Pickle in a slow cooker with pearl barley

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to cook pickle in a slow cooker with pearl barley? Prepare the products. Any meat will do — pork, chicken, I have beef. It will be tastier soup on broth from meat with a bone. Traditionally, pickle is cooked with cucumbers, salted in a barrel way — without vinegar. If you don't find them, take the usual pickled ones. Wash and peel the vegetables.

2. Step 2:

   

   Cut the onion into small cubes.

3. Step 3:

   

   Grate the carrots on a coarse grater.

4. Step 4:

   

   Cut cucumbers or grate them on a coarse grater, as you want.

5. Step 5:

   

   Multi-cooker, depending on the model, turn on the mode "frying" or, as I have, "baking", for 20 minutes. Pour the oil into the bowl.

6. Step 6:

   

   Put the chopped onion in it and fry it for three minutes, stirring.

7. Step 7:

   

   Send the carrots to the onion bowl, fry, stirring, for another three minutes.

8. Step 8:

   

   Add cucumbers to the vegetables and fry everything together a little more.

10. Step 9:

    

    Then pour tomato sauce over the vegetables. You can take tomato paste, it will take less, a teaspoon is enough. Or take fresh tomatoes, peeled and cut into cubes.

11. Step 10:

    

    Wash and dry the meat. When cooking soup in a slow cooker, I cut the meat immediately into portions.

12. Step 11:

    

    Put the meat in the bowl of the slow cooker with the vegetables and fry it a little. The frying mode will just end.

13. Step 12:

    

    Cut the potatoes into cubes.

14. Step 13:

    

    Rinse the pearl barley in several waters. Put the pearl barley and potatoes in a bowl.

15. Step 14:

    

    Pour the vegetables with meat with hot boiled water or ready-made broth. Add a little salt to the soup. Keep in mind that he has pickles in his composition, and later we will add brine. Do not over-salt. Put the pickle stew on a suitable mode for 2 hours. In my model, this is the "quenching" mode.

16. Step 15:

    

    Ten minutes before cooking, pour cucumber brine into the soup, add herbs, bay leaf and pepper. Try it with salt, add salt if necessary. Close the slow cooker and wait for the end of the program. The pickle is ready. Serve it with sour cream. Enjoy your meal!