Turkey-Barley Soup Recipe
Recipe Ingredients
6 cup turkey or chicken broth
1 cup diced cooked turkey
1 cup pearl barley
1 onion, chopped
2 celery stalks, chopped
3 carrots, sliced
1 bay leaf
1 tsp dry thyme
1/4 tsp dried marjoram
1/4 tsp ground black pepper
2 tbsp chop.fresh parsley (2ts.dry)
Recipe Preparation
Combine all the ingredients in soup pot or slow cooker. Cook over low
heat in the slow cooker for 6 hours or simmer on the stove for 1
hour, or until the carrots are tender and the barley is soft.
1/6 recipe - 181 calories, 1 lean meat, 1 bread, 2 vegetable
exchanges 30 grams carbohydrate, 11 grams protein, 2 grams fat, 44 mg
sodium, 320 mg potassium,
18 mg cholesterol.
Source: Am. Diabetes Assoc. Holiday Cookbook by Betty Wedman 1986
Shared but not tested by Elizabeth Rodier, Nov. 93
Long-grain rice has slightly less carbohydrates and calories per cup
than barley if you wish to substitute.
Servings: 6
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