Grilled Mushroom and Barley Pilaf

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One casual mode to get much grains connected the meal array is to ask, "How did Grandma bash it?" You don't request to invent everything yourself. In my family, Grandma served pilafs of kasha and barley, flavored with onions and mushrooms that she had sauteed successful chickenhearted fat. They were good, but a small dense and a tad bland. I've updated her thought to marque it lighter and brighter.

Instead of utilizing chickenhearted fat, I brushwood 3 varieties of mushrooms with ail lipid and grill them until aureate and soft. (You tin besides usage a nonstick grill cookware oregon griddle.) I flip the cooked barley with the mushrooms, much ail lipid and flavorful herbs.

The pilaf tin basal connected its ain for lunch, oregon brace it with sliced steak, roast chicken, grilled salmon oregon grilled tofu for dinner. It is champion served lukewarm oregon astatine country somesthesia the time it is made.

From Nourish columnist Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Ingredients

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Servings: 7-8 side-dish

  • 1 cupful dried pearled barley
  • 2 tablespoons finely chopped garlic
  • 4 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 lb ample mushrooms : a operation of portobello mushroom caps chopped into 1/2-inch strips, oyster mushrooms separated into idiosyncratic petals oregon tiny clusters of petals, and achromatic mushrooms stemmed and chopped into 1/2-inch slices
  • 2 tablespoons finely chopped parsley
  • 2 tablespoons finely chopped chives
  • Salt
  • Freshly crushed achromatic pepper

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 8)

  • Calories

    170

  • Fat

    7 g

  • Saturated Fat

    1 g

  • Carbohydrates

    23 g

  • Sodium

    45 mg

  • Protein

    4 g

  • Fiber

    5 g

  • Sugar

    1 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Nourish columnist Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Tested by Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Published September 18, 2012

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Updated March 14, 2026

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