What can you cook with barley?

Question

Do you have any good recipes?

Answer 1

where r u from?
Chinese people actually use barley to cook desserts...
or just in a soup with sugar as a sweet drink for cooling the body...
it's very light n refreshing...u can have it warm or cold.
Just cook half a cup of barley with 5 cups of water, bring to a boil and simmer for two hours on low fire.
Add sugar to taste. :)

Answer 2

Barley Mushroom Casserole:
1/2 oz dried mushrooms
1 c boiling water
4 tsp unsalted butter or margarine
1 c medium pearl barley
1 med yellow onion, chopped
5 med fresh mushrooms, sliced (1 1/4 c)
2 c chicken stock
1/2 tsp each salt and pepper
1 bay leaf
1/4 c snipped fresh chives or minced parsley

Preheat oven to 350. In a small heatproof bowl, soak the dried mushrooms in the water for 10 min or until softened. Drain in a sieve lined with cheesecloth or paper toweling over a bowl and reserve the liquid. Chop fesh mushrooms.
In a medium size flameproof casserole, melt 2 tsp of the butter over moderate heat. Add the barley and saute, stirring for 1 min or until lightly browned. Transfer the barley to a small bowl.
Melt the remaining butter in the casserole. Add the onion and saute stirring for 1 min or until just turning translucent. Add the fresh mushrooms and saute, stirring occasionally, for 3 min. Return barley to the casserole. add the soaked mushrooms and their liquid, the stock, salt and pepper, and bay leaf and bring to a boil. Transfer to the oven and bake covered for 1-1 1/4 hrs or until the barley is tender. Before serving remove and discard the bay leaf and stir in the chives.
serves @6.

This is a good-for-you recipe too.

Answer 3

Add cooked barley to any broth based soup. Also, when I cook brown rice I add equal parts of uncooked barley to up the nutrition content. A cold barley salad is good too.

Answer 4

Ham and Barley Salad

This light salad entrée pairs smoked ham with crisp cabbage, savory green onions and sweet carrots in a salad base of whole grain barley. Mustard and shallots add depth and spice to the fresh vinaigrette dressing.

Serves 4–6
2 TB whole grain mustard
2 TB finely chopped shallots
2 TB red wine vinegar
6 TB canola oil
pinch of brown sugar (or a bit of honey)
pinch of salt and pepper
3 cups water
11/2 cups quick-cooking barley
3 cups green cabbage, thinly sliced
4 green onions, sliced
2 carrots, shredded
12 to 16 oz ham, julienned (about 21/2 cups)
To prepare the vinaigrette, place the mustard, shallots, vinegar, oil, brown sugar, salt and pepper in bowl and whisk together until blended. Set aside.

Bring water to boil in medium saucepan. Stir in quick-cooking barley, reduce heat and cover. Simmer for 10–12 minutes or until water is absorbed, then remove from heat and let rest for a few minutes.

While barley is cooking, assemble the cabbage, onions, carrots and ham in large bowl and toss lightly together. Once barley is cooked, spoon over salad and toss. Add the vinaigrette and toss again. Serve immediately while warm or chill to enjoy later.

Answer 5

Chunky Beef Barley Soup
1 1/2 pounds of beef, stew beef
cut into 1/2 inch pieces
2 tablespoons of all purpose flour
2 cloves of garlic minced (cut very small)
1/4 cup vegetable oil
2 quarts of water
1 can (14 ounce) tomatoes, coarsely chopped, undrained
1 cup coarsely chopped onion
1/2 cup of Pearled Barley
1 teaspoon of salt (optional)
1 teaspoon of dried basil, crushed
1/8 teaspoon of black pepper
1 package of frozen vegetables (mixed)

Dredge raw meat in flour. Brown meat with garlic in hot oil in 4-quart Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add water, tomatoes, onion, barley, salt, basil and pepper. Bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce to low heat. Cover and simmer for one hour, or until meat and barley are tender. Add frozen vegetables return to boil, then reduce heat to low cover and allow to simmer 5minutes or so or until vegetables are tender. You may also add cut up raw green cabbage if you like this soup is yummy.

Answer 6

a yahoo search for 'barley recipes' will answer your question

Answer 7

Throw it into a lamb stew.

I sometimes cook it in my rice cooker and serve it with a pat of butter and some salt, like rice.

Answer 8

you could use it like rice, its a pulse so it would work the same way.

You could make soup with it. The obvios is scotch broth.

Answer 9

what it is world renown for....Beef Barley Soup

Answer 10

You could put it in to stews or soups