Salads with pearl barley: 5 healthy snack recipes

With pearl barley can be prepared not only delicious, healthy and hearty porridge and soups, but also such as salads. In this selection of 5 delicious recipes for salads with barley.

The more often you eat products such as barley, buckwheat, rice, lentils, and so on, the better, because they are very useful and energized, but not harmful to the figure, saturate the body, creating a feeling of heaviness. On cereals our ancestors lived, ate carrying out the hard work of the peasants and the Russian people has always been famous for good health and great power. So you should take this experience into account.

From cereals can be prepared not only porridge - they make wonderful soups, main dishes and even salads. Today we will talk about the salad with pearl barley.

In salads pearl barley can be combined with a variety of vegetables, herbs and even fruit and fish. Many recipes, and the possible combinations depends on your taste.

The first recipe: Salad with pearl barley and fresh vegetables

You will need: 5 cups chicken/vegetable broth, 2 cups chopped parsley 1 carrot, onion, Cup pearl barley, glass chopped tomatoes and cucumbers sliced, 2 tbsp lemon juice, 2 tsp. vegetable oil, black pepper, salt.

How to cook salad with barley and vegetables. Diced chopped tomatoes and cucumbers, finely chopped parsley and onion. Barley pour the broth or water, bring to boil, boil for 45 min on low heat until tender. Drain excess liquid from barley, cool it. Mix barley with all the other ingredients , add salt and pepper. Serve the salad cold or warm.

The second recipe: Salad with pearl barley and eggplant

You will need: 2 eggplant and onions, 1 carrot and Cup pearl barley, 2 tbsp. vegetable oil, sour cream, curry, spices, salt.

How to prepare a salad of eggplant and barley. Barley boiled until tender and cool. Cubes cut peeled eggplant, fry them with chopped onions and carrots, seasoned with curry and other spices to taste, 5min put out under the lid. The barley add the vegetables, stir, season with mayonnaise or sour cream, sprinkle with salad greens and serve warm or cold.

The third recipe: Salad with barley and fish

You will need: 500g boiled pearl barley, 150 g smoked fish (oil), olives 60g pitted and capers, 40g finely chopped mint 4 tbsp olive oil, 4 tsp. white wine vinegar, 2 tsp. lemon zest, ? teaspoon Worcestershire sauce (optional).

How to cook salad with fish and pearl barley. Stir the capers, olives, barley, lemon zest, oil, vinegar, sauce and mint, adding chopped fish, and serve.

If barley warm, mint in the salad should be put before the filing.

The fourth recipe: Salad with pearl barley and nectarines

You will need: 750g nectarines, 450g pearl barley and tomatoes, 75ml olive oil, 30g chopped mint, 4 lime, 4 stalks of leeks, 1 tbsp. of sugar ? tsp. black pepper coarse salt.

How to cook salad with barley and nectarines. 1.5 liters of water, bring to boil, pour and boil barley, adding 1.5 tsp salt, until tender, drain the water, dry the barley. Grated lime zest 1 tbsp juice 125ml stir, add olive oil, pepper, 1,25 tsp. salt, sugar, whisking. Cut the tomatoes into small, remove from nectarines bones, chop them small, rings chop the leeks. Stir barley, tomatoes, leeks, mint and nectarines, adding the seasoning, serve with a salad.

The latest in our collection of salad with barley recipe belongs to Lebanese cuisine.

Recipe five: Salad with barley "Tabbouleh"

You will need: 150 g barley, 100g goat's cheese, 20g dried tomatoes, black olives and pine nuts, 1 cucumber, Bank corn, a handful of mint, parsley and Basil, 3 tbsp olive oil ? lemon (juice).

How to make tabbouleh salad with pearl barley. On 2H pour the barley in cold water, or at night, then boil until almost cooked, so it remained only slightly hardish, rinse with cold water. Heat a frying pan, fry the pine nuts until taromenane. Finely chopped Basil, parsley and mint. Small cubes about the size of a grain of corn, slice the tomatoes, olives and cucumber. Stir the prepared barley with other ingredients, filled with lemon juice and butter. Top salad sprinkle with goat cheese.

Invent your own recipes salads with pearl barley, combining it with your favorite foods. In terms of vegetables in General there are no restrictions - these salads will always be tasty, hearty and very useful! Bon appetit!