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Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 1½ hours
Serves: 8

If served as eight portions, provides 188 cals, 1.8g fat (of which 0.2g saturates), 7.2g sugar and 1g salt per portion.

Ingredients

- 1l (34fl oz) vegetable broth
- 1 cup uncooked barley
- 2 large carrots, chopped
- 2 stalks celery, chopped
- 410g (14½oz) tinned diced tomatoes with juice
- 1 zucchini, chopped
- 425g (15oz) tinned garbanzo beans, drained
- 1 onion, chopped
- 3 bay leaves
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp white sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ tsp ground black pepper
- 1 tsp dried parsley
- 1 tsp curry powder
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce

Method

1. Pour the vegetable broth into a large pot. Add the barley, carrots, celery, tomatoes, zucchini, garbanzo beans, onion, and bay leaves. Season with garlic powder, sugar, salt, pepper, parsley, curry powder, paprika, and Worcestershire sauce. Bring to a boil, then cover and simmer over medium-low heat for 90 minutes. The soup will be very thick. You may adjust by adding more broth or less barley if desired. Remove bay leaves before serving.

I have looked for Barley in most supermarkets with no success
Any clues as to where please
Garbanzo beans are Chickpeas in Spain

I have been making my version of this Soup for many years but you really need Barley, I make it on a Sunday and there is enough for a week ,you can change the vegatable broth to Pollo Caldo for a Chicken Soup

freddo wrote: 06 Jan 2022 08:23 I have looked for Barley in most supermarkets with no success
Any clues as to where please
Garbanzo beans are Chickpeas in Spain

I have been making my version of this Soup for many years but you really need Barley, I make it on a Sunday and there is enough for a week ,you can change the vegatable broth to Pollo Caldo for a Chicken Soup

Good morning Fred.

I believe Holland & Barrett (Spain) sell it online but they have a store in the Haberneras Shopping Centre, so may be available in-store as well.

El Corte Ingles sell it online, so possibly available in the Supercor, Hipercor branded stores. It is listed as international food, so may not necessarily be in the aisle you expect to find it, but with the international products. The product packaging is in Russian.

Costablanca Supermercados also sell it online but they have a store at Punta Prima, so again may be available in-store. They have two products, one in German packaging and the other in Russian.

Given that the stores above seem to be selling the Russian packaged product, then may be a Russian convenience store in the area may also be worth a try.

Thanks Carl