Make beef barley soup in the crock pot for a quick meal that is very satisfying. Enjoy while serving with thick bread.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 4 hrs 15 mins |
| Total Time: | 4 hrs 35 mins |
| Servings: | 10 |
Ingredients
- 1 (3 pound) beef chuck roast
- ½ cup barley
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 3 carrots, chopped
- 3 stalks celery, chopped
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 (16 ounce) package frozen mixed vegetables
- 4 cups water
- 1 (28 ounce) can chopped stewed tomatoes
- 4 cubes beef bouillon cube
- 1 tablespoon white sugar
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper, or more to taste
- salt to taste
Instructions
- Place chuck roast in a slow cooker. Cook on High until tender, 4 to 5 hours. Add barley and bay leaf during the last hour of cooking.
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- Remove meat; chop into bite-size pieces. Discard bay leaf. Set beef, broth, and barley aside.
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- Heat oil in a large stock pot over medium-high heat. Sauté carrots, celery, onion, and frozen mixed vegetables until tender, 5 to 7 minutes.
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- Add water, stewed tomatoes, beef bouillon cubes, sugar, 1/4 teaspoon pepper, and beef-barley-broth mixture. Bring to boil, reduce heat, and simmer 10 to 20 minutes.
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- Season with salt and pepper before serving.
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- To make this recipe on the stovetop: Cut beef into bite-sized pieces. Heat 1 tablespoon vegetable oil in a stockpot over medium-high heat. Add beef cubes and cook, stirring frequently, until browned on all sides. Remove meat and set aside. Reduce heat to medium, add remaining tablespoon of vegetable oil, and stir in carrots, celery, and onion. Cook until onion is translucent and vegetables are tender, about 5 minutes. Add water, tomatoes, barley, sugar, bouillon, bay leaf, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper; bring to a simmer. Stir in beef cubes. Simmer, covered, until beef is tender and barley is cooked, about 2 hours. Add frozen vegetables in the last 30 minutes of cooking time. Season with salt and pepper.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 321 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 22 g |
| Cholesterol | 62 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 5 g |
| Protein | 20 g |
| Saturated Fat | 6 g |
| Sodium | 606 mg |
| Sugars | 6 g |
| Fat | 17 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I love this recipe but I use a can of tomato paste instead of stewed tomatoes. So delish!
Great recipe but I wound up doubling everything except for the meat, carrots and celery. Make a nice big pot. I also made it on the stove and not in the crockpot.
We didn’t care for this recipe. Made it as is.
make it in the crock, add barley last hour
It was delicious. Rather than using beef broth cube I used beef broth. I also added Herbs of Provence. I will definitely make it again.
Everyone went back for seconds
Very good. As is, it is more like a stew. I put less meat, as we are trying to eat less of it. I don’t usually add the frozen veg, as there is enough. If I have frozen green beans, I add about 1/2-3/4 of a cup partway through. Hubby has COVID and not much of an appetite, so I made this for him as he hasn’t been eating enough vegetables since he got sick, and he loves any kind of soup with barley in it. Worcestershire adds some zip. Taste both before and after the barley is cooked to make sure the salt level is the way you like it.
This is our new favorite! I added another quarter cup of barley the second time I made it because it seemed a little skimpy and it was perfect! I make it with homemade bread when I have company and it’s always a hit. It’s easy to make and makes a lot.
Wonderful!
Fabulous!! We’ve made it several times, usually with browned ground beef instead, for ease. I’ve added a few cubed potatoes I needed to use up. Other times not. Now in our regular winter rotation.
I used 4 Cups Swanson low sodium beef Broth, instead of water, plus the 4 beef Bouillion cubes dissolved in beef broth, Besides the chopped stewed tomatoes, I added an 8 oz container of diced fire-roasted tomatoes, leftover from a previous recipe, that was in the fridge. Plus another 1/2 TBLS. sugar more than called for. My wife and I Loved it. Best we ever had.
I made it as published, although I used a whole cup of pearl barley. Because of that, I added two additional cups of beef stock. I dislike bullion cubes and resorted instead to the far superior Knorr’s Beef Concentrated Stock. The result was a wonderful, hearty soup that everyone loves. Five stars!
I used the stove top method mentioned in the Editor’s Note. And I used about 2 cups previously cooked barley, added during last hour of cooking along with the frozen veg. It was delicious and easy!
DELICIOUS!!! The smells in the house are making everyone crazy! We can’t seem to keep folks out of the kitchen with their faces over dinner..
Chopped all veggies the night before. Delicious. Easy, Made enough to freeze. Followed recipe ….didn’t expect it to be as good as it was.
Delicious!! I added 2 extra cups of beef broth. And I only had 14 oz chopped tomatoes and 2 8 oz cans of tomato sauce So I used that instead of 28 ounces of chopped tomatoes. This is definitely a keeper recipe!
I already put my review in but I forgot about the barley, I got a bag that I just heated up in the microwave, then added the barley at the end to combine and heat up I browned the stew meat with green part of green onions can’t eat white part of onions or celery, added a couple chopped potatoes rest I followed the recipe also added red wine, I always add red wine with anything I cook with beef, very good I’m making it again next week so easy and delicious thanks for the recipe suzie
Very good soup, very filling and satisfying.
Was yummy we doubled the recipe and made sure we had frozen portions
Very good soup/stew. I used a bone-in chuck roast and added all the ingredients (I chopped the carrots, celery and onions in a food processor), still added a bag of frozen mixed vegetables, along with dried basil. I added several cloves of garlic. The last two hours I added the barley. We pulled the beef out at the end, (removed the bone), shredded the beef and put it back in the soup. Will make it again!
I made this in the slow cooker, but otherwise followed the directions. This tasted like the sum of its parts and was underwhelming. I rarely leave reviews, but I was disappointed with how highly this was rated.