Soak pearl barley for 8 hours and cook in pilaf for 1 hour.
How to cook pearl barley pilaf
Products
Pearl barley – 1 glass
Meat – 350 grams
Onion and carrot – 1 large each
Spices for pilaf – to taste
Garlic – 3 prongs
How to cook pearl barley pilaf
Soak the pearl barley for 4 hours, then put on a hot pan and heat until dry for 10 minutes, setting a medium heat. Put the barley, in this frying pan in oil, fry the minced meat with onions and carrots.
Salt, put barley on top, put in whole garlic cloves and pour in water, cook for 1 hour.
Secrets of pearl barley pilaf
Pearl barley is great for pilaf, because the cooking time is quite consistent with the cooking time of meat.
As a meat component, you can use beef, pork, chicken, and to quickly cook pilaf, you can use bacon instead of meat.
Proportions of barley and meat – for each glass of barley 300 grams of meat. You will need 3 glasses of water for each glass.
To make the pearl barley pilaf more aromatic and crumbly, before cooking, the cereals can be heated in a frying pan without oil until the first cod.
For more juiciness, you can add tomato paste or grated tomato without skin to pilaf.