Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Announcing Wholesome Wholegrain Cooking -Barley For Breakfast

We can talk about the health benefits of making foods with whole grains for a full day, they are terribly healthy for our health...U can cook up anything with these wonderful wholegrains from breakfast to dinner, making dishes with wholegrains wasnt that much hard, just add these whole ingredients atleast once in ur daily menu and u will definitely the difference regarding ur health..Am hosting this month's Sanjeeta's Wholesome wholegrain cooking event, she was kind enough for letting me hosting this wonderful event..Coming to choice of whole grains, i choosed barley for breakfast..Most of my blogger buddies know that i love oats as any form, after making loads of dishes with oats, my next favourite wholegrain goes to quinoa and barley, i wanted to introduce this both grains in my cooking atleast once in a week...

Barley is a cereal grain derived from the annual grass Hordeum vulgare. It serves as a major animal fodder, as a base malt for beer and certain distilled beverages, and as a component of various health foods. It is used in soups and stews, and as bread in various cultures.Barley contains eight essential amino acids.According to a recent study, eating whole grain barley can regulate blood sugar that means reduce blood glucose response to a meal for up to 10 hours after consumption compared to white or even whole-grain wheat..So cook up using any dishes with barley as main ingredients for breakfast...


1)Make a dish with 'Barley'as main ingredient which can be served for breakfast, u can send both vegetarian and non vegetarian entries,but dont send deep fried foods please..Use of logo is appreciated..

2Post ur recipe from today to 31st March and link ur post with this announcement page and Sanjeeta's Wholegrain wholesome cooking announcement page..

3)Send ur entries with ur Name,Recipe Name, Recipe Url and a Picture  of ur dish to Priyasuresh09@gmail.com with subject as WWC-Barley..

4)Dont worry if u dont have a blog,prepare a dish with barley and send them with ur picture to the above email address..

So friends,dont forget to cook up many healthy dishes using barley as main ingredients and send me before the end of this month,waiting eagerly for all ur fabulous dishes..

27 comments:

Sushma Mallya said... Reply To This Comment

Thts a lovely event Priya...happy hosting :)..will try to send in my entires....

priya said... Reply To This Comment

have nt started to expmt with barley let...ll give it a try priya

Shama Nagarajan said... Reply To This Comment

happy hosting dear

Jayanthy Kumaran said... Reply To This Comment

Barley recipe ...wanna give a try now..:P
Tasty appetite

chitraj.hegde said... Reply To This Comment

good and healthy event.....all the best..

Gurucharan M K said... Reply To This Comment

That is a good theme, Priya. You make all of us think new ways to look at our breakfast. Barley in our breakfast is going to be interesting. Browsing for Barley recipes...
Happy hosting!

Lite Bite

CurryLeaf said... Reply To This Comment

Will send an entry before deadline Priya.Excellent Choice

KrithisKitchen said... Reply To This Comment

Happy hosting Priya.. Will try to send some..

http://krithiskitchen.blogspot.com

Raks said... Reply To This Comment

I too never cooked barley, have to take this opportunity to try!

Sensible Vegetarian said... Reply To This Comment

Happy hosting Priya, will surely try to send some thing.

Laavanya said... Reply To This Comment

barley for breakfast? that's interesting. I've only used in soups before or for puli upma. Will see if I can come up with something.

Sravs said... Reply To This Comment

Lovely event dear!!!

Elisabeth said... Reply To This Comment

What a great event, Priya! As always, you are a perfect host!
I love barley in soups, but never had it for breakfast. Looking forward to some yummy recipes!

Deepa Praveen said... Reply To This Comment

Nice attempt...will be back to follow u


http://deepapraveen.blogspot.com/

Chitra said... Reply To This Comment

Best wishes! :-)

Kurinji said... Reply To This Comment

Many thanks Priya ,for participating in my HRH event. Please collect the participation award.

HRH - Rickeflakes Event Roundup!!!

Panchpakwan said... Reply To This Comment

Healhty and nice event ..Happy hosting Priya.

Vidhya said... Reply To This Comment

Barley is something thats used very rarely in my cooking.I am waiting for some of your recipes to get an idea.

Vimitha Durai said... Reply To This Comment

Lovely event. WOuld love to try

Swathi said... Reply To This Comment

Lovely event priya, try to send some entry.

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Nice event Priya - Will try to send some entries Cheers!

Priya dharshini said... Reply To This Comment

Feeling so hungry ,want the pongal now.....

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Hey, that is a good one, barley for breakfast, happy hosting. Will try to try something :)

Gurucharan M K said... Reply To This Comment

Just sent a link in this event diary here, Priya. Check the link;

http://thefoodblogdiary.blogspot.com/2011/03/food-events-march-2011.html

janet @ the taste space said... Reply To This Comment

I have cooked barley before... and with lots of whole grains for breakfast.... but never barley for breakfast! I am curious to see what kinds of dishes people make. :)

Kalyani said... Reply To This Comment

Barley in cooking sounds yummy and healthy too ! Happy hosting and glad to follow you too:)

cheers
Mom Chef

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

P totally forgot this priya.Sorry dear.Thank u very much for allowing me to send this after the end date dear.Thanks a lot.sent u the mail,just now.