Pearl barley doesn't enjoy wide popularity not only because of duration of its preparation. Incorrectly prepared, it becomes "rubber" or "kersey" both on gustatory qualities, and on consistence. How it is correct to make pearl barley?
Those who hope to cook pearl barley quickly are waited by disappointment – it is quickly impossible to make pearl barley. In any way. On average this process takes more than 50 minutes. Even processed by steam she prepares minutes 45. But as always everything is individual, there are grades of pearl barley which cook more than an hour.
There is no definite answer to a question of how it is correct to make pearl barley, of course. Therefore we will consider options. Each hostess chooses a way, convenient for it.
The cooked grain increases in volume five times therefore many recipes suggest to fill in it with water at the rate of 1:5. In other words, the glass of carefully washed out grain is filled in with liter of water and cooks until ready on small fire. As preparation time at each grade different, degree of readiness is defined on taste – pearl barley soft, well bulked up, but not a gruel.
If grain is ready, and liquid still remained, then it should be merged. Right at the end salt and a desi is added.
The second way assumes soaking of pearl barley for a long time – till twelve o'clock. For many it is more convenient to do it from evening to the morning. It is interesting that even at so long soaking the preparation time won't be reduced very much considerably.
Will be correct to make pearl barley as a garnish with addition of the fried onions and carrots. The cooked grain can be shifted in a frying pan with the fried vegetables, to mix and extinguish several minutes.
As the independent dish can be prepared tasty pearl barley with the fried mushrooms. Any mushrooms are fried, and then the ready cooked grain is added to a frying pan, everything mixes up.
What is the time to cook pearl barley for rassolnik? About about an hour. In 40 minutes after cooking of pearl barley it is possible to add potatoes and to brown vegetables. That color of rassolnik didn't change on dark with a bluish shade, the croup can boil half an hour separately, and then to add and cook longer in soup.
Correctly to make pearl barley, it is necessary just to be accustomed it to do.