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    Home > Soups > Barley Minestrone Vegetable Soup

    Barley Minestrone Vegetable Soup

    Last updated March 21, 2016. Originally posted August 10, 2015 By Jyothi Rajesh 14 Comments

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    Pittar-Patter rain drops! Nothing seems wrong when it rains.

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    It has been raining almost everyday here. And the rain drenched plants in my garden makes it such a welcoming sight. The best part about rain is my garden becomes so full of life and all the new seeds starts to sprout out and grow into lush green beauties.

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    Rain sparks the craving for some delicious food. I decided to do soups and settled down on barley soup.

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    With loads of veggies and barley, this minestrone vegetable soup is one of the most comforting and healthy soup. A bowl of barley minestrone soup in hand seated next to a window watching rains, and a soothing music on the background is a perfect way to spend a beautiful rainy day.

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    I used carrots, beans, green zucchini, yellow zucchini, cabbage, mushrooms, spinach, peas, onions, tomatoes, and barley. Saute all ingredients in olive oil and barley cooked in vegetable broth makes it a light comforting hearty soup.

    Here’s barley minestrone vegetable soup-

    Barley – 1 cup

    Carrots – 1
    Beans – 4-5 nos
    Yellow zucchini – ¼ cup
    Green zucchini – ¼ cup
    Mushrooms – 6-7 nos
    Cabbage – ¼ cup (finely chopped)
    Spinach – ¼ cup (tightly packed)
    Green peas – ¼ cup
    Onions – 1 large
    Tomatoes – 2 large
    Olive oil – 1 tbspn
    Vegetable stock – 1 ½ cup
    Salt to taste
    Pepper powder – 1 ½ tbspn(adjust as per preference)
    Instructions:-

    1. Wash and chop all the vegetables. Dry roast barley on low flame until they start to change color, remove from heat and add water to barley to soak it for about half an hour.

    2. In a large wok, heat olive oil, add vegetable one at a time and saute for 1-2 minutes followed by the next veggie. I started with onions sauted unti they turned translucent, add tomatoes and saute till they turn soft.

    3. Then follow by adding carrots, beans, zucchini, cabbage, mushrooms, peans, spinach.

    4. Add salt and pepper powder and mix well. Finally add soaked barley and vegetable stock, simmer and cook until barley is done.

    5. Serve it hot with some roasted garlic bread. YUM. And the beat way to eat it is by sitting next to a window watching the rain and sipping this soup hot. 😀

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    Comments

    1. khushboo

      March 18, 2016 at 1:06 pm

      jyoti how much barley to put???

      Reply
      • jyothirajesh

        March 21, 2016 at 6:42 pm

        sorry Khusboo, i just updated the recipe, it’s 1 cup barley

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        • khushboo

          March 27, 2016 at 1:40 pm

          jyothi urs is one of the best sites i have come across .thank u so much…
          can i add water instead of veg stock..i m very new to cooking and dont know much about the basics

        • jyothirajesh

          March 27, 2016 at 2:36 pm

          Thank you very much for all the appreciation Khushboo. Words of appreciation like yours means a lot to me and keeps me motivation. Hope you keep visiting often.
          Regarding your question, yes you can definitely add water in place of veg stock, stock gives out better taste to the soup, water will work too.

    2. Alka

      August 11, 2015 at 9:05 am

      This soup is so healthy……and refreshing……great share

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      • jyothirajesh

        August 11, 2015 at 4:04 pm

        Thank you very much Alka 😀 Glad you liked it

        Reply
    3. Meena Kumar

      August 11, 2015 at 4:37 am

      Oh I love such filling soups! I make something similar with beans. Really wish someone made it for me while I get to lazily enjoy the rain 🙂

      Reply
      • jyothirajesh

        August 11, 2015 at 8:10 am

        Thank you very much Meena, Oh i get the same feeling too but hubby is so bad at cooking I have no choice left 😛

        Reply
    4. kushi

      August 11, 2015 at 4:08 am

      healthy and delicious soup. Love the recipe and the soup bowl:) Great presentation dear

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      • jyothirajesh

        August 11, 2015 at 8:11 am

        Thank you very much Kushi. It’s one of my favorite collection 😀

        Reply
    5. Linda @ Veganosity

      August 11, 2015 at 3:09 am

      You paint such a pretty picture with your words, Jyothi. It rained in Chicago today too, but now the sun is shining. That soup looks and sounds perfect.

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      • jyothirajesh

        August 11, 2015 at 8:12 am

        Aww thank you very much Linda! I love rains and I like it even better when I don’t have to do any work, just sit and relax the rain 😀

        Reply
    6. shailaja

      August 10, 2015 at 7:44 pm

      perfect soup for this rainy days….

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      • jyothirajesh

        August 10, 2015 at 10:39 pm

        Thank you very much Shailaja 😀

        Reply

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