Barley Benefits and Recipes
Eating Healthy with Barley
Since Barley is rich in fiber, it’s a great staple to add to your kitchen for your family’s Regularity, Lower Cholesterol, & Intestinal Protection...among other health benefits. There are numerous varieties of barley, and the one readily available in 2 local grocery stores was Pearl Barley. But, just like all grains, the more they are in the kernel the healthier it is; so we’re still on the hunt.
While there are dozens of barley recipes offered on this great website (that I’ll try soon, inshaAllah, God willing), I just added a cup of barley into a Moroccan stew-spiced-up-and-turned-into- a-soup-recipe below.
This easy, healthy, pot of soup helped sooth a couple of our sore throats this week, so we were very satisfied.
Peppered Chicken Barley Soup
Ingredients:
- 2 chicken quarters (thighs & legs), skinned
- 9 cups of water
- 1.5 large onions
- 7 cloves garlic
- 2 chicken bouillons (preferably Maggi)
- 2 teaspoons ginger (substitute fresh ginger if you have)
- 1 teaspoon paprika (preferably Turkish spicy paprika)
- 2 Cherry peppers
- 2 carrots
- 1 medium sized potato diced
- 1 cup of pearl barley
Instructions:
- Cut the chicken quarters to 2 legs & 2 thighs.
- Add water, chicken, onions, garlic, chicken bouillon, ginger and paprika. Boil for approximately 45 minutes until chicken is nice and tender (but not shredded). We boil with a pressure cooker for a steam time of about 20 minutes.
- Take out the chicken bones and and cut the chicken to bite-sizes.
- Slice the cherry peppers into slivers, with the seeds.
- Slice the carrots into bite-sizes.
- Add the cherry peppers, carrots, potatoes, and barley. Boil for approximately 45 minutes. Pressure cooker steam time was about 20 minutes again.
Serve hot with pitas, French or Italian bread and salad.
I made this as a light late lunch meal, much to our amazement we were stuffed that everyone thought it was dinner. Hubby and the girls convinced me that because they were filled, alhumduililah, Praise be to God, that I didn’t have to make dinner, and they would have a cup of soup and some more salad if and when they were hungry…just as long as they could have a big ice cream waffle cone for dessert.
Undoubtedly, I agreed! Yum, yum. 
Have a great barley recipe to share? Please comment below. Or, if you know where we can buy other varieties of barley please let us know.
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I have substituted barley for bulgar in tabulah. I used organic hulled barley. I soaked it overnight and boiled it for one hour. Drained it and added it to the tabulah last after all other ingredients. It was delicious masha’Allah
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Wow–interesting substitution. I’ll definitely try a small bowl next time because we love tabulah so much, I wouldn’t want to be left with a whole bowl of salad by myself
And, where did you get organic hulled barley?
Jazaka Allahu Khayrun for stopping by. InshaAllah, you’ll come around (and comment) more often.
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At a Hyper Panda in Riyadh. Wa jazaki. Insha’Allah I will!
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How long have you lived in Saudia? Insha’Allah, we’ll go on umrah soon, yar Rabb.
BTW, you don’t have “Comments” turned on, on your blog, so I couldn’t return my Ramadan Mubarak greeting
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It will be 4 years next month insha’Allah. If you go, may Allah accept it from you ameen.
Jazaki’Allahu khair for wanting to comment on my blog. I disabled comments because I am on vacation
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At a Hyper Panda in Riyadh. Wa jazaki. Insha’Allah I will!
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