Food cooked in a pot is always wrapped in a special aroma 🥰. The main "feature" of this dish is fried pearl barley 😌 If, suddenly, you do not like pearl barley, there is a chance that you will rediscover it for yourself and... fall in love! Be sure to try cooking! 😌
Ingredients: pearl barley, chicken drumsticks, carrots, onions, white cabbage /you will need less than half a velk/, garlic, tomatoes in own juice, dried mushrooms / I have boletus /, bay leaf, cloves, allspice, black pepper, vegetable oils, salt
Cooking method:
👩🏻🍳 First you need to prepare pearl barley. You can take any pearl barley, even in bags for cooking. I have from a pack, a barley variety from the manufacturer Mistral.
👩🏻🍳 I wash the groats well in several waters and pour them out on a towel to dry. This will take about a day.
👩🏻🍳 I pour dry cereal into a frying pan.
👩🏻🍳 I fry barley until golden brown and nutty flavor. Now such pearl barley will not be slippery either in soups or in side dishes. It keeps its shape perfectly, does not sag, is pleasantly elastic and much tastier than its boiled version 👌🔥.
👩🏻🍳 Gathered the ingredients for the dish.
👩🏻🍳 Practice has shown that the most delicious pot of barley with vegetables is with meat from chicken legs. Quite dry with turkey. Pork changes the flavor of the dish. Beef is good, but the languishing time needs to be increased significantly. Chicken thighs - perfect! 👌
👩🏻🍳 With such a set of vegetables, I have the most delicious pearl barley.
👩🏻🍳 Dried mushrooms act as seasoning. Black and allspice peppers, can be put ground. And do not forget to put a clove, its aroma perfectly complements the dish.
👩🏻🍳 I took the meat off the bone, I don’t put the skin in the dish either.
👩🏻🍳 I cut carrots and onions into cubes, cabbage into large pieces. I will crush the garlic before laying it with the flat side of the knife, right in the husk. So it will be more convenient to remove it from the finished dish.
👩🏻🍳Mushrooms chopped in a blender.
👩🏻🍳 Salted and peppered the meat. I crushed the onion with my hand so that it let the juice go and added it to the chicken. Left to marinate for 30 minutes.
👩🏻🍳 My pot is cast iron, but you can easily use clay. By the way, it is very convenient to cook this dish in portioned pots. I pour a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil into the pot.
👩🏻🍳 At the bottom I put cabbage, bay leaf, black and allspice, salt. You can make a blank: mix salt with ground peppers and sprinkle each new layer with this mixture.
👩🏻🍳 Then I put carrots.
👩🏻🍳 I add fried pearl barley.
👩🏻🍳 I sprinkle chopped mushrooms on top of the cereal.
👩🏻🍳 Then I spread the chicken with onions. I add crushed garlic.
👩🏻🍳 I pour tomatoes in my own juice, which I previously cut into pieces. To enhance the taste, sprinkle a little sugar on top.
👩🏻🍳 I close the pot with a lid and put it in a preheated oven to T 220 C for 30 minutes. After the time has elapsed, I take out the pot and add either chicken broth or water so that the cereal is all in liquid. If you do this right away, then you can overdo it with the liquid, because vegetables and chicken also secrete their juices. I put the pot back in the oven, lowering the T 180 C for one hour.
This is delicious! 🤤
Bon appetit! 🥰