Canadian

Beef and Barley Soup

Name: Beef and Barley Soup
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Canadian
Ingredients: 1.5 lb beef chuck, cut into cubes; 1 onion; 2 carrots; 2 stalks celery; 3/4 cup pearl barley; 8 cups beef stock; 1 tbsp vegetable oil; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Jenny @jenny_calgary

Beef and Barley Soup is Canadian home cooking, eaten at dinner and lunch. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

105 min Medium High fiber Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1.5 lb beef chuck, cut into cubes
1 onion
2 carrots
2 stalks celery
3/4 cup pearl barley
8 cups beef stock
1 tbsp vegetable oil
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Heat the oil in a large pot and brown the beef cubes in batches, about 6 minutes, then set aside.
Cook the diced onion, carrot, and celery in the same pot until starting to soften, about 5 minutes.
Return the beef to the pot with the barley and beef stock, and bring to a simmer.
Cover and cook until the beef and barley are tender, about 80 minutes.
Season with salt and pepper and serve hot.

Watch how to cook Beef and Barley Soup

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

How I Make Beef And Barley Soup - Glen And Friends Cooking Play the video

Serve it with

A Canadian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Beef and Barley Soup, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Buttered Green Beans
  
  10 min
What it is eaten with
- Canadian Dinner Rolls
  
  12 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Beef and Barley Soup carries gluten. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Beef and Barley Soup
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	Yes	Baked Salmon with Dill
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 610 kcal
Protein: 47 g
Carbs: 32 g
Fat: 33 g
Fiber: 4 g
Sugar: 2 g
Sodium: 1090 mg
Saturated fat: 11 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Beef and Barley Soup takes about 105 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner and lunch. It is at its best in winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.