, after 50-60 minutes of cooking, check the porridge for readiness. The cooking time for porridge depends on many factors: the quality of the specific grain, the duration of soaking of the grains, the date of production of the grain (the fresher the pearl barley, the less time it will take to prepare it). My porridge was ready in 1 hour 40 minutes. Do not open the lid, let the porridge brew for 20-30 minutes, then stir it.
Pearl barley porridge in a slow cooker is ready.
Place the porridge on plates and season with butter. If desired, you can add honey and berries to each plate. Bon appetit!
Pearl barley porridge in a slow cooker is an easy to prepare dish. Perfect as a side dish or can be served on its own for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
An inexpensive product will be a good help when you need tasty, filling food, but the refrigerator does not please you with abundance. If you show a little imagination and effort, you can make ordinary pearl barley porridge original, unusual and tasty.
Types of pearl barley porridge
Pearl barley porridge is cooked in water or milk. The choice of liquid depends on what kind of porridge you plan to cook.
Porridge can be liquid, viscous or crumbly.
You can prepare porridge with various additives, making it sweet, more attractive to children, or hearty, similar to pilaf. Lean porridge will turn out well if you add fried onions, carrots and mushrooms during the cooking process.
How to cook different versions of porridge from such a familiar product? The recipes with photos that you will find below will help you with this. Your own imagination and creative enthusiasm will also help out. Don't be afraid to mix seemingly incompatible products!
Spices, such as black pepper or turmeric, are also added to the porridge.
Rules and features of cooking pearl barley porridge in a slow cooker
Liquid milk porridge is perfect for children. It’s not difficult to decide how much milk you need to take to prepare pearl barley porridge. The usual proportions - one part cereal and two parts liquid - will not work in this case. For liquid porridge, you need to take three parts milk to one part cereal. Thick porridge can easily be made more liquid by adding a little hot milk. You can add butter, dried fruits or a little honey to the milk porridge.
Crumbly pearl barley porridge is prepared in water. You can diversify it by adding fried onions and carrots. In this case, the cereal will acquire an attractive bright shade, thanks to the orange carrots.
It is important to decide on the appropriate mode in the multicooker. You can choose from the following options: “cooking”, “rice/buckwheat”, “baking”. The “cooking” mode is suitable for bringing liquid to a boil, the “rice/buckwheat” mode brings water to a boil and then allows the liquid to simmer until it is completely absorbed by the cereal, and the “baking” mode slowly brings the dish to readiness.
The cereal will cook faster if you soak it in advance for 30-60 minutes.
Using the delayed mode, you can prepare a great breakfast in the morning. In this mode, the cereal waits for cooking all night in the liquid, and therefore swells well. Cooking will be much easier. With this mode, pearl barley porridge will never be undercooked.
A simple recipe for making pearl barley porridge in a slow cooker
You can cook pearl barley porridge in water using a simple recipe.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup pearl barley
- 1 dessert spoon of oil, vegetable or butter
Preparation:
- Rinse the cereal twice in warm water - this will make the porridge lighter and free of foreign impurities.
- Grease the edges of the bowl with oil. This technique is used to make the porridge boil over less. Place the remaining oil on the bottom of the bowl.
- Pour two cups of water. The cups can be any size as long as the multicooker allows it. There are models that do not cook with a small volume of liquid, this should be taken into account. It is advisable to boil the water first, then the grains will not stick together and form lumps.
- Add cereal and salt.
- Turn on the “rice/buckwheat” or “cooking” mode. The liquid should boil, let the multicooker operate in this mode for another 5 minutes.
- Then switch to the “baking” mode. Barley porridge will be ready in about 20-30 minutes.
The general principle of cooking is to bring to a boil, and then let the porridge simmer. During the cooking process, you can stir the cereal once, so it will turn out more crumbly and tender.
You will learn how much to cook pearl barley porridge using different cooking methods by reading the step-by-step recipes with photos, which are located just below. Bon appetit!
Step-by-step recipes for preparing pearl barley porridge in a multicooker using water and milk in a Redmond or Polaris multicooker (+ recipe with photo)
2019-04-15 Oleg Mikhailov and Alena KamenevaGrade
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6 gr.
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23 gr.155 kcal.
Option 1: Pearl barley porridge with water in a slow cooker - a classic recipe
Pearl barley porridge in a slow cooker is a quick and easy option for preparing porridge without much hassle or effort. Preparing pearl barley porridge in a slow cooker is quite easy, you don’t have to monitor the process, the slow cooker will do everything for you, rest assured. I don’t know about you, but it seems to me that no one and nothing can handle the process of preparing any porridge better than a slow cooker. Barley in a slow cooker turns out very tasty, it is crumbly and soft, tender.
You can serve ready-made pearl barley with any type of meat or fish; you can add cutlets and a light vegetable salad - here’s a chic lunch for you. Be sure to cook the porridge in a slow cooker, I assure you, you will like it.
Ingredients:
- Pearl barley - 3 multi cups
- Water - 8 multi glasses
- Butter - 80 g
- Salt - to taste.
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Cooking process
Prepare all the necessary ingredients. Measure out the specified amount of pearl barley, then pour the pearl barley into a deep bowl or plate. Rinse the pearl barley well in clean cool water, do this several times.
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Afterwards, you need to transfer the washed pearl barley into the multicooker bowl. Add a little salt to the cereal right away.
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Pour a portion of clean warm water into the pearl barley.
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These are actually all the difficult steps you need to take. Now place the bowl in the multicooker, then turn on the “Porridge” mode - 1 hour. After a while, leave the pearl barley in the bowl on the “Warming” function for another 20 minutes. After the specified time, place the porridge on plates, season with butter if desired, and serve.
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Bon appetit!
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Option 2: Milk pearl barley porridge in a slow cooker - a quick recipe
Milk barley can be recommended by a nutritionist, or simply included in the family menu for the sake of variety. If you have kids, be sure to treat them to this dish. It is very good to include it in the children's menu if there are no objections from the pediatrician.
Ingredients:
- cereals, pearl barley - two glasses;
- liter of 3.5 percent milk
- “Peasant” oil - to taste;
- water - 500 milliliters;
- salt and a spoon of sugar.
How to quickly cook pearl barley porridge in a slow cooker
Even the highest quality cereal needs at least a superficial inspection. Scatter it over any surface, level it into a thin layer, start from the edge closest to you, separating about a handful each time. After viewing and selecting debris, pour the cereal into a bowl and separate the next portion for inspection.
After completing the inspection, pour the pearl barley into a sieve or fine-mesh colander, rinse lightly under running water, pour into a clean bowl and fill with water. Leave for at least an hour and rinse again.
Rub the bowl thickly with a slice of butter, add the cereal and pour in the milk mixed with water. Sprinkle with half a spoon of salt and two of sugar, add salt and sweeten when ready.
Lower the lid and select the “Milk porridge” cooking mode or, depending on the model, simply “Porridge”. Set the duration to exactly one hour, unless you soaked it longer than specified. In any case, after forty minutes of cooking, check the porridge for readiness. Once sufficiently softened, add the required amount of sugar and lightly season with butter.
Option 3: Hearty pearl barley porridge with meat in a slow cooker
We offer you to prepare a wonderful, hearty pearl barley with meat without any extra hassle. The multicooker operating modes are selected so that the recipe does not depend on the model and manufacturer.
Ingredients:
- 1.3 cups pearl barley;
- 250 grams of pork pulp;
- onions and carrots for frying - one medium vegetable each;
- 50 grams of sunflower oil;
- half a liter of water;
- seasoning for fried pork dishes.
How to cook
Pour the cereal into a colander, shake so that small debris wakes up. Large specks usually rise up in this case, collect them, rinse the cereal and soak for three hours in ordinary clean water.
Cut the meat into small cubes, peel the carrots and grate with a coarse grater. Remove the peel from the onion, loosen it into quarters of rings. Start the “Frying” program for twenty minutes, warm up the bowl quite a bit and pour in the oil. After a minute, first put all the vegetables in it, and as soon as the onion begins to lose its matte hue, add the pork and add a little salt.
Stirring occasionally, fry the vegetables and meat until the set program is completed. Pour the pearl barley, along with the water in which it was soaked, into a colander and rinse, allowing the moisture to drain completely. Mix the cereal with vegetables and meat, sprinkle with spices and salt.
Pour in heated water to a level one centimeter above the food. Turn on the crumbly porridge cooking mode and set the timer to fifty minutes. With the lid closed, let the porridge first cook on the main program, then cook for another twenty minutes on “Preheat” until ripe.
Option 4: Barley porridge in a Redmond slow cooker with vegetables
The spring diet pleases with an abundance of vegetables. As soon as the so-called ground tomatoes and zucchini grown in the open air appear on the shelves, without delay, treat your homemade pearl barley with vegetables. It is prepared in exactly the same way with eggplants, only cut off the peel from them to get rid of the bitterness.
Ingredients:
- young zucchini - 300 grams;
- 180 grams of tomatoes;
- pearl barley - 200 grams;
- large onion, onion variety;
- five tablespoons of butter;
- a few cloves of garlic;
- coarse salt;
- feathers of young green onions.
Step by step recipe
As with almost all of the above recipes, start with the simplest but longest stage - soaking the pearl barley. After sorting, collect it in a colander, rinse and fill with clean, cool water. The optimal exposure is 12 hours, but the minimum sufficient time is three times less.
You need young zucchini, with delicate thin skin. We won’t clean it, just wash it thoroughly. We do the same with tomatoes, and remove the husks only from garlic and onions.
Slice the onion into small checkered squares, simply crush the garlic with a special press, and dissolve the zucchini and tomatoes into 1.5-centimeter cubes. The multicooker operating mode is whatever is convenient for you, in which you are used to frying foods, for example, “Baking” or the standard “Frying”. Set the duration to 20 minutes.
Sauté the onion, laying it out after heating the oil for a minute. After slightly browning the onion slices, add all the vegetables and garlic, mix and fry until the cycle is completed. Temporarily transfer the vegetables to a bowl.
We switch to the cooking mode for crumbly porridge, for example “Buckwheat” or, in its absence, “Pilaf”, set the timer for 50 minutes. After draining the pearl barley, rinsing it and drying it slightly, put it in a bowl, add a liter of clean water, add salt and lower the lid.
At the end of the main program, switch the appliance to heating, add and stir vegetables into the porridge. Leave covered for up to eight minutes and serve sprinkled with chopped onion.
Option 5: Barley porridge in the Polaris multicooker with mushrooms
If you cannot purchase the recommended type of mushroom, use classic champignons. Well, if you have mushroom pickers among your friends or relatives, order them a box of wild mushrooms, preferably an assortment. Be careful with wild mushrooms; some types require special preliminary preparation.
Ingredients:
- fresh oyster mushrooms (caps without stems) - 700 grams;
- two glasses of pearl barley;
- onions - 120 grams;
- three tablespoons of oil;
- salt, coarse - to taste.
How to cook
Sort the barley if necessary, then rinse it several times and leave it in clean water for now. Wash the mushrooms, cut off all suspicious parts, and cut the remaining pulp into fairly large slices. Remove the husk from the onion and cut it into rings into quarters.
We heat the oil in any mode with customizable parameters, setting the thermostat to 160 degrees. First, fry the onion for up to five minutes, then add slices of mushrooms to it. Cook, stirring, for another ten minutes, and put the whole roast in a bowl.
Do not rinse the bowl, just transfer the slightly soggy cereal into it and pour in four glasses of water. Reset the temperature to 140 degrees, lightly salt and cook for half an hour.
Place the porridge in a colander to drain most of the moisture, but a little remains, return to the bowl, add and stir the mushroom frying. Reduce the temperature to eighty degrees, cover with a lid and program the shutdown after forty minutes. Serve pearl barley with mushrooms, sprinkled with chopped young onions.
Option 6: Delicious pearl barley porridge in a Redmond slow cooker with chicken
In the finished barley with chicken according to this recipe, you may need to add a little oil and sprinkle with herbs. Combine both components: let half a stick of butter soften well, in a warm place, always in a closed container, chop and then finely chop a clove of garlic, chop a handful of dill, the most tender one you can find. Mix and add salt, spoon out small portions onto parchment paper and freeze. It’s very good if you find a shaped plastic insert from a box of small chocolates, filling the empty cells with green butter, you will also get an elegant design.
Ingredients:
- white fillet of medium-sized chicken (approximately 700 grams);
- two full multi-cups of pearl barley;
- large salad onion;
- half a spoon of turmeric;
- two tablespoons of pure oil;
- medium-sized carrot - one piece;
- salt, spices and pepper.
Step by step recipe
After peeling the carrots, rinse the root vegetable and cut it into four pieces along its entire length. Cut crosswise into thin slices and set aside. We cut the peeled onion into small strips; it is convenient to first dissolve it into half rings, and then cut them a couple more times.
Sparing no water, rinse the cereal and leave it to drain directly on the sieve. Rinse the chicken, pat dry with paper towels and cut into cubes four centimeters long and one centimeter thick.
We start the frying mode, slightly warm the oil, fry the vegetables in it until they turn a deep brown color and temporarily place them on a plate. For five minutes, until lightly crusted, heat the slices of chicken meat, stirring with a spatula, and remove it to another plate.
It is necessary to add products according to the recipe in the following sequence: return the vegetables to the bowl, add a little salt; spread the cereal evenly; on top of the pearl barley - chicken, sprinkle with spices and add a little more salt.
Fill with water, it’s better to take cold, bottled water, in the amount of six multi-glasses. We prepare pearl barley in the “Express cooking” mode, setting the timer to 50 minutes.
Option 7: Pearl barley porridge in the Polaris multicooker with stew
Almost such a treat is distributed at military-historical holidays from the field kitchen. Yes, we will get pearl barley without any smoke, but you can taste it any day, and they are unlikely to refuse more.
Ingredients:
- washed pearl barley - two measuring cups;
- stew, lumpy, pork or beef - half-liter jar;
- one large onion and one sweet carrot each;
- broth, meat and bone - 800 milliliters;
- coarsely ground pepper, bay leaf, a spoonful of chopped garlic and salt.
How to cook
Two products require advance preparation: cereals and stew. Place a jar of canned meat in the freezer for an hour and a half, put the washed barley in a large thermos, pour a liter of boiling water, and let it sit for the same amount of time as the stew.
Turn on the multicooker to heat up, in stewing mode. Transfer all the fat from the canned food into a bowl, being careful not to touch the frozen jelly. We will send the peeled vegetables directly from the cutting board into the bowl, so we act quickly and deftly. First, loosen into half rings and place the onion in the bowl, then quickly grate into coarse shavings and add the carrots.
Sauté slowly until it turns a deep blush; if there is not enough fat in the jar, after adding the onion, immediately add a spoonful of pork lard or two of vegetable oil. Add the stew to the vegetables and knead the stew right in the bowl, season with spices, add garlic and bay leaves. Simmer under the lid.
When the broth in the multicooker begins to thicken noticeably, switch it to the pilaf cooking mode. Place the pearl barley on a sieve, rinse with running water, then transfer to a bowl and mix with vegetables and meat. Pour in the cold broth, lower the lid and cook until the end of the cycle.
Option 8: Pearl barley porridge with water in a slow cooker - original recipe
Just barley, the most ordinary one, an excellent side dish for goulash and other meat dishes with a lot of gravy. If your menu includes cutlets or roast beef, add a little more oil to the finished, hot porridge.
Ingredients:
- high-quality pearl barley - one multi-glass;
- a slice of butter;
- “Extra” salt;
- pure water.
Step-by-step recipe for pearl barley porridge with water in a slow cooker
Sort the grains, carefully separating all the debris and unhulled grains, and pour the clean ones into a colander and rinse under the tap. Fill a saucepan or bowl with cool water. Leave for three to twelve hours, depending on the time available.
Drain the water and quickly rinse the barley again. Place in a bowl and pour two multi-cups of water into it. Cooking mode - “Grains” or, optionally, “Pilaf” or “Buckwheat”, depending on what is available in your model.
Lower the lid and use the timer control panel to set the cycle duration to 40 minutes. After about half an hour, open the lid and check how much the cereal has cooked. It is very difficult to indicate the exact time, since it depends on the quality of the specific grain, the duration of soaking, and even on the hardness of the water.
As in the case of pilaf, it is extremely undesirable to add water to the porridge being prepared; in extreme cases, add boiling water, and in small portions. Season the finished porridge with oil and add salt to taste.
How to cook pearl barley porridge in a slow cooker? It’s very simple: cereal, water, salt, oil in the required proportions, and an hour of time. That's all you need. Water and cereals are usually in a two to one ratio, like most porridges, but each recipe may have its own peculiarity, you need to keep an eye on this, because... Pearl barley porridge loves precision in the proportions of ingredients. Using a multicooker makes it possible to diversify dishes made from pearl barley, look for new combinations and flavor shades based on the rather simple taste of pearl barley itself. For example, the following are good and tasty: pearl barley porridge with meat in a slow cooker, pearl barley porridge with stew in a slow cooker, pearl barley porridge with mushrooms in a slow cooker. Housewives usually prefer the water version of this porridge. Pearl barley porridge in a slow cooker with water is more common than with milk. This is due to the fact that pearl barley is more often used as a side dish for meat than in dietary and baby food.
What do novice cooks need to know so that they can make delicious pearl barley porridge in a slow cooker, so that they get aromatic and crumbly pearl barley porridge in a slow cooker? In addition to the recipes themselves, you need to know well the capabilities of your multicooker; the equipment has many functions and different modes. Study them before you cook! This is the only way to make pearl barley porridge in a pressure cooker real, and you will get real pleasure from both the cooking process and the finished product.
Any recipe for pearl barley porridge in a slow cooker is not complicated. But you still need to study it, just like you need to carefully look at the photographs of ready-made dishes. Your pearl barley porridge in a slow cooker, the photo of which you took as a basis and are preparing, will turn out more pleasant to the taste and more presentable for serving.
In the culinary literature there are many tips on how to cook pearl barley porridge in a slow cooker so that it is tasty, aromatic and crumbly, how to cook pearl barley porridge in a slow cooker so that you won’t be ashamed to offer it not only to your family, but also to friends who come to visit. These recommendations should definitely be taken into account, but the main thing is to follow the recipes and know the capabilities of your multicooker. Take any recipe, for example, a recipe for pearl 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 cooking pearl barley in a slow cooker:
The cereal must be sorted and cleaned of foreign matter;
Before cooking, pearl barley should be thoroughly washed in several waters;
If you have time, it’s also good to pre-soak the cereal, at least for an hour and a half;
Pearl barley porridge can be cooked in the “pilaf” mode, but this way the porridge will turn out denser than in the “porridge” or “milk porridge” mode;
Salt and oil are added immediately to the cereal and cooked closed until the very end of the process;
Cooking pearl barley porridge in a slow cooker requires careful adherence to the proportions recommended in the recipes;
Pearl barley porridge in a slow cooker, the recipe with photo of which you liked, takes about an hour to prepare.
Milk pearl barley porridge in a slow cooker is an excellent breakfast dish. Pearl barley is a storehouse of protein and protein-containing gluten. But, unfortunately, it belongs to that type of porridge that everyone unanimously dislikes. And who will believe now that this is Peter I’s favorite porridge? But this is true. Only many people have forgotten how to cook pearl barley. This valuable product is not used only because we humans have lost the skill of preparing it.
Pearl barley should be handled as delicately as legumes. You must try to boil it, not allowing each grain to brew into a hard lump. To do this, barley is soaked in cold water for 10-12 hours before cooking. And then the pearl barley shows itself and thanks you with its taste. How to prepare pearl barley porridge in a slow cooker?
Ingredients
- 1 cup (200 g) pearl barley
- 1 l. water
- 2 l. milk
- Salt to taste
Milk pearl barley porridge in a slow cooker recipe
- Rinse the pearl barley and soak it in cold water overnight (10-12 hours).
- Pour milk into the multicooker bowl, set the “SOUP”/”STEW” mode for 5 minutes.
- Drain the water, pour the cereal into the heated milk, set the “MILK PORridge” mode for 20 minutes, do not forget to coat the edges of the bowl with butter so that the milk does not escape.
- Then set the “STEW” mode to 2 hours (Pokhlebkin in his recipe insists that pearl barley porridge must be cooked in a steam bath for 6 hours, but using a multicooker simplifies the cooking process).
- Pearl barley porridge in a slow cooker is ready. Bon appetit.
Pearl barley porridge is served as a completely independent dish. You can add butter or a little cream to it. It is also good to serve the porridge with cheese or any berries.