Crockpot Beef Barley Soup I Made It Ii

Crockpot Beef Barley Soup

eastcoaster 3 years ago
A very easy soup to make on a cool day. I doubled the recipe to be able to freeze some.
I make my own stock but didn’t have enough beef broth so I added some vegetable broth
that I had, worked out fine. Tasted it half way through and thought it was a bit flat, so I added some basil and parsley and also a quarter of a chicken cube.
I found it a bit on the thick side so I added more vegetable broth.
It did not take as long as the submitter wrote, but I find different slow cookers cook either fast or slow.Mine took around 4 hours on low. Next time I will use my older slow cooker, I think my new one cooks hotter.
Made for the November Slow cooker? Dutch oven Challenge
November 2020.

Crockpot Beef Barley Soup
Recipe by: Mamalou
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chuckieb 3 years ago said:

That looks scrumptious!!!!

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mommyluvs2cook 3 years ago said:

Yummy Manella! Looks perfect :) I regret getting rid of my old crockpot that was probably 20-30 years old. They just cook so much slower and accurate! Today's slow cookers are barely even slow cookers lol, they run so hot!!

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Cosmicmother 3 years ago said:

Yum! looks delicious, Manella! :)
When I make barley soups in the slow cooker I like to add the barley half way through the cook time so it doesn't soak up too much liquid (if you use pearl barley). Since newer slow cookers run hot I usually cut recipe times in half as most recipes are much older than my crock-pot! ;) Almost everything I make is done in 4-6 hrs. It's a bummer when you really want to cook something all day. I just found out that after having this crock pot for a few years that i got the low and high settings mixed up, it's marked by slashes: I for low II for high. I got them mixed up and wondered why everything boiled on low, lol.. ;)

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mommyluvs2cook 3 years ago said:

Mine boils even on low Shona! I need to go thrift shopping or garage saling and find me a crockpot from the 80's lol!

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eastcoaster 3 years ago said:

Thank you ladies.
I agree about the slow cookers/crock pots. My old one is about 25 years old and to big for us two, but still works great. The newer and smaller one runs much to hot.

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LindaLMT 3 years ago said:

Beautiful picture Manella! I could dive into that bowl of soup. Beef barley is always a favorite this time of year.

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