Slow Cooker Vegetable Barley Soup is salubrious together with nutritious, soundless hearty together with comforting, made amongst lots of veggies, mushrooms, together with pearl barley.

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Slow Cooker Vegetable Barley Soup

Slow Cooker Vegetable Barley Soup is salubrious together with nutritious soundless hearty together with comforting, made amongst lots of veggies, mushrooms, together with pearl barley.

prep time: 20 MINcook time: 4 HRtotal time: 4 HR 20 MIN

INGREDIENTS

• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 ribs celery, diced
• 2 medium carrots, peeled together with diced
• 1 large onion, diced
• 1/2 lb. push clit mushrooms, roughly chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 tin greenish beans, drained
• 1 tin diced tomatoes, undrained
• 3/4 loving cup pearled barley
• 4 cups beef stock
• 4 cups vegetable stock
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano
• 1 teaspoon kosher tabular array salt
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly the world dark pepper
• 4 sprigs fresh thyme
• 2 tablespoons fresh parsley, for garnish (optional)

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the olive fossil oil together with butter to the skillet. When the butter melts, add together the onion, carrots, celery, together with mushrooms. Cook for 8 minutes, stirring often. Clear a hole inwards the centre of the pan together with add together the garlic. Continue cooking for 1 infinitesimal more. Transfer the vegetable mixture to your crock pot.
2. Add the greenish beans, diced tomatoes, barley, vegetable stock, beef stock, oregano, salt, pepper, together with thyme to the crock pot together with stir.
3. Cover together with railroad train on high for iv hours. Top amongst fresh chopped parsley earlier serving, if desired.