Trentino barley soup - LET'S COOK WITH FRANCY - Find the complete recipe also in a printable version here: www.cuciniamoc...
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The Trentino barley soup is a healthy and genuine first course, typical of Trentino Alto Adige. This barley soup is a hearty dish and for this reason it can be eaten as a single dish. The Trentino barley soup is ideal to be enjoyed warm and with the family on cold winter evenings. You just have to try it !!!
Ingredients for 4 people:
160 g pearl barley
75 g of speck
1 golden or white onion
1 1/2 l of meat broth
40 g of butter
1/2 carrot
1/2 stick of celery
1 potato
chives to taste
thyme
salt and pepper
Take the onion, chop it, put it to brown with the butter in a pan, preferably terracotta. Meanwhile, dice 50 g of the speck and put it in the pan with the onion.
Chop the peeled half carrot and half a stalk of celery, after removing any filaments and add it to the pan. Peel the potato, wash it and make small pieces and add these too. Immediately after, add the pearl barley, after having rinsed it, mix everything well.
Take the meat broth (if you want to know how to prepare the meat broth read this article) hot and put it in the pan until the soup is covered. Cook for 10 minutes and in the meantime make the remaining speck into small strips and add it. During cooking, add the meat broth as needed. Cook until the barley is well cooked, at the end of cooking add salt and pepper to the soup.
Serve the soup and put the chopped chives on top.
TIP: If you want to make the soup even tastier, you can also add some grated Parmesan cheese.