Barley Fiesta Salad ~ Qurator's: Hive Top Chef!

Hello Hiveans! Let's do Groats this week! I Am Groot! I Am Groot! But it’s not Groot, it’s Groats. Yes that is the theme of Top Chef this week. I have never heard of Groats with my small vocabulary. So after searching, I found that Groats are various cereal grains, such as oat, wheat, rye, and barley. So from this list, my favorite grains is barley. I can only think of making salad from this beautiful white pearl barley and also why not make Barley Lemon drinks since I am boiling the Barley grains right.

What type of salad should I do? Since barley is white, it is best to make it vibrant and colorful using fresh ingredients. This Barley Fiesta Salad is combined with all the fresh ingredients to create the right balance of sweetness, tangy, spiciness and nuttiness.

The preparation of salad normally involved a lot of cutting works of all the vegetables ingredients. My favorite style is to cut them into dices. With that perfectly cooked barley set aside, I washed and drained all the ingredients from the cans.

I ensure that we have vibrant colors while thinking of this recipe, bright green, red and yellow bell peppers. Fresh taste from cucumber, carrot and tomato. Balanced by warm barley, chickpeas, black beans adding that soft, creamy, and mild texture to this salad. As there is no sugar, the sweetness will come from that sweet golden raisins. Green chilies add the spiciness, almond flakes add that crunchiness and nutty flavors and finally coriander leaves add that nice fresh smell. Wala! a colorful composed salad with vibrant flavors and textures.

I also prepared Barley Lemon drink. After boiling that barley, do not ever waste the healthy juice. The juice is best to make that healthy Barley Lemon drink. Add sugar to your desire and enjoy that fresh healthy Barley drink with a slice of lemon. In the Malay culture that were told from generations to generations since the olden days. We were told that the barley juice can help to cleanse urinary tract. And now modern science has proven this health benefits. Dirty urine or premature urine is the result of a bacterial infection in the urinary tract. This is usually experienced by women because women have a very short urinary tract and will make them more susceptible to germs.

Barley Fiesta Salad

Ingredients and preparations

• 1 cup pearl barley, soaked overnight and boiled until tender
• 1 can chickpeas, washed and drained
• 1 can whole kernel corn, washed and drained
• 1 carrot, diced
• 1 green bell pepper, diced
• 1 red bell pepper, diced
• 1 yellow bell pepper, diced
• 1/2 cup golden raisins
• 1 onion, diced.
• 1 tomato, deseeded and diced
• 1/2 cucumber, diced
• 4 green chilies, chopped
• 1 tablespoon almond flakes
• 1/2 cup chopped coriander leaves
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon white vinegar
• 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

METHODS

Soak Barley overnight and boil until tender.
Dice all vegetables ingredients and gather them in a large bowl.
Wash and drain all ingredients from can and drain barley.
Gather all ingredients in a large bowl.
Add the salad dressing, lemon juice and vinegar into the bowl of mixture. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Toss all ingredients together.
Enjoy your healthy salad garnish with coriander leaves that give it that fresh smell, raisins for that sweetness, and almond flakes for that extra crunchiness.