Barley soup with beef , chicken or ribs

Here's a recipe for barley soup:

Barley soup with roasted garlic

1 cup pearl barley

5 cloves whole garlic, roasted

2 litres chicken stock, steeped from 1 chicken breasts simmered in three litres water

2 tbsps vegetable oil

2 large onions,

diced2 carrots,

diced2 stalks celery,

diced150g turkey ham, beef, chicken,cut up

1 tsp ground white pepper1 tsps sea salt or to taste

1 tbsp chopped parsley

Method

1.Wash barley and soak it in a bowl of water for three hours. Drain.

2. Heat oil in pan and fry onions. Add carrots and celery, then the barley and fry for three minutes.

3. Add chicken stock, pepper and roasted garlic and simmer over low heat for at least an hour, or until barley is soft.

4. Add salt to taste and serve the soup garnished with chopped parsley.

5. Some people add beef, ribs or chicken into the soup as well

Healing and cleansing with barley

High in fibre, barley is also a kidney cleanser..

Better yet, regular intake of it helps prevent heart disease.

BARLEY water: results found out from an Australian naturopath that barley is known to be a kidney cleanser,

Barley is good for your intestinal health too.

Try to eat the barley grains you find in your drink or sweet broth with fu chook (bean curd skin) and ginkgo nuts.It's high in fibre which feeds the friendly bacteria in the colon andhelps speed up the transit of fecal matter in it.

In this way it helpsprevent haemorrhoids and colon cancer.The propionic acid and beta glucan from barley's insoluble fibre also help lower cholesterol and prevent the formation of gallstones.Eating barley regularly is a preventive step against heart disease as, besides the fibre content, it is also high in niacin, a B vitamin good for lowering cholesterol.

Diabetics should eat more barley as the fibre will prevent blood sugar levels from rising too high. It also provides relief from constipation or diarrhoea for those suffering from Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

Barley is rich in selenium which prevents cancer and relieves symptoms of asthma and arthritis. It is a good source of manganese, copper and phosphorous.Malt sugar comes from sprouted barley which, when fermented, is an ingredient in beer and other alcoholic beverages.

Barley, whose Latin name is Hordeum vulgare, has been cultivated for more than 10,000 years.

Since ancient times, barley has been used for healing purposes and has been known to the Chinese, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. Athletes in Greece and Rome in those days were known to eat barley bread to give them strength.