Warming barley soup with crispy chanterelles: A fall delight

Barley soup is grand for warming and filling. It is an excellent proposition for dinner for the whole family. And with the addition of sautéed chanterelles, it becomes a dish straight from a restaurant. The household will be delighted.

It's hard to find a more aromatic addition to barley soup. Loved by many, chanterelles can have many culinary uses, but they are as good as it gets combined with warming barley soup with ribs. However, before enjoying this delicacy, you must take good care of the chanterelles. They should be cleaned thoroughly, bearing in mind how delicate they are and how easily their springy structure can be destroyed. See how to do it in the material below:

On the other hand, preparing barley soup with ribs requires long meat cooking to make it tender. Fall-apart pieces of meat finally land on the plate, giving the soup additional thickness and an incredibly deep flavour. But it's not the ribs that are the star of the dish. Well-cleaned chanterelles should be sautéed in hot fat to get crispy. Thus prepared, they top the portion of soup on the plate. We do not recommend cooking chanterelles with the barley soup because their taste will likely disappear, and their springiness will give way to an unappetising rubberiness.

Ingredients:

• 300 grams chanterelles,
• 500 grams pork ribs,
• 2 onions,
• oil for frying,
• 3 carrots,
• 1 parsley root,
• some celery,
• 5 medium potatoes,
• 100 grams pearl barley,
• salt, pepper,
• a few bay leaves,
• a few allspice berries,
• lovage/marjoram/dried dill,
• fresh parsley,
• oil for frying,
• 2 tablespoons of clarified butter.

Preparation:

1. Cover the ribs with cold water, add bay leaves and allspice. Bring to a boil.
2. Then reduce the heat and add the peeled and julienned carrots and parsley, as well as the chopped celery. Cook all for 1 hour.
3. After that time, remove the vegetables and add the seared onion. Cook until the meat is tender.
4. Remove the tender meat from the soup, then remove the bones and cut it up.
5. Add the diced potatoes and barley to the soup. Cook all for half an hour.
6. Finally, season the barley soup with salt and pepper and marjoram, lovage, or dried dill, according to preference.
7. Add the chopped meat and finely chopped, previously cooked vegetables to the barley soup.
8. Clean the chanterelles thoroughly and then sauté them in very hot clarified butter. The skins of the mushrooms should brown. Do not fry chanterelles for long, as they can become rubbery. Since chanterelles can be eaten raw, you can remove them from the pan as soon as they get colour and crispness; you don't need to stew them endlessly.
9. In a separate pan, fry the sliced onions. When they become translucent, season them with salt and pepper, then mix them with the crispy chanterelles.
10. Add the chanterelles with onions to the soup on the plate. Garnish the whole with parsley.