Beef and Barley Soup. To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have beef and barley soup using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Beef and Barley Soup:
- Prepare 2 lb of cubed stew beef diced into bite sized pieces.
- Get 1/2 cup of flour, generously seasoned with salt and pepper and optional cayenne powder.
- Make ready 2 cups of diced mushrooms (your favorite).
- Make ready 1 of red onion diced.
- Take 2 of large celery stalks diced, leafy ends included.
- Get 2 cups of carrots diced.
- Make ready 2 T of minced garlic.
- Make ready 8 cups of beef stock.
- Get 2 of Bay leaves.
- Prepare 1 tsp of thyme.
- Take of large pinch smoked paprika.
- Take 1 cup of dry red wine.
- Take 1 T (roughly) of worcesterchire sauce.
- Take 1 cup of dry barley.
- Make ready 2 T of tomato paste.
- Prepare 1 T of butter.
Instructions to make Beef and Barley Soup:
- In a large bowl coat the diced beef in the flour until well covered.
- Add all of the diced veggies to a bowl and give a quick mix.
- Heat the olive oil over medium high heat in a large Dutch oven and brown the meat. Stir regularly and once light color is achieved on all sides remove the meat from the pan and set aside..
- Use some of the beef stock to deglaze the bottom of the pot by pouring enough liquid until its about a half inch deep, and use a wooden spoon to scrape up all the brown bits on the bottom of the pot. Add more liquid as needed until it's all up and whisked into the stock..
- Add all the veggies into the remaining stock and let sweat for 7-10 minutes, then add the remaining 6—7 cups of stock..
- Add the meat and remaining ingredients except the butter and bring to a boil. Reduce to simmer and leave to cook for at least one hour, or until the carrots are tender. Turn off the heat, stir in the butter and serve..
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