Recipe for Barley Soup, And A Few Tricks

Barley Soup is one of the mos traditional Persian dishes, and perhaps the most delicious! The popular dish is very simple to prepare. Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

1/2 chicken breast
500 g hulled barley
1 cup rolled oats
500 g mushrooms
500 g carrots
2 large onions, and 1 mall onion
1 cup parsley and coriander
1 tablespoon tomato paste
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
Salt , powdered black pepper and turmeric for seasoning
Verjuice, unripe grape juice, if desired

Directions:

Clean hulled barley and and rolled oats and wash properly. Soak in water for a couple of hours or overnight.
Take 1 onion and chop up finely and put inside a pot long with chicken breast, and sprinkle with salt, pepper, turmeric and curry, if desired. Fill with water and bring to a boil. allow the chicken to cook thoroughly. Then remove and cut into organized shreds. Keep aside.
Chop up 2 large onions and fry in oil and salt till golden in color. Cut the mushrooms into cubes and dip in 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Mushrooms release water first. when all water is gone, remove the dish from the heat. Grate carrots in long thin size. Clean the leafy vegetables and chop finely. If you have no access you can replace with dried vegetables.
Put all the ingredients inside a pot; including fried onion, soaked barley and oats along with the water, shredded chicken, boiled mushrooms grated carrots, chopped vegetables. Pour some water and set on the heat. Allow to settle; it should be smooth and thick.
Season to taste with salt, pepper, tomato paste, and unripe grape juice.
Ladle into bowls and take onto the tables. The thick red-colored soup will encourage everybody; especially the kids.

Tricks:

Do not cut parsley into very tiny pieces; arrange them on top of your dish.
The soup will have a great taste if you apply chicken stock. To have a white soup you can simply apply it.
Allow the soup to settle on low heat to thicken.
Apply hot or warm milk in your cuisine or the soup will lose its shape.
To thicken the soup you can apply 2 tablespoons sweet corn flour or wheat flour dissolved in 1/2 glass cold water and pour into the pot.
You can also apply chicken bouillon cubes in your cuisine.
If you want to add cream to the soup, you are recommend to mix cream and a little hot soup in a bowl and then add into the pot.
Cubed, chopped carrots are best for the dish to have a whiter soup.
Remember to remove the fat from the red or white meat applied in the recipe.
To keep cooked or boiled barley, place in freezer plastic bags for later use.
You can use green leeks, cream and yolks of the eggs as well.