Baked barley with mushrooms
1 hour
An easy way to bake barley for a delicious side dish to accompany beef, pork, chicken and more. The mushrooms add great earthy flavour, but you could get creative and add other veg instead.
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Ingredients
Serves: 6
- 55g butter
- 2 onions, chopped
- 280g mushrooms, sliced
- 185g pearl barley, rinsed and drained
- salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 300ml chicken stock
Method
Prep:10min ›
Cook:50min ›
Ready in:1hr
- Preheat the oven to 170 C / Gas 3.
- Melt the butter in a pan over low heat. Cook the onions, stirring occasionally, until golden brown, about 5 minutes. Add the mushrooms and cook for 3 minutes. Transfer to a ovenproof dish.
- Add the barley, salt, pepper and stock; stir to mix.
- Bake, covered, in the preheated oven until the barley is tender and the liquid is absorbed, about 40 minutes.
