Beef Tomato-Barley Soup

"It has in conclusion stopped snowing", she said quietly as she knocked on wood. We truly saw the Sun today too they are calling for to a greater extent than Sun tomorrow; it has been quite a winter!! My pathetic one-time crock pot has hardly striking the shelf this winter; it seems similar at that spot is e'er approximately edible bean or soup recipe bubbling away inwards there.

Today's post is i of picky-picky husbands crockpot favorites. It is real rich, real beefy, real filling too it only keeps getting improve too improve the longer it cooks.

I was a immature bride when I tried to make  dwelling delineate solid made beef soup the showtime fourth dimension too it was terrible (I mean value it called for a ton of bay leaves). I cry upwards cooking it all twenty-four hours too wanting it to gustation equally proficient equally it looked, but nosotros only couldn't swallow it.

I didn't laissez passer on upwards though, I tried all kinds of journal recipes; approximately had a ton of herbs; approximately had onion soup mix; approximately had Italian salad dressing mix inwards it; I tried them all, amongst piffling success. I decided to larn dorsum to a no frill vegetable soup recipe.  I tweaked it for years until it evolved into the recipe I'm posting today. Picky-picky hubby is crazy almost this soup too loves to dip hot buttered staff of life rolls into it.

2 pounds beef chuck roast
1 loving cup onion chopped
1 loving cup celery chopped
2 cups carrot chopped
4 large potatoes cubed
2/3 loving cup pearl barley (don’t larn out out)
(2) 32 ounce boxes beef broth
(1) xv ounce tin tomato plant sauce
½ teaspoon dark pepper
(2) heaping teaspoons beef bullion granules

Cut the beef into 1” cubes, removing equally much fatty equally possible. Brown beef inwards a minimal amount of vegetable crude oil until beef is nice too crusty brown (this is where the bulk of your soup season volition come upwards from, then don't skip this step).
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Remove beef from tiddler pan too drain off equally much fatty equally yous can; add together onion, celery too carrots. Using the wet from the veggies, de-glaze whatever crusty dark-brown bits on the bottom of the pan. If the dark-brown bits are stubborn, add together a tabular array spoon of H2O too role your spatula to scrape upwards the fond . Cook until onions are transparent.
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Put the beef too sauteed vegetables inwards the crockpot too add together the balance of the ingredients, stir well. Cook on depression for 8 hours.
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NOTE: Do non larn out out barley. It non alone gives a wonderful season to the soup, but it thickens the broth.

NOTE: Put whatever vegetables yous similar inwards the soup, only brand certain they are vegetables that tin stand upwards up to long cooking times.

NOTE: Taste the soup for common salt when it is almost done cooking.