Barley With Chicken In The Oven: Step By Step Recipes With Photos And Videos

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

Healthy and tasty: we cook barley with chicken in the oven

Barley is an amazing grits! It contains many valuable trace elements, vitamins and antioxidants, including selenium, which is necessary for the body's immune defense. In addition, pearl barley is rich in protein and fiber, which contribute to quick satiety and prevent you from feeling hungry for a long time. Properly prepared barley can surprise even the most sophisticated gourmet with its taste. And in combination with chicken, it turns into a hearty and aromatic second dish that your family will certainly appreciate.

Barley with spicy chicken thighs and vegetables

Oven-baked chicken with pearl barley is perfect for a hearty lunch or dinner. The advantage of the recipe is that the dish is prepared very quickly and easily, and the result is invariably pleasing in taste.

Ingredients:

• 350 g of pearl barley;
• 1 carrot;
• 1 onion;
• 6 chicken thighs;
• 3-4 cloves of garlic;
• 1/2 tsp barley salt and 1/2 tsp. salt for pickling the thighs;
• 1/2 tsp curry;
• 1/2 tsp sweet paprika powder;
• 1/2 tsp black pepper;
• 4 tbsp. l. vegetable oil for the marinade and 2 tbsp. l. for greasing a baking sheet.

Recipe:

1. Soak pearl barley for 10 hours, and then rinse with warm water.

   

   Soak the pearl barley in a high-sided bowl

2. Place the chicken thighs in a deep container and add garlic, salt, curry powder, sweet paprika and black pepper, passed through a press. Pour vegetable oil on top and mix thoroughly. You need to rub spices into each thigh so that the meat is properly marinated.

   

   2 hours are enough for marinating the thighs

3. Peel the onions and carrots, chop them. Onions - in half rings, and grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Mix them with pearl barley, from which the water has been drained, and place on a greased baking sheet. Add salt and stir.

   

   The baking sheet can be greased not with vegetable, but with the same amount of butter

4. Put chicken thighs on top of cereals and vegetables and pour water onto a baking sheet. There should be enough water so that the chicken pieces are half covered.

   

   The same amount of milk can be used instead of water

5. Bake barley with chicken at 200 ° C for 40-50 minutes. Then turn off the oven and let the dish stand in it for another 15 minutes.

   

   The pearl barley is very tender, and the thighs are spicy and juicy

Barley pilaf with chicken breast, cooked in the sleeve

In the sleeve, meat with pearl barley is cooked almost without oil, so there are not many calories in this dish. Remember that pearl barley must be soaked for at least 10 hours. Ideally, if you pour the washed barley with water in the morning and cook in the evening.

Ingredients:

• 300 g chicken fillet;
• 400 g of pearl barley;
• 200 ml of water;
• 1 carrot;
• 1 onion;
• 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• 1 sweet pepper;
• salt and black pepper to taste.

Recipe:

1. Chop the chicken fillet very finely.

   

   Chicken fillet must be skinless and skinless

2. Fry in vegetable oil (1 tablespoon).

   

   Fry the chicken fillet until golden brown

3. Chop the onions and carrots. Dice the onion and grate the carrots.

   

   Vegetables must be fresh

4. Fry by adding 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil.

   

   Carrots and onions should turn golden.

5. Cut the bell peppers into long strips.

   

   Instead of red pepper, you can take green or yellow

6. Fold in a sleeve chicken fillet, vegetables and pearl barley, previously washed and soaked for 10 hours. Add salt, black pepper and 200 ml of water. Tie a sleeve, place it in an ovenproof dish and bake pilaf for 1 hour at 180 ° C.

   

   Pilaf with barley and chicken breast is a light and low-calorie meal.

Barley baked in pots with chicken, mushrooms and cheese

Cereal dishes cooked in ceramic pots are distinguished by their special taste and very delicate texture. Pearl barley is no exception. And in combination with mushrooms and chicken, you get a great second dish, worthy even of a festive table.

Ingredients:

• 300 g of pearl barley;
• 300 g chicken breast;
• 1 carrot;
• 1 onion;
• 200 g of champignons (or any other mushrooms);
• 200 g of hard cheese;
• 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• salt and black pepper to taste.

Recipe:

1. Rinse the pearl barley with warm water and soak for 10 hours. Then drain the water.

   

   Barley can be additionally scalded with boiling water

2. Chop the onion in half rings, and dice the carrots. Fry vegetables in vegetable oil, adding black pepper to them.

   

   Large cubes of carrots will give the dish a special structure

3. When the vegetables are golden, add the chicken fillet, cut into large cubes, to them.

   

   Vegetables and chicken fillets should be slightly simmered in the pan

4. Cut the mushrooms into slices.

   

   You don't need to fry mushrooms, let them give their juice directly in pots

5. Coarsely grate the cheese.

   

   Don't substitute cheese for cheese

6. Arrange pearl barley, meat with vegetables and mushrooms in portioned pots. Salt each layer a little. Pour water to the middle of the pot and place in a cold oven. Bake at 200 ° C for 1 hour.

   

   A pot of meat and barley can be covered with foil on top during baking

7. 10 minutes before being ready, open the oven, sprinkle the contents of the pots with grated cheese and cook until tender.

   

   Pot with chicken and pearl barley, serve hot

Video: recipe for chicken with barley according to Michel Montignac's nutritional system

I taught my family to fight with barley. The husband, who has not the best memories of this cereal, especially resisted. However, it was necessary to cook barley several times in accordance with all the rules, as the homemakers instantly tasted a previously unloved dish. I cook it with chicken fillet, and with drumsticks, and with thighs. The latter option turns out to be the most greedy, but the dish with breast is low in calories. The main thing that I understood is that the barley must be soaked for at least 10-12 hours. Otherwise, instead of a delicate crumbly cereal, you will get "shrapnel". Sometimes I soak it in boiling water, then 5-6 hours are enough.

It seems to be an ordinary pearl barley, but how tasty and aromatic! Oven-baked barley recipes do not require special culinary skills or a lot of time from the hostess. It is important that healthy cereals are very affordable.