Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Homemade Pearl Barley Mushroom Risotto

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, pearl barley mushroom risotto. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Make this easy risotto recipe using high fibre pearl barley instead of rice. Packed with mushrooms and spinach, it makes an easy but filling meal for one. When the stock has been absorbed, stir in the spinach, cheese and mushrooms. This Barley Risotto with Mushrooms features fabulously nutty pearl barley, cooked up risotto style with mushrooms, garlic and Parmesan.

Pearl Barley Mushroom Risotto is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Pearl Barley Mushroom Risotto is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have pearl barley mushroom risotto using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Pearl Barley Mushroom Risotto:

1. Get 200 g pearl barley,
2. Make ready 1 onion, diced finely,
3. Take 2 large cloves garlic, sliced very finely,
4. Make ready Handful fresh parsley leaves, roughly chopped, few as garnish,
5. Prepare 8 g dried Porchini mushrooms, larger broken to smaller pieces,
6. Make ready 1.25 litres boiling water with 1/2 cube vegetable stock,
7. Get 1 glug of white wine (optional),
8. Get Sea salt and cracked black pepper to season,
9. Prepare 1 tbsp vegetable oil,
10. Prepare 1/2 tbsp salted butter
11. Get Parmesan cheese, to grate over

I have a feeling I should be calling this a 'barlotto' rather than a risotto, as the 'ris' in risotto refers specifically to rice, and I take enough liberties with that particular medium as it is, with my use of long grain rice in place of arborio. Once cooked, stir in the mushrooms, Parmesan and mascarpone, season with black pepper and garnish with the garlic chives. Cook our comforting pearl barley 'risotto' to get the feeling of indulgence without overloading on calories. Tip in the wine and leave to bubble away until it's reduced by half.

Steps to make Pearl Barley Mushroom Risotto:

1. Add oil to a large saucepan and warm over a medium heat. Add the onions and a good grind of black pepper and softly cook them until translucent, stirring occasionally, this will take around 6-8 minutes. Add in a good pinch of salt and the garlic and fry for 10-15 seconds until fragrant.
2. Add the pearl barley and the white wine and combine everything together well, fry for around a minute whilst stirring to evaporate off the alcohol a little. Add in the dried mushrooms and pour in half a pint of stock (250ml) and stir. Once the stock has almost reduced, pour in another 250ml. Continue to simmer over a medium heat, stirring occasionally.
3. Continue this process of reducing down the stock and then adding another 250ml stock until the pearl barley is tender and cooked but still with a gentle bite to it. Right towards the end you may need to turn down the heat a smidge so the liquid reduces slower. Remove from the heat and add in most of the chopped parsley reserving a little as garnish. Add in the butter and gently stir through, to make the risotto beautifully creamy.
4. Serve up and garnish with more fresh parsley, salt and pepper to taste and a grating of quality Parmigianino Reggiano cheese. Enjoy! :)

Cook our comforting pearl barley 'risotto' to get the feeling of indulgence without overloading on calories. Tip in the wine and leave to bubble away until it's reduced by half. Other tweaks include less oil, different mushrooms, more garlic and lets add some cheese! If you want to try something a bit different, this is it! Don't worry if you think the portions look small; pearl-barley is very filling and the mushrooms are full of flavour.

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