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Perlovka as it is correct. How to cook barley porridge on water according to a step-by-step recipe with a photo. The proportions of cereals and liquid

Alexander Gushchin

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Boiled barley porridge is very useful for the body, especially if cooked. the right way. With regular use, the work of all systems is normalized. Most people ignore pearl barley, replacing it with other products. For this reason, on the shelves of stores, it is located on the lowest shelves. By changing your attitude towards it, you can not only improve your health, but also enjoy a delicious dish.

What is pearl barley

Groats are obtained from barley grain. The cereal has been known since ancient times, and this happened from there. interesting name- barley. The grains are very similar to river pearls, called pearls. Today there are 3 types of cereals:

peeled whole grains - intended for second, first courses, various fillings;
groats "Dutch" - used for making cereals with a soft consistency;
barley grits- is a crushed barley that does not undergo grinding.

Benefit and harm

In the composition of the grains, starch substances can be found, due to which barley porridge becomes viscous during cooking. Groats are rich in amino acids, proteins and vitamins, which makes them especially useful. Eating porridge helps to fill the lack of nutrients and useful substances, which has a positive effect on appearance. This is especially important for women: the unique vitamin composition has a positive effect on the beauty of hair, nails, and skin.

The nutritional value per 100 grams of the product is 350 kcal. Consider useful qualities when using pearl barley:

improves metabolic processes;
has a calming effect on the central nervous system;
normalizes blood circulation;
activates brain cells;
minimizes the formation, growth of cancerous tumors, cells;
normalizes the work of the pancreas and intestines;
restore and strengthen the immune system;
helps to get rid of extra pounds, is used in nutrition for weight loss.

Although cereals contain a large amount of nutrients, it can cause significant harm to the body. You can not use it in large quantities due to gluten. With large accumulations, the substance washes out calcium, which can lead to the appearance of diseases: rickets, brittle bones. It is necessary to limit its intake in cases where there is bloating or constipation, a stomach ulcer. Strict contraindication - allergy to cereals.

How to cook barley porridge

There are several basic rules on how to cook barley deliciously. First, you need to rinse the cereal to clean water. The workpiece must be filled cold water, leave for 3.5 hours. You can cook delicious crumbly porridge if you take a wide, roomy pan - the cereal increases 5 times. We bring to your attention several interesting recipes how to cook barley.

In a slow cooker

Cooking time: 90 minutes.
Servings: 4 persons.
Calorie content of the dish: 1113 kcal.
Destination: for lunch.
Cuisine: Russian.

The recipe for barley porridge is simple. The main thing is to correctly calculate the right amount of cereal and liquid. Basic cooking requirements royal dish: take the correct ratio of liquid and barley itself. It is important to keep all the useful properties and vitamins in it. During cooking, many people add butter, so the porridge will turn out crumbly and tasty.

Ingredients:

chicken fillet - 0.4 kg;
feather groats - 200 g;
carrots - 1 pc.;
onion turnip - 1 pc.;
water - 300 ml;
butter - 2.5 tbsp;
spices - to taste;
garlic - 2 cloves.

Cooking method:

Rinse pearl barley with cold water, soak for 3 hours.
Peel onions, carrots, rinse, finely chop. We put oil, vegetables in the multicooker bowl, fry.
Rinse the chicken, pat dry with paper towels and cut into cubes. Add to fried vegetables, stir.
We clean the garlic, chop it on a fine grater, put it in a multicooker bowl. We fry 5 minutes.
Drain the water from the pearl barley, put it in a thicket, level it. Add salt, spices, water. We turn on the "Extinguishing" program for 60 minutes. Stir and heat for 30 minutes.

On the water

Cooking time: 60 minutes.
Servings: 3 persons.
Calorie content of the dish: 436 kcal.
Purpose: for breakfast.
Cuisine: Russian.

Barley is not only useful, but also hearty meal. It is used as a side dish, porridge, a component for soups, for example, in a pickle. Porridge on the water is very valuable, especially for those who adhere to a dietary or lean diet. There are many cooking recipes: learn how to cook barley porridge on the water for the benefit of the whole family.

Ingredients:

pearl barley - 200 g;
water - 1 l;
butter - 1.5 tbsp;
salt - 1 tsp

Cooking method:

Wash and soak pearl barley in lukewarm water.
We lay out, fill with water. Cover the pan with a lid, put on a slow fire. We stand 40 minutes.
Drain the remaining liquid, lay the butter, salt, stir.
Cover, leave to infuse for 15 minutes. Barley porridge is completely ready.

With meat

Cooking time: 2.5 hours.
Number of servings: 6 persons.
Calorie content of the dish: 1983 kcal.
Purpose: for dinner.
Cuisine: Russian.

This barley recipe is easy. The main thing is to properly cook and prepare the cereal. It is recommended to make the second dish with pieces of meat, fresh vegetables. In this case, the idea of serving it for dinner would be a good one. Porridge turns out tasty, fragrant, satisfying, healthy. It will appeal not only to adults, but also to small children. Prepare a delicious and unforgettable dinner for your family according to the recipe below.

Ingredients:

pork fillet - 0.6 kg;
pearl barley - 300 g;
onion turnip - 80 g;
carrots - 80 g;
green apple - 100 g;
lavrushka - 2 sheets;
spices - to taste.

Cooking method:

We soak the barley.
Rinse vegetables, peel, chop into strips. Fry, 5 minutes before readiness, add a peeled and chopped apple.
Rinse the meat, cut into medium-sized slices. Fry in hot oil until golden brown. Add meat to vegetables, put lavrushka.
We fall asleep prepared cereals, pour water 2 fingers above the level. Remember how much to cook barley porridge under a tightly closed lid - 120 minutes is enough.
After 60 minutes, open the container, pour another 200 ml of water. We continue to cook.

On milk

Cooking time: 1 hour.
Number of servings: 6 persons.
Calorie content of the dish: 532 kcal.
Purpose: for breakfast.
Cuisine: Russian.

A good and simple recipe for milk porridge. This cooking method is available to every housewife. As a result, the taste of the dish is tender - with a taste of baked milk. The most convenient cooking option is considered to be in pots in a Russian oven, or at home - on the stove, in a slow cooker. Please yourself and your loved ones, prepare pearl barley in the morning for breakfast.

Ingredients:

pearl barley - 200 g;
milk - 500 ml;
water - 400 ml;
sugar, salt - to taste.

Cooking method:

Pour the previously prepared cereals with water, salt a little.
Put on the stove, boil. We continue cooking on slow heating until the liquid disappears completely.
We dilute the swollen porridge with hot milk, bring to a boil, sugar.
We put the pan with the contents in the oven for 40 minutes.
Ready meal It goes well with sweet fresh berries.

With mushrooms

Cooking time: 1 hour.
Number of servings: 6 persons.
Calorie content of the dish: 877 kcal.
Cuisine: Russian.

For a hearty dinner without meat, it is recommended to cook barley with wild mushrooms. To give the dish an additional aroma and pleasant taste, it is better to use several types of mushrooms, add fresh or dried herbs, and add a special piquancy soy sauce included in the recipe. Dinner will be remembered for a long time, and pearl barley will become everyone's favorite cereal.

Ingredients:

pearl barley - 1 glass;
Forest mushrooms- 0.6 kg;
onion turnip - 80 g;
garlic (cloves) - 3 pcs.;
seasonings - to taste;
soy sauce - 1 tbsp;
frying oil - 40 ml.

Cooking method:

Prepare the cereal. Pour in water, cook over low heat for 40 minutes.
Peel and wash vegetables and mushrooms. Cut into strips and fry until cooked. At the end, add finely chopped garlic, spices.
Put the fried onions and other vegetables into barley, stir and heat for 10 minutes.

In the oven

Cooking time: 1 hour.
Number of servings: 8 persons.
Calorie content of the dish: 678 kcal.
Purpose: for lunch, dinner.
Cuisine: Russian.

Pearl barley in the oven turns out to be the most delicious and meatless dish. In this recipe, porridge will not cook for long, and the main advantage is that even an inexperienced cook will understand the technology. In the oven, the cereals are thoroughly steamed, saturated with the taste and aroma of spices, root crops. The main advantage of cooking is that it does not take much time.

Ingredients:

pearl barley - 2 cups;
carrots - 100 g;
oil - 2 tbsp;
onion turnip - 90 g;
spices to taste.

Cooking method:

Peel vegetables, rinse, cut into strips. Fry until half done.
We wash the cereal, put it in a colander. When the excess liquid is glass, spread to the vegetables, fry for 5 minutes. At this stage, you need to add spices.
We lay out the cereal in portioned pots, pour water into each of them so that its level is slightly higher than the porridge itself.
V hot oven set the porridge for 60 minutes, the temperature is 200 degrees.

With vegetables

Barley with vegetables is prepared in the same way as described above in other recipes. You can use any vegetables that you like: zucchini, celery, onions, carrots, beans, peas, etc. Make habitual and tasty dish you can, both on the stove (oven), and in the slow cooker, stove. It is important to remember that cereals love water. With a large amount of liquid, it will turn out soft, crumbly, tasty. Showing a little of your imagination, you can get a unique dish. With vegetables, it is easy to prepare a delicious lunch or dinner.

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Beneficial features and the harm of barley porridge - how to cook according to recipes with photos in a saucepan, oven and slow cooker

- Pearl barley is the cheapest cereal and the most useful. Barley is called the pearl of cereals because of its useful components: lysine (antiviral), protein-containing gluten (indispensable for those who are on a diet), selenium, B vitamins, proteins and minerals.
- Barley can be soaked in water or in the same amount of milk or curdled milk.
- Barley is made from barley, cleaning and polishing the grains.
- Pearl barley is one of the cheapest cereals. The cost in Moscow stores is from 30 to 70 rubles. per 1 kilogram of pearl barley (the price is indicated for June 2019).
- When cooking barley increases 5 times.
- Shelf life of pearl barley - from a year to a year and a half.
- Barley calorie content - 320 kcal / 100 grams of cereal.
readiness determine barley by appearance and consistency - fully cooked barley is swollen, soft, but not mushy.

Non-standard methods of cooking barley

How to cook barley in a slow cooker
1. Rinse barley, soak in cold water for 6-12 hours.
2. Drain the water, put the barley in a slow cooker, greased with butter, pour water or milk in a ratio of 1:3.
3. Set the multicooker to the "Buckwheat" or "Rice" mode, close the lid and cook for 50 minutes, then try the barley for readiness.
4. Add butter and leave on "Warm-up" for another 10 minutes.

How to cook in a pressure cooker
1. Rinse and soak for 6-12 hours, drain and fill with fresh water 1:3.
2. Set the pressure valve of the pressure cooker to the "Closed" position and cook after building up the pressure for 20 minutes, then release the pressure naturally for 40 minutes.

How to cook barley in the microwave
1. For 1 glass of pearl barley, take one and a half glasses of salted boiled water and cook in a container for microwave oven, covered with a lid, 25-30 minutes at a power of 400 watts.
2. Put the processed barley (in a bag) into a container with boiled salted water, put it in the microwave for 20 minutes at a power of 400 watts.

How to cook barley in a double boiler
1. Wash the barley, drain the vegetable rubbish, put it in the double boiler bowl.
2. Smooth barley, pour water and leave for 6-12 hours.
3. Make sure there is enough water in the fluid compartment.
4. Turn on the steamer for 1 hour (without soaking - 2 hours).
5. Add salt and stir barley - it is cooked.

How to cook barley in bags
Groats from bags do not need to be pre-soaked - they are already processed and after cooking they can be added to soups, side dishes or other dishes.
1. Place a bag of barley in a saucepan and pour cold water over so that the bag is covered with water with a margin of 1 centimeter.
2. Put the pan on the fire, wait until it boils and cook barley in a bag for 45 minutes, covered with a lid.

Most often, pearl barley is included in soups, but is not prepared as a separate porridge. Housewives should not forget that from this useful product Delicious, nutritious and budget friendly side dishes. If you add meat or mushrooms to the cereal, then you will be able to cook a full-fledged hearty dinner with barley porridge. How to cook the discussed cereal, and with what additives it goes well, is described below.

In order for the planned dish to end up really tasty, you need to know a few secrets of cooking it, as well as choose the right cereal. For cereals, the Dutch barley variety is ideal. It melts quickly and is soft and tender. And the classic varieties of the product are best left for soups.

Approximate proportions

In order for the dish to have a pleasant crumbly structure, you need to carefully monitor the proportions of cereals and liquid. If the product was pre-soaked for a long time, then 1 tbsp. bulk ingredient is taken 1 liter of liquid. When cooking without soaking, the amount of water must be increased by 1.5 times.

How much time to cook?

The exact cooking time for porridge will also depend on whether the cereal was left in the water before culinary experiment. If the hostess chose an approach with a long soak (at least 6-7 hours), then the porridge will be cooked for only half an hour. After that, she only needs to brew a little.

With short-term soaking (2-3 hours), the dish will languish under the lid for 45-55 minutes. In this case, the heating of the plate should be minimal.

Barley porridge for garnish

A low-calorie dish will turn out if you cook it with ordinary filtered water. Liquids will need to use 630 ml. Remaining Ingredients: 1 tbsp. pearl barley, salt to taste, a piece of butter.

Barley is washed to clean water and left to swell overnight.
The prepared product is poured with fresh liquid and boiled for 35 minutes. Salt and oil are immediately added to the container.

It is delicious to complement the side dish with assorted cucumbers, bell peppers and tomatoes.

With added meat

The addition of meat will make the treat more satisfying and nutritious. For example, pork meat. Ingredients: 650 g meat, 1.5 tbsp. barley, onion, sour apple, carrot, salt, seasoning mix for pork.

Pieces of meat with layers of fat are fried in a pan without oil. Enough of the rendered fat. When a golden crust appears on the slices, you can transfer them to the roaster.
On the resulting fat, chopped onions and thin sticks of carrots are passivated. Last of all, small apple cubes are added to these products. The mass is salted, sprinkled with spices.
Vegetables are transferred to the meat. Grain is poured on top. Products are poured with water in such a way that it turns out to be about 1 cm higher.
Barley porridge with meat will languish until tender (without a lid) for 60-70 minutes.

To make the treat even tastier, after the time has passed, cover the chicken and send it for another half an hour in a hot oven.

Recipe for cooking with stew

Instead of fresh meat for the dish under discussion, you can use and pork stew. One standard jar will suffice. Remaining Ingredients: 1 tbsp. cereals, 2 onions, 2.5 tbsp. filtered water, a couple of garlic cloves, 2 medium carrots, salt, a mixture of peppers.

Barley is soaked in water for 8-10 hours.
In a deep cast-iron frying pan, the stew is heated with all the contents of the jar. Finely chopped onions, garlic and carrots are also sent there. Together, the ingredients are fried for 7-8 minutes.
Soaked cereals are boiled for 10-15 minutes in salt water. Then it, along with part of the water, is poured into a frying pan for frying. You can add salt to the dish.
The treat languishes for half an hour under a closed lid.

Before serving, porridge should be infused for 15-20 minutes.

Barley with mushrooms

This version of the dish can be both a side dish and an independent lunch. Ingredients: 830 ml of filtered water, 230 g of cereals, 230 g of fresh champignons, carrots, salt, onions, mushroom seasoning.

The washed cereal is soaked for half an hour, after which it is sent to boil in salted water. It will take about an hour to get ready. During this time, the liquid should completely evaporate.
Chopped onions and carrots are sautéed until golden. It is best to cook them in butter.
Mushrooms and seasoning are added to the finished roast. Together, the ingredients are cooked for another 7-8 minutes.
The contents of the pan are laid out in a pan with porridge. The treat is well mixed, salted and left to brew for half an hour.

You can improve this barley recipe. For example, add red bell peppers and / or tomatoes to the fry.

Milk barley porridge

Definitely worth making your own. favourite dish Peter I. They were barley on cow's milk. Ingredients: 1 tbsp. cereals, 2 large spoons of butter, a pinch of salt, a large spoonful of granulated sugar, 900 ml of milk.

Barley is soaked in cold water overnight. In the morning, it is washed well and boiled for 12-14 minutes in salt water.
Next, the slightly boiled product is leaned back into a colander and sent to boiling milk.
Porridge is salted, sprinkled with sugar.
After another 15 minutes, the container with the treat is moved to water bath and languish on it for 2.5-3 hours.

If the hostess has a margin of time, you can increase the cooking time to 6-7 hours.

With Chiken

It goes well with pearl barley porridge and chicken. Ingredients: 280 g of cereals, 1-2 onions, 320 g of chicken, 2 carrots, salt, broth, garlic to taste and spices for pilaf.

The washed barley is soaked in cold water for a couple of hours.
Small pieces of chicken are well fried together with chopped onions, carrots and garlic in oil. The mass is immediately salted and sprinkled with seasonings.
The resulting roast from poultry and vegetables is transferred to the duckling. Prepared cereal is distributed on top.
Products need to be poured with broth so that it turns out to be about 1 cm higher.
The porridge will be cooked under the lid until the broth has completely evaporated.

Ready pearl barley is salted to taste.

Barley with pumpkin

Vegetables are best taken fresh - without peel and seeds. Ingredients: 1 tbsp. cereals, 1.5 tbsp. filtered water, 320 g pumpkin pulp, salt, onion, sweet pepper, 2 tomatoes.

Groats are soaked in water for 4 hours.
First, onions and carrots (chopped) are fried in a pan, then they are cooked together with cubes of pumpkin, pepper and tomatoes.
Vegetables are stewed until soft over low heat.
Barley is boiled in salt water until fully cooked.
It remains only to transfer the porridge to the pan with the vegetables, mix and simmer the ingredients together for another 7-8 minutes.

You can add crushed garlic to taste.

How to cook in a slow cooker?

"Smart pot" will slightly simplify the process of preparing the discussed "capricious" porridge. Ingredients: 1 tbsp. cereals and 2 times more broth, salt to taste.

Barley is soaked in water for a couple of hours, after which it is transferred to the bowl of the device and poured with any broth.
Salt is immediately added to the cereal. You can also add butter to taste.
The dish is being prepared in milk porridge mode.

With the indicated proportions of liquid and dry ingredients, the treat turns out to be crumbly.

Pearl barley is a simple, budgetary and undeservedly forgotten cereal by many. Meanwhile, it can become not only an excellent side dish for meat, fish, mushrooms or vegetables, but also the basis of many salads, appetizers and soups. It can be very tasty, even if you just flavor it with a piece of butter and sprinkle with herbs.

It is no secret that now many people treat pearl barley with slight contempt, believing that porridge from this cereal is prepared exclusively for soldiers. How unfair! After all, it is not for nothing that she got her romantic name from the word “pearl”, which means “pearl” in French. And if we consider in more detail its richest vitamin composition, then this cereal is rightfully a pearl among all the others.

The main thing is to learn how to cook porridge correctly, then you will make friends with it for a long time. Especially for those who cannot find the right approach to cereals, we tell in detail how to cook barley on water.

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Ingredients

pearl barley - 1 glass;
water for soaking cereals - 1 l;
water for cooking cereals - from 2.5 glasses (depending on the desired viscosity of the porridge);
salt - to taste;
butter - to your taste when serving.

Cooking

Cooking barley on water without soaking is not recommended, otherwise it will be very long. The cereal must first be kept in water and then the cooking process will be halved.

First of all, measure the required amount of cereal and sort it out, since even in the best factory packaging, small pebbles and debris can occur.

Then pour it into a colander with small holes or into a sieve and rinse thoroughly under cool running water. In the process of washing the cereal, constantly sort it out with your fingers. Next, send the washed barley to a bowl of a suitable size and fill it with cool water as well.

Leave the cereal in the water for at least 5 hours, ideally overnight. During this time, it should decently increase in size. After soaking, send it back to a colander (sieve), rinse thoroughly. Now the clean and swollen barley is ready for cooking.

Bring the water to a boil in a saucepan and add the cereal.

The proportions of water and cereals depend on the viscosity of the porridge you want to get as a result. For example, how much water do you need for a glass of dry barley?

For crumbly porridge take 2.5 glasses of water.
For porridge of medium viscosity - the ratio will be 1:3.
For a very viscous slurry porridge (many remember it from kindergarten) - from 3.5 cups to a liter of water.

Cover the saucepan tightly with a lid and place it on a burner turned on to maximum heat. As soon as the contents of the pan gurgle intensively, switch the stove to slow heating and, without removing the lid, let the barley porridge boil for about 25 minutes.

When the specified time has passed, lift the lid: from above, the porridge seems to be completely ready, the top of the cereal has already completely absorbed water, but there is still a little liquid left at the very bottom. Salt the porridge to your taste (usually 1 teaspoon is enough), mix gently and replace the lid.

Simmer the porridge on the slow heating of the stove for another 10 minutes, then turn off the burner, but do not remove the saucepan from it yet, let it steam for 5-7 minutes, and barley porridge on the water will be ready!

Barley is best served hot or warm. Flavor it with butter, perhaps even a handful of greens. Or serve porridge as a side dish with meat (fish, mushroom) gravy, vegetables in any form.

The porridge will turn out to be especially tasty, and the grains will remain intact if the grits are first lightly fried in a dry frying pan.

Barley porridge is best cooked in thick-walled dishes. Barley will turn out good in a double boiler or. But there is another interesting way, try it, and this porridge will forever become your favorite. In the morning, spread the groats soaked in the evening in clay pots, and pour boiling water (the liquid level should be 2-2.5 cm above the groats). Do not cover with lids and send to the oven, heated by this time to a temperature of 100-120 degrees. After that, bring the temperature in the oven to 200-220 degrees and from that moment, hold for 40 minutes. Serve straight to the table in pots, adding salt or sugar to taste, and butter.

You can cook porridge in a water bath. First, boil for 15 minutes, then set the dishes with cereals in a bath, wrap and evaporate for 30-40 minutes.

From pearl barley, not only good porridge is obtained, you can cook many interesting dishes with it:

soup with dried mushrooms or ;
porridge with chicken hearts or with chicken and vegetables;
Christmas kutya;
or with ;
perlotto (this is something like risotto, but not with rice, but with pearl barley).

For most of us, barley porridge evokes not the most pleasant associations. For some, it's bland, dry, and often undercooked hospital food. For others, it was a hated mush-porridge, which was stuffed every day and every other day in kindergarten. In the meantime, pearl barley can be cooked deliciously! And it's pretty easy and relatively quick to do. The main thing is to know a couple of secrets, thanks to which you will get such a mess that you can’t drag it by the ears! And all you need is cereal, water for cooking and a little salt.

Below I will tell you in detail about how to cook barley on water quickly and easily. This can be done in two ways: with or without pre-soaking the cereal. Each has its pros and cons, but no matter which option you choose, I always guarantee you an excellent result!

Ingredients:

pearl barley - 1 tbsp.,
water - 2-3 tbsp. (depending on the desired consistency of the finished porridge),
salt - about 2/3 tbsp. l.

1. How to quickly cook barley on water with pre-soaking

This method is convenient in that after soaking, the cereal swells so much that it only takes 30 minutes to bring it to readiness.

First of all, pearl barley is thoroughly washed under running cool water, be sure to grind the grains with your hands. Pour the washed cereal with cold water and leave to swell for at least 5-6 hours, ideally overnight. You need to take a lot of water for soaking - about a liter per 1 tbsp. cereals.

After the water in which the barley was soaked, drain. We wash the cereal itself once more and transfer it to a suitable saucepan.

Then we put the pan on the stove for maximum heat, pour the barley with boiling water (we boil the kettle and, as the water boils, pour its grits). To get dry and crumbly porridge, 2 tbsp will be enough. water. For more viscous porridge - at least 3. We take the same glass with which we measured the cereal.

Fill with water and immediately close the lid. The water begins to gurgle after 30 seconds. Switch the heating of the stove to medium and cook barley for 25 minutes. After the specified time, open the lid. From above, the cereal has already absorbed the water completely, at the bottom of the saucepan there is still some liquid left. Add salt to the barley, mix and close the lid again.

We cook barley for another 5 minutes, after which we turn off the stove without removing the pan from it. We give the porridge to sweat and reach full readiness for another 10 minutes - and barley is ready! Then it can either be served or used to prepare other dishes (soups, salads, meatballs, etc.).

2. How to quickly cook barley on water without soaking

This method is ideal for those who decide to cook barley suddenly, and there is simply no time for soaking. With it, you can also cook porridge of any viscosity. And the cooking time will be on average 40-50 minutes. Quite quickly, considering that we skip the soaking stage for many hours.

Just as in the previous method, we thoroughly wash the pearl barley.

Then we send it to the pan and fill it with cold water. The amount of water does not really matter, because after the first boil we will drain this water. I pour water over my eye - so that the grits are hidden by 1-2 cm.

We put the pan with cereal on the stove, turning on the maximum heat. We cover the saucepan with a lid.

Bring the cereal to a boil, boil for just a couple of minutes and drain the water. We throw the grits on a sieve. If, when boiling, the water will try to escape outside the saucepan, open the lid a little.

We return the barley to the pan, pour cold water again, cover with a lid and bring to a boil at maximum heat of the stove. The amount of water for obtaining friable porridge is 2.5 tablespoons, for viscous - at least 3.

As soon as the cereal boils again, reduce the heat of the stove to medium and simmer the porridge under the lid for 30 minutes. Then the scheme is the same as in the first method: open the lid, add salt to the cereal, mix and return the lid to its place. Cook the porridge for another 10 minutes, turn off the stove and let the barley steam and reach readiness for another 10-15 minutes.

Ready! We attach pearl barley to salads or soup, or serve it, flavored with meat sauce, a piece of butter and herbs, with vegetable frying - to your taste.