Name: Vegetable Barley Soup
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 80 min
Ingredients: 1 cup Pearl Barley; 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil; 1/2 cup yellow onion, diced; 2 cloves garlic, minced; 1 cup red bell pepper, diced; 1 cup carrots, chopped; 32 ounces vegetable Broth; 15 ounces Diced Tomatoes (- can with juices); 2 Bay Leaf; 2 cups spinach, torn; 1 teaspoon salt; ground black pepper to taste

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Vegetable Barley Soup is a great mix-up for your hearty and satisfying soup repertoire. It’s easy to make with a wonderful variety of fresh vegetables.

Vegetable Barley Soup is a side view of the rich brothy soup showing carrots, barley, tomatoes, spinach, and more. Beige bowl with a black interior on a dark brown wooden beaded mat.

I have been waiting and waiting for cooler weather to get here. It is so fun to start combining this and that for stews, soups and chilies to help us feel warm from the inside out.

Well, it is not that cool here yet but I know it probably is at your house. I see pictures of people all over facebook wearing long pants, sweaters and boots so it must be that time. Right?

So I am taking advantage of the visuals and starting the fun early. We’re enjoying spoonfuls of wonderful soup right along with you.

Vegetable Barley Soup is an overhead photo of a rich brothy soup shoe=wing carrots, barley, tomatoes, spinach, and more. Black bowl on a dark brown wooden beaded mat.

Is Barley Soup Healthy?

Absolutely! There are whole grains and high in fiber.

Low in fats and can be free of fat is you saute your onion, garlic, and carrot in vegetable broth. Lots of with the veggies mentioned above there is also spinach, tomatoes, and bell pepper.

We eat a lot of soup during the winter months. A few of our favorites are:

I’d love to show you a picture of one of these soups. I was going to try to show the one that is the most popular on the blog.

They are all pretty much neck and neck so maybe I’ll choose the one that has been on the blog the longest and is still being made like crazy. Oh my gosh, it’s so good!

Homemade French Onion Soup with an overhead view of a rich brown onion soup topped with a slice of French bread and melted vegan cheese. In a white bowl against a deep purple background.

S0 let’s get back whole grains and fresh vegetable soup.

What Does Barley Taste Like?

Barley and pearl barley has a texture that is chewy with an almost nutty flavor and it holds it’s bite for a very satisfying soup.

Both barley’s have their hull removed but pearl barley is ‘polished’ to remove the bran layer. High in protein too.

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Vegetable Barley Soup is a great mix-up for your hearty and satisfying soup repertoire. It's easy to make with a wonderful variety of fresh vegetables.

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