Recipe: Perfect Mommas Beef Meatball Soup with Barley

Mommas Beef Meatball Soup with Barley. Tastes best in the slow cooker. Serve topped with parmesan cheese and with a salad. All you need is a salad and crusty french bread.

Beef Barley Soup is incredibly easy and so delicious! Loaded with nutritious veggies, tender beef and plump barley, it's a complete meal in a bowl! This homemade beef barley soup can be made ahead of time and freezes well making it the perfect family dinner! You can have Mommas Beef Meatball Soup with Barley using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Mommas Beef Meatball Soup with Barley

1. 🢂 2 of carrots chopped small dice.
2. 🢂 1 stalk of celery chopped small dice.
3. 🢂 1/2 of cooking onion chopped small dice.
4. 🢂 2 cup of chicken broth (bought or made).
5. 🢂 3 cup of water.
6. 🢂 1/4 lb of lean ground beef.
7. 🢂 1 of egg.
8. 🢂 1/4 cup of bread crumbs(or just enough to hold it together).
9. 🢂 1 of ground garlic, salt, fresh ground black pepper, and secret spice( mine is ground sage) to taste.
10. 🢂 1 small of palm full of Oregano.
11. 🢂 1/2 of red pepper diced.
12. 🢂 1 of green onion diced.
13. 🢂 1/4 cup of pearl barley.

All of my favorite soups are fully loaded. Grace Parisi has always been a fan of mushroom barley soup with beef that has been simmered until succulent. In a large saucepan, combine the stock, water, barley and thyme. Season with salt and pepper and bring to a boil.

instructions Mommas Beef Meatball Soup with Barley

1. Pour chicken stock into sauce pan and add chopped veg and simmer.
2. in the meantime, add all remaing ingredients, except green onion and red pepper, into a bowl and mix well..
3. Make tiny one bite meatballs!!(around 20) When all your balls are made drop them gently into the simmering broth to slowly simmer.Add in pearl barley!.
4. Simmer for at least an hour! Just before serving add green onion and red pepper stir into pot and take off the heat!!.
5. Serve with crusty bread or buns and enjoy!!!.

The barley helps to make this soup filling and robust. Great Northern beans and barley add a healthy dose of protein and fiber to this hearty and filling dish. Beef barley soup should be deeply beefy, loaded with chunks of tender meat, plump grains of barley, and aromatic vegetables. The secret to those results is to make it much like a beef stew, choosing the right cut of beef, handling it the right way, and adding more complex layers of flavor. This ultra comforting beef barley soup recipe is made so easily in the slow cooker, which also makes for incredibly tender beef and vegetables, with perfectly textured barley!