BEEF BARLEY SOUP
This delicious old fashioned soup will be sure to wake up your taste buds and keep you warm on a cold night.
2 pounds of cut up beef.
vegetable oil or butter
7 cups water
2 -4 beef bullion cubes
1 16 ounce can stewed tomatoes
1 large onion chopped
thinly chopped celery, 3 stalks
chopped carrots 2
2 Minced Garlic Cloves
half of green bell pepper chopped very small or can omit if desire
Dried Parsley
Salt
lots of black Pepper
Tsp Basil
1/2 tsp Worcestershire Sauce
2/3 cups instant barley
(Can do this soup in a stock pot on stove all at once or in crock pot.. I like to do this soup in the crock pot over night on a cold day and turn to warm and go to work the next day, come home and finish my soup by turning to high and adding my barley and soon as it is tender I can serve)
Start by Browning the beef in oil or butter with chopped onion and garlic.
Stir in Water, Seasonings, tomatoes, bullion cubes, and celery and carrots
simmer for 1 1/2 hours. ( 0r put on low in crock pot)
Add in 3/4 c instant barley last after soup has simmered and beef is melt in your mouth tender, .
Simmer until desired tenderness of barley.
If you enjoyed this article, please consider sharing it!
