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Chicken- Barley Soup With Vegetables And Pesto

For best results, make sure all of the chopped vegetables are about the same size. Your antioxidantpacked soup will cook more evenly, and the flavor will be more balanced.

Ingredients

Serves: Prep:  15min |Cook: 1hr 0min |Total: 1hr 15min
              

Directions

1.
Bring the broth and water to a boil in a large pot or Dutch oven over high heat. Add the barley and chicken, reduce the heat to low, cover, and cook for about 30 minutes or until the barley is tender, stirring several times. Remove the chicken to a cutting board. Shred when cool enough to handle. Set aside.
2.
Add the tomatoes (with juice), leek, onion, carrots, and celery and raise the heat to high. Reduce the heat to low when the mixture comes to a boil, cover, and simmer for 20 minutes or until the vegetables are tender.
3.
Add the corn and reserved chicken. Simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes or until warmed through.
4.
Ladle into 6 bowls and top each with 1 tablespoon of the pesto.

Nutritional Facts per serving

CALORIES 495.4 CAL

FAT 30.7 G

SATURATED FAT 4.9 G

CHOLESTEROL 38.8 MG

SODIUM 645 MG

CARBOHYDRATES 34 G

TOTAL SUGARS 8.2 G

DIETARY FIBER 7.8 G

PROTEIN 25 G
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1 2 3 4 5 by Knitty1 4/22/2012

This is basic chicken soup with a dollop of pesto on it, but it was quite good. I jazzed the soup up a little with some marjoram and parsley, S&P. 1/2 C barley was plenty, and I used fresh tomatoes.

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