Barley Salad with Almonds and Apricots Recipe
Barley Salad with Almonds and Apricots is one of the slightly sweet salads, which can be served if you are looking to present something very pretty at the dining table. This slight sweet salad will also be ideal to add as a side dish, if you have called some guests over for lunch or dinner. Moreover, it would not take you much time to prepare the salad, as it gets ready in less than an hour, if all the ingredients are available.
To the extent that its cooking method is concerned, you can take guidelines from this piece of writing in order to relish delicious Barley Salad with Almonds and Apricots with your friends and family members.
Preparation Time: 60 minutes
Serving Size: 06
Utensils: Fine Sieve, Heavy Sauce Pan, Small Skillet & Small Bowl
Ingredients:
– 1 1/2 cups pearl barley
– 4 1/2 cups water
– 1 tablespoon canola oil
– 1 red onion, thinly sliced
– 3/4 cup dried apricots, sliced
– 1/2 cup sliced almonds
– 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
– 1 cup plain low-fat yogurt
– 2 tablespoons honey
– 1 lemon, juiced
– 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
– 1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric
– 1/2 teaspoon salt
– 1 pinch ground nutmeg
Instructions
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Take a fine sieve to rinse pearl barley, then pour water into a heavy sauce pan and bring it to boil. After that mix the barley in this water and allow it to simmer. Cover this heavy sauce pan and then reduce the heat as well. Boil it until all the water gets absorbed, this process will take roughly 40 to 50 minutes after which let the barley cool at room temperature.
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Then grab a small skillet and pour oil into it after which put it over medium heat. Now add onion to this oil and cook it until they turn golden brown.
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After that get a serving dish and combine onion with apricot, parsley, barley and almonds by tossing them together.
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Subsequent to this mix honey, yogurt, cinnamon, lemon juice, salt, nutmeg, turmeric in a small bowl, then pour the barley mixture over these recently blended ingredients and toss well in order to combine all of them. When the tossing gets complete this salad is ready to be served at room temperature.
