Recipe: Perfect My Flavoured Chicken Barley Soup 🙄

My Flavoured Chicken Barley Soup 🙄. Taste soup -- adjust seasonings as you wish -- adding more chili powder, cayenne, or cumin if you like it more spicy. Can add water if you desire less zing. Serve in soup bowls, adding fresh cilantro to the top, with shredded cheddar cheese, OR a dollop of sour cream in.

Chicken Barley Soup is the dish my grandma used to make. While we most frequently have Beef Barley Soup, I do love the flavor of a rich chicken. On those cold nights when I can't seem to get the chill out of my bones, I love making soup. You can cook My Flavoured Chicken Barley Soup 🙄 using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of My Flavoured Chicken Barley Soup 🙄

1. You need 1/2 Cup of Rinsed Barley.
2. You need 1 of + 1/2 Pints Cold water.
3. It's 1/2 Tsp of Basil.
4. Prepare 1/4 Tsp of Pepper flakes.
5. It's 1 pinch of Salt.
6. It's 1/4 Tsp of Tumeric.
7. Prepare 1 tsp of Balsamic Vinegar.
8. It's 1 of Chicken Stock cube.
9. You need 1/2 of Chicken Breast sliced small.

One of my favorite soups growing up was Beef Barley Soup, but this chicken version which is a bit lighter, is also delicious. I use chicken on the bone because it gives it even more flavor. Chicken vegetable barley soup- Add more vegetables such as green bell peppers, zucchini, yellow squash, potatoes, sweet potatoes,. Add mushrooms-You can use mushrooms in place of the chicken if you want to keep the soup vegetarian.

My Flavoured Chicken Barley Soup 🙄 instructions

1. Rinse the barley add to a saucepan and the water. Bring to the boil turn down to simmer. Add the chicken stock sprinkled in..
2. Add Basil, pepper flakes and tumeric..
3. Next slice the chicken razor thin so it melts in the soup. Add the Balsamic vinegar and stir in the simmering soup mix. And simmer on very low for 1 hour stirring occasionally..
4. It will go thicker you will have to add 1/2 pint of boiled water and stir in if the barley has doubled in size it will still taste the same..
5. Next when it's been simmering an hour if you like it not thick leave and serve. But if you want it thicker add 1 tsp Cornflour/starch mixed in a little cold water and add little by little until you get the thickness you want..

Return soup to heat; add carrots, celery, onion, pearl barley, bay leaves, chicken bouillon, poultry seasoning, sage, salt, and black pepper. Chicken soup is the ultimate comfort food and supposedly the remedy for all diseases, and I can see why. This is a very simple variation of Chicken Soup with the addition of barley instead of the usual noodles or rice. Cooked barley makes this soup creamy and makes my belly feel really cozy as I'm sipping each spoonful. Yes, you will have a chicken soup, and it will taste okay.