Dishes with barley - 2 cooking recipes

A herbaceous annual plant belonging to the grass family. This grain crop has been cultivated since ancient times. Barley is the northernmost cereal and gives various names to cereals - Dutch, barley, barley. Its grains can contain up to 15.8 percent protein, 76 percent carbohydrates, 9.6 percent fiber, as well as vitamin A, and groups of vitamins B, D and E. It was commonly used in porridge cooking or eaten as a hearty side dish in Eastern Europe. Nowadays, barley is added to meat dishes and soups to give them a delicious aroma. As one of the bases for brewing, it is used to produce barley malt. In Latvian cuisine, barley or barley flour is used with wheat flour for baking bread products; in North Caucasian cuisines, flat cakes are also baked from this flour. Barley is made from barley.