Bundner's pearl soup

Hearty soup Bündner's soup refers to the traditional cuisine of Switzerland and is a specialty of the canton of Graubünden. The roots of its origin go back to the distant past. Mandatory components should be meat, smoked meat, vegetables and barley or pearl barley. Moreover, the soup comes out very rich and thick, almost like a liquid porridge. This soup was cooked for dinner in the winter and was supposed to satiate well after a working day before going to sleep. And so the recipe has come to the present, practically unchanged. But since this is also a specialty dish, every housewife has her own recipe for this soup and each of them is correct. I present to your consideration a simple recipe for pearl soup and I await your feedback. Good mood to you all!

Hearty soup Bündner's soup refers to the traditional cuisine of Switzerland and is a specialty of the canton of Graubünden. The roots of its origin go back to the distant past. Mandatory components should be meat, smoked meat, vegetables and barley or pearl barley. Moreover, the soup comes out very rich and thick, almost like a liquid porridge. This soup was cooked for dinner in the winter and was supposed to satiate well after a working day before going to sleep. And so the recipe has come to the present, practically unchanged. But since this is also a specialty dish, every housewife has her own recipe for this soup and each of them is correct. I present to your consideration a simple recipe for pearl soup and I await your feedback. Good mood to you all!

Ingredients:

• Pearl barley 60 g
• Pepper black ground 1 pinch
• Salt 2 pinch
• Milk 5 tbsp. l.
• Potatoes 3 pcs.
• Celery root 0.5 pcs.
• White cabbage 0.5 pcs.
• Carrot 2 pcs.
• Leeks 1 pc.
• Bacon 150 g
• Beef flesh 200g
• Pork breast smoked 300 g
• Beans white dry 40 g
• Nutmeg 1 gr

Instructions

• Step 1 Prepare all the ingredients. Beans and pearl bar will be soaked in water for the night. Vegetables - potatoes, carrots, leeks, celery root, cabbage. Meat of beef, smoked meat and bacon.
• Step 2 Cut the smoked meat.
• Step 3 Cut the beef into pieces.
• Step 4 In cold water we lower all meat, as well as bacon, sliced ​​into small pieces. Bring to a boil and cook on very low heat for 2-3 hours, periodically removing the noise from the surface of the water.
• Step 5 When the water boils, add the soaked pearl barley.
• Step 6 After 1 hour of cooking, add the soaked beans.
• Step 7 45 minutes before the end of the languishing period of meat with pearl barley, we clean carrots and cut very finely into squares or, as you like. Add to the meat.
• Step 8 Next, clean the celery and cut into cubes. I always try to cut vegetables into equal pieces, so they will be equally ready and look more beautiful. Add to the pan.
• Step 9 Then add the sliced ​​leeks, increase the fire, so that the soup will boil as quickly as possible.
• Step 10 We are the last to clean and cut potatoes. Add to the soup.
• Step 11 10 minutes before the end of cooking soup, cut the cabbage and put it in a saucepan. We cook everything over medium heat for 5-8 minutes.
• Step 12 Just before turning off the soup, add the milk. Well mixed and salted to taste. If desired, add ground nutmeg and black pepper.
• Step 13 Soup can be served. Bon Appetit!