Swiss Barley Soup (Bündner Gerstensuppe)
A heart warming soup for a cold winter day or a day on the slopes.
Ingredients
- 4 carrots
- 3 onions
- 3 leek
- 400 g cured smoked pork chop
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 3 bay leaves
- 5 cloves
- 200 g barley
- salt
- pepper
- 4 l water
Instructions
- Peel the carrots and cut them up in small cubes
- Finely chop up 2 of the onions
- Cut the leek into thin circles
- Cut up the pork chop into bite size pieces
- Add the olive oil to a deep pot and heat it up. Add the chopped up onions, carrots and leek to steam and sauté them for about 5min. Stir occasionally.
- Add the water, the barley, the bay leaves, the meat, the onion with the cloves stuck into it and some salt and pepper.
- Cook the soup at low to medium heat for 2 hours. Then add more salt and pepper to taste, if needed.
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Notes
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