The pickle has a unique taste due to pickles and cucumber pickle, with the addition of which it is prepared. These products give it a sour taste. Rassolnik differs from solyanka in its simpler composition and obligatory inclusion of cereals in it. If you cook pickle with pearl barley in a slow cooker, it will be similar to the traditional soup that our ancestors cooked in the oven, tomiv it a long time to get a rich taste and aroma.
Cooking Features
The technology of cooking pickle with pearl barley in a multi-cooker is different from the process of cooking it in a saucepan on the stove, but it has common features with it. Features of cooking must be known in advance in order to avoid mistakes that will be difficult to correct.
- Barley is brewed for a long time. To speed up this process will allow pre-soaking cereals for 2 hours. If you did not soak the barley in advance, then you need to fall asleep it long before laying out other products, you can along with the meat.
- Pickles are added to the soup shortly before it is cooked, otherwise other vegetables may remain harsh. This also applies to the introduction of cucumber pickle in the soup.
- Salted and pickled cucumbers are not the same thing. The pickle is boiled only from salted vegetables. But pickled cucumbers can be replaced with salted mushrooms.
- The pickle recipe often provides for the preparation of vegetable roasting, it can be done separately, in a pan, or in the slow cooker itself, using the “Frying” or “Baking” programs.
- If the pickle is cooked in broth, it is made first and only then they start cooking the soup. Both the broth for the pickle and the soup itself are cooked using the “First course” mode or similar. If the soup is conceived very thick, it is advisable to use the mode “Quenching”.
- Do not rush to pour ready-made barley pickle on plates - let it brew for 15 minutes, leaving this time in heating mode. Then the soup will be much more fragrant and tastier.
In a multicooker, you can cook barley pickle from different recipes. For cooking, you can use beef, pork, chicken, soup set, you can cook lean soup without including meat products in its composition. Cooking technology will depend on the recipe. Having carefully studied the instructions accompanying the recipe, you will not make mistakes. The pickle will turn out gentle, fragrant, with characteristic sourness.
Rassolnik on broth with pearl barley in a slow cooker
Composition:
- pearl barley - 80 g;
- potatoes - 0, 25 kg;
- carrots - 100 g;
- onions - 100 g;
- pickles - 0, 3 kg;
- beef broth - 1, 5 l;
- brine out of pickled cucumbers - 100 ml;
- tomato paste - 60 ml;
- vegetable oil - 20 ml;
- greens, sour cream, boiled beef - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Rinse the pearl barley, fill it with cool water, leave it for at least 2 hours.
- Peel the potatoes, cut into bars, not too small, as they have to be cooked for a long time.
- Remove the onion from the onion, cut it into thin half rings.
- Peel the carrots and coarsely grate or cut into strips.
- Peel and chop the pickles in thin strips.
- Pour oil into the multicooker bowl. Start the unit by activating the “Hot” program. In the absence of the cooking function, you can use the baking mode.
- Put onions, fry for 2-3 minutes, add carrots. Continue to fry vegetables for 10 minutes.
- Add sliced meat, after a couple of minutes, turn off the unit.
- Put the barley and potatoes in the multicooker bowl, pour over the broth.
- Turn on the device by selecting the “Soup” program or similar. Set the timer to an hour.
- Add salted cucumbers and pickle 10 minutes before the end of the program, 2-3 minutes - finely chopped greens.
- Leave the pickle in heating mode for 10-20 minutes.
When serving food to the table, place a spoonful of sour cream in each plate - with it the pickle gets a milder taste.
Pickle with barley from the soup set
Composition:
- soup set of beef or pork - 0, 4 kg;
- brine - 120 ml;
- pickles - 0, 3 kg;
- potatoes - 0, 3 kg;
- onions - 0, 2 kg;
- carrots - 0, 2 kg;
- barley - 100 g;
- water - how much will leave;
- salt, spices - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Rinse the pieces from the soup set, put the crock-pot in the bowl.
- For meat and bones, place one carrot and one onion, after cleansing them, as well as spices.
- Fill all with water in the amount of 1, 8 l and start the unit for 1, 5 hours by selecting the “Soup” program.
- Remove the bones and meat, vegetables, strain the broth.
- Fill the barley with water by placing the multicooker in the bowl. Cook in Porridge, Pilau, Rice or similar mode for 30 minutes.
- Fill the barley with broth.
- Add peeled and diced potatoes, the remaining onions and carrots.
- Turn on the unit, setting the program “Quenching”, prepare for half an hour.
- 10 minutes before readiness add cucumbers and pickle.
Ready brine is desirable to insist, leaving it for 15 minutes in the heating mode. When serving, you can add sour cream and chopped greens to each plate.
Pickle with barley and chicken
Composition:
- chicken breast - 0, 4 kg;
- pearl barley - 80 g;
- carrots - 100 g;
- potatoes - 0, 2 kg;
- onions - 100 g;
- fresh greens - 50 g;
- pickles - 0, 3 kg;
- brine - 100 ml;
- salt, spices - to taste;
- butter - 50 g;
- water - 1, 5 l.
Method of preparation:
- Remove the husks from the onion, cut it into small cubes.
- Peel and chop carrots on a coarse grater.
- Peel the potatoes, cut into cubes and a half centimeters.
- Peel cucumbers, cut into strips.
- Put oil in the multicooker bowl. Turning the device on in frying or baking mode, melt the butter and put onions and carrots in it, fry them for 7-8 minutes.
- Add cucumbers and pickle. Without changing the program, cook the vegetable fry for another 7-8 minutes.
- Turn off the unit, remove the vegetables from the bowl.
- Wash the container, dry it thoroughly, put it back.
- Wash the chicken breast and pearl barley, put them in a multicooker container, cover with water.
- Turn on the “Soup” program, cook for 40 minutes.
- Remove the chicken breast, separate the meat from the bone, cut into large cubes, return to the broth.
- Put the potatoes in the broth, turn on the unit by selecting the “Quenching” program.
- After 15-20 minutes, add the vegetable roast and continue cooking in the same program for another 10 minutes.
Gentle chicken pickle with a creamy taste and light sourness in a slow cooker turns out to be especially tasty if allowed to brew. For this purpose it is advisable to use the heating mode.
Lenten pickle with pearl barley in a slow cooker
Composition:
- potatoes - 0, 2 kg;
- barley - 80 g;
- pickles - 0, 2 kg;
- carrots - 80 g;
- onions - 70 g;
- tomato paste - 20 ml;
- olive oil - 20 ml;
- salt, spices, water - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash, peel the vegetables.
- Cut potatoes into cubes, onion into small pieces, chop carrots on a coarse grater.
- Fry in olive oil using the “Baking” or “Frying” program, carrots and onions. Fry need 5 minutes.
- Add tomato paste, simmer for 5 minutes.
- Add a barley, boil it beforehand, or at least steam it up (fill it with water and put it in the microwave for 10 minutes at maximum power).
- Put the potatoes.
- Fill with water. Determine the amount by eye, focusing on the thickness of the soup you want to cook.
- Start the unit by selecting the “Soup” program for 40 minutes.
- 10 minutes before readiness add brine and cucumbers.
Lenten pickle turns out to be nourishing and helpful. It will be even more appetizing and fragrant if you add finely chopped dill, parsley, green onions. Cucumbers can be replaced with salted mushrooms.
Cooking pickle in a slow cooker is a good idea. Without spending a lot of effort, you get a thick and rich soup with a unique taste.