Barley risotto with yellowfoot mushrooms and fresh garlic

A bit of experiment here; I wanted to make a risotto but using barley, because I still had lots from the barley casserole. I used too the mushrooms I picked and dried in autumn; yellowfoot.

Turn out really good recipe so I decided to share it with you!

Serves for 2

Ingredients

• 1,5 dl broken barley
• 10 fresh garlic
• 4 shallots
• Dried mushrooms, bit more of half a mug
• knob of butter
• Parmesan cheese
• 1,5L vegetable broth
• salt and pepper

Preparation

Start rehydrate the mushrooms with hot water and let it rest for 10 min. Meanwhile in a big sauce pan, add the butter and the finely chopped shallots and saute. When they change colour add the mushrooms and the fresh garlic chopped saute for 2-3 min.

Meanwhile your broth has to be ready and boiling.

Add the barley, mix all together and add the broth, slowly till everything gets soaked, from now on is a labour intensive process, you have to keep stirring with a wooden spoon and when the broth gets sucked, add a bit more. this process takes 20-25minutes.

When you have the barley at your desire taste, grate the Parmesan, give it a last stir and it is ready to be served!

Enjoy it!
Mr South

Beetroot and barley casserole

Hei!

yesterday we attended a Finnish typical food masterclass, it was amazing!! We could discover so many new ingredients and one of the recipes we liked best was this one, for the simplicity, and for using totally new ingredients!

Ingredients:
- 1/2 kg beetroots
- onion
- 2 dl barley
- vegetables stock
- butter
- garlic

For the barley, we used this broken one, the result feels like a thicker couscous.

As we said, the recipe is really easy, it takes a bit of time though.

Wash the beetroots and peel them, cut it in small cubes, fine chop the onion and the garlic. Add a knob of butter to the casserole and add the beetroot, onion and garlic, saute for 5-10 min, season with salt and pepper.
Add the barley and the stock, let it simmer under the lid for an hour or so, we added 1 liter, it need a bit more. The time of cooking might be different, the barely doesn't take more than 15-20 min of cooking, but the beetroot need longer cooking time. We added a bit of timjami as decoration.