Juicy, ruddy and very hearty meatballs barley will become the perfect dish for lunch or dinner, especially if you have uneaten barley porridge left. It will need to add only onion or green onion, egg and spices to taste. At the same time, however, there important condition: porridge should be thick, otherwise you will not be able to form meatballs from minced meat to roll them in breadcrumbs or flour. It is best to fry blanks on pork lard- fat will make cutlets more juicy and tasty.
Ingredients
- 200 g pearl barley
- 500 ml hot water
- 1 bulb
- 1 large chicken egg
- salt and pepper to taste
- 100 g breadcrumbs
- 100 ml vegetable oil or 100 g lard for frying
Cooking
1. Boil pearl barley in hot water, in a cauldron or saucepan for about 25 minutes, after washing the barley itself in a bowl with cold water. Be sure to salt the water in the container where the cereal will be cooked. Cook until thick, then cover the container with a lid, turn off the heat and leave for 10 minutes for steaming, so that the porridge absorbs all the liquid. Then leave to cool for about 1 hour, putting in a bowl or deep salad bowl.
2. Cut the peeled onion small cubes and add to the porridge.
3. Let's drive an egg there.
4. Add salt and ground black pepper, you can add other seasonings and spices. Mix everything thoroughly.
5. Pour out the breadcrumbs from the pack on a saucer or plate, dip your palms in water and form meatballs from minced meat. Roll them on all sides in breadcrumbs.
6. Melt the lard in a pan or heat up the vegetable oil and put the blanks into it. It is impossible to lay out blanks in unheated fat, otherwise they will absorb it into themselves, and when turned over they will crumble without a crust.
Step by step recipe with photo and video
Dishes from pearl barley are not very popular with our hostesses, probably because of the length of cooking, but very much in vain. Barley is one of the healthiest cereals to include in your diet. Barley cutlets are a hearty addition to home dinner or dinner. They can be classified as lean and vegetarian cuisine as it does not contain animal products. Ready-made barley cutlets are hearty and your household will surely like it. The whole process is quite fast, apart from the time for soaking the cereal.
To prepare barley cutlets, take the following products.
First of all, we will prepare pearl barley. It must be boiled until tender. To do this, rinse the cereal thoroughly until the muddy water disappears. Fill with cold water and leave to swell for 3 to 6 hours. It's best to leave it overnight.
Boil until cooked in any way convenient for you. I boil in a slow cooker-pressure cooker for 20 minutes. Cool the finished barley slightly.
Peel the onion, cut into arbitrary pieces. Pour oil into a frying pan and fry the onion until soft.
Add the grated carrot to the onion. Continue frying until the vegetables become softer. Cool the roasted vegetables.
In the meantime, peel the potatoes, grate on a medium grater. Peel the garlic cloves.
Pass boiled barley, garlic, carrots and onions through a meat grinder. Add grated potatoes. Season with salt and ground black pepper. Mix well.
Form small patties with wet hands and bread them in breadcrumbs.
Heat up the oil in a frying pan. Lay pearl blanks. Fry over moderate heat until golden brown one side.
Carefully flip over to the other side and continue to fry until golden brown.
Place on paper towel to absorb excess oil. Barley cutlets are ready. Serve warm with sour cream and fresh herbs.
Enjoy your meal!
Ingredients
To prepare lean barley cutlets you will need:
pearl barley - 250 g;
water - 2.5-3 cups;
onion - 1 pc.;
vegetable oil for frying;
carrots - 1 pc.;
potatoes - 1 pc.;
salt, black ground pepper- taste;
breadcrumbs - 3-4 tbsp. l.
Cooking steps
After the time has elapsed, drain the water from the swollen cereal, rinse it again. Then transfer to a saucepan, pour 2.5 cups of clean cold water, put on fire, salt and cook after boiling over low heat until tender.
Cooking time will depend on the variety and quality of the cereal. I cooked for about an hour. At the same time, you may need a little more water, if you see that there is no water in the pan, and the cereal is still hard, add more hot water and keep cooking. Cool the finished barley. 
Cut the peeled onion into cubes, grate the peeled carrots on a coarse grater, put in a pan with vegetable oil.
Saute vegetables, stirring occasionally, over medium heat until golden brown (about 5 minutes).
Cooled down barley porridge, fried vegetables and raw peeled potatoes, pass through a meat grinder or chop with a blender, salt, pepper, mix thoroughly. 
With wet hands, form small cutlets from pearl barley mass, roll them in breadcrumbs. Heat the pan with vegetable oil, put the cutlets. 
Fry lean pearl cutlets for 2-3 minutes on each side (until a beautiful golden color) over medium heat. In order to remove excess fat, put the finished cutlets on a paper towel. 
Delicious and tender lean barley cutlets are ready.
These cutlets can be served both hot and chilled, supplemented with a fresh salad.
Enjoy your meal!
Today I want to bring to your attention a simple and delicious recipe with a photo of barley cutlets. This dish has a history.
A few years ago, my husband and I had to endure certain financial difficulties. It was not easy, but we successfully overcame them. During that period, I became interested in proper, healthy and at the same time inexpensive nutrition. Then I found out that tasty and very affordable is very healthy. By using it only 2-3 times a week, you provide your body with the most essential vitamins microelements and even amino acids. Therefore, I consider spring and winter, when other sources of these substances are very limited, the most optimum time in order to start your "friendship" with this particular cereal. Moreover, due to the content of lysine in pearl barley, human immunity becomes less susceptible to many viral infections that surround us everywhere. For women, lysine helps to maintain their youth for as long as possible. Also barley porridge contains complex carbohydrates thanks to which you will not be hungry for a long time (for those who are on a diet). This is the discovery I made during a difficult period for our family. Now from this useful cereals I cook not only porridge, but also other dishes, for example, meatballs, the recipe of which I offer you today. It's fast, tasty and very affordable. Try and you cook barley cutlets.
Ingredients:
- 2 cups boiled pearl barley,
- 1 large onion or 3 small onions
- 2-3 tablespoons of flour,
- 1 pinch of salt and black pepper
- 4 tablespoons of refined oil.
Recipe with photo step by step:
If you are planning to cook meat cutlets, and from barley porridge, then boil the cereal in advance (in a ratio of 1: 2 with water) and cool. 
Pass the peeled onion and barley porridge through a meat grinder. You should get a homogeneous viscous mass, so an egg is absolutely not required. 
Pour ground allspice and salt into the unusual minced meat, mix. 
Prepare a container of water. Before shaping cutlets, dip your hands in water, so the stuffing will not stick to them. Form balls (each from about one tablespoon of minced meat), roll in flour, give the balls the shape of cutlets. 
Pour into the pan required amount vegetable oil, heat well. Then fry the pearl barley cutlets, about 4-5 minutes on each side. Use paper towel to remove excess fat. Enjoy your meal. 
Pay attention to the recipe for affordable and tasty
Simple pearl barley cutlets with vegetables
I found the recipe for such products on the Internet, adjusted it to my tastes, rolled up my sleeves and literally 40 minutes later I enjoyed delicious cutlets, which, by the way, outwardly, can not be distinguished from.
For 9-10 pieces of fairly large items, we need:
- Barley - 1 glass
- Potatoes - 3 pcs.
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Carrot - 1 pc.
- Flour - 3 tbsp. spoons + sprinkling.
- Garlic - 2 cloves.
- Salt, pepper - to taste.
- Oil - for frying.
- Greens - optional.
Recipe
- Let's pre-deal pearl barley. Soak it in water for at least 2-3 hours. My croup stood all night.
Boil the swollen porridge in fresh water until fully cooked. Then let it cool for later use. Now I'm telling you how to cook porridge cutlets.
- Finely dice the onion, grate the carrot coarse grater. Finely grate a medium sized potato.
- Advice. If you use a meat grinder to prepare minced meat, then you can not rub the potatoes. Just cut it in half.
- Saute onion in oil for 2-3 minutes, then add carrots to it. Fry vegetables until soft.
- Grind the cooled barley porridge with garlic and potatoes with a blender or meat grinder into a single mass. I cooked with a blender, and, frankly, I was worried about the device. Barley turned out to be very viscous, I was afraid that the motor would burn out. Everything worked out, but I think it's still better to use a meat grinder.
- Grind onion and carrot fry with a blender. If onions and carrots are finely chopped, then they can be used in minced meat in this form, it is not necessary to grind them.
- Place all prepared mince ingredients in a bowl. As you can see in the photo, I got 3 types of minced meat. To make lean cutlets tastier, I added a little greenery at the next grinding of the products. You can also diversify your cutlets with dill or parsley.
- Thoroughly knead the minced meat, season it with salt and pepper to taste.
- Add flour to the mass to hold all the components together. Do not worry, this will not spoil the dietary barley cutlets and will not greatly increase their calorie content.
- With wet hands form cutlets, roll the products in flour.
- Fry them for vegetable oil before the advent golden brown.
- Then you can fry them in a pan or put them in a heat-resistant dish and bring them to readiness in the oven.
Allow the dish to cool slightly before serving. Believe me, such delicious meatballs barley will surely please your family.
