Grain of Pearl Soup with Chicken

Ingredients

• 1.5 l Chicken broth
• 400 g cooked chicken meat
• 1 bay leaf
• 6 crushed allspice berries
• 300 g pearl barley
• 200 g Green beans
• 2 carrots
• 150 g spinach
• 2 onions
• Pepper
• a pinch cayenne pepper
• salt and seasoning

Instructions

1. 1.

   Set the pearl grains in cold water, let them soak and cook for 5 minutes. Drain through a sieve and rinse with cold water. Then simmer with the broth for about an hour.

2. 2.

   Peel, wash and slice the carrots. Wash and trim the green beans. Wash and strip the spinach. Peel and dice the onions. Thirty minutes before the end of cooking add all vegetables except the spinach to the grains. Add the spinach 10 minutes before the end. Cut the chicken into small pieces, add them to the soup and heat through. Season the pearl grain soup with chicken with salt, pepper, cayenne pepper and seasoning.