{"id":357,"date":"2017-11-19T17:52:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T17:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grabthisrecipe.com\/?p=357"},"modified":"2017-11-19T17:52:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T17:52:01","slug":"quick-chicken-and-barley-stew-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grabthisrecipe.com\/index.php\/quick-chicken-and-barley-stew-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Chicken and Barley Stew Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3 bacon slices<br \/>\n1 tablespoon olive oil<br \/>\n1 cup chopped yellow onion (about 1 medium onion)<br \/>\n1 cup 1\/4-inch-thick diagonally cut carrots (about 2 medium carrots)<br \/>\n1 cup 1\/4-inch-thick diagonally cut celery (about 3 stalks)<br \/>\n1 tablespoon garlic cloves, minced (about 3 garlic cloves)<br \/>\n1 teaspoon kosher salt<br \/>\n1\/2 teaspoon black pepper<br \/>\n4 (6-oz.) boneless, skinless chicken breasts<br \/>\n4 cups low-sodium chicken broth<br \/>\n1 cup uncooked quick-cooking barley<br \/>\n1 (8-oz.) package baby spinach<br \/>\n2 tablespoons chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Step 1<br \/>\nCook bacon in a large Dutch oven over medium until crisp, about 6 minutes, turning once. Transfer bacon to a plate lined with paper towels, reserving drippings in Dutch oven. Crumble bacon, and set aside.<\/p>\n<p>Step 2<br \/>\nAdd olive oil to drippings in Dutch oven; increase heat to medium-high. Add yellow onion, carrots, and celery; cook, stirring occasionally, until tender, about 3 to 4 minutes. Stir in garlic, kosher salt, and pepper, and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute.<\/p>\n<p>Step 3<br \/>\nAdd chicken and broth to Dutch oven. Cook on medium-high until broth begins to boil, about 2 to 3 minutes. Reduce heat to medium-low. Stir in barley, and cook until chicken is cooked through and a thermometer inserted in the thickest portion reads 165\u00b0F, about 8 to 10 minutes more. Remove chicken, shred into large pieces, and return to Dutch oven. Add spinach, and stir until wilted, about 1 minute. Stir in parsley; top each serving with crumbled bacon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yield: 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Source &#8211;\u00a0http:\/\/www.southernliving.com\/recipes\/quick-chicken-and-barley-stew-recipe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingredients 3 bacon slices 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 cup chopped yellow onion (about 1 medium onion) 1 cup 1\/4-inch-thick diagonally cut carrots (about 2 medium carrots) 1 cup 1\/4-inch-thick diagonally cut celery (about 3 stalks) 1 tablespoon garlic cloves, minced (about 3 garlic cloves) 1 teaspoon kosher salt 1\/2 teaspoon black pepper 4 (6-oz.) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[46,21],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-dish","tag-barley","tag-chicken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grabthisrecipe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grabthisrecipe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grabthisrecipe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grabthisrecipe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grabthisrecipe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grabthisrecipe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/www.grabthisrecipe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grabthisrecipe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grabthisrecipe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grabthisrecipe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grabthisrecipe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}