Vegetable and Barley Soup
Instructions:
- Chunky meal of a soup
- 5 or 6 large potatoes, peeled and cubed
- 2 leeks cut into round slices
- 3 carrots, roughly chopped
- 5 celery sticks, cut onto chunks
- 1 cup of dried pearl barley
- 2 heads of swiss chard (or similar green leaf such as leaf beet or a couple of handfuls of spinach), chopped
- enough water to cover
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Very simple to prepare this one!
- Place all your vegetables except the chard in a large pan with the barley.
- Cover well with water, boil and simmer until everything is cooked.
- Add the chard and salt and cook for another 5 minutes.