Hello and welcome to Freshly Served Healthy
Vegan Recipes in Europe. I’m Heather and
tonight I’m coming to you live from the
land of pasta, pizza, gelato and many yummy
things.
This is our welcome to Florence.
Yeah! Beautiful, sunny Italy!
What I am making for dinner tonight? Barley!
Don’t worry, I have a secret weapon, it’s
gonna be delicious. It was so good last night
that Phil told me I had to film it today so
we’ve spent the afternoon wandering the
gorgeous streets of Florence, Italy and I
am now ready to put together some dinner.
So we arrived in this hostel, we have a nice
kitchen here to use. Very beautiful marble
cutting board but there’s no stove just
an oven. I had to look around for a little
while to make sure I was right but anyway
no stove so I took the barley that we have
here which here they called Orzo. In Canada
there’s something called Orzo that is more
like a pasta but here Orzo is barley.
So I’ve decided to do a baked barley in
the oven and what I’ve got is some onion,
some tomato and some broccoli and what I’m
gonna do is put the onion and the tomatoes
in this baking dish first. I’m gonna put
the barley in with it along with some water,
some salt and my Italian herb mix.
I’m gonna save the broccoli to go in a little
bit later once the barley had a chance to
cooked a little bit. I don’t want to overdo
my broccoli coz I like it to have a little
bit of crunch to it.
I’m throwing tomatoes on the floor. So,
I think it’s time to pause this.
Alright! We have the tomatoes and the onions
and there along with the garlic. I’ve just
stirred it in to mix everything together and
then I’m just gonna add water. And what
I’m gonna add is enough water to come up
to the level here, and then the barley is
going to absorb that water as it bakes in
the oven.
Ok! There’s my Italian herb mix going in,
just stir that around and what will happen
is the herbs will get their flavours in to
the water and then the water is gonna be absorbed
into barley so the flavours can be absorbed
into the barley. Very nice! Ok.
So that’s stirred up to the oven at 180
Celsius that would be about 350F. (I need
to practice this) Ok! So this is gonna go
into the oven for about an hour. Then you’re
gonna cut the broccoli and I’ll show you
that one and if you’re thinking one hour
for dinner, really that sucks!
Don’t worry because we can do, it is what
I’m gonna and I’ll go upstairs read a
book maybe do some work and this can just
stay in the oven on its own for an hour. Isn’t
that great?
While I’m doing that I think Phil will probably
show you some clips wandering around in Florence,
be sure to go to the website HeathyVeganRecipes.net
for the recipe for tonight’s dinner and
you can also find all of our travels, we’ve
posted a special travel section for you as
everything is free in there there’s more
cooking videos and tips videos since Phil
and I are travelling but you have to go at
HealthyVeganRecipes.net/Europe to check that
out.
So, leave this for an hour and I’ll see
you back then.
So, here’s our dish after about one hour.
Give it a little stir and you can see that
the barley is starting to plump up nicely
there, it will get a lot more plump than than
as well. The herbs tend to float so you got
to stir them back down and I’ve got the
broccoli ready to go in as well.
You know broccoli will get dry if you leave
it on top so what you gotta do is make sure
that all the little floats get into the liquid.
So the broccoli is staring to steam a little
bit already but we’re gonna put this back
to the oven for 20 minutes to get a little
bit more cooked and its time now for my super
special Italian ingredient, balsamic vinegar!
So just give a little squirt on top there,
stir it through. Pop this back into the oven
for about 20 minutes.
So there is my finish product, the barley
has been cooking for an hour and 20 minutes
meaning its really soft, big and delicious
infused with some herbs and some balsamic
vinegar and some of the vegetables in there
as well.
So hope you enjoyed, you can find the recipe
at HealthyVeganRecipes.net and don’t forget
to checked out all of them my travel videos
at HealthyVeganRecips.net/Europe
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