Variation 1 in B barley

Having made chicken soup with chicken a few days ago, noticed at reference 1, yesterday we were at it again.

BH pays a dawn visit to our local Costcutter and comes back with two chicken breasts, a packet of pearl barley and a pack of button mushrooms. Very impressed that our convenience store stocks relatively obscure stuff like pearl barley - when she could not find the stuff in our Tier 1 Sainsbury's the other day. But then, she alleges that stores like Sainsbury's make it a habit to hide low value-add basics in obscure corners in the hope that you will buy something high value-add.

The variation being the use of pearl barley rather than spelt. 6 ounces of it, cooked separately, for about an hour and a half altogether.

Chicken breasts rather than a quarter chicken, so no call to mess about boiling up the carcass, simply cubing the meat before starting to boil it up, or, at least, to simmer it up with the celery and onions.

The other tweaks were a portion of chou pointu, added just before the off, and around an ounce of left-over boiled rice.

Which all did very well yesterday lunchtime. Having fresher mushrooms helped rather than hindered. And the left-overs will do for a soup course today.

Reference 1: http://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/04/chicken-soup-with-chicken.html.