Barley porridge on water

Our Russian super food! Very useful porridge! Barley is a grain that is rarely used in cooking. But not everyone knows what exactly cereals are made from it - pearl and barley. And the benefits of these two cereals significantly exceed the popular wheat. First of all, because of the amount of protein and fiber. Therefore, barley dishes can be safely attributed to the category of dietary. The easiest way to cook barley groats is to cook porridge on water. It can be eaten as a separate dish, flavored with berries, nuts or fruits, and also served as a side dish.

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Barley (polished)

Water

Butter

Salt

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 13 % 2 g

Fats 27 % 4 g

Carbohydrates 60 % 9 g

83 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 10 h

Step 1:
Prepare the products. Always take filtered or bottled water for cooking, even if you just need to soak the ingredients. If you want to cook porridge for breakfast, then start preparing in the evening. Accordingly, for dinner - in the morning.
Step 2:
Sort out the grits, if necessary, remove the remnants of husks and foreign inclusions. Rinse well in cool running water.
Step 3:
Pour the cereal in a ratio of 1:2 with boiling water. Leave it for at least 5 hours, I left it overnight.
Step 4:
In the morning, the cereal will swell well and absorb half of the water.
Step 5:
Let's put the cereal in a bowl in which it will be cooked and pour water so that there will be cereals twice as much water again. Add salt.
Step 6:
Put it to cook on medium heat. After boiling, reduce the heat to a minimum and cook the porridge for 45-50 minutes. Leave the lid ajar, the porridge will try to escape.
Step 7:
At the end of cooking, the water will boil off and such craters will appear. Wait another minute and you can turn it off.
Step 8:
If you have free time, then wrap a pot of porridge in a towel and let it brew for a couple of hours, the porridge will turn out steamed and more delicious. Before serving, add butter to the porridge.

Barley groats are either barley or barley. Pearl barley is ground barley grain, and barley is crushed. Pearl barley is cooked for a long time, it must be soaked before cooking, the egg does not require soaking.
Porridge cooked in an oven or a slow cooker turns out to be very tasty, but you can also cook a decent option on the stove, just wrap the pan with the finished porridge in a towel for a few hours.
In addition to water, porridge can be cooked with milk, broth, meat or chicken.
Before cooking, grits can be fried a little in a dry frying pan - this will improve its taste properties.