Chicken Mushroom Barley Soup
Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins
Preparation Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr
Ingredients
- Servings: 12
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1 leek
- 1 onion, quartered
- 1/2 cup fresh rosemary (you will be amazed how much flavor it adds wait till you taste it) or 1/4 chopped rosemary (you will be amazed how much flavor it adds wait till you taste it)
- olive oil
- 1/2 cup wine
- 3 quarts chicken broth
- 1 1/2 lbs button mushrooms
- 1/2 cup pearl barley
- 1 1/2 lbs chicken breasts
- pepper
- 1 sprig thyme
- bay leaf
- 2 cups chopped carrots
- 1 cup chopped celery
Recipe
- 1 mince garlic; slice leek longways then chop.
- 2 place a standard dutch oven(or soup pot if you don't have a dutch oven) on the stove top.
- 3 add a splash of olive oil, garlic, leek, onion and rosemary and saute over medium high heat for several minutes.
- 4 add wine and stir gently for one minute.
- 5 add chicken broth, mushrooms, bay leaves, carrots, celery,and barley and increase heat slightly. stir occasionally until mixture comes to a boil. reduce heat to simmer.
- 6 chop chicken into strips. add a splash of olive oil to a frying pan and brown chicken on both sides. while chicken is cooking, season with pepper & thyme.
- 7 add chicken to soup mixture. again bring mixture to a boil. after it reaches the boiling stage, reduce heat to simmer and partially cover.
- 8 cook approximately 30 minutes (stirring occasionally) to insure chicken is cooked through.
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