Name: Boiled Bacon with Pearl Barley and Lentils
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 quantity Mashed Potatoes; 1 large swede; 2 parsnips; 100 g (4 oz) unsalted butter; 1 garlic clove, crushed; 1 sprig of fresh thyme; 1 bay leaf; About 1.75–2.25 litres (3–4 pints) Chicken Stock; 50 g (2 oz) pearl barley; 1 leek; 2 celery sticks; 4 onions; 5 carrots; 1.8 kg (4 lb) unsmoked rolled bacon collar, rind removed

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Rhodes Around Britain

By Gary Rhodes

Published 1994

About

There are so many alternative ways of serving boiled bacon. It eats well with split peas, broad beans and even just parsley sauce, but this is one of my favourite ways of serving it. It could even be used as a winter soup. The bacon can also be served with Braised Split Peas, with just a little stock spooned over. Any left-over stock can be frozen for soup-