Pearl Barley & Bacon Recipe - Latvian Recipe - Каша перловая с беконом

Hi guys, welcome to my channel. It's getting really cold now outside and you just need that dish that warms you up. Today I'm going to show you how to make one of the traditional dishes called Latvian barley with pork and I hope you enjoy it. For this dish we're going to be needing 1.5 liters of pork stock, I've got 150 grams of pork, 2 potatoes, half an onion, cumin, salt, pepper and I've got half a cup of barley. I've been soaking it for a couple of hours, but you can get an instant one if you don't have a lot of time. What we have to do is now just add our pork into a pan, make sure it's deep enough to fit the stock. We're going to add the stock and our barley and just let it boil and simmer until it becomes all soft. You can see we've got a lot of scum from pork coming up, so all we're going to have to do is just take it off and basically throw it away. This is going to take about 20 to 30 minutes to boil until they're softened. In the meantime, I've chopped my potatoes and sliced my onion. Okay, you can see the barley is quite done, so all we have to do now is just add our chopped onion and our potatoes, and we're going to just cook it until potatoes are tender. Okay, my dish is nearly done, now all we have to do is put a little bit of cumin in there, a little bit, salt, pepper, mix it in, and it's ready to eat. Okay, my beautiful dish is done, and I've decorated it into a nice sort of... Round shape. I've used the cutter. However, you can use any cups or anything you have in the house. Put a bit of gammon on the side. Now, if you're a vegetarian, you can exclude the gammon and just have barley on its own with some potatoes. Maybe add some more veggies in there. So just experiment. This is a basic recipe, but use your imagination and, you know, try. I'm going to dig in and have a bit of a bite. You can see the potatoes just there. It might be a bit hot still. Oh, this is delicious. Very crunchy burles and potatoes are soft, onions is cooked, a lot of flavour from the cumin. Very delicious. Very filling. So guys, please try this recipe, let me know how it turns out, subscribe to my channel and I'll see you all soon next week. Bye!