Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, hearty beef & barley soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

This Hearty Beef Stew will warm you to the bones. Tender cubes of beef, carrots and potatoes in a rich delicious sauce. This mouthwatering hearty beef stew is sure to become your new family favorite.

Hearty Beef & Barley Soup is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Hearty Beef & Barley Soup is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook hearty beef & barley soup using 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Hearty Beef & Barley Soup:

1. Take 300 g Lean steak mince
2. Prepare half a leek
3. Make ready 1 stick celery
4. Take 1 good size carrot
5. Prepare 2 smallish potatoes
6. Prepare 1 onion
7. Prepare 1 stock cube
8. Make ready 2 dessert spoons of grave granules
9. Make ready 30-70 g Barley, depending on how much you like

Carrots, potatoes and peas make this a hearty one-pot meal. See more ideas about Cooking recipes, Beef recipes, Recipes. This is one hearty beef stew. It is kinda like pot roast in a bowl.

Steps to make Hearty Beef & Barley Soup:

1. There are just the 2 of us so we buy mince from the butcher and I get him to pack it into half pound bags. That’s about 300g I freeze them and defrost them for each meal.
2. Brown the meat. Make sure you get it nice and brown. This really enriches the flavour so get it nice and brown but be careful not to burn it. My mince is really lean as there is no fat but if you have a fatty mince you might want to drain the fat off at this point.
3. While the mince is browning chop the onion, leek, carrot and celery. I chop the celery really finely but everything else is in nice big chunks. The celery is there as a flavour enhancer. You don’t get a celery taste you just get a beefier beef and a sweeter carrot.
4. When the mince is brown add around 600ml of water, leeks, onion, carrot, celery and your stock cube. Season with a bit of salt & pepper, bring to the boil and simmer on a very low heat for about an hour. Long slow cooking brings out the flavour in the beef and the veg infuses into the liquid. Make sure it’s a really low heat though.
5. This is the tricky bit to judge. The barley REALLY swells up. In my recipe there is only 70g of barley. My wife thought that this was a bit too much so next time I cook it I will probably put just 40g in. Add your pearl barley and bring to the boil again.
6. The barley cooks in around 40 to 50 minutes start checking after about 40 minutes.
7. About 20 minutes before the meal is ready to be served cut the potato into 10-15mm cubes and cook separately. If you cook the potatoes separately you can stop cooking when they are just right. If you cook them in the soup they might just end up as a potato mush in the bottom of the bowl.
8. Just before serving sprinkle in a couple of dessert spoons full of gravy granules. This gives a lovely rich texture and helps with the beefy flavour.
9. Serve pour into bowls and add as much or as little of the potato as you want. For a touch of luxury ad a knob of butter on top of the potato

You're gonna want seconds because it's so good, but you'll be too full. Make the beef stew the night before, cool to room temperature, and refrigerate; reheat single servings in the microwave or a slow cooker set on HIGH the next day. To save prep time, use bottled peeled. Season beef generously with salt and pepper. This warming beef stew simmers in a Dutch oven and gets classic flavor from red wine.

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