Pearl barley porridge with chicken and eggplant
4 servings
60 minutes
The recipe is taken from the book "Appetizing porridges. 365 best recipes.

1
Rinse the pearl barley and soak it for 2 hours.
- Pearl barley: 200 g
2
Wash the carrot, peel it, and cut it into strips.
- Carrot: 1 piece
3
Peel the onion, wash it, and cut into rings.
- Onion: 1 head
4
Peel and wash the garlic.
- Garlic: 3 cloves
5
Wash and chop the dill and parsley.
- Dill: to taste
- Parsley: to taste
6
Wash the tomato and slice it.
- Tomatoes: 1 piece
7
Wash the sweet pepper, remove the stem and seeds, and cut into strips.
- Sweet pepper: 1 piece
8
Wash and peel the eggplant.
- Eggplants: 1 piece
9
Wash the meat and cut it into cubes.
- Chicken fillet: 200 g
10
Boil the pearl barley separately.
- Pearl barley: 200 g
11
Slice the eggplant into rounds, generously salt it, and let it sit in a separate dish for 5 minutes to release its juice. Then squeeze out the pieces of eggplant.
- Eggplants: 1 piece
12
Mix all the vegetables, coat them in flour, and place them in a pan with heated vegetable oil. Add a little salt and minced garlic.
- Wheat flour: 3 tablespoons
- Vegetable oil: 100 ml
- Garlic: 3 cloves
- Salt: to taste
13
Fry, stirring, until cooked.
14
Fry the meat with onions until cooked in a separate large pot.
- Chicken fillet: 200 g
- Onion: 1 head
15
Add tomato paste, salt, pepper, khmeli-suneli (or basil), and 100 ml of water to make a fragrant sauce.
- Tomato paste: 3 tablespoons
- Salt: to taste
- Ground black pepper: to taste
- Khmeli-suneli: to taste
- Vegetable oil: 100 ml
16
Cook for another 3-5 minutes.
17
Mix pearl barley with vegetables and meat stew, simmer for 10 minutes, stirring.
- Pearl barley: 200 g
- Chicken fillet: 200 g
- Carrot: 1 piece
- Eggplants: 1 piece
- Sweet pepper: 1 piece
- Tomatoes: 1 piece
- Onion: 1 head
- Garlic: 3 cloves
- Wheat flour: 3 tablespoons
- Vegetable oil: 100 ml
- Tomato paste: 3 tablespoons
- Khmeli-suneli: to taste
- Dill: to taste
- Parsley: to taste
- Salt: to taste
- Ground black pepper: to taste
18
Before serving, generously sprinkle with herbs.
- Dill: to taste
- Parsley: to taste









