Mushroom soup from frozen mushrooms with barley: recipes

Mushroom soup from frozen mushrooms with pearl barley - a traditional Russian dish. Cooking it is not at all difficult, but it will take a lot of time. The fact is that barley is cooked for a long time, so it is boiled separately and added to the soup already in a semi-finished form.

Barley preparation

This grits requires a special approach. Here are some simple rules to follow when working with pearl barley:

1. Wash cereals with plenty of water.
2. To speed up the cooking process, it is recommended to soak the pearl barley so that it swells slightly. It can be soaked not only in water, but also in kefir. If you do not, cooking a pearl barley dish will take much longer.
3. This cereal, when soaked and heat-treated, increases in volume, so this must be taken into account when choosing a container for making soup. After soaking, the volume doubles, while boiling - four.

Classic recipe

Traditionally, mushroom soup from frozen mushrooms with pearl barley is cooked from forest gifts collected in the summer and harvested for the winter.

Have to take:

• four handfuls of forest frozen mushrooms;
• two pieces of potatoes;
• two handfuls of pearl barley;
• one small onion;
• one carrot;
• water
• salt;
• sour cream;
• butter.

Procedure:

1. Wash cereals properly, put in a container with cold water so that the water is 4 cm higher, and soak for several hours.
2. Rinse the soaked barley again, transfer to a saucepan, pour boiling water so that the water is 3 cm higher than the cereal, add salt, mix. When it boils, make a small fire and cook until the liquid evaporates under a loose cover. Do not forget to interfere periodically.
3. Shortly before the barley is ready to start cooking mushroom broth. Wash the mushrooms first, then put them in a pan where the soup will be cooked. Pour cold water so that it is 5 cm below the top of the pan. When the boil begins, reduce the flame, cover the pan loosely.
4. A quarter of an hour after the start of cooking mushrooms, cook potatoes (peel, wash, cut into bars), put it in a pan with future soup, mix. When the boil begins, reduce the fire, cover with a lid.
5. Put a dry clean frying pan on a fire, heat it up and throw a piece of butter on it. Peel the onion, chop finely, put in melted butter and fry until it becomes translucent. Send the cereal into the pan with onion, mix, fry for about 7 minutes while stirring over moderate heat. Remove the pan from the stove and cover.
6. Peel the carrots, cut into cubes or straws, put in soup, stir, boil for about 5 minutes.
7. Check potato readiness. If it is warming up, put the fried barley and onion in the soup. Stir the soup, bring to a boil and let it simmer over low heat for about 3 minutes.
8. Try if there is enough salt, add salt if necessary, leave it on fire under a covered lid for 2 minutes, then remove from the stove.

Ready mushroom soup from frozen mushrooms with pearl barley season with a spoon of sour cream. If you do not like sour cream, you can throw chopped greens into a plate.

Chicken Recipe

It may seem to the meat-eaters that something is missing in the mushroom soup with pearl barley from frozen mushrooms. No problems. It is allowed to add beef or chicken.

What you need to take:

• 0.3 kg of chicken;
• 150 g of frozen mushrooms;
• half a glass of pearl barley;
• 2 pcs. potatoes;
• one onion;
• one carrot;
• vegetable little;
• salt;
• Bay leaf;
• pepper.

Procedure:

1. Soak barley in advance in water for 2 hours (water should be 2 times more than barley). After that, rinse the groats under a tap and cook until half ready (about 30 minutes). Half a glass of pearl barley - a glass of water. When the cereal is cooked, drain the remaining water. Boil the pearl barley separately so that the soup does not cloud.
2. Cook the chicken stock. Pour water into the pan, put on fire, salt, toss the lavrushka and pepper. Put the chicken and cook for about 30 minutes, descaling.
3. Wash the mushrooms, cut into slices. Remove the chicken from the broth.
4. In the soup add boiled pearl barley and half-cooked potatoes.
5. Make overcooking. Fry finely chopped onions and grated carrots in oil for 4 minutes, then add mushrooms to the pan and fry all together for another 5 minutes.
6. Cut the chicken into slices, put in the soup, after the chicken send the overcooking of carrots, onions and mushrooms and cook for about 5-6 minutes.

Ready mushroom soup from frozen mushrooms with barley can be poured on plates. When served, it is decorated with greens, such as chives.

Finally

Mushroom soup from mushrooms with pearl barley can be cooked not only in the classical way. There are many variations on its basis. For example, with sauerkraut, with beef, with cream cheese, with duck, with pumpkin. Now that you know how to cook mushroom soup with pearl barley, you can modify it to your taste, including new ingredients.