Recipe: Oishi Mushrooms Spinach Barley Risotto For Vegan's Friend

Mushrooms Spinach Barley Risotto. This Barley Risotto with Mushrooms features fabulously nutty pearl barley, cooked up risotto style with mushrooms, garlic and Parmesan. Whether it's in a soup or a salad, or cooked up risotto style, barley is always a great choice. This dish cooks up the barley risotto-style, with rich beef broth.

Fold Parmesan cheese, mushroom-spinach mixture into barley risotto and serve immediately. Mushroom Barley Risotto is a unique & elegant dish. Made with pearl barley, mushrooms & garlic then mixed with parmesan cheese for a What is Pearl Barley Risotto? You can Have Mushrooms Spinach Barley Risotto using 12 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Mushrooms Spinach Barley Risotto

1. It's 2 tbsp of Minced Garlic.
2. It's 2 cups of Chopped Onion.
3. What You needis 2 cups of Sliced Mushrooms.
4. It's 2 bunches of Spinach.
5. It's 1 of medium Cooked Potato (boil potato in hot water for 8 minutes).
6. It's 2 cups of Pearl Barley.
7. It's 1 tbsp of Olive Oil.
8. It's 3 cups of Mushrooms Broth/Veggie Broth/Water.
9. It's 2 tbsp of butter.
10. What You needis 1/4 cup of Parmesan Cheese.
11. Lets Go Prepare 1 cup of Cherry tomato.
12. Lets Go Prepare of Salt and Pepper.

Traditionally, risotto is made with Arborio rice which is a short grain rice. Arborio rice requires constant monitoring on the stovetop. Stir in the parsley and half the parmesan. Scatter the spinach over the risotto.

Mushrooms Spinach Barley Risotto instructions

1. Soak Barley for 30 minutes.
2. Rinse barley; boil a pot of water, add barley and cook for 10 minutes, drain and set aside.
3. Wash Spinach; boil a pot of water, add spinach and cook for 1 minute.
4. After 1 minutes, put Spinach in a bowl of ice water and wait for 5 minutes; drain and set aside.
5. Add Spinach, Cooked Potato, a cup of water, salt and pepper inside the blender and blend for 2 minutes.
6. In a sauté pan or skillet, heat the olive oil over medium high heat.
7. Add garlic and onion and cook for a minute.
8. Add mushrooms and cook for 2 minutes, set 2 tbsp of mushrooms aside for decoration..
9. Add cooked barley, spinach mixture and cook for a minute;.
10. Add white wine and mushroom broth and cook until the sauce is thickened.
11. Add butter and Parmesan cheese and mix it until butter is melted.
12. Add Cherry tomatoes and mix it well.
13. Put the cooked barley on the plate, and add mushrooms on top..
14. Done, enjoy!.

This barley risotto is delicious and charming. It makes a nice side dish for steak or roasted meats. Especially when you want to serve something a little different. I might never make risotto with rice again! the barley gives it a wonderful nutty and chewy texture. I use creminis for the mushrooms.