Pearl barley in a slow cooker pressure cooker

Very tasty and healthy pearl porridge for garnish! Pearl barley is one of the most useful products, it is believed that it contains more nutrients and vitamins than other cereals. And this cereal costs, literally, pennies. You can cook many different delicious and interesting dishes from pearl barley: milk porridge for breakfast, side dishes for meat, chicken or fish, roast or soups. The only thing that stops some housewives from using pearl barley often for cooking different dishes, its prolonged soaking and cooking. But with such a kitchen assistant as a slow cooker, the process of cooking pearl barley has been simplified at times.

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Pearl barley in a slow cooker pressure cooker

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Composition / ingredients

servings:

Pearl barley

Water

2.5

Milk

Salt

0.3

Butter

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 12 % 3 g

Fats 15 % 4 g

Carbohydrates 73 % 19 g

118 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 25 min

Step 1:
How to make pearl barley in a slow cooker pressure cooker? Prepare the ingredients for making pearl barley porridge as a side dish. The main thing is that the pearl barley is fresh and high-quality, light. In a slow cooker, pearl barley will turn out tender, soft and delicious if you cook it with the addition of milk.
Step 2:
Rinse the pearl barley thoroughly, changing the water repeatedly until the latter becomes transparent. Fill the pearl barley with cold, clean water and leave for 2 hours so that the cereal swells a little. Ideally, leave the cereal overnight, if time permits. We drain the water from the bowl with cereals, throw the pearl barley into a colander and rinse it again under running water.
Step 3:
Put the pearl barley in the bowl of the slow cooker.
Step 4:
Add salt to taste. Pour in water and milk. Close the lid and valve. Put on the "pilaf" program for 15 minutes. During the preparation of porridge, the pressure cooker must not be opened. When the cooking program is over, a signal will sound, open the valve, release steam, only then open the lid. The porridge is ready. Add a piece of butter, stir and serve.
Step 5:
If there is no pressure cooker, you can cook porridge in a regular slow cooker. In a conventional slow cooker, the process of cooking pearl barley porridge will be a little longer, you need to choose the "porridge" program for 25 minutes or "multi-cooker", depending on the model of the slow cooker.
Step 6:
Delicious and tender pearl barley porridge is ready, and thanks to cooking it in a slow cooker, such a dish turned out not only fast and simple, but also very useful, because when cooking under pressure, all vitamins and nutrients remain in the cereal, unlike the usual long-term cooking of pearl barley. If desired, pearl porridge can be cooked immediately together with meat and vegetables. Enjoy your meal!

Keep in mind that the cooking time and mode are indicated approximately in the recipe. Pressure cookers are different: electric, multi-cooker pressure cookers and models for gas stoves. Any technique has its own characteristics and even the same models of the same manufacturer may differ in heating parameters, etc. Therefore, carefully study the instructions for your device, and then in practice try to cook first familiar dishes, and then new ones, choosing the mode and time individually for your own technique and your taste.

Important! To make pearl barley dishes always delicious, read the article about the subtleties of choice and secrets of cooking pearl barley .

For cooking, it is better to use filtered or bottled water that is neutral to taste. If you use tap water, keep in mind that it can give the dish an unpleasant characteristic taste.