{"id":5313,"date":"2013-05-01T17:26:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T22:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5313"},"modified":"2013-05-01T17:26:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T22:26:22","slug":"barley-pilaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5313","title":{"rendered":"Barley pilaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/barley-pilaf.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/barley-pilaf.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"barley-pilaf\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5314\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the past couple of weeks, barley has been in the news because of newly found health benefits. An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nutritionj.com\/content\/12\/1\/46\/abstract\">article in Nutrition Journal<\/a> ends with this conclusion:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The results indicate that the BK [boiled barley kernel] evening meal, facilitate glucose regulation, increase the release of GLP-1, reduce subsequent energy intake while at the same time decreasing hunger over 2 subsequent meals, and reduce fasting FFA the subsequent morning, possibly mediated through gut microbial fermentation of the indigestible carbohydrates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is interesting, in that it makes barley a sort of low-carb carb and reduces, rather than increases, hunger at the next meal the ways carbs do. And barley benefits the intestinal flora to boot.<\/p>\n<p>Barley pilaf is easy. First, brown the raw barley in some oil (such as sunflower oil) that can handle moderate heat. Then boil the barley in water &#8212; about 1 part barley to 2.5 parts water. Make sure the water is absorbed &#8212; you don&#8217;t want soggy barley. Add  your other pilaf ingredients to a skillet, saut\u00e9 them, then add the barley. The pilaf in the photo had only browned onions and garlic as the pilaf ingredients.<\/p>\n<p>Barley is delicious, and everyone should love the chewy, pasta-like texture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the past couple of weeks, barley has been in the news because of newly found health benefits. An article in Nutrition Journal ends with this conclusion: &#8220;The results indicate that the BK [boiled barley kernel] evening meal, facilitate glucose regulation, increase the release of GLP-1, reduce subsequent energy intake while at the same time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5313\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Barley pilaf&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-health-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}