Beef Barley Soup with Mushrooms

Name: Beef Barley Soup with Mushrooms
Yield: Serves 6 to 8
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons, vegetable oil; 1 , large carrot, chopped; 10 ounces, button mushrooms, sliced; 6 cups, gravy from Country-Style Pot Roast recipe (see headnote); 2 quarts, water; 2/3 cup, pearl barley; 3 cups, meat from Country-Style Pot Roast recipe, shredded

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Appears in Cook's Country February/March 2005

Here's how to transform leftovers into a very different dish. Leftover gravy from pot roast creates an intensely flavored broth for this soup.

SERVES6 to 8

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Beef barley soup recipes benefit from leftover meat and gravy from our Country-Style Pot Roast with Gravy recipe. Thinning the gravy with water created a soup-like broth. We also found that a little barley goes a long way in this beef barle...

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